Deals
IQ-EQ has acquired Blue River Partners (Blue River), a US-based provider of outsourced solutions to alternative asset managers. The acquisition of Blue River marks the Group’s latest strategic acquisition, the first in the US private equity and hedge fund services space.
The newly combined IQ-EQ US operation brings together a highly experienced team of 200 funds professionals servicing more than 500 clients across the US from its seven office locations: Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, New York City, Chicago and San Francisco.
The transaction significantly strengthens IQ-EQ’s existing presence in the US, the largest and fastest growing fund administration and regulatory
Alinda Capital Partners, an independent fund manager focused on mid-market core-plus infrastructure investments in North America and Europe, has sold Alinda Infrastructure Fund III’s interest in Energy Assets Group Limited in the United Kingdom to a consortium comprising European institutional investors and an infrastructure fund. This is the first exit for Fund III.
As part of the sale, an Alinda-managed co-investment vehicle also exited the company, as did a minority shareholder which was a vehicle of Hermes Infrastructure, so that the buyers acquired 100 per cent of Energy Assets.
Headquartered in Livingston, Scotland, Energy Assets is the largest independent provider of
BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Neuberger Berman, Investment Corporation of Dubai and RSIC are becoming minority shareholders in Nordic Capital-owned Trustly, an online account-to-account payments provider.
Nordic Capital remains the majority shareholder in Trustly, which it acquired in 2018. The deal will bring in additional long-term capital to support the company as it continues to invest in its products, infrastructure and expand globally, according to Nordic Capital.
Citigroup Global Markets Limited acted as financial advisor in connection with the transaction. Oscar Berglund, CEO of Trustly, said he welcomes BlackRock and the other investors as minority shareholders in
Silverfin has secured a significant Series B investment led by Hg, a specialist software investor and expert in the tax and accounting sector. The investment will be used to support the company’s expansion internationally as it responds to demand for its cloud service that consolidates real-time financial data, automates compliance reporting and improves financial planning. Silverfin was founded in 2013 in Ghent, Belgium and now has offices in London, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The details and terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Joris Van Der Gucht, co-founder at Silverfin, says: “Our platform is the central nervous system thousands of
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised Puma Private Equity which led a GBP6 million equity investment into Tictrac, a leading health engagement company. The corporate team was led by Partner Leon Miller, Managing Associate Alex Fergus and South African qualified lawyer Alice Millar who advised on the transaction.
This funding will allow Tictrac to expand its Employee Wellbeing (SaaS) platform in a bid to tackle increasing stress levels and health problems in the workplace – with nearly 80 per cent of workers in the UK experiencing some level of stress, it will help businesses empower their staff to take
Cortland Capital Market Services has completed its rebrand to Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to alternative investment managers. Together, Alter Domus administers over USD750 billion of assets on behalf of 80 per cent of the largest private debt managers, real estate firms, and private equity houses globally.
Total private market assets under administration (AuA) in North America is expected to grow by 9.4 per cent to USD16.3 trillion by 2025.[1] For alternatives managers servicing these assets for end-investors, this unprecedented growth in AuA will increasingly place their back and middle office systems and processes under even
Fralock, an engineering and manufacturing provider of specialty material solutions for technically challenging and mission critical applications, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Career Technologies USA (Career Technologies). Fralock is a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a specialised private equity firm with strong expertise in the specialty materials industry.
Career Technologies, with three facilities in the greater Los Angeles area, is a leading provider of engineering and manufacturing solutions. The company focuses on integrating various materials and components for demanding applications and technologies, including flexible and rigid-flex circuits and related assemblies, for the medical device, aerospace,
Redwigwam, the UK’s leading provider of flexible workers, has secured investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to fuel the next phase of its expansion.The Liverpool-based company received the funding from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
Redwigwam was founded four years ago by serial entrepreneur Lorna Davidson, who had previously founded and sold Tactical Solutions, one of the UK’s leading field sales and marketing companies, for £29million.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, it has seen the number of workers on its database surge to over 130,000 and the
Orion Innovation (Orion), a global business and technology services firm that provides digital transformation and product development services, has acquired Zodiac Systems (Zodiac), a New York-based video service delivery software company. Zodiac provides advanced cloud and device software and engineering services for Tier 1 media and telecom operators globally.
Zodiac brings deep video knowhow and its software adds significant proprietary Intellectual Property (IP) to Orion’s growing telecommunications and media capabilities. Zodiac’s Matrix video API management cloud integration platform enables operators to seamlessly orchestrate service-by-service upgrades and migrations from legacy delivery permutations to today’s OTT video IP back-office delivery platforms. In addition, Zodiac’s Stack device software enables OTT
FPE Capital’s portfolio company TNP, a UK Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central service provider, has acquired UK NAV focused assets from the administration of K3 Business Technology Groups’ Microsoft Dynamics business unit.
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