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Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has acquired Chemisphere Corp (Chemisphere), a specialty solvent blender and chemical distributor.
Chemisphere was acquired from its founder, Bob Schwent, and is a highly complementary business to Chemsolv, acquired by OpenGate Capital earlier this month. Combined, the two businesses form a strong platform, poised for organic growth and future add-on acquisitions. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
The combination of Chemisphere with Chemsolv creates a diversified platform spanning the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, with a balanced product offering of blended and non-blended chemicals, and a diversified customer base
Pareto Securities, an investment bank in the Nordic capital markets, is now live with Itiviti’s multi-asset order management solution (OMS) from Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc (NYSE:BR).
By combining Itiviti’s order management, market connectivity and smart order router (SOR) components, the solution delivers the flexibility that Pareto requires for service excellence, innovation and speed to market in this ever-changing market landscape.
Grafine Partners and Stanley Capital have formed a significant strategic partnership combining Stanley’s research and technology-driven approach to private equity with Grafine’s ability to meet the evolving needs of sophisticated institutional investors to grow a major new platform in the European private equity landscape.
Stanley Capital is an independent mid-market investment firm focused on growing sustainable businesses in Healthcare, Technology and Resource Efficiency sectors across Europe and the US. The firm was founded by Simon Cottle, James Brooks and Patrick Hargutt, a team that has a proven track record of actively delivering value creation, investing in and managing transactions with
Permiso.io, a Palo Alto-based startup that provides cloud identity detection and response for cloud infrastructures, has completed a USD10 million seed funding round.
The round was led by Point72 Ventures and included Foundation Capital, Work-Bench, 11.2 Capital, Rain Capital, as well as numerous security industry leaders such as: Jason Chan, former VP of Information Security at Netflix; Talha Tariq, Chief Security Officer at Hashicorp; Travis McPeak, Head of Product Security at Databricks; Tyler Shields, CMO at JupiterOne; and Brandon Dixon, Founder of PassiveTotal.
With the USD10 million seed round, Permiso intends to continue scaling its engineering team, expanding its
Lindsay Goldberg, a private investment firm that focuses on partnering with families, founders, and management teams, is pleased to announce the promotions of Vincent Ley, Ali Nensi to Partner and Winnie Liu to Principal, effective 1 January, 2022.
Ley started at Lindsay Goldberg as an Associate in 2010 and rejoined in 2014 as a Vice President after earning an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is primarily focused on investment activities in the industrials and services sectors and is currently serving on the board of portfolio companies including Amentum and Summit Interconnect.
Nensi joined Lindsay Goldberg in
GTCR, a private equity firm founded in 1980, has opened offices in New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida, establishing new locations to support its investment capabilities and broaden its talent acquisition initiatives.
GTCR’s offices in Chicago will continue to serve as the firm’s headquarters and center of operations and will continue to account for the majority of the firm’s employees.
The New York office is currently located at 450 Park Avenue and the West Palm Beach location is 515 N Flagler Drive. GTCR also plans to move to offices at 425 Park Ave in New York following
Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a private equity firm that specialises in investments in industrial growth and healthcare companies, has announced that it has acquired Eckhart Holdings, Inc. (Eckhart), an automation solutions provider from LFM Capital. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Eckhart’s advanced engineering, design, simulation, and integration services, along with proprietary tooling and other automation and robotics systems, support customers at critical points in the automation value chain.
Eckhart partners with blue-chip customers to design and implement automation solutions that solve complex problems and improve accuracy and efficiency in a number of attractive end markets, including ecommerce,
Adams Street Partners, London-based global private markets investment firm, has promoted Benjamin Wallwork to Partner and Yohan Hill to Principal.
Wallwork is part of the Co-Investments team with a specific focus on leveraged buyout and growth equity. Prior to joining the firm, Wallwork was an Investment Associate on the UK deal team with Bridgepoint Advisers, and has also worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.
Hill is Director of ESG and Responsible Investing. Prior to this, he was a Manager at S&P Global Trucost, helping companies and investors better report in line with TCFD recommendations. Since joining
Waterland Private Equity has formed a growth investment partnership with Farner Consulting, a Swiss specialist in communication consulting.
The partnership will focus on a buy-&-build strategy of targeted acquisitions. The existing group of partners around long-time CEO Roman Geiser will remain significantly involved and will drive the business forward operationally and strategically.
Netrix, a provider of managed and professional IT services, and a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has acquired BTB Security, a cybersecurity and digital forensics solutions specialist.
The acquisition strategically expands Netrix’s managed security portfolio and its ability to deliver sophisticated cybersecurity consulting services to small and mid-sized enterprise clients. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
BTB Security’s three Managing Partners, Ron Schlecht Jr, Brian Bailey and Chris McGinley, have taken key roles in the Netrix organisation. Over the near term, they will be assisting with integration initiatives while continuing to drive value for key existing
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