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Creative advocacy firm Subject Matter has secured an investment from Coral Tree Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. The partnership will enable the Company to add new capabilities to better serve client needs while accelerating Subject Matter’s growth. Daily business operations will continue to be overseen by Chief Executive Officer Nicole Cornish, and Subject Matter’s founders. Subject Matter was formed through a 2015 merger that combined strategic communications, creative content and advertising, and government relations under one roof. 
Goodwin’s London Life Sciences and New York M&A teams have advised Biocon Biologics Ltd in its agreement to acquire Viatris Inc’s global biosimilars business to create a fully integrated global biosimilars enterprise.
Custonomy, a digital asset custody service firm, has completed a seed round of USD2 million led by Crypto Asset Management Firm Babel Finance, prominent worldwide crypto financial services provider, led the seed funding round. Custonomy’s next phase of expansion will be fuelled by the seed money with the funds set to be used to further the company’s institutional-grade, ultra-secure corporate management systems for crypto asset management using multi-party computation technology (MPC). The emphasis will be on assisting businesses in providing best-in-class security solutions to protect crypto assets from cyber theft.  Custonomy was founded in April 2020 as a seed stage
ARX Equity Partners (ARX), a Central European lower-mid market private equity specialist, has completed the majority acquisition of Hungarian professional services company Klient Holding Kft, which is part of the WTS global network. Klient Group was originally founded in 1998 by Gyorgy Korosi and Zoltan Lambert, as an outsourcing accounting and payroll services provider. Klient Group currently generates sales in the region of ~€5 million with more than 120 employees, and is now a Top 10 accounting, payroll and tax services provider in Hungary, predominantly servicing local subsidiaries of large multinational companies. The financial terms of the deal agreement have
Ansaar Management Company (AMC), a housing developer in Pakistan, has close a seed funding round led by leading impact investor Insitor Partners. The new funding will support AMC in delivering over 1,300 homes and residential plots, transforming the affordable housing landscape in Pakistan. The funds raised will support the company’s growth plans as it ramps up deployment into low-cost housing in Pakistan. AMC will work alongside a strong network of local and international commercial partners, including UK-based Reall Ltd and Places for People. AMC undertakes a collaborative approach to identify and develop solutions which are contextually tailored for each new
Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management (IRM) solutions, has acquired Sword GRC, a UK-based software company that specialises in project and enterprise risk management solutions, from Sword Group. The acquisition advances Riskonnect’s IRM approach by incorporating project risk into its platform and enabling customers to bring all aspects of enterprise risk under one roof.     Bryan Garnier & Co acted as financial advisor and Mayer Brown acted as legal counsel to Sword Group, and Kirkland & Ellis acted as legal counsel to Riskonnect.
DoveVivo, the largest co-living company in Europe, has acquired ALTIDO, one of the largest short-term property management groups in Europe. The transaction, which involves the reinvestment of capital by ALTIDO’s management team in DoveVivo, leads to the creation of the largest residential management platform in Europe with more than 2,500 properties and apartments under management in 40 cities, in 6 countries (Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, UK and Scotland).    DoveVivo was advised on the transaction by Lazard as Financial Advisor, by Linklaters as Legal Advisor, by Wepartner as Strategic Advisor and by Alberto Picariello as Fiscal Advisor.   ALTIDO was
Good-Loop – a global ad tech company that converts people’s attention to ads into donations to good causes – has closed a Series A round of USD6.1 million.   The round was led by New York-based investment fund, Quaestus Capital Management (QCM), with additional backing from Scottish Enterprise, impact investor SIS Ventures, European ad tech fund First Party Capital and investment raised on the crowdfunding platform Seedrs – bringing total investment into the ad tech for good platform to USD8.2 million since it was formed in 2016. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s product roadmap, including the
Infinedi Partners, LP (Infinedi), a private equity firm focused on innovative partnerships with founder-owned businesses, has completed its investment in LaSalle Network (LaSalle or the Company).
Wallife, an Italian insurtech startup focused on protecting the individual from risks arising from technological innovation and scientific progress in the three areas of genetics, biometrics and biohacking, has raised USD4.8 million in its first round of funding. The company now ranks sixth in Europe within the insurtech sector for the value of seed investment raised according to Crunchbase, one of the leading global databases of financial information on private companies, especially Start-Ups. Founded in 2021 by Fabio Sbianchi, entrepreneur and founder of Octo Telematics in 2002, Wallife has attracted the interest of more than forty investors including Wellness Holding

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