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Private investment firm GI Partners is to sell Generate Life Sciences (Generate), a life sciences platform that provides reproductive and newborn stem cell (umbilical cord blood and tissue) services, to CooperCompanies (NYSE:COO).
Generate Life Sciences was created by GI Partners in 2018 as the combination of California Cryobank Life Sciences, an industry-leading donor sperm and egg bank, and Cord Blood Registry, a leading provider of newborn stem cell services. The combined business became a key player in three highly complementary end-markets.
Generate serves families from preconception to post-birth throughout the significant and highly personalised journey of building a family and
Stone-Goff Partners has exited its investment in The Channel Company (TCC). TCC was acquired by investment funds managed by EagleTree Capital, a middle-market private equity firm.
The Channel Company drives sales for global technology providers through integrated marketing and sales solutions that identify, acquire, and retain channel sales partners and end-user customers. TCC’s integrated suite of solutions includes performance and content marketing, peer-to-peer engagement, consulting, brand marketing, sales enablement, and data analytics. TCC also completed a key acquisition in 2020, acquiring Audienz, a consulting and services business focused on major Cloud players – Microsoft, AWS, and Google.
Stone-Goff Partners invested
StepStone Group, a private markets investment firm focused on providing customised investment solutions and advisory and data services, has closed the StepStone Tactical Growth Fund III (STGF III), raising more than USD690 million of commitments.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP served as legal advisors for the formation of the fund.
The fund includes limited partners from around the world, including, public and corporate pension plans, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, family offices, high net worth individuals, and financial services and advisory firms. STGF III integrates fund, secondary and co-investments to build diversified exposure to high-growth technology and healthcare
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle-market, has appointed Allison Cole as Managing Director & Global Head, Fundraising and Investor Relations, leading Riverside’s expanding global fundraising and investor relations team.
Cole will build and cultivate Riverside’s relationships with investors and oversee the firm’s capital raising efforts.
“From our first interactions with Allison, she impressed us as a person and professional, and she’s a great cultural fit,” says Riverside Co-CEO, Stewart Kohl. “We are excited about having her lead our expanding Fundraising and IR team as we grow our USD13.5 billion of
Macfarlanes has advised private equity house H2 Equity Partners on the carve-out acquisition of Acal BFi for GBP50 million from discoverIE Group.
Acal BFi is a pan-European provider of value-added design solutions, electronic components, and custom products across a broad range of technologies and applications from electric components parent company,
The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval.
The Macfarlanes team was led by corporate and M&A partner, Alex Edmondson with assistance from senior solicitors, Nicholas Page and Tom Trotter and solicitor Bryony Foley. Commercial expertise was provided by partner William Hedges and solicitor Robert Grant with finance
General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, has completed the final close of its sixth flagship fund, GA 2021, at USD7.8 billion, above its initial target of USD5 billion. The fund received commitments from new and existing capital partners, including family offices, endowments, foundations and institutional investors around the world.
The firm, which pioneered the growth equity asset class more than four decades ago, now has USD23.8 billion in committed capital and over USD78 billion in assets under management. General Atlantic partners with high-growth, tech-enabled companies globally across its five core sectors: Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences and Technology.
DWS has held the final close of its inaugural Private Equity Solutions (PES) fund achieving USD550 million, including discretionary co-investment vehicles, which is in excess of its target and hard-cap of USD500 million and USD525 million respectively.
Demonstrating significant demand for its mid-life secondaries strategy, the inaugural fund closed with a global investor base consisting of state pension plans, insurance companies, corporate institutional investors and family offices in North America, Europe and the Middle East. The fund has made a total of 12 investments, which have exhibited positive performance to date.
The private equity business at DWS has focused
Bernhard Capital Partners Management, LP (Bernhard Capital), a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, has completed the acquisition of RailWorks Corp (RailWorks or the Company), a North American rail infrastructure solutions provider, from Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.
“We are excited about the opportunities ahead with RailWorks and look forward to supporting the Company’s best-in-class rail infrastructure solutions,” says Jim Bernhard, a partner at Bernhard Capital. “Our investment in RailWorks is an exciting opportunity for us to partner with the leading provider of maintenance and construction services in the rail space, and comes at a critical
GT Gettaxi Ltd has entered into a business combination agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Rosecliff Acquisition Corp I (RCLF). Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company, GT Gettaxi ListCo (NASDAQ: GETT), will trade on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
Crestbridge has appointed Marta Ciemiega as Business Development Director, for the US.
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