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Guardian Capital Partners (Guardian) has sold its portfolio company, Cosmic Pet (Cosmic) to Petmate, a Platinum Equity-backed business.
Headquartered in Wichita, KS, Cosmic Pet, is an innovator in pet hard good products, dog and cat toys, chews, and treats. Cosmic markets its products through many of the largest brick and mortar retailers in North America, as well as independent channels and eCommerce retailers. Notably, the Company has won multiple industry awards for product design, development, and innovation. The Company goes to market under the following brands: Hyper Pet, PetFusion, GoDogGo, Our Pets, PetZone Wild Eats, Ultra Paws, Mad Cat, Mega
Rectangle Health, a provider of healthcare financial technology and patient engagement solutions, has been recapitalised by GI Partners, a private investment firm with deep healthcare technology and payments investing experience.
GI Partners’ investment, in conjunction with existing investor TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, will further accelerate Rectangle Health’s growth as the company continues to drive innovative consumer-centric solutions to the healthcare industry.
Rectangle Health is committed to offering leading technology that is an extension of the organisation and makes lives easier for practitioners, staff, and patients. Rectangle Health’s technology solutions provide a bridge between patients and
EagleTree Capital (EagleTree), on behalf of its private equity fund EagleTree Partners V, has acquired Lignetics, a consumer-focused wood pellet manufacturer in the US, from Taglich Private Equity and Mill Road Capital.
Lignetics will be a new platform investment in the EagleTree portfolio, and Lignetics’ operations, management team and personnel will remain unchanged following the EagleTree investment. Co-investors, including Alpha Associates, Bullingham Capital, Farol Asset Management, Manulife Investment Management, Misland Capital, Northwestern Mutual Capital, and Thrivent Financial, are investing alongside EagleTree. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, Lignetics is the largest consumer-focused wood pellet
Funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) have agreed to acquire Tricor Group (Tricor), an Asian business expansion specialist, from global private equity firm investment Permira.
The transaction is expected to close in H1 2022 subject to regulatory approvals. The transaction values Tricor at an enterprise value of USD2.76 billion.
Founded in 2000, Tricor is Asia’s leading business expansion specialist, with global knowledge and local expertise in business, corporate, investor, human resources & payroll, corporate trust & debt services, and governance advisory. Tricor is a trusted partner to ~50,000 clients globally (including more than 40% of the Fortune Global
The Griffin Global Asset Management companies (Griffin) have expanded their Dublin office with the addition of Carolanne Cunningham as General Counsel, Eimear Konkoly as Vice President, and Bill O’Brien as Financial Controller.
“Carolanne, Eimear, and Bill have incredibly strong backgrounds from several industries and each will lead different areas of our growing business. We are delighted that such talented executives have joined the Griffin Team,” says Ryan McKenna, Chief Executive Officer of the Griffin group.
Cunningham joins as General Counsel. Previously she was Head of Legal for the Global Leasing EMEA business at Bank of America, NA, advising on financing
BlackRock has achieved a USD673 million final fundraise for the Climate Finance Partnership (CFP), a flagship public-private finance vehicle focused on investing in climate infrastructure across emerging markets to help accelerate the global transition to a net zero economy.
A global consortium of 22 investors including governments, philanthropies, and institutional investors committed to the fundraise, which was oversubscribed and exceeded its target of USD500 million.
The BlackRock Investment Institute estimates that the world needs to invest USD1 trillion annually into low-carbon projects in developing countries in order to achieve a just transition to a net zero global economy. This
Lief Labs, a formulation and product development innovator and manufacturer of dietary supplements, has been capitalised through new partnerships with Prairie Capital, Skyline Global Partners, S2G Ventures, Lief Labs’ management team, and Lief’s founder and CEO, Adel Villalobos.
This new collaboration will provide recapitalisation investments and strategic advisory resources with Lief’s management team to support the company’s scalable growth. Lief will focus its growth strategy on key areas, including technology innovation, raw materials and formulations business expansion, supply chain management, human capital development, customer service resources, increased production capacity, and world-class manufacturing operations and facilities.
According to the
By Ashmita Chhabra and Mark Voumard – Singapore stands out as best in class as a location to do business in APAC with its political and economic stability, sound and predictable regulation, an engaged regulator, world-class infrastructure, and as an innovative financial centre with a well-developed range of service providers.
By Ashmita Chhabra – With the United Nation’s COP26 summit approaching, the need to do more to address climate change is once again in focus. As a key financial services hub in Asia, Singapore has an important role in the development and integration of sustainable finance practices into the real economy. The capital market’s ability to drive meaningful change by encouraging disclosure, stakeholder engagement and innovative green financing initiatives are all part of Singapore’s commitment.
By Tom Lin and Morgan Shubin, Clifford Chance – It has become fashionable to say that secondary transactions are now ‘mainstream’, with some market participants pointing to the flourishing GP-led segment of the market as a ‘fourth leg’ option for liquidity alongside conventional exit routes for PE assets (i.e. sale process, IPO or recapitalisation). That might not be necessarily a perfect characterisation, though we suspect it might be to a degree with some nuance. However you might characterise it, the growth in deal activity (market commentators expect transaction value to exceed USD100 billion for the first time in 2021), extraordinary fundraising, the
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