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NMS Capital (NMS) has partnered with Company management in the recapitalisation of LDR Site Services and its related family of waste hauling operations (LDR).
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, LDR is an asset-light provider of equipment rental and related waste hauling services to site-based projects across the US.
LDR services multiple industries with varying needs, including environmental, emergency response, facilities maintenance, retail, government, construction, and other commercial end markets. Through a national network of trusted service providers that LDR has developed over the past decade, the Company is able to solve complex, and
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has chosen financial software company NeoXam to provide investment and reporting software to support clients’ services of its private equity business unit.
NeoXam’s technology, GP, handles all portfolio types, supports a comprehensive range of asset classes and integrates NeoXam’s other solutions for data management, digital and regulatory reporting, compliance and daily matching needs, among other benefits.
GP is currently the only back-office solution able to support SGSS’ private equity and real estate hub. Its fully embedded multi-GAAP General Ledger authorises SGSS to offer complete customised services based on a set of Private Equity and
Fortino Capital Partners, a European B2B software investor, has acquired a majority stake in Bonitasoft from former investors including Bpifrance, Auriga Capital, Serena Capital and Ventech.
As part of the transaction, Miguel Valdes and Charles Souillard, who founded Bonitasoft in 2009, will reinvest and team up with Fortino Capital during this new phase of growth.
Bonitasoft is a leading software company active in the field of Digital Process Automation and Intelligent Business Process Management. Featured on the Gartner iBPM Magic Quadrant (2019) & Forrester DPA Wave (2021), the company is best-known for its widely adopted open-source Business Process Management platform,
Intertape Polymer Group Inc (IPG) is to be acquired by an affiliate of Clearlake Capital Group for CAD40.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD2.6 billion, including net debt.
This represents a premium of approximately 82 per cent to the closing price of IPG common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange on 7 March, 2022 and approximately 66 per cent to the volume weighted average trading price of IPG common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the preceding 30 trading days.
Upon completion of the transaction, IPG will become a privately held company.
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Cornerstone Building Brands, one of the largest manufacturers of exterior building products in North America, is to be acquired by affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of approximately USD5.8 billion, including the assumption of debt.
CD&R, in the aggregate, is currently the beneficial owner of approximately 49 per cent of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock. The proposed transaction delivers substantial value to Cornerstone Building Brands’ shareholders, who will receive USD24.65 in cash per share, representing an approximately 16 per cent premium to the closing price of the Company’s common
Kurma Partners has held the first closing of its Growth Opportunities fund at EUR160 million.
Meeting the demand of the growing maturity of the European biotech and healthtech ecosystem, this new fund, which is targeting EUR250 million, aims to accelerate the growth of the best European companies in the healthcare sector.
Kurma Partners has received the support of the European Investment Fund (EIF), Bpifrance, the Belgian Growth Fund managed by PMV and BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity, SFPI, BNP Paribas Fortis and Groupe Pasteur Mutualité. Eurazeo, which recently increased its stake in Kurma Partners, is also an anchor investor in
The Instant Group, a corporate real estate solutions specialist backed by Bowmark Capital, is to merge with IWG’s digital businesses to create one of the world’s largest independent marketplaces for flexible workspace.
As part of the transaction, Bowmark will sell its stake in The Instant Group to IWG.
Since Bowmark invested in The Instant Group in June 2018, the company has more than doubled its sales, achieving strong organic growth due to its value-added service offering, award-winning digital capabilities and client-centric business model.
The transaction also marks an exit for MML Capital, which first invested in 2012 and
Focus Group, a provider of essential business technology, has made a significant investment in Midlands-based communications specialist Evad, to support its ambitious plans for growth and development into new sectors.
The financial investment in Evad will enable both brands to extend geographical reach across the UK, diversify product portfolios and deliver service expertise to specialist market sectors.
Evad, formally owned by Ethos Group, will continue to operate under its well-established brand name, with Matt Hill (CEO) and Richard Osborn (Sales Director) at the helm, leading the Derby-based team into the future. Evad is a nationwide provider of communications solutions to
Preqin’s new Women in Alternatives 2022 report shows that although the alternatives industry has not seen a major drop in the proportion of female employees during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is more work to be done to rectify the marked gender imbalance, especially in senior positions.
Gender balance has improved, albeit slowly, across the alternative assets industry as a whole. According to Deloitte, one woman in the C-suite leads to three promotions of women into senior management roles; simply put, the lack of women in leadership positions can negatively affect the prosperity of women in the industry as a whole.
Goldfinch Partners and The Baupost Group, have reached the initial closing in the acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions (WUBS) for USD910 million.
WUBS, which will be renamed Convera as a new standalone B2B global payments company, had a record 2021 with over 20 percent revenue growth and payments volume of USD170 billion. Patrick Gauthier, who was most recently the Global Head of Amazon Pay, will serve as Convera’s CEO.
Convera will add several veteran fintech professionals to its leadership team with experience at companies including Amazon, BCG, BCG Digital Ventures, PayPal and Visa. These include Jodi Krause (Chief People
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