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Gresham House Ventures – a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare and service sectors – has made a GBP3.3 million investment in Patchworks, a software company helping e-commerce businesses automate and manage data flows across backend systems.
Strategic Value Partners and its affiliates (SVPGlobal), a global investment firm focused on distressed debt, event-driven investments, special situations and private equity opportunities, has held the successful final closing of Strategic Value Special Situations Fund V (SVSS V) at its hard cap of USD5 billion.
This fund closing, when combined with SVPGlobal’s existing portfolios and other fund raises, including last summer’s approximately USD1.7 billion Dislocation Fund, has increased SVPGlobal’s total assets under management to more than USD17.5 billion, making it one of the largest global investors in the distressed debt and special situations space.
SVSS V, which completed fundraising only
ParentSquare, provider of a unified school-to-home engagement platform for K-12, has received a significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled services companies.
ParentSquare will further accelerate its growth plans with the investment, including introducing new products and services and expanding into additional geographic markets.
ParentSquare was founded in 2011 by a wife and husband, Anupama Vaid and Sohit Wadhwa. ParentSquare is the only modern, fully unified communication platform that engages every family across every channel, encompassing emergency communications, district announcements, attendance, forms, surveys, sign-ups and daily classroom communications. Before ParentSquare, families and school
OvareVentures has announced a multifaceted investment in Fort Hamilton, producer of super-premium rye whiskies, bourbons, and soon, gin.
Fort Hamilton was founded in 2016 by entrepreneur and distiller Alex Clark, who was formerly instrumental in the launch and growth of Brooklyn’s Widow Jane distillery. Fort Hamilton whiskies are distilled from local rye grain, corn and malted barley in a traditional New York style. They are then barrelled at a low proof and always non-chill filtered to achieve optimal flavour and colour.
The company also operates a Distillery and Tasting Room in Industry City in Brooklyn, New York and plans to
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has raised USD1.6 billion for North Haven Credit Partners III (NHCP III), exceeding its original fundraising target by 29 per cent.
Investors in NHCP III, the successor fund to North Haven Credit Partners II, include public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and individual investors. The Fund, managed by the Morgan Stanley Private Credit team, will focus primarily on junior capital investments in private North American businesses including 2nd lien debt, mezzanine debt, preferred equity and special situations.
“We are pleased with the strong support for NHCP III from new and returning investors
Corporate Finance advisor BCMS has advised leading UK independent medical communications agency Spirit Medical Communications Group Ltd (Spirit), on its sale to OPEN Health.
Founded in 2006 by Asif Zaman, and based at premises in Didsbury, Manchester and Alderley Park, Cheshire, Spirit offers full-service medical communications throughout the product lifecycle, with deep expertise across a range of therapy areas. Services include publication planning, medical strategy, medical education, scientific meetings, training and digital solutions.
Spirit employs 80+ highly qualified employees including post-docs, PhDs and Certified Medical Publication Professionals (CMPP). The business has established exceptional working relationships with its diverse and growing
Atalaya Capital Management (Atalaya), an alternative asset manager focused on private credit and special opportunities investments, has successfully exited its investment in The SAILS Group (SAILS), provider of residential care homes and other high touch treatment for behaviourally challenged clients, and Patterns Behavioral Services (Patterns), a provider of comprehensive services for children and adults diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities.
Atalaya invested in SAILS in 2016, providing the Company with the strategic capital needed to help make transformational acquisitions in complimentary businesses in Washington and Kansas, as well as purchase and expand Patterns. Following these important business combinations, Atalaya
Funds advised by Apax have reached agreement to acquire EveryAction from Insight Partners (Insight) and Social Solutions from Vista Equity Partners (Vista). The two companies will be combined with CyberGrants, which was recently acquired by the Apax Funds, to create a provider of next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to the social good ecosystem.
The combined company will have an enterprise value of USD2 billion, making it the largest M&A transaction in the history of the social good software sector. Vista will maintain a stake in the combined business.
The combination of EveryAction, Social Solutions and CyberGrants will allow the three
Local government pension schemes are increasingly choosing more expensive alternative investments, including private equity and infrastructure, which is raising the overall fees they pay to asset managers as pension funds seek out higher returns, diversification benefits, and lower investment risk.
Portobello Capital has acquired a majority stake in Legálitas, the largest tech-enabled, Spanish language legal services provider.
Together with Portobello, the current management team, led by Luis del Pozo, will also invest in the company.
Legálitas, which generated more than EUR50 million euros in revenues in 2020, has delivered a strong track record of growth reaching an annual increase of 20 per cent in the customer base and over 25 per cent compounded annual revenue growth for the core legal assistance segment, consolidating its unique business model in the current market environment.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Madrid,
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