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McVeigh Global Meetings and Events (MGME), a corporate meetings and events company and a portfolio company of private equity firm Infocommerce Partners, has acquired PRIME Event Partners, a Canadian full-service event management company.
This move expands on MGME’s global presence, with offices in Toronto and Vancouver, bringing new growth opportunities and enhanced service capabilities to clients across North America and around the world.
“We are very excited to welcome the PRIME team to our family,” says Jeff Guberman, CEO of MGME. “The acquisition of PRIME builds on our global business strategy with an incredible team that brings depth of experience
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a GBP749,000 growth capital investment into TMAC, using equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) as part of a cGBP1.5 million funding round.
Founded in 2018 by Jimmy Hosang and Sean Northam, TMAC is a rapidly growing contact centre software solutions company. Based in Manchester and with significant operations across the Midlands, TMAC’s proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning software drives efficiency, reduces costs and improves results for large contact centres primarily in the insurance, retail and banking sectors.
It offers three affordable modular
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has released an updated Due Diligence Questionnaire and Diversity Metrics Template.
The documents are intended to standardise the key areas of inquiry posed by investors during their diligence of managers and to provide a framework for ongoing monitoring of progress related to DEI. Each has been meaningfully updated to reflect changes in the marketplace and to incorporate comments received during ILPA’s public consultation process earlier this year.
“Market practices—and ILPA’s own guidance in response, as reflected in the ILPA Principles—have evolved significantly since the release of the DDQ in 2013. While DEI is a
HIG Capital (HIG) has sold its portfolio company, Empire Today to Charlesbank Capital Partners (Charlesbank).
Empire Today is the largest shop-at-home, direct-to-consumer flooring company in the United States, operating in over 70 of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. The Company serves residential customers with a wide selection of carpet and hard surface flooring products for homes, and sells fully installed flooring solutions to businesses, including multi-family properties, restoration companies, REITs, and other organisations.
HIG acquired the Company in November 2016 in partnership with Empire Today’s management team. Through numerous strategic initiatives and investments, the Company enjoyed significant growth
Grain Management (Grain), a private equity firm focused on investments in the global communications sector, has appointed industry veteran Kevin Naughton as a Managing Director.
Former Chairman and Co-head of Credit Suisse’s Private Funds Group, Naughton’s role at Grain will focus on investor relations, with a particular focus on capital formation and strategy for product development.
“We are thrilled to welcome Kevin to the Grain team,” says David Grain, Founder and CEO of Grain Management. “His deep experience in global fundraising will be a welcome addition to our deep bench of talent as we continue to expand our international presence
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
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