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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
Due diligence
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.
Richard Gordon, Ocorian
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
Jude Scott, Cayman Finance
By Jude Scott, Cayman Finance – In August 1864, 900 miles almost due North of the Cayman Islands, US Navy Rear Admiral David Farragut faced a pivotal moment. Leading a squadron charged with attacking Confederate forces in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Farragut’s flotilla encountered tethered mines known then as “torpedoes” which ultimately threatened his mission and his men. Acting decisively to navigate around the threat and pursue his objective, Farragut uttered the phrase that has now passed into military lore: “Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!” Leaders in every walk of life will meet challenges that could distract their focus, diminish
Wallbox has closed a EUR33 million financing round to help propel the company’s expansion into new markets and meet global demand for its award-winning Electric Vehicle charging solutions. The investment is the latest endorsement of Wallbox’s proprietary technology and support for its mission to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. The round was led by new investors Cathay Innovation and WIND Ventures with participation from existing investors Iberdrola and Seaya Ventures, and others.  The new funds will finance strategic growth initiatives including the opening of new offices globally, expansion of manufacturing and R&D facilities and the hiring of more

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