Managers
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) accounting, tax and valuation advisory firm, WilliamsMarston has acquired Bay Valuation Advisors (BVA), a provider of valuation advisory services throughout the United States.
This is the third acquisition WilliamsMarston has completed in the past 13 months which brings the Firm’s headcount to more than 135 professionals and further establishes WilliamsMarston as a national leader in accounting, tax and valuation advisory services to private equity-backed and public growth companies.
Founded in Oakland, California in 2007, BVA supports its more than 200 clients’ financial and tax reporting, dispute resolution and other corporate financial needs.
Cairngorm Capital Partners portfolio company, Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG), has acquired Dougfield Plumbers Supplies Limited (Dougfield), expanding its network of specialist plumbing and heating merchants into Wales and across the South West.
Established in 1993, Dougfield Plumbers Supplies is a highly successful independent plumbers merchant supplying trade and retail customers across South Wales and the South West of England. Headquartered in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Dougfield has 10 branches in Swansea, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Devon and Cornwall, all stocking an extensive range of plumbing, heating and bathroom products. Dougfield Plumbers Supplies has demonstrated strong organic growth since its formation.
Following its recent
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made an additional GBP3.5 million investment into Hospital Services Limited (HSL).
Established in 1962, and based in Belfast, with additional offices in Dublin and East Midlands, HSL is a specialist distributor of diagnostic medical devices, surgical equipment and consumable products, servicing public and private hospitals across the UK and Ireland.
Foresight first invested into HSL in 2015 via its Venture Capital Trusts. Since then, HSL has experienced a period of sustained growth with revenue increasing three-fold in the six years since initial investment.
Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has made a strategic investment in BlueConic, a pure-play customer data platform.
BlueConic’s existing investors, including Spring Lake Equity Partners, Sigma Prime Ventures, and Converge Venture Partners, will continue as minority investors in the Company.
The investment in BlueConic was led by Vista’s Endeavor Fund, which is focused on high-growth enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses seeking to expand their impact in the markets they serve. Endeavor partners with companies and their management teams, providing the capital, expertise, and support to build
Signature Brands, a North American manufacturer of dessert decorating products and a portfolio company of Traub Capita Partners, has acquired Brand Castle, a manufacturer and distributor of branded and private label baking & decorating kits, dessert decorating products, premium baking mixes and seasonal beverages.
Brand Castle also and designs and bakes its own gingerbread house line.
Carolyn Resar, President of Brand Castle, will lead the business and report to Signature Brands CEO Jared Konstanty; and founders Andrea and Jimmy Zeilinger will remain with the company. Brand Castle is based in Bedford Heights, Ohio.
Sygnum, a digital asset technology group with a Swiss banking license and a Singapore asset management licence, has raised USD90 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Sun Hung Kai & Co Limited, plus a a raft of new and existing strategic investors.
The round values Sygnum at USD800 million on a post-money basis.
As with all prior fundraising rounds, the Series B also saw the participation of a large group of employees as personal investors. These team members have now joined the co-founders, board members and management team as shareholders of the firm, and this group
CORL Technologies, a provider of vendor risk management solutions for the healthcare industry, has secured a strategic growth investment from Primus Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in healthcare, software, and technology-enabled services companies.
The partnership will allow CORL to accelerate its growth trajectory and continue its strong performance as the healthcare industry’s dominant vendor risk management solution.
Since its founding in 2012, CORL has delivered healthcare vendor and information security, compliance, and privacy solutions that harness vendor data intelligence, technology, and managed services to achieve measurable cybersecurity risk reduction at scale. CORL’s platform and tech-enabled services
UpCurve Energy Partners II has secured an equity commitment from Post Oak Energy Capital.
In addition to the new equity commitment, UpCurve II has completed an initial acquisition in the Delaware Basin. The Company will use the remaining equity commitment to continue to pursue an “acquire and exploit” strategy, focused on value creation via best-in-class execution.
UpCurve II is led by executives Zach Fenton, Steve Escaler and Dave Kyte, who have worked together for years in their existing partnership with Post Oak, UpCurve Energy Partners, LLC (UpCurve I). Both UpCurve I and II represent a highly economic acreage position in
North West law firm, Pannone Corporate, has advised on over GBP500 million of deals in Q4, as M&A activity remains buoyant.
The corporate team, including partners Mark Winthorpe, Tom Hall and Tim Hamilton, completed 14 transactions during the final quarter of 2021 across M&A, IPO and private equity transactions.
High-profile deals include the sale of online mortgage broker Mojo Mortgages to RVU, part of the Zoopla Property Group; the sale of investment platform Hubwise to US tech giant SS&C; the sale of streetwear brand, HERA London, to Gymshark director and former chairman, Paul Richardson; the GBP16 million sale of asset
Meditology Services, a provider of information risk management, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance services for the healthcare industry, has secured a strategic growth investment from Primus Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in healthcare, software, and technology-enabled services companies.
Founded in 2010, Meditology provides a broad array of services to healthcare entities including cybersecurity and privacy risk assessments, HITRUST and SOC 2 assurance services, PCI-DSS ASV and QSA services, HIPAA & OCR compliance support, penetration testing, cloud security services, and other related services.
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