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Victory Capital Holdings has successfully closed its acquisition of WestEnd Advisors (WestEnd).
WestEnd will become Victory Capital’s 12th Investment Franchise.
Founded in 2004, and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, WestEnd provides financial advisors with turnkey, core model allocation strategies serving as holistic solutions and complementary sources of alpha. The firm offers four primary ETF strategies and one large cap core strategy, all in tax efficient Separately Managed Account (SMA) structures.
Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specialising in infrastructure and real assets, has recapitalises Cologix, a private interconnection and hyperscale edge platform in North America.
The recapitalisation is being effectuated as a sale of Cologix by Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II LP and co-investors (Fund II) to Stonepeak-managed vehicles comprising a combination of existing Fund II investors who have chosen to reinvest in the business in partnership with a number of new third-party investors.
Fund II acquired a majority stake in Cologix in March of 2017 and subsequently partnered with Mubadala Investment Company for an incremental growth capital investment in January 2020.
The Heubach Group (Heubach), a global producer of pigments, and SK Capital Partners (SK Capital), a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, have acquired Clariant’s Global Colorants Business (Clariant Pigments).
The combined business, which will operate under the Heubach brand, supplies a broad portfolio of organic, inorganic, and anti-corrosive pigments, pigment preparations, dyes, colourants and specialty materials. The company operates its global business from nineteen manufacturing facilities across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, employing approximately 3,000 people. The headquarters of the Heubach Group will be established in Vienna, Austria.
The Heubach Group has
Pacific Current Group Limited (PAC) a global multi-boutique asset management firm, has acquired a 35 per cent stake in Banner Oak Capital Partners (Banner Oak), a private equity real estate firm.
Banner Oak is a Dallas-based alternative investment manager offering a private equity real estate strategy focused on the creation and growth of fully integrated private real estate operating companies. Currently, Banner Oak manages approximately USD5.7 billion in assets across its platform.
PAC is making an initial investment of USD35.0 million (AUD48.2 million). The agreement also includes an “earn out” provision that could result in Banner Oak receiving additional consideration
Nordstjernan is investing in Ascilion, a Swedish medtech company founded in 2012 and based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ascilion has developed and patented a technology that uses an array of hollow microneedles to extract the interstitial fluid (ISF) that surrounds the body’s cells and that is a good carrier of biomarkers.
In recent years, Nordstjernan has invested actively in the health sector, and the firm’s holdings in this sector currently account for nearly 25 per cent of net asset value.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the terms of the transaction.
Private investment firm Littlejohn & Co has acquired Magnate Worldwide (MWW), a diversified supply chain management company comprised of a strong portfolio of complementary, premier logistics services focused on premium freight services.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
MWW provides logistics services for sensitive, time-definite, high-value, and white-glove shipments across a range of industries including expedited domestic transportation, fine arts logistics, and global freight forwarding, with the highest levels of customer service. The Company operates through two premier logistics brands: Masterpiece International and TrumpCard.
Masterpiece provides customs brokerage and international logistics services through 17 offices located in major
Global professional services firm Huron has completed its acquisition of Perception Health Inc.
The combination of the companies strengthens Huron’s healthcare predictive analytics and data capabilities to help clients discover insights and detect patterns to optimise patient care and make better data-driven decisions.
For reporting purposes, Perception Health will be included in Huron’s Healthcare operating segment.
GovExec, an information services and insights company for government leaders and contractors, has acquired News Service of Florida, a provider of political and policy news.
The acquisition will see News Service of Florida become a part of GovExec’s City & State (CS) platform, which also operates in New York and Pennsylvania, and builds on GovExec’s highly strategic acquisitions the company has carried out over the last year to reinforce its commitment to actionable intelligence and decision support tools for government leaders and contractors.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Peter Goldstone, Chairman of GovExec, served as an adviser,
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has closed the eighth strategic add-on for its utility market intelligence, data science and consulting platform, E Source, with the acquisition of AAC Utility Partners (AAC), a provider of vendor-independent customer information systems (CIS), programme management and consulting services to municipalities and utilities throughout North America.
AAC assists clients in the areas of strategic software assessment, selection, project implementation, system testing and cloud consulting.
Since 2005, AAC has been guiding electric, gas, water, wastewater and multi-service utilities through successful technology projects. AAC will become part of E Source’s Technology Planning and Implementation (TPI) business unit which
Vision Innovation Partners, an eye care platform backed by private equity firm Centre Partners, has acquired Advanced Eye Care, an eye care practice with an onsite med spa, located in Bel Air, Maryland.
The acquisition further expands Vision Innovation Partners’ presence in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area and enhances its growing network of ophthalmology practices in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Since its founding in 2017, Vision Innovation Partners has continuously demonstrated its commitment to partnering with top-performing doctors and expanding patient access to care across its growing network of practice locations and surgery centres in the Mid-Atlantic region. Vision Innovation Partners’
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