Palatine has acquired a majority stake in Skills Alliance, a specialist niche workforce solutions provider for the life sciences, medical device, and animal health sectors. Operating internationally with offices in London, Frankfurt, Zurich, New York, Seattle, and Newport Beach (CA), Skills Alliance, works on a retained basis for some of the largest pharmaceutical and biotech firms around the world.     With a team of 130, Skills Alliance was founded in 2004. It comprises three business units, SA Executive, SA Staffing & SA Consulting and is led by an experienced and ambitious management team including CEO Carl Marotta and Dan

Aliter Capital (Aliter), a private equity investment specialist focused on small to medium-sized UK support services businesses, has completed its investment in Dudley based Concept Resourcing (Concept) as part of its recently raised second fund. Concept is a technology and field service engineering resourcing and recruitment business focussed on placing technology roles on both a temporary and permanent basis. Concept has a blue-chip customer base through strategic partnerships with world leading technology services providers and manufacturers in both the private and public sector, across the UK. The UK technology recruitment sector has recovered strongly from the pandemic with staff hiring

MEAG, acting as the asset management arm for entities of Munich Re, has agreed to invest $300 million for a 12% stake in global infrastructure investment firm HRL Morrison & Co’s (Morrison & Co) portfolio company Longroad Energy (Longroad), a provider of renewable energy project development, operating assets and services. MEAG joins an ownership group comprised of Morrison & Co’s listed infrastructure business, Infratil Ltd, and the NZ Super Fund, each of whom have agreed to invest an additional $100 million into the company, as well as Longroad management. Infratil and the NZ Super Fund will retain a ~37% stake

Godspeed Capital Management has invested in TSK Architects (TSK), a highly acclaimed architecture, planning, and interior design firm. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1960, TSK is a Southwestern US-focused architecture firm, providing architectural and interior design, master planning, construction administration, and consulting services for K-12 and higher education clients as well as Federal, State, and Local Government clients. TSK has earned over 90 design awards for design excellence, sustainable practice, exceptional service, and high-performing architecture, and was awarded the 2020 AIA Nevada Architecture Firm of the Year.   TSK joins Rachlin Partners as part

LDC has exited its seven-year investment in bathroom specialist Aqualisa to Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc in a transaction that values the company at £130 million.

One Equity Partners has merged its portfolio company, OMNI Environmental Solutions (OMNI) with Purity Oilfield Services, (Purity), to create a new, environmental services and equipment organisation. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Louisiana-based OMNI provides a suite of environmental solutions to the oil and gas industry and has operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Haynesville, Eagle Ford, MidCon, Bakken/Williston, and Marcellus/ Utica regions. Purity, headquartered in Dallas, is a leading service provider in four key basins providing equipment rentals, water transfer, vac trucks, well testing and flowback, and wellsite coordination and services covering drilling, completion, production and

Blackstone-backed Xpansiv, a market-infrastructure platform for global carbon and environmental commodities, has completed its acquisition of APX, a specialist in registry infrastructure for energy and environmental markets. Earlier this month, Blackstone announced that funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners (Blackstone) committed $400 million to lead a strategic investment in Xpansiv. Blackstone’s capital injection enabled Xpansiv to complete the APX acquisition. Xpansiv connects buyers and sellers of environmental commodities and provides market data for voluntary carbon offsets, renewable energy credits (RECs), and low-carbon fuels—all critical elements of decarbonisation. Xpansiv’s growing ecosystem supports companies seeking to meet environmental and emissions reduction goals.

New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with over $37 billion in assets under management, is to acquire PerkinElmer’s Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses, a carve-out from the Discovery & Analytical Solutions segment of PerkinElmer, Inc (NYSE: PKI), for up to $2.45 billion. The business being acquired includes PerkinElmer’s leading OneSource laboratory and field services, along with a portfolio of atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, and chromatography instruments, consumables and reagents that serve the biopharma, food, environmental & safety and applied end markets. The PerkinElmer brand will be transferred with the business, and the transaction is expected to close in

An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired Barton & Associates Inc, a healthcare staffing company focused on locum tenens with additional capabilities in travel nursing, allied healthcare, and government-related physician staffing markets. Barton offers healthcare staffing services on a temporary basis to hundreds of healthcare facilities. The Company provides a differentiated service critical to its clients that is focused on providing highly specialised talent across a wide range of specialties. UBS Investment Bank and BofA Securities acted as financial advisors and McDermott Will & Emery LLP acted as legal counsel to HIG JP Morgan Securities LLC acted as exclusive

Leisure goods provider TotalCool has secured a £500,000 capital investment from alternative funding provider Growth Lending, to support the firm’s cash flow during an important period of expansion. Founded in 2015, TotalCool specialises in the leisure and camping industry and will use the funds to support its goal of expanding into the B2B market, using its enhanced working capital position to reinvest in growth and the continuous innovation of its new product line.   TotalCool manufactures a wide range of leisure and camping equipment, such as air conditioning units, portable fridge freezers, solar panels and portable rechargeable batteries. TotalCool’s products