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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
Farmers Business Network (FBN) a global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, as closed a USD300 million Series G funding round.
The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC with participation from LN Mittal Family Office, ADM Ventures Investment Corp, Colle Capital Partners, Walleye Capital, and Tudor Investment Corporation.
The financing included existing investors: funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, certain funds managed by Fidelity Investments Canada ULC, Temasek, funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price Associates, Inc, GV, Baron Capital Group, DBL Partners, BAM Elevate.
FBN will use the capital for general corporate and working
Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) and UN Principles for Responsible investment (PRI) have collaborated on two new templates.
Diligend clients can now access and easily roll out the new ILPA template documents: the due diligence questionnaire 2.0 and the diversity metrics template, when using the digital due diligence platform. With this digitised version of the questionnaire, they can gather information faster, flag answers automatically and identify risks with ease.
Following collaboration, once again between, ILPA and the PRI, the ESG section of ILPA’s new DDQ, version 2.0, is entirely based on the PRI’s LP private equity responsible investment due diligence
Allvue Systems (Allvue), an alternative investment technology solutions provider, has formed a strategic partnership with SteelBridge Consulting (SteelBridge) to support emerging private equity and venture capital firms as they execute their strategic technology initiatives.
SteelBridge is a boutique services firm which provides expertise exclusively to the private capital industry.
This partnership will bolster Allvue’s offering to small- and mid-sized private equity firms by providing access to an experienced third-party technology consultant as they incorporate Allvue’s newly launched Private Equity and Venture Capital Essentials platform. SteelBridge’s significant industry experience will establish them as a true partner to Allvue’s client base
BCM One, a portfolio company of private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), has acquired CoreDial, a provider of white label UCaaS services sold throughout the United States, from members of management and LLR Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity firm.
The acquisition of CoreDial, following BCM One’s previous acquisitions of SkySwitch and Arena One, gives BCM One a significant footprint in the UCaaS space and allows it to serve customers with a variety of leading products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Geoff Bloss, BCM One’s CEO, says: “The acquisition of CoreDial supports the continued strategic growth of
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