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Baird Capital, the global private equity and venture capital arm of Baird, has appointed Louise Kingston as a Director with the Global Portfolio Operations team in London.
Kingston will focus on supporting UK-based investee companies.
Kingston joins Baird Capital from the mid-market private firm Livingbridge, where she spent eight years as an Investment Director within the company’s Value Strategy Group. She has extensive experience defining and executing value creation strategies within investee companies. Kingston has sat on the boards of four to five portfolio companies at any one time. Before this role, she was an Investment Manager at lower
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP5.5 million funding round for Liftango, a cloud-based technology platform which enables transport operators to optimise route planning in real-time based on passenger demand.
The transaction includes a GBP1.75 million investment from the Maven VCTs with follow-on funding from Liftango’s existing investors, which include Transdev, Taronga Ventures and GUD. Scottish Enterprise are also new investors in this round.
Liftango’s technology centres around its three core products, on-demand bus (ODB), fixed-route shuttles and carpool. The ODB and fixed-route cloud-based platform allows public and corporate transport operators to manage their services on a single platform.
PwC UK has announced changes to its Deals Leadership team and continued to strengthen the practice with the promotion of nine new equity partners from 1 January 2022.
Lucy Stapleton has been appointed as Head of Deals and a member of the firm’s Management Board. With over 25 years’ experience at PwC within its Transactions Services team, Lucy brings a wealth of experience to the role and is committed to delivering our part in the global recovery, working alongside government, investors, and corporates, and ultimately unlocking value for shareholders, stakeholders, and wider society.
Stapleton has appointed Jonathon Land as
We previously looked at how alternative data sets, having become ubiquitous within the hedge fund industry, are of increasing interest in the private equity asset class as well. Just as their hedge fund counterparts now routinely sift through satellite imagery or web traffic data to inform their investment strategies, private equity managers can gain an edge in investment origination and value creation by making use of non-traditional sources of information.
BPOC, a pure-play healthcare investors, has made a strategic growth investment in Networking Packaging Group (Network Partners), a provider of consulting services to medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Founded in 2015, Network Partners serves many of the world’s largest medical device and pharmaceutical companies, providing specialised expertise to help bring life-saving products to market. The company employs a team of over 250 professionals across the United States, offering packaging engineering, labeing, regulatory affairs, quality assurance and project management consulting services.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is effective immediately, have not been disclosed.
Dude Solutions, a SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management solutions backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has acquired Energy Profiles Limited (EPL), a software provider enabling Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) optimisation for customer facilities.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Based in Toronto, Canada, EPL delivers data-driven energy and sustainability data management and ESG reporting and predictive analytics to owners and managers of more than 6,000 buildings. The acquisition will expand Dude Solutions’ Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) capabilities to address enterprise-level energy and sustainability management.
BGF has exited its investment in North West-headquartered NSS to Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG), delivering ‘excellent returns for all shareholders’.
NSS is a specialist services provider, covering all aspects of external building maintenance – including window and technical cleaning, testing and platform hire – to the retail, commercial property, events, healthcare and distribution markets.
BGF initially backed NSS – which was formed by a merger with another BGF portfolio company – in July 2016 with GBP3.3 million to support its national roll-out and acquisition strategy. Since then, the company has made four acquisitions to expand its geographical footprint and
Octo, an IT modernisation provider for the Federal Government backed by private equity firm Arlington Capital, has acquired privately held B3 Group, an IT transformation firm specialising in digital services and technology solutions that impact the lives of military veterans.
B3 leverages low-code/no-code software and platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Power Platform, Pega, and ServiceNow; large-scale data governance, integration and analytics; and cloud engineering and operations for federal healthcare customers.
B3’s leadership will remain with the company and expand Octo’s Health business to drive continued growth and customer success.
Arrowpoint Advisory has advised SP Collection ion its acquisition of the women’s designer brand, Roland Mouret.
SP Collection, a new holding company established by Han Chong, has successfully acquired the luxury brand Roland Mouret after it went into administration last month.
The brand will join self-portrait, the contemporary fashion house founded by Chong in 2013, in the newly established group that has been set up to discover, nurture, and develop best in class creativity and design.
Arrowpoint Advisory acted as adviser to SP Collection on the transaction, which consists of the intellectual property assets of 19 RM Limited. Staff and
Rotunda Capital Partners (Rotunda) has acquired a majority stake in Siegel Egg Co (Siegel), a wholesale distributor of bakery ingredients and other food products throughout New England and New York.
For nearly 100 years, Siegel has acted as a critical partner to both suppliers and customers in the baking industry, with a dedication to customer service and best-in-class operations. The Company operates out of a 171,000-square-foot facility north of Boston, delivering products from its exclusive and preferred supplier relationships to commercial, in-store, wholesale, and foodservice bakeries throughout the region.
Ken Siegel, CEO, and Amy Siegel Feld will continue with the
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