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Par Equity’s investments in high-growth technology businesses have smashed through the GBP100 million mark. The milestone was passed when the company completed five investments in a week earlier in October.
One of the highlights of Par’s recent activity was a multi-million-pound investment in Artus, a company seeking to revolutionise the HVAC (Heating, Air Conditioning and Air Conditioning) industry. A spin-out from engineering giant Arup, with offices in Edinburgh and London, it has developed technology that makes the heating and cooling of buildings more efficient and significantly reduces the amount of energy consumed and carbon generated
Par, from its headquarters in
Korean M&A lawyers, Woojae Kim, has joined O’Melveny as a partner based in Seoul.
Woojae is a trusted advisor to Korean companies on their outbound, cross-border matters as well as to international investment banks and private equity clients in major transactions involving Korean businesses. Heis highly regarded for his broad abilities spanning cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, financings, and securities offerings.
Before joining O’Melveny, Woojae was a partner at one of Korea’s largest domestic law firms and a corporate partner in an AmLaw 100 firm in Seoul. He also previously practiced in both New York and
The UK and US are driving forward the rapid growth of the global healthtech sector, with latest data from London & Partners and Dealroom.co showing a record USD51.3 billion has been pumped into startups already this year, up 280 per cent on 2016 levels.
KaMin LLC, a global performance minerals company owned by IMin Partners, is to acquires the BASF kaolin minerals business. Currently, the kaolin minerals business is part of BASF’s Performance Chemicals division.
The transaction includes production hub sites in Daveyville, Toddville, Edgar, Gordon and related mines, reserves and mills in Toomsboro and Sandersville in Georgia, USA. The co-located refinery catalysts operations will continue to be owned and operated by BASF’s refinery catalysts business and are not part of the divestiture.
“The acquisition of BASF’s kaolin business is a transformative step forward in KaMin’s strategy. The combination of these two complementary businesses
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the industrials, financial services, healthcare, and software industries, is to acquire Brook + Whittle, a provider of sustainable labelling solutions serving growth-oriented consumer end markets, from TruArc Partners.
Founded in 1995, Brook + Whittle is one of North America’s leading providers of premium prime labels. Brook + Whittle’s innovative, sustainable labelling solutions serve a broad range of growth-oriented consumer end-markets, including personal care, beverage, food, healthcare, and household products. The company is headquartered in Guilford, CT.
David Golde, Managing Director at Genstar Capital, says: “Brook +
Formstack, a workplace productivity platform, has secured a USD425 million growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners and returning investor PSG. The investment comes on the heels of Formstack seeing rapid global adoption of its no-code workplace productivity platform by thousands of customers.
Launched in 2006, Formstack empowers anyone to quickly and easily build custom forms, create documents, and collect eSignatures—all without code. More than 238,000 users across more than 25,000 organisations worldwide—including Cleveland Clinic, NHL, Netflix, Twitter, and Butler University—have turned to Formstack to digitise and automate everything from simple tasks to complex enterprise processes. Whether it’s improving the
Farmers Business Network (FBN) a global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, as closed a USD300 million Series G funding round.
The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC with participation from LN Mittal Family Office, ADM Ventures Investment Corp, Colle Capital Partners, Walleye Capital, and Tudor Investment Corporation.
The financing included existing investors: funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, certain funds managed by Fidelity Investments Canada ULC, Temasek, funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price Associates, Inc, GV, Baron Capital Group, DBL Partners, BAM Elevate.
FBN will use the capital for general corporate and working
Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) and UN Principles for Responsible investment (PRI) have collaborated on two new templates.
Diligend clients can now access and easily roll out the new ILPA template documents: the due diligence questionnaire 2.0 and the diversity metrics template, when using the digital due diligence platform. With this digitised version of the questionnaire, they can gather information faster, flag answers automatically and identify risks with ease.
Following collaboration, once again between, ILPA and the PRI, the ESG section of ILPA’s new DDQ, version 2.0, is entirely based on the PRI’s LP private equity responsible investment due diligence
Baker Botts, an international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, has appointed Frank X Schoen has as a partner in the Global Projects Department in New York.
Schoen regularly advises private equity sponsors and project developers, as well as commercial and investment banks, investment firms and other financial institutions, on project finance, leveraged finance and acquisition finance transactions in the conventional power, renewable energy, oil & gas, and infrastructure sectors.
He joins Baker Botts from King & Spalding in New York, where he was a member of the Corporate, Finance & Investments practice group. He has over 13
Allvue Systems (Allvue), an alternative investment technology solutions provider, has formed a strategic partnership with SteelBridge Consulting (SteelBridge) to support emerging private equity and venture capital firms as they execute their strategic technology initiatives.
SteelBridge is a boutique services firm which provides expertise exclusively to the private capital industry.
This partnership will bolster Allvue’s offering to small- and mid-sized private equity firms by providing access to an experienced third-party technology consultant as they incorporate Allvue’s newly launched Private Equity and Venture Capital Essentials platform. SteelBridge’s significant industry experience will establish them as a true partner to Allvue’s client base
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