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Global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson’s debt investment platform now exceeds USD2 billion in real-estate secured loans, including USD300 million in future funding commitments.
Kennedy Wilson reached the milestone following the launch of the debt platform in 2020 and a subsequent expansion into Europe in mid-2021. The company’s global debt platform is targeting USD3 billion in total loan investments. Since January 2021, the Company has originated approximately USD1.4 billion in loans while achieving USD260 million in loan repayments.
Kennedy Wilson invests alongside its strategic partners with an average ownership of 7.5 per cent across the debt portfolio, which is
CONET an IT consulting firm backed by private equity firm IK Investment Partners is to acquire Karlsruhe-based ISB AG.
Having both been successful individually in the IT services market for more than 30 years, the two companies will now benefit from complementary services and customer relationships, particularly in the public and automotive sectors. The acquisition of ISB AG was supported by IK Partners, CONET Group’s majority investor.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is subject to legal and regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed.
Dude Solutions, a SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group (Clearlake), has acquired Facility Health (FHI), a solutions provider transforming physical environments through strategic capital and asset planning. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
The acquisition of Facility Health will expand Dude Solutions’ offering to midmarket and enterprise level healthcare organisations, strengthen the company’s North American footprint, and with its Strategic Asset Management (SAM) Capital Predictor solution, expand the complementary offerings to other industries.
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Black Diamond Networks on its recapitalisation by Tenex Capital.
Founded in 1999, Black Diamond is a provider of professional staffing solutions exclusively focused on scarce, high-end skill sets in advanced technical verticals. Black Diamond’s differentiated model focuses on rapid deployment of experienced, well-qualified personnel primarily within life sciences, as well as within the engineering and technology sectors.
Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount), a global private equity firm that specialises in backing growing companies to the Board and investor base, has made a significant equity investment in Transflo, a provider of mobile business intelligence and payments facilitation tools to the transportation sector, backed by tech-focused private equity firm True Wind Capital (True Wind).
Funds managed by Blackstone GP Stakes have acquired a minority ownership interest in Nautic Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on investments in the healthcare, industrials, and services sectors.
Blackstone GP Stakes specialises in value-added, long-term investments in the management companies of leading private equity firms.
Nautic recently closed on the firm’s tenth private equity fund at a hard cap of USD3.0 billion with strong support from both existing and new institutional investors. Nautic closed its previous fund, Nautic Partners IX, in 2019 with USD1.5 billion of committed limited partner capital.
LogMeIn, a provider of cloud-based solutions such as LastPass, GoToConnect, GoToMeeting, and Rescue, and a portfolio company of private equity firm Francisco Partners, is to establish LastPass as a standalone company.
A zero-knowledge password management specialist, LastPass is used by more than 30 million users and 85,000 businesses worldwide and is set for strong and sustained growth as consumers and businesses continue prioritising password security.
By establishing LastPass as a standalone business, the company plans to increase investment in the customer experience, go- to-market functions and engineering to accelerate its organic growth in password management, Single Sign-On (SSO) and
CellCarta, a global provider of precision medicine laboratory services, and a portfolio company ion private equity firm Arsenal Capital, has acquired Biogazelle (Biogazelle), a specialist in genomic testing solutions.
Located in Ghent (Belgium), Biogazelle develops and deploys high-end digital PCR (dPCR), quantitative PCR (qPCR) and RNASeq assays for its pharmaceutical and biotech industry clients.
Ten Coves Capital has lead a USD50 million series B funding round in TealBook, a supplier data foundation that autonomously enhances supplier data and powers e-procurement technology.
Other notable investors include: BDC Capital, Grand Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada, Reciprocal Ventures, Refinery Ventures, S&P Global, Stand Up Ventures, RTP Global, Workday Ventures, Good Friends, an early-stage venture capital firm started in 2019 by the founders of Warby Parker, Harry’s and Allbirds, along with debt financing from CIBC Innovation Banking.
Since TealBook announced Series A Funding in January 2021, TealBook has experienced 350 per cent revenue growth.
Pelion Venture Partners has closed Pelion Venture Partners Fund VII at USD365 million, exceeding the fund’s initial target of USD250 million.
Greenstone Equity Partners, the largest licensed fund placement firm in the Middle East, supported Pelion Venture Partners in achieving fund closure by raising capital from its network of GCC-based institutional investors.
Pelion invests in software companies across the United States, partnering with technology founders in B2B SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, cloud computing and security.
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