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Partners Group, a global private markets firm, has agreed, on behalf of its clients, to acquire DiversiTech, a manufacturer and supplier of parts and accessories for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment in the US, from funds advised by global private equity firm Permira.
The investment values DiversiTech at an enterprise value of USD2.2 billion. As part of the transaction, Permira and management will remain minority investors in the Company.
Founded in 1971 and headquartered near Atlanta, Georgia, DiversiTech is North America’s largest manufacturer of equipment pads and a leading manufacturer and supplier of components and related products for
Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) has raised an additional USD4 billion in commitments over the past twelve months from North American, European and Asian investors.
As a result of recent fundraising across its three core private markets investment programmes, Northleaf has now raised more than USD18 billion in capital commitments and serves approximately 200 institutional investors globally. This growth demonstrates strong investor interest in the firm’s innovative, mid-market private equity, private credit and infrastructure strategies, long-standing responsible investment framework and well-established track record.
“We continue to see strong demand for our mid-market global private markets strategies and are actively working with
Following the success of its groundbreaking online investor training course, the Newton Venture Program is now accepting applications for its first ever in-person course, due to start in April.
British Patient Capital has participated in Ultraleap’s Series D funding round which has closed at GBP60 million.
The deal is one of the first investments from Future Fund: Breakthrough, a GBP375 million programme where British Patient Capital co-invests with private sector investors in later stage R&D-intensive UK companies.
Ultraleap’s hand tracking and mid-air haptic technologies allow users to engage with the digital world without touching surfaces, removing the need for touchscreens, controllers or keypads. The new funding will allow Ultraleap to continue to bring its machine-learning-based hand tracking software, Gemini, to more operating systems, and increase investment in tooling, to
TA Associates, a growth private equity firm, and True Wind Capital, a technology focused private equity firm, has launched a strategic growth investment in e-Emphasys Technologies, a software and solutions provider to dealers and rental companies in the equipment distribution industry. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
e-Emphasys provides cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) and dealer management system (DMS) software to equipment dealerships and rental companies in the construction, mining, forestry, material handling, agriculture, heavy truck, aggregate and sanitation industries. The company’s fully-integrated software platform is designed to improve operational efficiency and customer service, and drive revenue growth
Insightful Science, a portfolio company of global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, has appointed Rebeca Sanchez Sarmiento as Chief Financial Officer of Insightful Science and Dotmatics.
With her early career carved on Wall Street as a sell-side equity research analyst at Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, Sanchez Sarmiento has extensive experience across corporate strategy, FP&A and investor relations in both private equity-backed and publicly traded companies. Sanchez Sarmiento joins the Company from previous CFO positions at InvestCloud and ATTOM Data Solutions where she led several transformative mergers and acquisitions, multiple capital raises and two significant corporate restructurings, most
W3 Energy, an independent Swedish asset manager, is now using the Greenbyte performance optimisation solution to optimise 1.6GW of specialised cold climate wind power for international investors.
The growing portfolio includes two of the world’s largest onshore wind projects, CGN’s 650MW Markbygden ETT and Luxcara’s 1,400MW Markbydgen Önusberget, as well as a number of smaller projects, including Fu-Gen’s largest operational cold climate wind farm, the 42MW Fjällboheden project.
With a 13-year track record in mastering the unique challenges presented to wind operations by cold climates, as well as proprietary digital tools to manage de-icing systems, W3 Energy offers international investors
IT group, Kick ICT, has secured an GBP8.7 million investment from BGF.
Kick ICT, which was founded in 2015 by entrepreneur Tom O’Hara alongside Alan Turnbull and David Chazan, provides a range of IT services, focusing on financial systems, data analytics, technical and cyber services, and communications solutions as well as ongoing managed services and support across its range of service offerings. The group is both a Microsoft Gold partner and one of the UK’s leading certified Infor partners to provide implementation and consulting services for Infor systems.
Headquartered in Strathclyde Business Park, Kick ICT has enjoyed significant expansion in
IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, has acquired Greyline Partners (Greyline), a US provider of governance and regulatory compliance solutions for PE, VC, hedge funds and investors.
Greyline is a fast-growing business with a strong commercial and cultural fit for IQ-EQ’s expanding operations in the US. Today, IQ-EQ U.S. employs 500-plus people with plans to significantly grow this number in 2022 thanks to its strong business performance in the US market. The combination of IQ-EQ and Greyline firmly positions IQ-EQ as the leading provider of outsourced business services to the alternative asset industry. This latest acquisition follows the successful acquisitions of
RWS Entertainment Group (RWS) has acquired international attraction design firm JRA.
This acquisition expands RWS’ capabilities and creates the world’s exclusive, full-service provider of visitor attractions and experiences.
For decades, both leaders have pioneered the attractions industry’s approach to entertaining and educating guests. Today, with headquarters in New York City, London, and now Cincinnati, this powerful combined RWS team of dreamers, designers, creators, and operators is set to provide endless experiences for theme parks, attractions, cruise ships, zoos, aquariums, museums, theatre venues, casinos, hotels and resorts, botanical gardens, visitor centres, port of call destinations, retail and real estate, municipalities,
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