Managers
DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP) a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has completed its investment in Parnell Pharmaceuticals Holdings Ltd (Parnell).
Founded over 50 years ago in Australia, Parnell is a fully integrated manufacturer and developer of animal health pharmaceuticals focused on the US market.
“Parnell has an attractive position with an FDA approved manufacturing facility dedicated to animal health drugs with a particular focus on sterile injectables,” says Eric Moore, Principal at DWHP. “Alan and Brad have done a great job building a quality and compliance culture at the Company and over the last three years have dramatically transformed the organisation.
The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and CVC Capital Partners Fund VII have launched Volleyball World, a new partnership which will drive innovation, growth and investment in volleyball around the globe.
Volleyball is the fourth most popular sport globally, with more than 800 million fans and high participation, across attractive markets, including Italy, Brazil, Japan, Poland, China and the US. Volleyball was the most watched sport at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, with 2.6 billion viewer hours globally.
Volleyball World will become the commercial entity for the sport around the world, initially for FIVB and aiming at working later alongside other
Priority Power Management (Priority), an independent energy management services and consulting firm backed by Ara Partners, has acquired Satori Energy Solutions (Satori).
The transaction creates a leading nationwide provider of energy services with significantly enhanced service offering, broadened geographic footprint, and industry expertise.
Satori, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, was one of the first energy service firms to emerge after deregulation and today provides industry-leading expertise and service to more than 55,000 industrial, municipal, and residential clients in 25 states and the District of Columbia, Canada, and Mexico.
The company’s capabilities span the spectrum of Energy Structuring and Market Intelligence
Research by regional mid-market private equity firm YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has revealed a growing focus on culture and working practices, rather than simply valuation, after almost a year of interrupted working and repeated lockdowns.
The survey polled over 120 entrepreneurs, advisers and dealmakers across the UK in December, and showed that the primary consideration for boards looking for VC and growth funding was the investors’ approach to working (48 per cent), closely followed by their cultural fit with investors (45 per cent), whilst the financial terms, once the dominant consideration, came in as the third most important criteria, only
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising lower mid-market companies, has sold MB2 Dental, a dental partnership organisation (DPO) with a doctor-centric ownership model. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and serving patients in 24 states, MB2 is a leading DPO offering general dentistry services, orthodontics, peadiatrics, prosthodontics, and periodontics. MB2 employs a unique partnership model through which affiliated dentists enjoy the clinical benefits of a private practice and the infrastructure, compliance, marketing, and purchasing advantages of a traditional dental service organisation. Drawing on the energy of its highly engaged
CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SMEs with EUR4.82 billion of assets under management, has appointed Guillaume Basquin and Frédéric Chiche as Partners and Co-Heads of CAPZA Expansion, a fund dedicated to investments in French mid-cap companies.
The fund has already begun investing in order to support the French economy and back the rebound of mid-cap companies, with its two initial investments in Béton Solutions Mobiles and Sogetrel.
CAPZA Expansion was created following the envelope entrusted to CAPZA in May 2020 by AXA France to help rebuild French local economic activity and foster
Millbrook Healthcare (Millbrook), a portfolio company of Cairngorm Capital Partners (Cairngorm Capital), has acquired Ross Care Limited (Ross Care).
The acquisition creates a national group with market leadership within the outsourced wheelchair and community equipment services sector.
Established in 1949, Ross Care is a major provider of wheelchair services and mobility equipment on behalf of NHS and local authorities. In addition to its community equipment service, Ross Care is the largest provider of wheelchair repair contracts in the UK. Headquartered in Wallasey, Ross Care has 18 service centres including four wheelchair clinical assessment centres across the north and north west
By Phil Spratt, co-founder of digital intelligence service Deltabase – With the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic suppressing some sectors, the attention of the private equity industry is now even more acutely focused on assets in the resilient SaaS technology sector and on firms that have successfully managed to ‘pivot’ towards digitalising their propositions and underlying business model.
The number of private funds being established in the Cayman Islands has continued to rise. This sector proved to be resilient and flexible as it swiftly adapted to a new regulatory regime and turned the additional oversight into an advantage.
“The growth of private funds is a function of the Cayman Islands’ well-respected legislative and regulatory framework, tax neutral status and local knowledge base,” outlines Richard Gordon, managing director – Cayman, Ocorian. “In addition, the enhanced private funds regulatory regime seems to be having a positive effect. It is providing investors with greater comfort by implementing supervisory oversight and increasing transparency into
By A Paris – In what has been a rollercoaster year from all perspectives, 2020 saw the Cayman Islands being first placed on the European Union blacklist in February, followed by its removal from said list in October, after it made improvements to its tax framework.
The jurisdiction, best known as a domicile of choice for hedge funds and alternative investments, has introduced a spectacular 19 new pieces of legislation in its steadfast endeavour to strengthen oversight and ensure the Cayman Islands industry is aligned with global standards.
Elemental to Cayman’s removal from the EU blacklist was the enhancement of its framework
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
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