Managers
Private investment firm Auxo Investment Partners has acquired Genesis Rail Services, a full-service US railroad maintenance company.
As part of the transaction, Cody Harman, son of company founder Jeff Harman, will retain a minority ownership stake in the company and continue in his role running day-to-day operations. In addition, railroad industry veteran John McPherson will serve as Auxo’s operating partner and a board member.
Founded in 2009, Genesis Rail Services provides outsourced mission-critical maintenance of way (MOW), mechanical and construction services to Class I, Class II and industrial railroads across the country. Class I railroads are the largest railroad
A new report published bg Preqin — ESG in Alternatives 2021: Navigating the Climate Crisis — reveals that, as of October 2021, there is USD3.1 trillion of private capital assets under management (AUM) by firms that are committed to ESG investing. This compares with USD8.52tn of private capital AUM globally, or 36 per cent of the total.
Fund managers with established ESG policies are also responsible for a significant portion of total private capital fundraising. Preqin estimates that ESG-committed managers raised USD403 billion in the first nine months of 2021, compared to USD506 billion raised throughout the whole of
Market research platform Attest has raised USD60 million in Series B funding bringing total funds invested in the company to over USD85 million.
Attest has achieved record revenue growth during the pandemic, driving the accelerated importance of customer and market understanding to organisations who are seeking competitive advantage and business growth. Attest has continued to support and grow its ever-expanding roster of clients, including Microsoft, Santander, Walgreens/Boots, Wise and Klarna.
This latest round will help further accelerate Attest’s already rapid expansion in both Europe and North America, as well as the company’s mission to make high quality research simple, fast
365 Response, a Wakefield-based digital transport management and eProcurement software provider, has acquired Redcar-based transport technology solutions business, Flexiroute, after securing follow-on funding from the founders and growth capital investor, BGF.
Just one year on from BGF’s initial GBP3 million investment, this new partnership brings together two providers of Home-to-School and NHS transport software in the UK, working with some of the largest councils and trusts in the country. A combined fifty years’ experience across the Group will drive rapid improvements in service by harmonising the best in sector technologies, for the benefit of over 200 public sector and private
Da Vinci Capital portfolio company Softline Holding plc (LSE: SFTL) has priced its initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange of 53.3 million global depositary receipts (GDRs) representing newly issued Softline ordinary shares.
Admission of the GDRs to trading on the London Stock Exchange is expected to occur on 1 November, 2021.
Softline is a global provider of information technology solutions in the digital transformation and cybersecurity industries.
Softline’s final offering price was USD7.50 per GDR, resulting in IPO proceeds of approximately USD400 million, which the company expects to use to fund acquisitions and for general corporate
Paul Hastings LLP, a global law firm, has advised montana capital partners on an innovative secondary transaction through its investment in the Ping An Global Equity Selection Fund II (the Selection Fund II), and Ping An GP Opportunities Fund (the GP Opportunities Fund).
montana capital partners co-led and structured the transaction and was one of the anchor investors alongside funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Ardian.
The two funds, which together received total capital commitments of USD750 million, are a continuation of Ping An Overseas Holdings’ dedicated investment program focusing on overseas private equity investing. The Selection
Palatine, the mid-market private equity investor, has made a successful partial exit from CET Group with the sale of its tech-enabled insurance claims management division to HomeServe plc for GBP53 million.
Based in Castle Donington, CET is a leading provider of outsourced home emergency, drainage and subsidence services to one in eight UK households.
Since Palatine’s initial investment in November 2018, revenues have grown by almost GBP12 million to GBP32 million and EBITDA has more than doubled. Its workforce has increased significantly too, rising from 190 to more than 300 in the last 12 months.
The Palatine team
British macro analytics firm Quant Insight (Qi), the new quantitative financial market analytics and trading insights provider, has made a major expansion across Europe and the Middle Eastern (ME) territories, opening a new headquarters based in Limassol, Cyprus, in the Cedars Oasis Tower.
All Street Research (All Street) has launched Sevva, an AI powered platform for Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) ratings.
The platform, which was developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, will deliver unprecedented hyperscale to sustainability assessments.
Sevva’s real time ratings are based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), and cover all 70,000 publicly listed companies globally, any private company, and any fund. This makes Sevva the world’s most comprehensive sustainability analysis of global capital markets.
Sevva’s Cognitive Robots instantly read millions of ESG data points from all publicly available information for every company to
Tinexta, a specialist in Digital Trust, Cybersecurity, Credit Information & Management and Innovation & Marketing services, has signed a binding agreement with Bregal Milestone, a European technology growth capital firm, with over EUR1.1 billion of asset under management, that will invest in a minority stake in InfoCert.
Bregal Milestone is part of Bregal Investments, a leading global investment firm that has invested over EUR15 billion since 2002 and currently has assets under management of over EUR12 billion.
The strategic and capital strengthening resulting from the transaction will enable InfoCert to accelerate the internationalisation process already started with the acquisition
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