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Private equity firm Trilantic North America has appointed Jennifer Fox Bensimon as Managing Director. As a member of the firm’s investment team, Bensimon will focus on investments in the consumer sector.
Bensimon brings more than 10 years of private equity and consumer business experience to Trilantic North America. She joins the firm from LNK Partners, where she spent nearly a decade supporting the firm’s investments in consumer and retail companies. Prior to LNK Partners, she worked at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners.
Bensimon holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Brown University. She is also a
Ethos Capital has appointed Chris Ritchie as a Partner.
Ritchie joins from ABRY Partners (ABRY) where Ethos Co-CEOs Erik Brooks and Fadi Chehadé were Partners before co-founding Ethos. Ritchie collaborated on multiple transactions with Brooks during their tenure together at ABRY.
During his time at ABRY, Ritchie was actively involved with investments in the information services, software, financial services and IT services sectors. While at ABRY, he served on the board of directors of numerous companies, including Confie Seguros, Centauri Health Solutions, Kingland Systems, Meadowlark Title, SambaSafety, Smart Start and Portfolio Group.
CellPoint Digital, a global provider of digital commerce and payment solutions, has secured an equity financing round of USD25 million from Toscafund and its private equity arm, Penta Capital.
The move follows a series of investments by Toscafund and Penta Capital into CellPoint Digital following their initial investment in 2019 and brings their total investment to over USD56 million. It also marks a strengthening of the relationship between the businesses. As a specialist in payment orchestration for travel, CellPoint Digital is now offering its platform to new markets including retail, gaming, crypto and digital content.
Software investor Hg is to make a significant investment in ProcessMAP Corporation (ProcessMAP), an Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) software platform provider.
Following the transaction, ProcessMAP’s management team will retain a significant stake in the business.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
HCI Equity Partners (HCI), a lower middle market private equity firm focused on partnering with founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and B2B service companies, has promoted Scott Gibaratz to Partner; Brendon Biddle and Tim Frend to Managing Director; and Matt Clark to Vice President.
Gibaratz, Partner, joined HCI in 2004 and plays a leading role in the diligence, acquisition and management of HCI’s portfolio companies.
Biddle, Managing Director, has been at HCI since 2006 and has a central role in HCI’s evaluation and execution of its investment mandate.
Frend, Managing Director, joined HCI in 2006 and in addition to deal leadership he
Clearlake Capital Group is to make a significant new equity investment in Dodge Construction Network (Dodge), an independent data platform supporting the multi-trillion-dollar US commercial construction industry.
With this growth investment, Clearlake becomes an equal partner with existing DCN investor Symphony Technology Group (STG). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc, UBS Investment Bank, Wells Fargo, BMO Capital Markets and Security Benefit provided debt financing supporting the transaction.
Tilley-Phoenix Group (Tilley-Phoenix), a US-based specialty ingredients distributor and value-added service provider, and a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners (SK Capital), has acquired Callahan Chemical Company (Callahan), a regional distributor of high-quality ingredients and compounds serving a diverse set of end markets.
Callahan is a leading regional distributor offering optimised chemical distribution solutions aligned to individual customer requirements. The addition of Callahan to Tilley-Phoenix provides customers with state-of-the-art regulatory and technical support, broader logistics expertise, and an enhanced product offering of value-added ingredients for applications in regulated markets.
Triman Industries, a portfolio company of private equity firm AE Industrial Partners LP (AEI), has acquired Brighton Cromwell and Crestwood Technology Group (CTG).
Shareholders from both Brighton Cromwell and CTG will retain significant ownership in the Company and remain in leadership roles going forward.
Terms of the transactions have not been disclosed.
The strategic combination of these three highly complementary businesses will form a leading military aftermarket supply chain management platform with significant scale, broad market reach and a unique value proposition for its US and international military customers and more than 85 OEM partners.
Triman is a
Trading Technologies International (TT), a provider of professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions to proprietary traders, brokers, money managers, CTAs, hedge funds, commercial hedgers and risk managers, has invested USD6.35 million in KRM22, a technology and software investment company focused on risk management for capital markets.
This is the first investment TT has made since its acquisition by 7RIDGE in late December.
In addition, TT has entered into a distribution agreement to market and distribute KRM22 risk management products. The products will leverage TT’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform ecosystem and significantly expand the firm’s risk management offering. The initial
Apex Group Ltd has appointed John Davis as Managing Director, Singapore. Reporting to Valerie Mantot-Groene, Regional Managing Director, APAC, Davis will be responsible for leading a team of over 100 locally-based experts, and driving the firm’s continued growth and performance in the APAC region.
Davis brings over 13 years of experience in the Fund Services industry, as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Fund Administrators Association (SFAA) and most recently as Managing Director, Singapore at Mainstream Group. Davis joined Mainstream Fund Services as a graduate and held a variety of fund services roles including portfolio valuation, unit
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