A group of investors including GCP Capital Partners, Western Heritage Capital, and Performance Equity Management have acquired a significant stake in Complete Merchant Solutions (CMS), a leading provider of merchant acquisition services, credit card/debit card transaction processing services, and payment solutions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered
Centerbridge Partners has selected SEI to provide a customised operating platform for its private equity and credit businesses. Through its Investment Manager Services division, SEI supplies customised operating infrastructure and services to investment organisations around the world. SEI drew on its global operating platform to provide Centerbridge with a solution
Private equity firm Webfolio Management has acquired ad-tech company PicReel.com for an undisclosed sum. PicReel is now part of a larger organisation that is operating several brands in the mar-tech and ad-tech vertical. The majority of PicReel employees will continue to work from their European and Asian offices, joining Webfolio's
Spring Ventures, a private equity investor specialising in management buyouts of UK companies with strong growth potential, has backed a group of commercial lending professionals to buy invoice financing provider, IGF Invoice Finance Limited (IGF), from Greater London Enterprise( GLE). Spring Ventures will initially invest GBP9 million to fund
Shanda Group is to purchase Trian’s 9.9 per cent holding in Legg Mason. Shanda Group is a Singapore-based global investing holding company with a long-term investment horizon across public market equity, fixed income and commodities, private equity and real estate. It is focused on value investment opportunities in the financial
Semios, a provider of real-time agricultural information and precision pest management tools, has closed an USD8 million financing with private equity individuals from the Agtech community, with assistance from Haywood Securities. Founded in 2010, Semios has grown to be the largest worldwide network of sensors and control devices in specialty
Portfolio Advisors has held the final closing of its globally diversified private equity fund-of-funds, Portfolio Advisors Private Equity Fund VIII (PAPEF VIII) with total commitments of USD1.22 billion. Limited partners include private and public pension plans, university endowments, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals. Approximately
Livingstone’s Business Services team has advised Panther Logistics, the UK’s largest independent two-man next day home delivery provider, on a GBP17m management buy-out backed by LDC. Headquartered in Northampton, Panther specialises in providing two-man and one-man assisted home delivery services, supplying household furniture, white goods and other high value items
LeverPoint Management has partnered with Hamilton Lane, a global private markets asset management firm, and the New York Credit SBIC Fund (the Fund). The Fund, in collaboration with company management, is providing a debt and equity investment in LeverPoint that will serve as a catalyst for continued growth and enhanced
AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity investor in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has closed its first fund – AE Industrials Partners Fund I – with USD680 million in equity commitments. The fund is one of the largest dedicated to investments in aerospace and related industry segments,
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