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Boutique law firm Kleinberg Kaplan, described as “Wall Street’s best-kept secret”, is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a legal adviser to investment funds and entrepreneurs, including many pioneers in the funds industry.
Founded by Fred Kleinberg, Myron Kaplan and Norris Wolff in November 1971, with Jim Cohen joining a few months later, Kleinberg Kaplan has grown into a multi-disciplinary firm with more than 100 lawyers and staff. With an international practice, the firm serves the global interests of its clients from an office in New York City, the financial capital of the world.
Since its inception, Kleinberg Kaplan has maintained
Yukon Partners has held the successful final closing of Yukon Capital Partners IV and its associated parallel funds (collectively Fund IV) at USD625,945,000.
Fund IV will provide mezzanine capital to middle market businesses and is a continuation of the strategy from prior funds, most recently Yukon Capital Partners III, a 2017 vintage, USD558,740,000 fund.
Investors in Fund IV include domestic and international pension funds, international banking conglomerates, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, consultants, and family offices. Dorsey & Whitney LLP served as legal counsel and Credit Suisse’s Private Fund Group acted as advisor and exclusive placement agent for Fund IV.
“We
WSO2, a specialist in digital transformation technology, has closed USD90 million in financing from client vehicles advised by Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit (Goldman Sachs).
The flexible capital solution will be used to accelerate WSO2’s worldwide business expansion, drive growth of the company’s global partner network, and support rollout of its next-generation, cloud-native solutions for securely delivering APIs, applications, and digital services. The new solutions, powered by Ballerina, will offer a seamless blend of low code and pro code experience for enterprises and deliver the power of DevOps and modern SDLC practices including integrated reuse within the organisation and
OTA Insight, a specialist in cloud-based hospitality business intelligence, has raised USD80 million from Spectrum Equity, a growth equity firm focused on internet-enabled software and transformational data companies.
Spectrum Equity joins existing OTA Insight investors Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures. This latest investment will support the company in furthering its mission to enable smarter commercial decisions and outputs across the industry as it expands its global footprint.
OTA Insight delivers powerful data and analytics to optimise commercial decision-making across the hospitality industry. As the industry rebounds in the wake of the global pandemic, many hospitality operators are
Sound Point Capital Management (Sound Point) has acted as Administrative Agent on a first lien senior secured credit facility to Lindsay Precast (Lindsay) a North American concrete manufacturer specialising in precast concrete products.
Funding provided by Sound Point was used to support MiddleGround Capital’s (MiddleGround) acquisition of the Company.
Headquartered in Ohio and operating for 50-plus years, Lindsay Precast is a designer and manufacturer of engineered precast concrete structures for water/wastewater, utility, solar, transportation, and government end markets. Lindsay produces sanitary and storm sewer products, electrical and telecom utility products, solar inverter skids and ballast bases, box culverts and bridge
Solvay Ventures, the venture capital fund of Solvay, has invested in Sepion, a California-based start-up that specialises in developing batteries with Li-metal anodes and liquid electrolytes.
The USD16 million round was led by Fine Structure Ventures, and also includes other climate tech investors. The company raised funds to accelerate commercialisation of lithium metal batteries for long-range and low-cost electric vehicles.
Li-metal batteries enable high energy density and are strongly sought-after solutions for the electric vehicles market. However, the growth of dendrites can cause the batteries to fail and prevents them from having long life cycles. Sepion’s technology, which is based
Par Equity’s investments in high-growth technology businesses have smashed through the GBP100 million mark. The milestone was passed when the company completed five investments in a week earlier in October.
One of the highlights of Par’s recent activity was a multi-million-pound investment in Artus, a company seeking to revolutionise the HVAC (Heating, Air Conditioning and Air Conditioning) industry. A spin-out from engineering giant Arup, with offices in Edinburgh and London, it has developed technology that makes the heating and cooling of buildings more efficient and significantly reduces the amount of energy consumed and carbon generated
Par, from its headquarters in
KaMin LLC, a global performance minerals company owned by IMin Partners, is to acquires the BASF kaolin minerals business. Currently, the kaolin minerals business is part of BASF’s Performance Chemicals division.
The transaction includes production hub sites in Daveyville, Toddville, Edgar, Gordon and related mines, reserves and mills in Toomsboro and Sandersville in Georgia, USA. The co-located refinery catalysts operations will continue to be owned and operated by BASF’s refinery catalysts business and are not part of the divestiture.
“The acquisition of BASF’s kaolin business is a transformative step forward in KaMin’s strategy. The combination of these two complementary businesses
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the industrials, financial services, healthcare, and software industries, is to acquire Brook + Whittle, a provider of sustainable labelling solutions serving growth-oriented consumer end markets, from TruArc Partners.
Founded in 1995, Brook + Whittle is one of North America’s leading providers of premium prime labels. Brook + Whittle’s innovative, sustainable labelling solutions serve a broad range of growth-oriented consumer end-markets, including personal care, beverage, food, healthcare, and household products. The company is headquartered in Guilford, CT.
David Golde, Managing Director at Genstar Capital, says: “Brook +
Formstack, a workplace productivity platform, has secured a USD425 million growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners and returning investor PSG. The investment comes on the heels of Formstack seeing rapid global adoption of its no-code workplace productivity platform by thousands of customers.
Launched in 2006, Formstack empowers anyone to quickly and easily build custom forms, create documents, and collect eSignatures—all without code. More than 238,000 users across more than 25,000 organisations worldwide—including Cleveland Clinic, NHL, Netflix, Twitter, and Butler University—have turned to Formstack to digitise and automate everything from simple tasks to complex enterprise processes. Whether it’s improving the
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