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The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in a home health company in Greater Los Angeles.
This is an add-on investment to Riverside’s Best Life Brands, LLC (BLB), a family of companies focused on the well-being of clients along the continuum of senior care. With plans to begin franchising the concept immediately, the acquisition also marks the company’s entry into home health franchising. The company will be rebranded with a new name in the coming months. This is BLB’s fourth brand and expands upon the company’s plan to
LIVEKINDLY Collective, a collection of heritage and start-up brands on track to become one of the world’s largest plant-based food companies, has completed a capital raise led by The Rise Fund, a global impact investing platform managed by TPG.
This round was joined by Rabo Corporate Investments, the investment arm of Rabobank, investing again in this round, S2G Ventures, and other existing and additional mission-aligned investors.
This investment closes a growth funding round of USD335 million, including USD135 million converted from a prior round, bringing the total funds raised by LIVEKINDLY Collective in its first year to USD535 million.
Arix Bioscience (Arix), a global venture capital company focused on investing in and building breakthrough biotech companies, has invested in Pyxis Oncology (Pyxis). As part of the deal, Arix Managing Director Christian Schetter will join Pyxis’ Board of Directors.
Pyxis is building a differentiated portfolio of biologics, including antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and immunotherapies, to improve the lives of patients with difficult-to-treat cancers.
Pyxis will use the proceeds from the financing to advance its differentiated portfolio of ADCs, a growing class of therapies that deliver highly potent targeted treatments directly to cancer cells. Pyxis will also continue advancing its immuno-oncology pipeline
​​​​​​​In this week’s podcast, Private Equity Wire hears from Andrew Bernstein, senior managing director and head of private equity at Capital Dynamics, on why some managers able to meet their fundraising targets despite the pandemic, while others are struggling to reach their targets, and why firms with proprietary sourcing capabilities might be better positioned to take advantage of liquidity-based opportunities at the moment?
The latest CEPRES report on Infrastructure closely examines both the evolution of infrastructure strategies in private markets and historical returns across economic cycles and during periods of market disruption, providing in-depth analysis vital for anyone interested in making North American or European infrastructure part of their portfolio.
The analyses presented in the article are based on CEPRES Market Intelligence, comprised of primary sourced and verified infrastructure data from CERPES’ global private investment network, consisting of net and gross cash flows, and the underlying operating data of the assets. Also included is an examination of Brownfield vs. Rehabilitated Brownfield vs. Greenfield
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has completed the acquisition of Investis Digital from ECI Partners and a group of minority investors. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Established in 2000, Investis Digital is a leading provider of digital corporate communications and marketing services to blue-chip institutions globally. It is headquartered in London with over 500 digital experts across nine global offices in the US, UK, EU and India. Through its proprietary Connected Content approach, Investis Digital combines compelling communications, intelligent digital experiences and performance marketing to help more than 1600 global companies build deeper
Specialist lender Bantry Bay Capital (Bantry Bay) has established a joint venture partnership with funds advised by Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited and its affiliates (Elliott).
Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited is an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, a global fund manager with approximately USD41.8 billion in assets under management.
Bantry Bay will benefit from the deep financial resources of Elliott to support the next stage of its growth. The specialist lender will continue to provide supportive, non-dilutive debt capital solutions to corporates undergoing change. Bantry Bay focuses on asset-based financings, targeting transactions ranging from GBP10 million to GBP100 million-plus for private
Finch Capital, through Nomu Pay, a vehicle that invests in payment assets, is to acquire Wirecard Ödeme Ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri (Wirecard Turkey).
The deal is expected to be completed by Summer 2021 and is subject to certain conditions, including regulatory approvals.
This investment is part of Nomu Pay’s larger plan to invest in payments infrastructure in Turkey and the Middle East region. More details will be provided at closing on the strategy and rebranding.
Radboud Vlaar, Managing Partner Finch Capital, says: “We see tremendous growth opportunities to further enhance payments for Turkey’s 80 million inhabitants. We are excited to
The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has released of its 2020 Annual African Private Equity Data Tracker report, which provides data and analysis on private equity (PE) fundraising, deals and exits in Africa in 2020, as well as an overview of PE activity on the continent from 2015 to 2020.
It also incorporates regional spotlights and case studies covering activity in Southern, West, North and East Africa.
The new report highlights the African PE sector’s resilience during a time of global uncertainty. As a result of the economic fallout precipitated by the Covid-19 crisis, the value
Astorg is to become the new majority shareholder of Corialis, a European designer and manufacturer of aluminium systems for windows and doors, from CVC Capital Partners Fund VI.
Corialis’ management will reinvest a significant part of their proceeds alongside Astorg.
Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Belgium, Corialis employs c2,700 people across eight sites in the UK, Belgium, France, Poland, Portugal, La Reunion, Serbia and South Africa. The company benefits from long-term, secular growth fuelled by the increasing use of aluminium as the eco-friendly material of choice for architectural purposes: unlike competing PVC products, aluminium systems have a longer lifetime
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