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VTS, a leasing, marketing, asset management, and tenant experience platform, is to acquire Lane, a workplace experience platform used by several top landlords including Brookfield, Oxford, and Hines.
With the acquisition, VTS has now invested hundreds of millions of dollars in tenant experience, more than all other proptech companies combined. The acquisition will strengthen VTS’ existing market-leading tenant experience solution, VTS Rise, enabling both Rise and Lane customers to benefit seamlessly from the combined technology. In addition, VTS will add new tenant engagement capabilities to VTS Rise including Lane Perks which provides building occupiers with access to a private network
Funds advised by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight), a global private investment firm, are to acquire a majority stake in Integrated Power Services (IPS), a specialist in industrial aftermarket services.
Searchlight acquired the Company from funds advised by Odyssey Investment Partners (Odyssey). Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, IPS provides maintenance, repair and replacement solutions for critical process equipment serving industrial and renewable energy end-markets in North America. With 33 service centres and field offices, IPS serves over 5,000 unique customer locations and covers equipment spanning motors, generators, pumps
Spark Orthodontics, aa orthodontic group practice with 10 offices in Pennsylvania, and in which Rock Mountain Capital holds a significant minority investment, today announced the acquisition of Cumberland Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics of Tennessee. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Cumberland’s eight offices in the Nashville, TN area will retain the Cumberland name and will roll up under Spark Orthodontics. Cumberland’s four founders, Brent Miller, DDS; Jennifer House, DMD; Jack Stalker, DDS; and Peter Wojtkiewicz, DMD, will become members of the Spark management team.
With this acquisition, Spark becomes a multi-specialty practice, covering the entire pediatric dental
Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity investor, has acquired Agape Care Group (Agape Care), a provider of hospice and palliative care in the South East USA, with a deep presence across South Carolina and Georgia.
The Company offers full end-of-life care for members of its community both in patient homes and healthcare facilities.
“Agape Care is a remarkable operation that balances the great responsibility of providing the highest quality care for its patients and families with a strong growth-oriented business backbone,” says Dan Harknett, Partner at Ridgemont. “We are excited to be investing in a platform with a
Partners Group, a global private markets firm, and Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg) have acquired BluSky Restoration Contractors (BluSky), a US provider of restoration services for commercial, industrial, healthcare, and multifamily real estate, on behalf of their clients.
Kohlberg and Partners Group acquired equal equity stakes in the transaction, with the Company’s management team also retaining a meaningful ownership stake. BluSky’s previous majority owner, Dominus Capital, retained a minority stake in the Company.
BluSky specialises in real estate damage services that stabilise emergency situations and restore businesses and property back to pre-loss condition. The Company’s restoration, remediation, environmental, and preventative
New Mountain Capital has closed its latest direct lending fund, New Mountain Guardian III with approximately USD1.15 billion of capital commitments from a diverse group of investors.
Commitments included a substantial investment from the General Partner and employees of the Firm. The Fund is expected to have approximately USD2.0 billion in investable capital, including leverage. Consistent with the Firm’s investment philosophy, New Mountain’s private credit strategy focuses on lending to the highest quality companies in select, non-cyclical defensive growth industries.
As of 30 September, 2021, Guardian III had already deployed more than USD1.1 billion into 79 portfolio companies across
Endpoint, a digital title and settlement services company, has secured an additional USD150 million in funding from its parent company, First American Financial Corporation, a provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions.
This latest investment, which brings the total capital raised by the company to USD220 million, will allow Endpoint to augment its technology team, further invest in title and settlement automation, and expand its capabilities for proptech companies and real estate professionals focused on delivering a re-imagined home closing process to their customers.
“Endpoint’s impressive growth reflects First American’s commitment to leading the
Carbon Capture (CarbonCapture), a climate tech company that makes machines that remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere, has closed a USD35 million Series A funding round and appointed Adrian Corless as CEO.
CarbonCapture will use the funds to accelerate product development efforts and to establish initial deployments of its renewable energy-powered Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems in locations throughout the U.S., starting with the Tamarack Nickel Project in central Minnesota in partnership with Rio Tinto PLC (LSE: RIO) and Talon Metals Corp. (TSX: TLO).
Analyses by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that humanity must remove billions of
Taussig Capital has acquired all of the voting shares of Spencer Re I I, an International Insurance Company founded in 2006 and licensed in Puerto Rico.
Joseph Taussig, CEO of Taussig Capital, founded Spencer Re 16 years ago and served as its chairman until 2014. The company is being re-branded as Taussig Capital Re and will offer reinsurance to primary insurers and reinsurers looking to optimise their reinsurance programs and access non-traditional sources of insurance capital.
Taussig Capital Re is able to segregate pools of assets and liabilities, creating unique opportunities for exposure to a broad spectrum of insurable risks
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan, has closed its latest early-stage healthcare venture capital fund, Sofinnova Capital X, oversubscribed at EUR472 million (USD548 million).
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