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The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Premier Electronics (Premier).
Based in Michigan, Premier provides fire and life safety system inspections, repairs, maintenance and installations for retrofits and new construction. The investment is an add-on to Riverside’s CertaSite platform, a fire and life safety platform committed to the highest levels of customer service, responsiveness, building safety and code compliance.
CertaSite goes beyond compliance, focusing on partnerships and professionalism while providing customers a simplified and dependable solution to manage fire protection and life safety systems in commercial buildings.
“We
Nonantum Capital Partners (Nonantum), a middle-market private equity firm, has acquired Helix Traffic Solutions (Helix), a provider of mission-critical traffic management services and equipment.
Helix offers a full suite of traffic safety solutions, including traffic control, flagging, equipment rental, and sign installation services. All of Helix’s services are provided to keep road workers, utility contractors, and the general public safe on active roadways where repairs, construction, and upgrades are being performed.
Helix has accelerated its growth in recent years by acquiring several founder-led traffic service businesses, creating a network of companies that offer customers a highly professionalized, local, and client-centric
Kemira, a global chemicals company, has invested in a minority share of SimAnalytics, a Finnish start-up known for its advanced process harmony prediction and analysis tool.
The partnership strengthens Kemira’s ability to support customers’ business with data-driven predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions. The two companies have worked together on customer projects involving pulp and paper production processes, which are typically complex and where disruptions are costly.
”There is a lot of know-how on machinery, process chemistry and data science within the paper industry, but typically these factors have been monitored and optimised in silos. Together, we bundle
Ironwood Capital’s portfolio company, Peltram Plumbing Holdings, LLC (Peltram) has acquired Power Plumbing (Power), a plumbing services provider based in Houston, Texas, with a primary focus on the multifamily construction market.
Ironwood Capital provided a follow-on investment in support of the acquisition. Peltram is a Crescendo Capital portfolio company.
The Power acquisition is the third for Peltram, which previously acquired Precision Plumbing in October 2020 and ER Plumbing in May 2021, both based in the Charlotte market. With the addition of Power, Peltram now has significant operations in Seattle, Charlotte, and throughout Texas, with expertise in single family, multifamily,
Despite the threat of another wave of Covid-19 looming large, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors, who endured a volatile year in 2020 and the first half (H1) of 2021, seem to be reposing their faith in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed its 1,000th add-on acquisition across more than 140 platform investments in six industries: business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial services & technology, software & technology, and financial services.
Audax was established over two decades ago with a goal of creating a purpose-built organization with trusted relationships. Audax Private Equity is a pioneer of the Buy & Build strategy, which it has successfully executed over the course of the firm’s six flagship private equity funds and across various market conditions and financial cycles.
The firm averages seven add-on investments per each platform investment. Further, the firm
Arctaris Impact Investors (Arctaris) has appointed Mark Garcia as Chief Financial Officer. Garcia joins Arctaris after 13 years at Thomas H Lee Partners, where he served as Co-Chief Financial Officer.
“On behalf of Arctaris, I am very pleased to welcome Mark Garcia, to our leadership team as our firm continues to grow,” says Jonathan Tower, Founder and Managing Partner of Arctaris. “His extensive background in accounting and financial leadership will make an immediate impact as we fulfil our mission of investing in underserved communities with transparent reporting to our investors.”
Arctaris is committed to delivering broad social impact and investment
Prostar Capital, a midstream energy infrastructure firm, has successfully completed a refinancing for its portfolio company Fujairah Oil Terminal (FOT).
The new USD280 million debt facility will replace the existing senior debt as well as create a capital expenditure facility to fund the connection of the terminal to the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) jetty and ADCOP pipeline, which delivers Abu Dhabi’s Murban crude to Fujairah.
FOT is a 7.4 million-barrel bulk liquid storage terminal located in the Port of Fujairah, UAE, a major strategic energy trading centre and one of the largest bunkering ports in the world.
PRO Unlimited, a modern workforce management platform provider, through an agreement with EQT Private Equity, is to acquire Workforce Logiq from funds managed by Carlyle later this year, subject to customary regulatory approvals.
This transaction will combine two leading-edge companies that share a common strategic approach in solving its diversified clients’ contingent workforce management needs through the power of a holistic platform. This combination will expand PRO’s position as a preferred provider to the Global 2000, enabling organisations to achieve their strategic talent acquisition and cost reduction objectives.
Through these transactions, PRO will add Workforce Logiq’s proven and strong
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