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Motive Partners acquires LPA

Motive Partners, a global private equity firm focussed on growth investing, has acquired a controlling interest in LPA. Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and founded in 1999, LPA is a financial technology solutions provider with a focus on capital markets and wealth management participants. LPA offers a broad suite of software

LSP raises record EUR750 million in 10 months for life sciences innovations

LSP, a specialist life sciences and health care investment group, has raised more than EUR750 million for three different funds over the past ten months to invest in innovative drug development and medical technology companies across Europe. This result constitutes a record fundraise in European life sciences, consolidating LSP’s leading

Graycliff Partners sells Impakt Holdings

Graycliff Partners has completed the sale of Impakt Holdings to Celestica, a leader in design, manufacturing and supply chain solutions for the world’s most innovative companies, for a total purchase price of approximately USD329 million. With operations in California and South Korea, Impakt provides design, engineering and agile manufacturing solutions

Da Vinci Capital Invests in DataArt

Da Vinci Capital, an emerging markets private equity firm, has invested in DataArt, a global technology consultancy that designs and develops unique software solutions, to support the company’s growth momentum in key industries. DataArt will continue to focus on its three key markets: the US, the UK and continental Europe, where

C5 Capital leads USD18m investment round in 4iQ

C5 Capital Limited (C5), a venture capital firm focused on investing in cyber security, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, has led an USD18 million investment round in US and European identity-focussed cyber intelligence company 4iQ. Around 80 per cent of cybercrime begins with stolen credentials and 4iQ has indexed billions

Avedon Capital-backed Kinly acquires MK2 Audiovisual

Kinly, a portfolio company of private equity firm Avedon Capital Partners has acquired MK2 in a deal that fits in with Kinly’s strategy of strengthening its position in the audio-visual and visual collaboration market through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. In recent years, MK2 has rapidly developed from Breda into

Blue Ox: Taking healthcare companies from the 2nd innings to the 6th innings

New York-based Blue Ox Healthcare Partners (Blue Ox) is a private equity investment firm providing capital to growth stage healthcare companies. The firm focuses on businesses in the middle market targeting the industry’s transformation to individuality and value-based care in healthcare services, HCIT, and medical and life sciences technologies, whose innovations,

Aurelius acquires Norwegian Wholesale Business from HELLA

Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co has acquired Norwegian automotive aftermarket wholesaler Hellanor from Nordic Forum Holding, a 100 per cent subsidiary of HELLA. Headquartered in Skytta near Oslo, Hellanor generates circa EUR70 million in revenues with approximately 250 employees.   The transaction is scheduled for completion in the fourth

SME housebuilder Backhouse secures GBP50 million investment from Cheyne Capital

Design-led SME housebuilder Backhouse has secured a GBP50 million investment from alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital to support major growth plans for the company in 2019 and beyond. This new investment by Cheyne Real Estate Credit (CRECH) Fund V – Opportunistic takes the form of a joint venture, giving Backhouse

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LibreMax Capital to acquire Trimaran Advisors

An affiliate of LibreMax Capital (LibreMax), an asset management firm specialising in structured credit, is to acquire Trimaran Advisors, a US-based investment manager with expertise in managing collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), from KCAP Financial (KCAP). Trimaran currently manages six CLOs with approximately USD3 billion of assets under management. Following the

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