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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has completed the sale of Solenis, a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals and services forwater treatment applications, to Platinum Equity.
Renaissance (Renaissance), a specialist in pre-K–12 educational technology, has secured a significant equity investment from private equity funds managed by Blackstone alongside existing investors including Francisco Partners and TPG’s The Rise Fund.
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specialiaes in partnering with technology businesses, acquired the Company in 2018 and will remain a major shareholder. Blackstone’s investment will be made through its flagship private equity vehicle.
Founded in 1986, Renaissance combines decades of experience in assessments with personalised instruction and analytics solutions delivering teachers and administrators the tools to plan, lessons to teach, and the resources to motivate
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is launching a new platform to streamline the issuance, transfer and servicing of private market securities.
As described in a new industry report, “Digital Securities Management: Bringing Private Markets Infrastructure Into the 21st Century,” DTCC’s new Digital Securities Management (DSM) platform will, subject to regulatory approval, for the first time, provide an industry-wide solution that offers common market infrastructure and standards across private markets. The platform represents the next major milestone in DTCC’s efforts to bring automation, standardisation and efficiency to the private markets, building upon its Project Whitney case study.
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Global law firm Dechert has published its annual Global Private Equity Outlook report in association with Mergermarket, a leading provider of M&A data and intelligence.
The benchmark report, which examines how private equity (PE) firms continue to successfully navigate their way out of the pandemic, has found that the unprecedented deal activity within the sector shows no signs of letting up, with the industry on course to far exceed past previous records.
Between January and September 2021 alone there has been USD1.17 trillion worth of deals recorded, already eclipsing every prior full-year total stretching back to 2015. In other words,
Confluence Technologies (Confluence), a technology solutions provider helping the investment management industry solve complex investment data challenges, is to acquire Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), a global regulatory software (RegTech) company that enables financial services firms to meet mandatory regulatory compliance requirements.
Confluence is backed by Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates (TA).
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, CSS offers clients a next-generation global RegTech platform underpinned by its proprietary Regulatory Book of Record (RBOR) data management solution. Servicing more than 600 clients globally, including nine of the top 10 global asset managers and six of the
Fast-growing IT services company Acora has made a third bolt-on acquisition since the investment by Palatine in 2020, and is planning to ramp up further deals in 2022.
The latest deal, for London-based M9 Limited, brings a thriving and forward-looking IT services provider with over 40 staff, and nearly 100 long-term contracted customers to Acora Group.
Founded in 1990, M9 has also established a strong international presence with an offshore team in Kuala Lumpur.
Since Palatine’s initial investment of in the Acora Group in 2020, as a result of the three acquisitions – Veber Ltd, Westgate and now M9 Limited
Novo Holdings, aa international life science investor, has co-led the EUR6 million seed financing in Asgard Therapeutics AB (Asgard), a private biotech company pioneering in vivo direct cell reprogramming approaches to elicit potent anti-cancer immune responses.
Asgard pioneers a novel approach to cancer therapy by reprogramming tumor cells into professional antigen presenting cells. Asgard’s lead program is an off-the-shelf gene therapy that induces a personalised immune response. The approach may also help overcome logistic and manufacturing hurdles of more conventional cell-based therapies.
The Company stems from the Lund University’s Cell Reprogramming and Immunity Lab, led by Professor Filipe Pereira,
Nasdaq is to collect and make its private fund manager diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) data available for investors free of charge via the Nasdaq eVestment platform in an effort to improve transparency and disclosure standardisation across the industry. The data will be available starting on 16 February, 2022.
Nasdaq has worked with the Institutional Limited Partners’ Association (ILPA) and FCLTGlobal to ensure its data collection aligns with ILPA’s newly published Diversity Metrics template, and respective guidelines published by each group. By aligning to these industry standards for private fund manager DEI data, Nasdaq aims to reduce barriers to information
Aon has published a report about value creation and risk in M&A, providing clear strategies for buy- and sell-side dealmakers to follow in light of the complex nature of M&A.
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP2.1 million investment in FodaBox (formerly BoroughBox), a provider of logistical services to over 1,400 independent food and drink brands.
The investment comprises GBP1.5 million from Maven’s VCTs alongside GBP600,000 from angel investors. This will enable the business to expand its operations, open a third warehouse, develop its software and analytical tools further, and launch its own private-label products.
London- and Welwyn Garden City-based FodaBox provides consolidated digital and physical infrastructure that offers independent food and drink producers a single partner for retail, wholesale distribution, fulfilment, third-party logistics services, and export.
FodaBox’s comprehensive
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