Managers
Respira has closed an equity investment in the first quarter of 2021 by Capricorn Investment Group’s Sustainable Investors Fund.
This investment aims to catalyse movement of institutional capital towards asset managers with high-quality approaches to sustainability. It will allow for the expansion of Respira’s portfolio-based approach to the carbon offset market.
Acting as an investment principal with secured, long-term contracts with diversified worldwide carbon offset projects, Respira offers businesses the architecture to “progressively achieve emissions reductions targets.” This approach provides institutional investors with both long-term pricing and productivity guarantees.
Robin Bowie, Co-Founder and Director of Respira, says: “We
Global law firm White & Case has advised Epidemic Sound on a USD450 million joint investment by EQT Growth and Blackstone Growth, which values Epidemic Sound at USD1.4 billion.
Epidemic Sound is a global MusicTech company headquartered in Stockholm. The company has democratised access to music for storytellers by providing royalty free music and sound effects. Its innovative digital rights model paves the way for creators, from YouTubers to small businesses to the world’s largest brands, to use restriction-free music to elevate their content, whilst supporting the musicians it works with both financially and creatively. Epidemic Sound was founded in
Telestream, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital and a specialist in media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies, has acquired Masstech, a creator of intelligent, hybrid cloud-based storage and asset lifecycle management solutions for the M&E industry.
The company’s 10th acquisition comes shortly after Telestream’s purchase of EcoDigital – another specialist in content management system technology.
Masstech combines the experience of many decades of broadcast and video content storage management with cloud and other vanguard technology development processes, to identify and address the challenges of the industry’s constantly evolving technical and business landscapes. Today, organisations representing every facet of
Clessidra Sgr has finalised the acquisition of a majority stake in Botter SpA, a Venetian company among the world’s leading exporters of Italian wine owned by the Botter family and IDeA Taste of Italy fund, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds.
The Botter family will support Clessidra in this transaction by reinvesting in the company, continuing to play a key operational role, while ensuring management continuity. Italmobiliare and Capital Dynamics, investors in Clessidra Capital Partners 3 fund, will take part as co-investors in the deal. IDeA Taste of Italy has yielded its entire stake.
Founded by Carlo Botter in 1928
Livingbridge has agreed the sale of their stake in TSA Management (TSA), an independent provider of client-side project management and advisory services across Australia and New Zealand, to Quadrant Private Equity. The investment was made from Livingbridge 6.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Sydney, TSA manages, consults and partners with forward-thinking government and private sector clients to bring impactful capital projects to life. They work across a range of infrastructure and social infrastructure sectors, including road, rail, healthcare, and education.
Livingbridge invested in TSA in 2017, having identified the potential to support the management team to consolidate
PAI Partners (PAI) has closed its inaugural PAI Mid-Market Fund (“PAI MMF”, or the “Fund”) with a total of circa EUR920 million of commitments. The Fund was raised entirely virtually and is above its EUR700 million target and original EUR800 million hard cap, which was increased following significant investor interest.
The Fund received strong support from PAI’s existing investor base in addition to new investors. The capital commitments were received from a total of 50 investors including a broad range of institutional investors, notably leading public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and family offices across the
Learndirect has acquired Animal Courses Direct (ACD) and i-to-i (TATG Ltd), two specialist training providers operating in the Animal Welfare and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) sectors respectively.
The acquisitions extend Learndirect’s existing portfolio in these sectors and provides a strong base for the group to continue to grow online education in these specialisms. Learndirect was the first platform investment from Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) Fund I.
ACD is the largest specialist Animal Welfare provider in the UK offering a wide range of Ofqual regulated animal courses that meet the Defra Animal Activity Licencing (ALL) Regulations. Through
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising lower mid-market companies, has closed its sale of Pet Supplies Plus (PSP), the third largest pet specialty chain in the US, to Franchise Group, Inc.
The deal is valued at USD700 million.
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, PSP is the leading franchisor and operator of pet-specialty stores that provide a customer-centric shopping experience in smaller stores that have a neighbourhood feel.
PSP blends the advantages of national scale with those of a friendly, local neighbourhood pet store. Stores have a streamlined design, which makes them easy
Kirkland & Ellis has advised Alpine Investors, a San Francisco based private equity fund and its portfolio company Alpine Software Group, on the acquisition of Sendible, a UK social media management and data analytics provider.
The transaction is Alpine’s first European acquisition.
The team was led by transactional partners Adrian Duncan and David Higgins and associate Jamie Gordon; antitrust partner Sally Evans and associate Athina Van Melkebeke; tax associate Anthony Antioch; debt finance partner Alexander van der Gaag and associate Phanne Yang; and IP transactions associates John Patten and Alex Zapalowski.
The Kempen European Private Equity Fund, the private equity investment fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen), has acquired a direct interest in GSRI.
GSRI, originally a French company founded in 1997, offers inspection, diagnostic, and advisory solutions to optimise the management and maintenance of existing infrastructure projects during their entire life cycle.
The participation of the Kempen European Private Equity Fund is a co-investment with investment company Sparring Capital, www.sparringcapital.com, and the original founders. The management team of GSRI has also invested with its own resources. As a result, the interests of the various investors are equally represented.
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