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Canadian Hospital Specialties welcomes Flexpoint Ford as strategic investor

Canadian Hospital Specialties Ltd (CHS), a specialty distributor and manufacturer of medical and surgical products, has received a strategic investment from Flexpoint Ford (Flexpoint), a private equity investment firm specialising in the healthcare and financial services industries. Previously majority-owned by affiliates of Cortec Group, CHS will continue operating as an

EQT IX holds final close at EUR15.6bn hard cap

EQT has held the final close of EQT IX at EUR15.6 billion in fee-generating assets under management, marking EQT’s first key fund closing since EQT AB’s public listing in 2019.  EQT IX was launched in January 2020, made its first investment in July, and is currently 40-45 per cent invested.

Rock Mountain Capital makes significant minority investment in Spark Orthodontics

Rock Mountain Capital (RMC) has made a significant minority investment in Spark Orthodontics (Spark), a specialty orthodontics platform with 10 locations in rural/suburban Pennsylvania.  The investment will support the company’s growth strategy focused on acquiring additional practices and locations in Pennsylvania and in new markets. Financial terms of the deal

GI Partners-backed Insurity acquires Instec

Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software for P&C carriers, brokers, and MGAs, backed by GI Partners, has completed the acquisition of Instec.  Already a proven leader in providing core systems and analytics software to more than 300 P&C carriers, the addition of Instec to the Insurity family enables Insurity

Private equity holding periods reach all-time high in 2020

A new report from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, shows that private equity holding periods extended in 2020 to a record 5.4 years on average, at the same time as returns dipped.  The data also showed that investments held for longer periods tend

Comvest Credit Partners closes Fund V

Middle-market private investment firm Comvest Partners’ direct lending platform, Comvest Credit Partners, has held the final close of its latest flagship fund, Comvest Credit Partners V (CCP V), with over USD1.3 billion of equity commitments.  The fund has also secured credit facilities to increase its available capital.  To date, CCP

Bernard Vogel & Meret Gaugler, Endeavour Vision

“A unique moment”: Growth-stage healthcare investor Endeavour Vision on the technologies and trends driving transformation in digital health and medtech

Venture capital and growth equity firm Endeavour Vision has a 20-year history of investing in growth-stage medtech and digital health companies in Europe and the US. Here Private Equity Wire asks Bernard Vogel, co-founder and managing partner, and Meret Gaugler (pictured, above-right, with Vogel), head of investment strategy, for their

RM Funds invests GBP13m in Athena Healthcare Group

RM Funds, the Investment Manager of the listed specialist in social and environmental infrastructure, RM Secured Direct Lending (RMDL), has provided a bilateral GBP13 million senior secured three-year term loan facility to Athena Healthcare Group (AHG).   The financing will support AHG in funding the construction of an institutional-grade purpose

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