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Genesys Capital has appointed Dr Maxime Ranger as a Venture Partner. Later this year, he will transition from this role into the role of General Partner of Genesys Ventures IV LP.
Genesys has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Ranger as he has co-created and provided leadership to three biopharma companies alongside Genesys over the past 15 years, including most recently having co-founded and currently serving as CEO of Genesys portfolio company, Giiant Pharma.
Funds advised by alternative credit provider Permira Credit are acting as sole senior secured lender to CVC Capital Partners on its acquisition of Rayner Surgical Group (Rayner).
The support highlights Permira Credit’s focus on high-quality, growing businesses and builds on Permira’s proven track record of investing in the healthcare sector.
Founded in 1910, Rayner is a designer and manufacturer of advanced technology Intraocular Lenses (IOLs) for ophthalmic products.
The Permira Credit funds are supporting Rayner’s acquisition of Omeros Corporation’s ophthalmology assets, including Omidria.
Babcock International Group (Babcock) has sold its overhead line Power business to M Group Services (MGS) for a gross cash consideration of GBP50 million.
M Group Services is the growing UK infrastructure services group backed by international private equity firm PAI Partners.
Following the sale, the Power business will form part of the MGS’ Morrison Energy Services division.
Marigny Investments, a Denver-based private equity firm, has acquired The Gauge House, a distributor of measurement and instrumentation equipment.
The Gauge House, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, distributes gauges, valves, regulators, tubing, and fittings. Ryan Elwell, who acquired the company in 2000, will continue to lead The Gauge House.
UMB Bank provided debt financing and Nelson Mullins served as legal counsel for Marigny Investments.
Evangeline Securities served as financial advisor and Babineaux Poche Anthony & Slavich served as legal counsel for The Gauge House.
Lovell Minnick Partners (Lovell Minnick), a private equity firm focused on investments in financial services, financial technology and business services companies, has promoted Roumi Zlateva and Jason Klein to Principal.
Zlateva and Klein both work on the firm’s investment team and will continue to source and lead investments within the financial services and financial technology sectors.
Cherry Tree Dental (Cherry Tree), a Midwest USA dental service organisation backed by private equity firm ICV Parthjers (ICV) has made three acquisitions,Downtown Dental Associates and Robert J Kingston, DDS in Minneapolis and Fairmont Family Dentistry, in Fairmont, Minnesota.
ICV Partners, a Miami-based investment firm that focuses on lower middle market companies in business services, consumer goods & services, food & beverage, and healthcare, made a majority investment in Cherry Tree, in partnership with Co-CEOs Steve Sorrel and Jack Young, in February 2021.
Sustainable Omega-3 producer AlgaeCytes (comprising of UK based AlgaeCytes Ltd and its wholly owned subsidiary AlgaeCytes Germany GmbH) has secured EUR5 million in funding from German private equity provider IBG Risikokapitalfonds III GmbH & Co, plus an EUR11 million commitment from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s GRW investment programme.
Security awareness platform vendor SoSafe has raised USD73 million in a Series B funding round led by expansion-stage specialists Highland Europe.
Existing investors Acton Capital and Global Founders Capital were joined by SAP Hybris founder and Celonis Advisory Board member Carsten Thoma together with La Famiglia as well as Adjust founder Christian Henschel as participants.
With its agile and human-centric security awareness platform, SoSafe takes a uniquely user-centered approach to cyber security.
With 85 per cent of security attacks traced back to a human factor, the SoSafe awareness platform uses insights from behavioural science to drive sustainable behavioural change.
Texthelp, a specialist in literacy and accessibility technology, backed by private equity firm Five Arrows, is to acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc, a US-based assistive technology and special education curriculum company.
Don Johnston Inc is the latest Assistive Technology provider to join the Texthelp Group. Following Five Arrows’ investment in December 2020, Texthelp acquired Lingit Group and Wizkids in 2021, expanding the company’s reach in the Nordics and the UK. Texthelp’s goal is to use its assistive technology to help 1 billion people with reading, writing, and numeracy by 2030.
Ernst & Young (EY) has appointed Mitch Berlin as Vice Chair-Americas Strategy and Transactions. Berlin succeeds William “Bill” Casey, who has led the business since 2016. Berlin had previously served as EY-Parthenon Global and Americas Leader.
The Americas Strategy and Transactions practice helps CEOs and other business leaders drive corporate strategy, capital allocation and transactions advisory through execution, including private equity transactions and value creation strategies.
As Vice Chair, Berlin, who previously served as EY-Parthenon Global and Americas Leader, will be based in New York City and oversee a team of nearly 8,500 EY professionals across the United States, Canada,
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