The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has divested its interest in Brookson Group Limited (Brookson) through a sale to People2.0, a TPG portfolio company. Brookson is a compliance and services platform for freelancers and their hirers throughout the United Kingdom. Brookson maintains one of longest tenured customer bases in the industry.   Brookson uses its proprietary cloud-based SaaS platform, Brookson Connect, embellished by exemplary levels of professional services, to reduce the effort and hassle for each of its customer segments, providing advisory, compliance and administrative services they need –

Raiven Capital, a global early-stage tech venture fund, has invested in Vancouver-based Elevated Signals, an enterprise software company for controlled environment agriculture (CEA) producers. The company uses data science to enable supply chain, operational productivity and yield optimisation for controlled environment agriculture (CEA) companies. Having established a leadership position in the highly regulated and data-driven cannabis arena, it is expanding to other CEA segments. The company already has 80 enterprise clients across the world.

New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with more than $37 billion in assets under management and Emmes, a global, tech-enabled full-service clinical research organisation (CRO) dedicated to supporting the advancement of public health and biopharmaceutical innovation, have formed a partnership to support and accelerate Emmes’ next phase of growth. Affiliates of New Mountain will acquire the ownership interest of Behrman Capital, the majority investor in Emmes since March 2019, and the ownership interests of Emmes’ other investors. The transaction is expected to close in early July and terms were not disclosed. Emmes provides its clients with expertise in biostatistics,

GlacierPoint Enterprises (GlacierPoint), a portfolio company of Mill Point Capital (Mill Point) and the parent company of E&M Logistics, Jack & Jill and A Panza & Sons, announced today that it has partnered with Gillette Creamery (Gillette), a full-service direct store food and ice cream distributor servicing all of Eastern New York State and bordering states. The addition of Gillette to the GlacierPoint platform widens the combined company’s distribution capabilities, with capacity to service customers from the Mid-Atlantic region up to the US-Canadian border. The partnership also provides a significant opportunity to accelerate growth within GlacierPoint’s foodservice distribution business. Gillette’s

High Street Capital’s (HSC) portfolio company Knight Material Technologies (KMT) has completed the acquisition of Electro-Chemical and its subsidiary Superior Dual Laminates (collectively, EC-SDL). EC-SDL manufactures and installs anti-corrosive plastic linings and coatings for steel and fibreglass tanks, piping, and other specialty equipment. The acquisition of EC-SDL, which offers a complementary service to KMT’s existing corrosion-resistant ceramic linings, allows the company to broaden its suite of product offerings and become a more complete solution to many of its customers in the chemical process and mining industries. The transaction also provides a platform for KMT and EC-SDL to penetrate new markets,

Risk services company Sigma7 has acquired Virginia-based Risk & Strategic Management, Corp (RSM), a full-service risk and business continuity, management services, and training organisation. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. RSM is a specialist in developing and producing advanced leadership and staff training solutions to help organisations meet duty of care, capacity building, organisational resiliency and crisis management needs. It offers accredited, security-oriented training packages, delivered through e-learning formats as well as immersive experiences at its 87-acre training facility. The company works with a wide range of commercial corporations across industry sectors, humanitarian aid agencies, faith-based groups and

EQT Private Equity, via the EQT IX fund, is to acquire SPT Labtech, a manufacturer and designer of automated instruments and consumables for life science research, in a deal worth £650 million. Together with management, EQT Private Equity will support and accelerate SPT Labtech’s future growth. Based in Melbourn, UK, SPT Labtech is a manufacturer and designer of automated liquid handling, sample preparation, and storage instruments, as well as corresponding consumables and support services for life science research. The Company was founded in 1997 and spun out from TTP Group. Since 2018 it has been owned by Battery Ventures. Following

The Beekman Group-backed AutoManager Holdings Group (AutoManager), a provider of dealer management system and website builder tools to independent auto dealerships, has completed a merger between subsidiary AutoManager Acquisition, Inc and A1 Software (Selly). Selly is a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software and also targets the independent auto industry. As part of the transaction, AutoManager provided Selly with a growth investment to support staff expansion and product development.

Agilitas Private Equity (Agilitas), a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, is to back the buy-out of NNIT’s IT infrastructure outsourcing business including its Hybrid Cloud Solutions business as well as select parts of its Cloud & Digital Solutions business (together NNIT IO). NNIT IO is a leading provider of IT infrastructure outsourcing services to some of the largest Danish private and public institutions. NNIT traces its origin to the Novo Nordisk Group and utilises its deep roots and experience in the pharmaceutical industry to develop critical IT solutions for a broad range of industries for which quality and security are

Healthcare Services investor Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) and Sterling Partners (Sterling) have merged Sun Capital portfolio company West Dermatology (WestDerm) and Sterling portfolio company Platinum Dermatology Partners (Platinum).  Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   The combination of WestDerm, a group providing business support services to over 300 dermatology providers, including many of the most prominent dermatologists in the Western United States, and Platinum, a dermatology group practice organization with a strong presence among many of the leading physicians in the fast-growing Texas and Arizona markets, creates an industry leader with more than 100 locations spanning the