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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
Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics and reporting solution for private markets investors and asset servicers, has entered into an agreement with European independent private markets asset manager, Golding Capital Partners.
Accelex automates the largely manual process of extracting investment performance data – at both the fund and underlying asset level – from invested fund reports as well as secondary market opportunity documents.
Golding Capital Partners has a large, invested fund portfolio and an active secondaries business covering private equity, private debt and infrastructure. The Accelex platform will bring end-to-end digitisation of critical investment workflows from document acquisition to the delivery
Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has promoted James Wang to Managing Director and Mary Kathryn Nommensen to Senior Associate.
Wang joined Ara as a Principal in July 2018 and has been instrumental in transaction execution, sourcing, portfolio management, and investment realisation.
Nommensen meanwhile, joined Ara as an Associate in October 2020 and has played a key role in transaction execution and portfolio management, covering Repeats Group, Circulus, Anesco and Utility Global.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has appointed Matthias Tabbert as a Managing Director, responsible for establishing and managing its newly opened office in Frankfurt, Germany.
Tabbert will lead LLCP’s Structured Private Equity origination and investing efforts in the DACH region.
Tabbert is joining as a member of the Firm’s global Originations Group. He will direct the sourcing of new investment opportunities, as well as participate in due diligence and work with our local management teams post-transaction.
Tabbert was a Partner and Investment Committee member at HQ Equita, a Bad Homburg-based private equity firm specialising
The closed-end mutual investment combined fund, VTB Capital’s pre-IPO Fund, has announced an investment of USD9.1 million in Ventra Go! a service that orders temporary staff services of mass professions.
This becomes the fifth company in the fund’s portfolio in which shareholders’ funds have been invested. In December 2021, the Pre-IPO Fund raised a further USD39.2 million) and the fundraise was oversubscribed indicating heavy interest in the product from investors.
Ventra Go! plans to direct the funds received from the VTB Capital Pre-IPO Fund to further develop and improve the platform, scale the service across the regions and improve the
New Water Capital has acquired Chainlogix (CLX), a Troy, Virginia-based provider of engineered components, assemblies and supply chain management solutions to customers across the industrial, lighting and electronics landscape.
CLX will merge with current New Water portfolio company Nelson Miller Inc, a full-service provider of custom engineered components and assemblies for critical applications across Medical, Aerospace & Defense and Industrial end markets.
Established in 1998 as Visiontech Solutions Group (VSG), Chainlogix focuses on providing engineered components and assemblies, as well as full-service supply chain management, for customers across the industrial, lighting and electronics landscape. The company also has an office
The total number of registered Jersey Private Funds (JPFs) has surpassed the 500 mark, according to the latest figures, as the structure continues to assert its appeal for flexible alternative fund structuring.
According to the latest quarterly statistics collated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission and published by Jersey Finance, there were 502 JPFs at the end of September 2021, a number that has risen by 38 per cent compared to the same time the previous year.
Launched in 2017, the JPF structure is tailored to the needs of small numbers of sophisticated investors and offers high levels of flexibility,
Vala Capital is renaming its British Ventures EIS to Better Ventures as it seeks to support start-ups becoming more sustainable – irrespective of the industry they operate in, or products they sell.
Sustainability is a core focus at Vala Capital and it believes that the climate crisis cannot be resolved by half measures. It says that real change only happens when consumers demand it – and when capital is dependent upon it. As a result, Vala will now integrate fundamental sustainability considerations into all its investment decisions across all its portfolios.
The renamed Better Ventures EIS will continue to
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