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IK Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap III Fund has acquired DA Languages Ltd (DAL) from Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager.
The incumbent management team, led by Managing Director Matthew Taylor, as well as the founder, Actar Arya, will be reinvesting in the business.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment manager, has completed the acquisition of KIO Networks, Mexico’s largest data centre operator and a digital infrastructure service provider.
The company has a strong regional presence with assets in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean through an extensive network of data centres with over 20 megawatts of installed operational capacity and significant expansion potential.
Gallant Capital Partners (Gallant), a Los Angeles based private equity firm, has made a strategic growth investment in both SJV Data Solutions (SJV) and Wholesale Screening Solutions (WSS), to form an independent provider of people-data to the background screening industry.
Gallant’s investment was made in partnership with SJV Founder & Chief Executive Officer Scott Vanek, WSS Founder and President Matt Lowers, and additional sellers and members of management who collectively remain material owners of the combined business.
The new company will be renamed with Vanek and Lowers serving as CEO and President, respectively, of the combined business.
Eldridge, a holding company with a diversified network of businesses across finance, real estate, entertainment and technology, is to acquire a minority interest in Langdon Park Capital, a Black-owned real estate investment company.
Eldridge will join global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW), a founding investor in Langdon Park Capital, in supporting Langdon Park Capital’s mission to provide high-quality housing and well-operated business facilities in historically underserved Black and Latino communities across the US.
CompleteSpectrum, a boutique firm focused on B2B branding for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, has rebranded as CS Brand Group.
The new name and visual identity aim to better represent the company’s focused experience on strategic branding across multiple sectors, which has grown to encompass software, multisite healthcare, industrial manufacturing, distribution, financial, private equity, and more.
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed the sale of Katena Products (Katena) to Corza Medical (Corza), a GTCR portfolio company.
Katena is a global provider of precision ophthalmic instruments and therapeutics to physician offices, hospitals, surgical centres, distributors, medical device OEMs, and clinics. The company has more than 200 employees across Europe and North America and serves over 5,000 customers around the world.
Funds advised by Apax Partners are selling their controlling stake in Unilabs, a pan-European provider of laboratory and imaging diagnostics services, to AP Moller Holding, the parent company of the Danish AP Moller Group founded and run by the Maersk family.
Tern PLC, ALP and Venafi have led a USD2.9 million funding round in Device Authority, a specialist in identity and access management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT).
The funding will be used to accelerate the revenue growth of the company through expansion within the core markets, most notably the US, whilst accelerating further enhancements to the development of its flagship KeyScaler product.
abrdn is to acquire 100 per cent of the ordinary share capital of the holding company of Interactive Investor (ii) from its shareholders, including majority shareholder JC Flowers IV LP (a fund advised by JC Flowers), for a total consideration of GBP1.49 billion, subject to a locked box adjustment and a regulatory capital adjustment.
An investment group led by New York-based private equity firm Cortec Group’s Cortec Group Fund VII, has completed the growth recapitalisation of Pink Lily Holdings in partnership with founders Tori and Chris Gerbig.
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