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DIF Capital Partners acquires Bernhard

DIF Capital Partners (DIF) through its DIF Infrastructure VI fund, is to acquire Bernhard, a privately-owned Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) solutions company in the United States, from an affiliate of Bernhard Capital Partners. Bernhard has provided solutions to its customers’ energy and infrastructure needs for more than 100 years and shifted its

Carlyle appoints new Chief Development Officer

Carlyle has appointed Ryan Selwood, former Head of Direct Private Equity at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), as Managing Director and Chief Development Officer. In this newly created position, Selwood will be involved in a range of investment and management activities across Carlyle, working alongside many in leadership

CreaTech startup Octaive raises GBP500k in angel investment round

London-based conversational media platform Octaive has raised GBP500k in an angel investment round. Backed by high profile industry leaders, the funding round is the first external investment by the two year old creative technology startup, which has seen revenues more than double in the past year. Octaive’s ‘conversational media’ technology

Axonic Capital appoints Portfolio Manager

Axonic Capital, a New York-based structured credit, commercial real estate and systematic fixed income specialist with USD4.6 billion in assets under management, has appointed Vlad Kotov as a Portfolio Manager for the Axonic Systematic Arbitrage Strategy.  Kotov will report to Deniz Cicek, Head Portfolio Manager for the Systematic Strategy. Kotov

Riata Capital Group closes secondary transaction for AEG Vision

Riata Capital Group (RCG) (Riata), a Dallas-based private equity investment firm, has closed a GP-led secondary transaction (the Transaction) for its portfolio company AEG Vision (AEG), an owner and operator of over 235 eyecare practices throughout North America. The Transaction allows RCG to return capital to certain existing investors while

Construction Partners completes South Carolina platform company acquisition

Construction Partners, a vertically integrated civil infrastructure company specialising in the construction and maintenance of roadways across five southeastern states, has acquired King Asphalt (King), a full-service hot-mix asphalt and paving company headquartered in Liberty, South Carolina. With three hot-mix asphalt plants in the Greenville, South Carolina metro area, King

BGF successfully exits Cooplands

BGF has successfully exited Yorkshire-headquartered bakery business, Cooplands. BGF backed the 135-year-old family business with a GBP8.5 million investment in December 2017, supplemented with GBP7.7 million follow-on funding in November 2020. Working with Paul Coopland, BGF has supported the business’ succession planning, helping to identify and recruit Belinda Youngs as

ARM-Harith launches USD250 million urban climate fund for West Africa

ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investments Limited, a Mauritius-regulated infrastructure fund manager and parent company of ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Limited Nigeria, has launched the ARM-Harith Cities and Climate Transition Fund (The ACT Fund), endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab).  The USD250 million-target fund has been designed in collaboration

Arlington Capital Partners completes acquisition of Stellant Systems

Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-area private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE:LHX) Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West divisions.  The Company will now operate independently as Stellant Systems (Stellant), a standalone platform for Arlington in the mission-critical defence electronics market. The transaction is occurring in

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