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Private equity firm Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP), a leading private equity firm, has held the final close of Ecosystem Investment Partners IV, (EIP IV). The fund was oversubscribed closing at its hard cap of USD454.5 million. Monument Group, one of the industry’s leading placement agents, served as global placement agent again on the raising of the fund, which was oversubscribed, exceeding its target in less than 10 months. Consistent with EIP’s prior funds’ investment strategy, EIP will continue investing in large-scale wetland, stream and habitat mitigation and restoration projects in the US through EIP IV.
EIP continued to receive strong support from its global,
Weatherford Capital, a leading family-owned private investment firm, has completed an investment in insurance comparison site The Zebra.The USD38.5 million Series C fundraising round was led by Accel and included other current investors, Silverton Partners, Daher Capital, Floodgate Fund, Ballast Point Ventures, and The Zebra’s CEO, Keith Melnick.
As the nation’s largest insurance comparison site with over 1.3 million website visitors per month, The Zebra’s revenue has seen very strong growth. The company’s revenue grew almost 200 per cent year over year to nearly USD37 million in 2019. Their annual run rate is now exceeding USD60 million, more than
Dallas-based private equity firm Align Capital Partners’ utility intelligence platform E Source has acquired Baton Rouge-based UtiliWorks Consulting.
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities is to acquire the Renewable Power Systems (RPS Business) as well as the protection relays business, from Woodward, Inc. With over 400 employees, the combined businesses generated sales of approximately USD 80 million in financial year 2019. The closing of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions including antitrust approval and is anticipated to occur in the next months.
The RPS Business produces converters and other key components used in wind turbines at its production sites in Kempen, Germany and Krakow, Poland. It is also active in the converter aftermarket, selling spare parts for the installed base,
The latest Enterprise Software M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, an international technology mergers and acquisitions adviser, reveals that transaction volumes decreased slightly to 620 deals inked in the second half of 2019, but revenue and EBITDA multiples remained astoundingly high at 4.0x and 17.3x respectively. Miro Parizek, founder, Hampleton Partners, says: “Despite the slight cooldown in deal volume, the overall picture indicates that we’re entering 2020 with continued strong demand for enterprise software assets. Private equity investors continue to harness readily available debt financing for acquisitions and have outbid strategic buyers in leveraged buyouts throughout 2019.
“The never-ending need for
Despite Brexit, the UK is still the top destination for US-EU inbound M&A activity, representing nearly 40 per cent of EU deals since 2009 – and activity could pick up with greater Brexit certainty.
floLIVE, a provider of secure, cloud-native global Connectivity Management Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has secured USD21.5 million in a Series B financing round and appointed Nir Shalom as the company’s new CEO. Led by Shalom, floLIVE will invest the funds to increase its presence in Europe, Asia and North America as well as accelerate its market awareness programs.
Powered by its globally distributed connectivity cloud – floLIVE will address the growing demand among enterprises for secure, seamless connectivity across the globe, with unified management and control.
The funding round was led by 83North, and included notable Venture
JF Lehman & Company, a New York and Washington DC-based middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on the aerospace, defence, maritime, government, and environmental sectors, has acquired UK-based firm GMO, as well as Integrated Global Services, within the space of less than a week.

The firm’s latest acquisition represents the first platform investment by JFLCO’s latest fund, JFL Equity Investors V.
Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, IGS is a provider of highly engineered, proprietary surface protection solutions and technologies to a diversified global customer base. The company’s technologies and services solve metal wastage and reliability problems in mission-critical equipment found across energy, power
Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has sold its portfolio company ILC Dover to New Mountain Capital. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Founded in 1947, ILC Dover designs and manufactures a broad range of innovative, highly engineered products utilising high-performance flexible materials. The Company has a more than seventy-year heritage of innovation, and commitment to expanding its product portfolio of mission-critical applications to end use cases including single-use pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production, personal safety, industrial packaging, infrastructure protection and a range of solutions for human space flight. The Company
Private equity firm CenterOak Partners’ portfolio company Cascade Windows (Cascade) has acquired Amerimax Windows & Doors (Amerimax) from OmniMax International. Amerimax is a manufacturer of vinyl windows and doors focused on the residential retrofit and replacement markets. Amerimax operates two manufacturing facilities in Loveland, CO and Woodland, CA, allowing it to effectively service its dealer customers throughout the Western US. The transaction broadens Cascade’s product offering in the retrofit and replacement window and door segment of its business while also providing incremental production capacity to serve existing Amerimax and Cascade customers in California and Colorado.
“Amerimax has developed a lasting
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