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Ericsson is to acquire Vonage Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: VG) for USD21 per share. This represents a total acquisition price of approximately USD6.2 billion (Enterprise Value).
Eatron, a fast-growing scale-up with its unique ‘intelligent automotive software’ platform for the edge and the cloud, has raised USD11 million in a Series-A round led by MMC Ventures with participation from Aster Capital and Vinfast.
Eatron has a long-standing collaboration in different projects with Vinfast to explore and accelerate deployment of the company’s software platform into Vinfast’s rapidly expanding range of electric cars. Eatron entered into a similar strategic partnership with the Hirschvogel Group from Germany in the summer of 2020 when Hirschvogel also invested USD1.5 million-plus.
Eatron, which is headquartered in the UK with a world-class
North west-based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced it has led a GBP3 million investment into experience analytics platform, Uncrowd.
Created by retail and systems experts Richard Hammond and Rocky Howard, Uncrowd is a cutting-edge platform that allows global retailers and brands to measure customer experience through innovative methods of data collection. It was recognised as one of Silicon Valley’s best retail tech start-ups at this year’s Plug and Play Fall Summit and has earned a place on the Plug and Play accelerator programme.
Unlike traditional customer analytics, Uncrowd works by collecting objective data and observations to generate an
Global privateer equity investor Advent International (Advent) is to to acquire Caldic BV (Caldic), a global premium provider of value-added life sciences and specialty chemicals solutions, from Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Caldic will then merge with Advent portfolio company Grupo Transmerquim SA (GTM), one of the leading chemical distributors in Latin America.
Caldic’s product portfolio includes innovative food ingredients, natural products and functional solutions for a variety of life sciences and industrial end-market segments. With a leading presence in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, Caldic employs around 1,200 people across 35 locations. The business generated sales of about EUR1 billion
This year’s winner of the Best US Accounting Firm award goes to CohnReznick. The advisory, audit and tax firm helps private equity clients optimise deal, fund and portfolio company performance.
“CohnReznick continues to look for new ways to help private equity firms create value. From helping firms plan for investment opportunities related to the US infrastructure bill to delivering strategic advisory solutions to portfolio companies, our goal is to be a trusted advisor through all stages of the investment life cycle,” said Jeremy Swan, CohnReznick Managing Principal – Financial Sponsors & Financial Services Industry. “On behalf of my entire team, I want
Lionpoint’s approach to technology and operations has enabled the firm to not just survive but thrive over the last year-plus. “Our firm has grown to over 140 consultants in seven offices across the globe, collaborating with each other so that the firm did not skip a beat,” says Jonathan Balkin, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Lionpoint.
In addition, becoming part of Alpha FMC has drastically increased Lionpoint’s breadth of services within ESG, benchmarking, data solutions and across public investments.
Data critical to business management
In recent months, data has been a critical asset that enables clients to better manage their
It’s an exciting time to be working with the private equity industry. While the events of the last 18 months have presented unexpected and unparalleled challenges, many private equity firms have proven to be adept at navigating these challenges and are well-positioned for the future.
Whether it’s record-high fundraising numbers, new deals and partnerships, sustainability initiatives or diversity projects, there is a wealth of enthusiasm among private equity professionals to grow and improve this industry.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Our focus at Jensen Partners is on identifying and placing high-quality candidates at private equity firms around the world, and to
FIS Global, this year’s Best Portfolio Management Software Provider, has seen the pandemic act as a major driver in accelerating the move to digital, with clients expecting the firm to enable this.
“While it was a challenging time, we had the scale, technology and people needed to deliver that very rapidly,” says Paul Landi, Product Strategy, Digital Investment Analytics, at FIS.
In adapting to these challenges, FIS has evolved to help clients in the longer term. Their workflow tools allow people to collaborate and communicate without being in the same room and provide a greater ability to track actions and
The Private Equity (PE) space faces the same risk of cyber-attacks as other industries, and firms have spent the last several years investing and making progress to protect themselves against continuously evolving cyber threats.
While they may have buttressed their own defences, PE managers now recognise that their portfolio companies are perhaps even more attractive targets for cyber breaches. Why? Because too often, these companies operate with far less focus on managing their holistic cyber risk than their PE owners, and lack the staff, knowledge, and access to premier solutions to ensure their cyber security.
Bad actors often begin with
Ben Harrison, Co-President of Financial Services at Intapp believes that DealCloud was chosen to win the Best Deal Origination Technology award because it is a single-source deal, relationship, and firm management platform that enables firms to power their deal-making process from strategy to origination to execution.
He says: “We offer fully configurable solutions purpose-built for the complex relationships and structures of capital markets firms, which in turn enables our clients to better source and originate deals. Our clients manage thousands of deals daily within the DealCloud platform.”
Tools for deal origination
Among its key services for clients, DealCloud offers tools
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