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Foreside Financial Group, LLC (Foreside), a provider of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) solutions and technology offerings to clients in the global asset and wealth management industry, has bolstered its private funds practice.
This includes an expansion of dedicated personnel, enhancements to its technology platform, as well as the launch of a sub-practice dedicated to fund managers with investment strategies focused on cryptocurrencies, digital assets, venture capital studio funds, health care royalties, syndicated venture, and other alternative, non-conventional assets.
Foreside is responding to the market’s rising demand for experienced consultants enabled by technology whose focus is on the
Ridgemont Equity Partners, a buyout and growth equity investor, today announced a significant minority investment alongside The Rise Fund, TPG’s multi-sector global impact investing strategy, to facilitate the acquisition of Teachers of Tomorrow (ToT).
The Rise Fund announced a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in ToT in early September and subsequently joined forces with Ridgemont Equity Partners, a value-added growth partner for the Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Teachers of Tomorrow leverages technology to provide training, certification, and placement services for aspiring teachers, along with professional development resources to support teachers’ careers. As the nation’s
CIBC has created a USD450 million fund dedicated to investing in key Canadian and US-based venture capital and growth equity funds.
“As CIBC continues to deepen relationships with highly successful investors in the North American tech, life science and clean tech sectors, dedicating a new pool of capital to invest in our core fund sponsor clients is a natural next step in enabling growth in these important sectors,” says Mark McQueen, President & Executive Managing Director, CIBC Innovation Banking, CIBC. “This capital will fuel the growth in leading start-ups as part of each fund manager’s multi-year investment strategy.”
Over the
Global venture capital firm Antler has closed over USD300 million to date, allowing it an opportunity to provide continued support to its companies in subsequent funding rounds.
Investors in the funds include Schroders, Vækstfonden, and Phoenix Group.
Antler is on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by enabling and investing in the world’s most exceptional people. The primary focus of the firm will remain investing at the pre-seed stage, with the firm now also having the ability to offer its portfolio companies follow-on capital as they grow and scale, up to Series C.
Magnus Grimeland, CEO and Founder of
Waypoint Partners, a growth and corporate advisory firm to the creative, marketing and related technology sectors has promoted Matthew Lacey to Partner. He becomes part of the leadership team that includes partners Otto Stevens, Jim Houghton and Phil Gripton.
LBO France has signed an SPA for the sale of Italian glass packaging supplier VetroElite to TricorBraun.
Founded in 1994, VetroElite is a designer and distributor of high-end glass packaging. The company offers an exclusive range of glass containers (bottles, carafes, flasks and jars) for liquid products, food products, room fragrances and other perfumery, cosmetic and body care products.
Since its acquisition in May 2017 through the Small Caps Opportunities I fund, VetroElite has experienced spectacular growth with sales which nearly tripled, thanks to the add-on of Valery Glass in 2018, and most of all an uninterrupted organic top-line
Independent specialty intermediary Nexus Group has successfully completed a refinancing via a new GBP70 million loan facility with Barings LLC.
London-based insurtech and home of dynamic motor fleet insurance pricing, Humn has raised GBP10.1m in Series A funding led by BXR Group and Shell Ventures as well as Hambro Perks Leaders Fund and Woodside Holdings.
With the investment, Humn aims to further develop its unique insurance data capabilities and expand the commercial functions of the business, as well as expanding into Europe next year.
Founded in 2018, Humn has rewritten traditional motor fleet insurance. Consolidating the traditionally separate categories of fleet insurance and risk management, it has built a solution that provides fleets with unparalleled transparency. Humn’s risk platform, riskOS,
Howden, the international insurance broking group, is to acquire Aston Lark from Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Bowmark Capital. Aston Lark is one of the UK’s leading, independent, specialist complex commercial and private client brokers. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
The highly complementary union completes Howden’s UK broking business, with Aston Lark joining A-Plan Group and Howden UK to create a full-service broker unrivalled in its quality, scale and reach in the UK.
The transaction marks Howden’s largest acquisition to date and creates a UK business managing over GBP6 billion of gross written premium for more than
Permira funds have agreed to the sale of Lyophilization Services of New England (LSNE), a contract manufacturing organisation, to PCI Pharma Services (PCI), a pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical global integrated solutions provider.
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Bedford, New Hampshire, LSNE is a market leader providing a wide range of development and manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, specializing in a wide range of services including process cycle development, sterile fill-finish and lyophilization, and analytical testing.
The Permira funds acquired LSNE in 2017, and over the last four years have supported the company in its
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