Allocations
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its ownership stake in portfolio company Trinity Consultants to Oak Hill Capital (Oak Hill), with Trinity Consultants employees maintaining a significant minority ownership position.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1974, Trinity Consultants is a leading provider of regulatory-driven environmental, health & safety (EHS), engineering and sciences consulting services. The Company employs over 1,000 professionals specialising in highly technical, compliance-driven services that address clients’ mission-critical needs. Trinity is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and operates from over 70 offices worldwide, with a national
Flexpoint Ford (Flexpoint), a private equity investment firm specialising in the financial services and healthcare industries, has completed its acquisition of AFH Financial Group (AFH), a leading UK financial planning-led wealth management firm.
Since its IPO in 2014, AFH has been providing wealth management and financial advisory services to over 20,000 clients in the UK. The firm seeks to deliver on its strategy focused on increasing shareholder value through a combination of organic growth via greater productivity of advisers and by value accretive acquisitions financed on an earn-out model.
“We could not be more excited to announce the completion
Argand Partners (Argand), a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based industrials private equity firm, has announced that its portfolio company, Cherry AG (Cherry), a global designer and manufacturer of high-precision keyboard PC gaming mechanical switch technology, has successfully completed its IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
At the final offer price of EUR32 per share, the total volume of the IPO was significantly oversubscribed. Cherry’s 24,300,000 shares began trading this morning, 29 June, 2021, under the ticker C3RY on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse).
The total number of shares and the final offer
Anterra Capital (Anterra), an international food and agriculture specialist venture capital firm, has held the initial closing of its second food and agriculture technology fund, Anterra F&A Ventures II, raising USD175 million, exceeding the targeted size of the fund.
Due to the positive market reception for the fund’s mission and strategy, Anterra is tracking towards an upsized second fund, and anticipates a final closing in the third quarter, 2021.
Anterra’s unique investment approach has attracted commitments from a prestigious and aligned group of long-term oriented global investors, with continued support from Eight Roads Ventures, backed by Fidelity, and Rabo Investments,
AMC Health, a leading telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) services provider, has received a substantial strategic growth investment from York Capital Management’s private equity group (York Private Equity).
Founded in 2002, AMC Health provides best-in-class virtual healthcare solutions to patients, caregivers, payers and providers, including to some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated home telehealth and RPM programs. AMC Health’s advanced remote patient care solutions are driven by data and technology to efficiently and cost-effectively improve at-risk patient outcomes.
“We are thrilled to have received this strategic investment from York, whose long-term vision makes them the ideal
VCM Global Asset Management (VCM) has made a USD30 million investment in MillTechFX, the fintech arm of the Millennium Global Group, to accelerate disruption of the world’s USD6 trillion a day Forex market.
VCM is buying a significant stake after its private equity arm found itself paying steep FX transaction fees on a recent multifamily property acquisition in Germany. Consequently VCM, which is expanding internationally and is looking to make more investments in Europe as well as the Americas, went into the market to find a better solution.
“When we came across MillTechFX with its transparent digital FX platform and
EIS, a core and digital platform provider for insurers, has secured a growth investment of more than USD100 million from TPG, a global alternative asset firm.
TPG is investing out of TPG Tech Adjacencies (TTAD), its fund focused on flexible capital solutions for the technology industry. The new funding will be used to continue to accelerate product development across the spectrum of risk, health, and wealth, and support geographic expansion. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2008, EIS is an insurance software company that enables leading insurers to innovate and operate in faster, more secure, and
Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in enterprise software companies, has sold AutoQuotes, a specialist in configure-price-quote (CPQ) and supply chain software for the foodservice equipment and supplies industry, to TA Associates.
The company will become part of Revalize, a new cloud-software platform for manufacturers formed by TA.
Luminate acquired AutoQuotes in 2018 from the founding team. Since Luminate’s investment, AutoQuotes has seen strong growth, adding a world class management team and significantly expanding its product suite. In 2020, AutoQuotes acquired Axonom, a visual configuration platform for B2B finished products.
Jim Contardi, Chief Executive Officer of
BGF has successfully exited its investment in Semafone, a provider of data security and compliance solutions for call and contact centres, after it was acquired by Livingbridge.
BGF invested GBP4 million in Semafone in October 2014, alongside Octopus Ventures (GBP1 million) and a consortium of existing shareholders. Funding was used to support the delivery of Semafone’s key contracts, boost senior management resources, extend the product portfolio and expand into overseas markets. The investment from BGF and Octopus Ventures also enabled Semafone to gain access to non-dilutive bank debt to fund further growth.
Semafone is a market leading data security
UK-based Ethos Invest has launched a vehicle set to become the world’s largest shariah compliant tech-focused private equity fund, with a fundraise target of GBP1 billion.
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