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PineBridge Investments has closed PineBridge Secondary Opportunity Partners (PSOP) having raised over USD880 million in five months. The fund will aim to provide investors with access to a global and diversified private equity secondary portfolio.
The fund primarily provides clients with exposure to US middle-market buyout strategies, with additional global exposure, and has interests in mainly the industrials, consumer discretionary, financial and information technology sectors.
In March, the firm closed on the PineBridge Secondary Partners IV fund (PSP IV), raising USD568 million and surpassing its USD500 million target.
“PineBridge PFG continues to have a successful year, not only
An affiliate of middle-market private equity firm Peak Rock Capital has acquired Pretzels, a supplier of pretzels and extruded snack products.
Headquartered in Bluffton, Indiana, Pretzels provides an extensive portfolio of salty snack products that includes traditional, peanut-butter-filled, flavoured, seasonal, and gluten-free pretzels, as well as extruded snack products. The company serves a diverse, blue-chip customer base that includes leading grocers and national brands. Through its 40-year history, Pretzels has built an outstanding reputation for providing excellent customer service and exceptional product quality.
Robert Strauss, Managing Director of Peak Rock, says: “Our investment in Pretzels reinforces Peak Rock’s focus on investing
International law firm Fieldfisher has advised TSX-V-listed Canadian company, Strongbow Exploration, on successfully closing a conditional “synthetic” offtake agreement with specialist mining private equity fund, Orion Mine Finance.
Strongbow is the owner of South Crofty, the iconic former-producing copper and tin mine near Camborne and Pool in Cornwall. The company plans to bring the mine back into production following a proposed dual listing on London’s AIM market.
Strongbow announced its offtake deal with US-headquartered Orion on 17 October, marking yet another example of the use of non-traditional forms of financing in the mining sector.
The offtake provides for
TripleTree has advised private investment firm Clearlake Capital Group on its acquisition of symplr, a healthcare governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, from Pamlico Capital and The CapStreet Group. The sellers were advised by Moore & Van Allen on the deal.
symplr provide management, credential management and payer enrolment services to over 1,500 customers representing more than 4,000 healthcare facilities in North America. symplr’s broad platform provides an end-to-end software solution for healthcare organisations to manage the compliance and credentialing requirements of their provider, staff and contractor communities.
“Healthcare professionals are faced with an increasing amount of stringent and
Custom Glass Solutions has been acquired by affiliates of Stellex Capital Management (Stellex), a middle market private equity firm with offices in New York and London. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in central Ohio, CGS is a leading manufacturer of large-format laminated, tempered, value-added glass products used in vocational and recreational vehicle applications. Prior to the transaction, the Company was a subsidiary of Guardian Glass, LLC, which itself is part of Koch Industries, Inc.
“We are tremendously excited about the acquisition of Custom Glass Solutions,” says Mike Stewart, Managing Partner at Stellex. “We believe
Dutch investor Nimbus is to open offices in the United Kingdom as the company launches its fourth fund. Nimbus has appointed veteran investor Chris Clegg, a former Partner at Endless, to Chair their UK operations.
Nimbus is a hands on investor focusing on non-core carve outs and companies requiring operational and strategic enhancement.
Clegg says: “I’m delighted to work with Nimbus to develop their UK ambitions. They are a unique investor with a very different approach to value creation preferring longer term partnerships with investee companies. Our initial focus will be the Northern Powerhouse and we hope to announce office
Livingstone’s healthcare team has advised Total Spectrum, a premier provider of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) services for families and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), on its partnership with LEARN Behavioral, a portfolio company of LLR Partners.
LEARN Behavioral is a network of provider serving children with ASD and other developmental disorders. Livingstone acted as exclusive financial advisor to Total Spectrum.
Total Spectrum, based in Elmhurst, Illinois with operations across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, provides high-quality in-home and clinic-based ABA services for families and children with ASD. Total Spectrum has experienced an average of more than 80% average annual
Limerston Capital-backed HR services group AdviserPlus has acquired Succeed Consultancy and made an investment in Elementsuite. The new deal is part of Limerston Capital’s bid to create the UK’s leading data and technology-enabled HR services group.
Succeed is a major provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions to large enterprise customers. Succeed has nearly 20 years advising companies on HR transformation needs and implementing leading HCM software solutions including PeopleSoft, Oracle and Elementsuite.
Elementsuite is a cloud-based HR software platform, providing a full-suite of solutions from recruitment, onboarding and learning, to core HR, scheduling and performance management to large enterprise
K4Connect, a technology company that creates solutions for older adults and individuals living with disabilities, has closed a USD12 million Series B funding round led by AXA Venture Partners.
This latest round brings the funding total to over USD22 million and will be used to further develop the Company’s K4Community solution and underlying Fusion platform/OS technologies. K4Connect will also use the proceeds to expand its customer base, which already includes over 13,000 residents across dozens of senior living communities from Florida to California, as well as to accelerate its partnerships across a spectrum of consumer and senior living-specific companies. The
SP Capital Partners (SP Capital), a New York-based private equity seeding platform, has closed its latest USD200 million fund, which manages both discretionary and managed separate accounts to invest in spin-out managers and provide flexible capital for seed, acceleration or expansion purposes.
In addition to being a capital provider, SP Capital is a value-added partner, deploying its expertise to help build private equity firms. SP Capital is also able to leverage the project management and global distribution capabilities of Sixpoint Partners (Sixpoint) in order to offer a comprehensive seeding, fundraising and investor relations solution for its portfolio funds.
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