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Stowe Family Law (Stowe), one of the UK’s largest specialist family law firms and an invested company of private equity investor Livingbridge, has acquired London-based law firm Chapman Pieri.
Stowe has built a reputation both nationally and internationally for its ability to deliver excellent results for its clients, driven by the firm’s depth of expertise, exemplary client care, and its exceptional lawyers and support staff. Initially investing in 2017, Livingbridge has supported the growth of the company across 47 offices and helped build the management team.
With this practice acquisition, Stowe is accelerating its growth, increasing its nationwide presence,
VC and angel investor-backed Laundryheap has acquired competitor Laundrapp from Inc Retail.
The deal, the terms of which remain undisclosed, follows a steady expansion of Laundryheap’s market footprint since it was founded in 2014.
Laundryheap was founded in London by Deyan Dimitrov, Mayur Bommai and Ruxandra Lica and now operates across the UK and 10 additional international markets, including the US, Singapore, and the UAE. Unlike competitors, the Laundryheap team bootstrapped the business for the first three years, refining its model and plotting a path to sustainable growth, before raising its first VC capital in 2017.
Since then, Laundryheap has
The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) is looking for a US-based Minority, Women, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (MWDBE) private equity investment manager, according to a report by AlternativesWatch.
The $54.7 billion scheme is looking to allocate a $50 million mandate across a raft of private equity strategies including venture, growth, lower and middle middle market buyout, co-investemt, and distressed and special situations and has issued an RFP to that effect.
IMRF is said to be considering a closed-end, commingled fund structure and says that multiple firms may end up fulfilling the mandate.
CVC Credit has provided debt facilities to support the acquisitive growth strategy of Altano Gruppe (Altano), a network of equine veterinary clinics and practices across Europe.
CVC Credit will support the continuing growth strategy of the business through its European Direct Lending Strategy, which focuses on lending to established European medium and large companies with proven business models.
Headquartered in Germany, Altano is a consolidator and operator of equine veterinary clinics services with over 350 vets based across 40 locations in six European countries, including Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, and Denmark. The company provides a wide range of
FourJaw, the provider of a manufacturing data analytics platform, has secured a second round of angel investment and Innovate UK funding worth £1 million, to accelerate its growth and support high-value-added manufacturers across the country.
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), a venture capital investor focused on building world-leading deeptech and life sciences businesses connected with the Cambridge ecosystem, has raised £225 million ($300 million) for its oversubscribed second fund (Fund II).
With Fund II, CIC now manages in excess of £500 million, giving it the scale to support its portfolio companies throughout their life cycle, providing investment capital as well as strategic and operational support.
Investors in Fund II include a geographically diverse group of around 50 institutional and strategic investors, with almost half of the capital raised having come from UK-based investors.
finnCap Cavendish, part of finnCap Group, has advised on the sale of Tictrac Ltd, a UK-based SaaS provider of a global health and wellness platform, to Dialogue Health Technologies (Dialogue), a Canadian virtual healthcare and wellness platform, for up to CAD56 million.
The transaction is expected to close within c30 days and is subject to customary conditions for a transaction of this nature.
Tictrac supports employers and insurance partners, engaging their employees and customers to improve overall wellness, and driving positive outcomes through meaningful insights. Its go-to-market strategy includes both a business-to-business (B2B) approach as well as a business-to-insurance
Bite Investments, an international alternative investments and technology company, has made four significant hires.
Bite’s mission is to utilise its technology platform to expand access to the alternative investment ecosystem.
Justin Mason will become the Global Head of Asset and Wealth Management Sales, effective 25 April. Mason joined Bite from Blackstone’s subsidiary, La Trobe Financial (recently sold to Brookfield Asset Management in March 2022), where he sat on top of client partnerships across the wealth management industry.
Bite has also named Matthew Purcell as Finance Director. Purcell spent the initial part of his career working in financial and business
Private investment house Ardian has raised $5.25 bn for its latest infrastructure secondaries fund – Ardian Secondary Fund VIII Infrastructure (ASF VIII Infrastructure).
The fund, which was significantly oversubscribed and reached its hard cap within nine months, is the largest infrastructure secondaries platform in the world. It represents a more than 3x increase from the previous generation raised in 2017.
The ASF VIII Infrastructure platform attracted over 145 investors from 28 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, comprising major pension funds, insurance companies, HNWIs and financial institutions.
Continuing its successful investment strategy, ASF VIII Infrastructure will
Integrated Oncology Network (ION), a portfolio company of private equity firm Silver Oak Services Partners (Silver Oak), has acquired California Cancer Associates for Research & Excellence (cCARE).
Founded in 1993, cCARE is a leading provider of comprehensive cancer treatment services with over 30 providers across 6 centres in the Fresno and San Diego, CA markets. cCARE provides an integrated cancer care offering including medical oncology, radiation oncology, diagnostic imaging, and other ancillary services. The combination of ION and cCARE creates one of the largest oncology providers in the US with 57 centres across 14 states.
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