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Mayfair Capital Partners (Mayfair), a division of Oxford Financial Group (Oxford), on behalf of its underlying investors, has acquired Tile Redi Holdings (Tile Redi).
Terms of the investment, which closed on 28 February, 2022, have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Tile Redi manufactures highly-engineered, patented shower product solutions. The Company is a market leader in one-piece, customisable shower pans that are leak-proof, easy to install and UL certified.
Oxford’s Mayfair division has a history of investing in high-growth, market-leading companies with the goal of providing growth capital and strategic support in order to enable businesses to broaden
Early-stage venture capital LiveOak Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, has promoted Creighton Hicks and Mike Marcantonio to Partner.
The promotions coincide with the launch of the firm’s third fund, a USD210 million vehicle focused on early-stage companies in Texas. The pair join Founding Partners Venu Shamapant and Krishna Srinivasan who launched LiveOak nearly a decade ago.
Creighton joined LiveOak in 2020 from Dell Technologies Capital (DTC) where he led investments in numerous early-stage software companies, including CloudKnox (acquired by Microsoft) and FullStory.
Prior to joining LiveOak in 2018, Marcantonio spent six years with early-stage venture
Cosmetic Solutions (Cosmetic Solutions), an innovation partner for turnkey private label skin care, custom formulation, and contract manufacturing, has acquired New Mexico-based Private Label Select (PLS), an organic cosmetics and personal care manufacturer.
PLS President Micah Halpert brings his organic and natural product development expertise to his new role as Vice President of Business Development for Cosmetic Solutions.
Financial terms of the transaction, which sees funds managed by Lee Equity Partners invest in Cosmetic Solutions, have not been disclosed.
Private Label Select specialises in product development for skincare, lip balms, salves, sunscreens and SPF products, lip tints and glosses, and
IMB Partners (IMB), a middle market private equity firm specialising in utility and government agency services, has agreed to make a strategic investment in Carr & Duff (C&D), a southeastern Pennsylvania corporation providing specialty electrical construction services.
Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
IMB and its principals have invested over USD800 million of capital in over 30 platform and add-on investments, setting itself apart through its differentiated value creation process and emphasis on valuing partnership and people first. The company has experience in the Philadelphia utility services market through its partnership with project and construction management company
Gilde Healthcare has raised EUR517 million towards the first and final close of Gilde Healthcare Private Equity IV (GHPE IV).
GHPE IV focuses on investments in profitable healthcare companies operating in the lower mid-market in Northwest Europe.
The fund concentrates on firms with an active buy-and-build strategy and invests in all sub-segments of the healthcare sector. These include companies in healthcare provision, service providers to the healthcare sector and medical industry, manufacturers of medical supplies and pharmaceutical companies. Market interest was strong and the new fund was oversubscribed, attracting institutional investors from the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and
Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure investment and operating platform, has promoted Darryl Carbonaro has been promoted to General Counsel.
Generate has also hired Lisa Schule as a Managing Director on the investment team. Schule is a successful growth-equity investor with 22 years of experience investing in energy and resource efficiency companies that address climate change.
Carbonaro has served as Head of Legal for Generate since 2017, establishing and growing the company’s in-house legal operations. He joins the company’s Management Committee and will oversee growth of the legal and compliance functions as Generate expands its reach as the one-stop shop for
EQT AB is to acquire Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA), a private markets investment firm in Asia with EUR17.7 billion of assets under management (AUM).
The total consideration for the the transaction is EUR8.6 billion, consisting of USD191.2 million new ordinary EQT shares, valued at EUR5.3 billion, plus EUR1.5 billion in cash
The combination with BPEA, a Pan-Asian private markets firm, provides a step-change to EQT’s presence in Asia, and ideally positions EQT to execute on the structural growth opportunity in Asian private markets.
Following the combination, EQT will be local-with-locals in 25 countries, representing ~80 per cent of global
ConsenSys has closed a USD450 million financing round, bringing its valuation to over USD7 billion. ParaFi Capital led this raise after participating in ConsenSys’ Series C round in November 2021.
New investors, including Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Microsoft, Anthos Capital, Sound Ventures, and C Ventures also participated, along with Series C investors Third Point, Marshall Wace, TRUE Capital Management, and UTA VC, United Talent Agency’s venture fund.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP acted as ConsenSys’ legal advisor in this transaction.
ConsenSys has been a pioneer in creating the foundational software for the next wave of the internet, Web3. All Proceeds
capital D, a private equity fund manager investing in disruptive mid-market businesses across Europe, has acquired a majority stake in Phrasee, an AI-powered SaaS platform that revolutionises customer communication through brand language optimisation.
Investment Funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, together with a group formed by Keyhaven Capital Partners and family offices co-invested alongside capital D.
The capital D consortium have acquired a 64 per cent stake in Phrasee with the founders and management holding the remainder.
Founded in 2015, London-based Phrasee is disrupting the traditional role of the human copywriter/marketer using data science and a powerful
A fund managed by Blockchain Coinvestors, a blockchain venture fund of funds and coinvestment programme with a combined portfolio of more than 300 blockchain enterprises and projects, including 30+ blockchain unicorns, has been ranked as the number one 2019 vintage fund-of-funds in the less than USD99m AUM category based on Q3 2021 data, by Preqin.
Preqin is a privately-held London-based investment data company that provides financial data and information on the alternative assets market, as well as tools to support investment in alternatives. More than 170,000 investment professionals rely upon Preqin to understand performance and stay informed.
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