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Paceline Equity Partners (Paceline), a Dallas-based private equity manager, has held the final closing of commitments to Paceline Equity Partners Opportunity Fund I, and Paceline Equity Partners Opportunity Fund I (Cayman) with total commitments of USD350 million.
In addition, Paceline has raised and currently manages USD64 million of third-party equity capital to invest alongside deployments from Fund I. Paceline has also raised a committed co-investment partnership with another investor, and, in aggregate, Paceline has raised USD449 million of equity capital to date.
Chief Executive Officer Sam Loughlin says: “It is the trust and confidence of our investor base that
CSC, a provider of business, legal, tax, and digital brand services, has acquired PEF Services LLC (PEF), a leading provider of technology-enabled fund administration services to private capital firms and their investors, including private equity, private debt, venture capital and US-based small business investment companies (SBICs).
This strategic acquisition greatly accelerates CSC’s fund services growth plans in the US, adding expertise and a robust technology platform to CSC’s increasingly sophisticated solutions. The deal underscores CSC’s commitment to the growing private capital fund administration market and builds upon CSC’s other recent expansion efforts in the US, Europe, and Asia.
“We’re very
Taylor Maxwell Group, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of timber and façade solutions to the construction industry, has been acquired by Brickability Group for a consideration of up to GBP63 million.
The Bristol offices of Grant Thornton Corporate Finance and Burges Salmon advised the shareholders with Grant Thornton also providing tax advisory services.
Founded in Bristol in 1959 as a brick and timber merchant, Taylor Maxwell has developed into an over GBP250 million turnover business distributing a range of sawn soft wood timber for use in the construction, pallets and fencing sectors and façade solutions, including facing
Two months after the acquisition of SocieteInfo, Explore, a specialist in the development of B2B business solutions, has acquired Belgian company Codata.
This new merger will enable Explore to deploy innovative solutions on the B2B data market for retail chains and commercial real estate professionals, and thus strengthen its position on its market.
Based in Namur (Belgium) and founded in 1989 by Claude Raick, Codata offers the reference database on the market describing the offer of commercial sites and locations in France and the Benelux, through online search tools allowing the consultation and downloading of data.
This exclusive
Phil, a software therapy deployment platform, has secured USD56 million in a Series D fundraise led by Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor.
The investment is part of an arrangement for Warburg Pincus to invest up to USD100 million and enables Phil to accelerate the development of innovative products while continuing to support the growth of its customers.
As part of the investment, Fred Hassan, Director at Warburg Pincus, will join the company’s board of directors. Fred has a multi-decade career in pharmaceuticals, including roles as CEO of Schering-Plough and Pharmacia, as well as Board roles at Bausch & Lomb,
Pario Ventures has completed a successful investment in Kingfisher Overland Ltd. Pario Ventures has taken a 20 per cent stake to accelerate Overland-e commercial growth in developing a new Electric Overland-E vehicle to be built in Banbury and Birmingham, UK as well as growing the performance and endurance engineering side of the business in a future ‘everyman’ motorsport series.
Babylon Holdings Limited (Babylon), a digital-first value-based care company, and Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp (Alkuri Global), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will operate as Babylon and plans to trade on Nasdaq under the new symbol “BBLN”. The transaction reflects an initial pro forma equity value of approximately USD4.2 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2021.
Babylon was founded in 2013, with the mission to put accessible and affordable quality healthcare in the hands of every
Antidote Technologies Limited (Antidote) has closed USD23.2 million in funding to expand its digital patient engagement programs and clinical trial recruitment services.
The funding round was led by LBO France, a private equity firm committed to supporting the growth of digital health, both in transforming health systems and accelerating medical R&D. Through its Digital Health 2 fund, LBO France is investing USD10 million, joining existing major investors Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Smedvig Capital, and Octopus Ventures, who between them are investing USD13.2 million.
Sebastien Woynar and Franck Noiret of LBO France will join the Antidote Board as
Investment firm RDCP Group has acquired Ipswich-based Ancient House Printing Group for an undisclosed sum.
This latest deal is RDCP’s fifth acquisition in the last 12 months, following its purchase of Chilango, Macair, Buxton Water and Su-Fix Precast last year. Established in 2015 by Sameer Rizvi and Iryna Dubylovska, RDCP Group is a diversified conglomerate that controls USD200 million (GBP140 million) of investments across five sectors and employs 675 staff members in the UK. The acquisition of Ancient House Printing Group is RDCP’s 15th acquisition since 2015.
Taken over by the previous owners in 1971, Ancient House Printing Group
Kushki, a Latin American Fintech backed by GED Capital’s Conexo Ventures fund, has closed a Series B investment round of USD86 million, reaching a valuation of approximately USD600 million, the largest in Latin American history.
The investment is focused on Series A investments in entrepreneurial teams set to become leaders in their fields in the US and Latin America.
Kushki’s clients include large companies around LATAM such as Telefónica, Cabify, Uber, Rappi, OfficeMax, Nubank and SURA. These companies choose Kushki for its cutting edge technology, tailored service and higher payment acceptance rate.
Since it was founded four years ago,
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