YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, is continuing to expand its team throughout the UK with the appointment of Nick Holt as a portfolio director. Based in the firm’s Reading office, Holt joins from GEMS Education, one of the world’s largest K-12
Unifrax, a manufacturer of high performance specialty materials used in advanced applications, has changed its name to Alkegen, in a move designed to reflect the new company created following the acquisition of Lydall late last year. The business’s corporate headquarters will also be moving to Dallas, Texas. Alkegen brings together
JC Flowers & Co, a private investment firm focused on investing globally in the financial services industry, has appointed banking industry veteran Louis Vachon as an Operating Partner, effective immediately. Most recently, Vachon was President and CEO of National Bank of Canada, based in Montreal, a position he held from
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, is to sell Leaders Romans Group (LRG), one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to Platinum Equity. LRG was formed from the merger of two Bowmark portfolio companies, Leaders Lettings and Romans Group, in 2016. It specialises in residential property lettings, sales
Prime Global Medical Communications (Prime Global), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired HCD Economics. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Prime Global is a global medical communications and market access group that provides the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses with full-service
Gathr Outdoors, a diversified global designer and manufacturer of outdoor products and sporting goods and a portfolio company of private equity firm Centre Partners, has acquired Cascadia Vehicle Tents (CVT). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Based in Bend, OR, Cascadia Vehicle Tents is a family business that
BasicBlock, a financial technology company aiming to reshape financing options for the trucking industry, has raised USD78 million in a debt and equity raise led by Autotech Ventures, Clear Haven Capital Management, Emergent Ventures, and Nelnet alongside continued investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, SaaS Venturesand TNT
ClimateTrade, a blockchain-enabled climate marketplace, has raised EUR7 million in a pre-Series A European funding round and is raising another EUR13 million in a US-focused round set to close on its reincorporation in the next five months. In total, the company is targeting EUR20 million of funding for international expansion.
Luna Wealth (Luna), an International investment and asset management group, has launched a new USD50 million liquidity fund, aimed at providing new liquidity solutions and opportunities to early-stage shareholders and investors in high growth technology companies.
The companies that venture capital investors back have the potential to have significant positive and negative impacts across the spectrum of ESG issues as they scale up – including privacy violations, human rights issues, poor governance and climate-related risks. That’s according to a new on PRI report on the interplay
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