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BigTime Software, a provider of cloud-based software for professional services firms, has secured a USD100 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners has agreed to sell its 52 per cent stake in Trastor REIC (Trastor), a real estate investment company, to Piraeus Bank for EUR98 million. The deal will take Piraeus Bank’s total shareholding to 97 per cent.
Trastor owns a portfolio of 59 real estate assets in Greece with a gross asset value of over EUR315 million across the retail, office and logistics sectors, comprising more than 238,000 sq m of total leasable area.
Värde Partners initially bought its stake in June 2016, in a deal that formed part of Piraeus Bank’s wider restructuring
StepStone Group, a secondaries investor across private markets, has recapitalised early-stage venture capital investor Vertex Ventures Israel’s (Vertex Israel) Vertex Israel Fund IV (Fund IV).
StepStone was the sole investor in the GP-led strip sale transaction, valued at approximately USD160 million, inclusive of future commitments.
The transaction provides partial liquidity to existing Fund IV limited partners while allowing both Vertex and its fund investors to realise further upside as the portfolio’s assets mature.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Augusoft, a specialist in enrolment management for continuing and corporate education programmes.
The RMA Group of Companies (RMA), a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has merged with Western Technologies, Inc and Enviro-Drill (collectively, Western Technologies or WT).
The combined group will provide technology-enabled laboratory testing, inspection, and quality management services for critical infrastructure end-markets.
Ed Lyon, RMA’s President and CEO, will lead the newly combined business, supported by an experienced management team consisting of leaders from both RMA and WT. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a premier New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in alternative credit investments and middle-market private equity, has appointed Jamil Nathoo as a Managing Director of MidOcean Credit.
In this role, he will be responsible for expanding MidOcean’s institutional relationships and CLO platform.
Nathoo recently served as Head of Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) and Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) Syndicate at Goldman Sachs, where he managed the global marketing and distribution process for CLO and ABS issuance. Based in New York, he will report to Dana Carey, Chief Investment Officer of MidOcean Credit.
Harris Williams, a global investment bank specialising in M&A advisory services, has appointed Dr Julian Feneley as Managing Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS).
Feneley brings close to 30 years of healthcare and life sciences industry experience to Harris Williams, and will lead HCLS’s European efforts, building on the firm’s expertise across the group’s key verticals, including pharma services, medical devices, and numerous healthcare provider segments.
Feneley was most recently Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Europe at Macquarie Capital (investment banking division of Macquarie Group).
11:11 Systems (11:11), a managed infrastructure solutions provider, has completed the acquisition of iland, a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS).
11:11 Systems also recently acquired Green Cloud Defense, a channel-only, cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider. By adding iland’s steady 25 per cent YOY momentum to 11:11 Systems’ expanding national network of MSPs, VARs and IT consultants, a hyper growth pathway has been created.
Eurazeo has held the second closing of the Eurazeo Smart City II Venture fund1 at EUR150 million with new institutional and corporate partners in Europe and Asia.
After the success of its initial closing at EUR80 million in 2021, this second closing brings together top-tier institutional and corporate investors including European Investment Fund (EIF), the Korean Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC), Momentum Venture Capital (SMRT, Singapore), SCG (Thailand) and SWK the German electric utility. These new partners join an already strong group in Europe and Asia which includes French, German, and Asian groups such as carmaker Stellantis, electric utilities EDF and
Allen & Overy’s latest M&A Insights report, shows that that the value of global M&A transactions surged to a record high of nearly USD5.8 trillion in 2021, an increase of 64 per cent on 2020, and 48 per cent higher than 2018, the previous highest year on record.
The report analyses the record-breaking year for technology M&A, looking at what is driving investors to the market and the challenges they face in closing deals.
Digital infrastructure transactions continue to increase globally, with investors particularly focused on mobile towers, data centres and fibre networks.
Technology and life sciences companies overwhelmingly
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