Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) accounting, tax and valuation advisory firm, WilliamsMarston has acquired Paradigm Advisory Group (Paradigm), an Atlanta-based boutique advisory firm that provides complex financial and accounting advisory solutions to private equity-backed and public companies.   This marks the firm’s sixth acquisition in two years and brings WilliamsMarston’s headcount to more than 225 professionals.   With a presence in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, Paradigm assists its clients with complex accounting advisory services including technical accounting, external audit support, IPO readiness, carve-out support, due diligence and other challenges commonly encountered in connection with a financing or M&A transaction.  Co-Founders

Cairngorm Capital Partners’ (Cairngorm Capital) portfolio company, Verso Wealth Management (Verso), has acquired Campbell Thomson Insurance Services Limited (Campbell Thomson).  This acquisition advances Verso’s strategy to build a market leading, national wealth management group and takes its assets under management to over £1 billion. Founded in 1978, Campbell Thomson is a second generation firm providing specialist financial advice and planning for businesses and individuals across the UK. With a reputation for outstanding service, the firm has a team of 13 advisors, planners, researchers and support staff based in Glasgow. Campbell Thomson is providing advice on assets exceeding £315 million as

Live and social shopping SaaS solution provider LiSA has raised €2.7 million investment in a seed round led by TechVision Fonds (TVF).  The investment will help to both accelerate the growth of its social commerce SaaS business and make frictionless, cross-platform social commerce a reality through its headless solutions and API-based partner ecosystem.  The German startup, which participated in Brent Hoberman’s Founders Factory accelerator program in 2019, also received funding from the UK’s VC Venrex and angel investor Georgie Smallwood, part of Accel’s first cohort of Scouts and chief product officer at micro mobility startup Tier. Having worked with an

Palisade Real Assets has acquired 100% of Malaby Biogas Limited (Malaby), a UK-based organic waste anaerobic digestion technology plant located in Warminster, Wiltshire. Malaby, which has been operating since 2012, processes between 500-600 tonnes of organic waste per week and provides around 2,500 houses with renewable power.    The acquisition of Malaby is the first investment for BioticNRG Ltd (BioticNRG), Palisade Real Assets’ dedicated UK bioenergy platform focused on anaerobic digestion assets and adjacent infrastructure.

Maeving, a specialist in electric motorcycles, has secured a £1 million funding package from MEIF Maven Debt Finance, which is part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven). Maeving’s new RM1 model, launched in June, is a British designed and built electric motorbike aimed at the urban, environmentally conscious commuter. The RM1 combines British heritage styling with the practicalities for every day use including a removable, light-weight battery chargeable from any plug socket and offers the choice of a second battery to extend the range from 40 to 80 miles. The funding from

Francisco Partners (FP), an investment firm that partners with technology businesses, has signed a deal with SAP America Inc to acquire SAP Litmos (Litmos), a specialist in the learning management system market. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022 and is subject to customary regulatory clearances. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Since its launch over 20 years ago, Francisco Partners has invested in over 400 technology companies, making it one of the most active and long-standing investors in the technology industry. Francisco Partners has experience in the education and human capital technology

FPE Capital (FPE), a software & services focused lower mid-market growth investor, has led a growth investment in Global App Testing, a global web and app testing platform to the software development community. This marks the third investment from FPE Fund III, the successful final close of which was announced in May at a raised hard cap of £185 million. The investment from FPE will back the founders Ronald Cummings-John and Owais Peer and their management team as they accelerate the Company’s existing strong growth on the back of earlier stage investment.   Global App Testing was founded in 2013

Private investment firm Orangewood Partners has exited its investment in George Industries, a designer and manufacturer of mission-critical and highly engineered components for the defence, aerospace, and industrial sectors. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Under Orangewood’s ownership, George saw meaningful improvement in its performance by executing strategic M&A, recruiting a highly experienced management team to strengthen operations, expanding customer relationships, and enhancing its product offerings.   Affiliates of Orangewood acquired George in 2016 in partnership with the founding family who previously owned and operated George for more than 60 years.  

HiBob, the company behind HR platform Bob, has raised an additional $150 million in growth funding, just ten months after raising a $150 million Series C in October 2021.  Led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, and with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and other insiders, HiBob’s Series D round takes the company’s valuation to $2.45 billion and total funding to $424 million since inception. This latest growth investment is intended to support HiBob in capitalising on its market leadership as the company continues to execute on key business priorities in the current market environment.  The latest round

Earth Capital Limited (ECL), a UK growth equity impact investor, has launched a new company, Sustainable Energy Holdings Limited (SEHL), formed through a merger of four of its portfolio companies, all low-carbon bioenergy generation assets: Eccleshall Biomass, Limelight Energy, Black Dog Biogas and Bright Light Energy Ltd. These UK-based biomass-fuelled renewable energy plants will now benefit from a single dedicated management team which will focus on operational performance, and a consolidation of financial and commercial functions. Together, these facilities will generate 3.89 MW of base load renewable energy, enough to power 9,000 homes and will avoid the emission of 5,000