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Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has acquired CommonLook by T-Base Communications, a TSCP portfolio company.
CommonLook is a provider of software and services, enabling electronic document accessibility and remediates more than one million pages annually for more than 600 customers. T-Base simplifies the fast, secure delivery of accessible communications in a wide range of print, web, and digital formats for financial, education, healthcare, telecommunications, and government entities.
Through the combination, T-Base Communications and CommonLook will broaden their accessibility portfolio of offerings to accessible print, PDF and website auditing designed to help
Preqin has updated its ESG Solutions, a product that provides private market participants with a 360-degree view of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk, impact and opportunity – across LPs and GPs, down to portfolio and private company levels.
ESG has transitioned from a nice-to-have to a must-have, as USD35 trillion of assets under management (AUM) are committed to ESG-aligned investments. Up until now, only limited ESG data has existed in private markets. However, relevant data is crucial for both fund managers and investors to action ESG strategies by integrating it through the investment decision making process, from screening,
MSCI Inc (MSCI), a provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, and The Burgiss Group, LLC, a provider of data, analytics and technology solutions for investors of private capital, have launched a new analytical tool that enables institutional asset owners and managers to better understand the impact of climate change on private asset portfolios.
Launched ahead of COP26, the Carbon Footprinting of Private Equity and Debt Funds measures the carbon intensity of private equity and debt funds. The analytical tool is designed to address a serious transparency gap in the private assets market, spanning
JP Morgan and Rothschild & Co were the top mergers and acquisition (M&A) financial advisers in the Middle East & Africa region for Q1-Q3 2021 by value and volume, respectively.
JP Morgan advised on ten deals worth USD21.5 billion, which was the highest value among all the advisers. Meanwhile, Rothschild & Co led in volume terms having advised on 19 deals worth USD3.8 billion. A total of 787 M&A deals were announced in the region during H1 2021, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company.
According to GlobalData’s report, ‘Global & Middle East Africa M&A Review & Financial Adviser
Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York, has reached a definitive agreement to sell its portfolio company Pelican Products, Inc.(the Company), including the Peli BioThermal division, to Platinum Equity.
Headquartered in Torrance, California, Pelican Products is a global manufacturer of highly engineered protective cases and lighting products for a wide variety of consumer, commercial, industrial, bio-pharmaceutical, and government end markets. Its Peli BioThermal division offers the widest range of temperature-controlled, thermally-protected packaging and service solutions to the global life sciences industry. Over its 45-year history, the Company has established its market leadership with a comprehensive portfolio
VTS, a leasing, marketing, asset management, and tenant experience platform, is to acquire Lane, a workplace experience platform used by several top landlords including Brookfield, Oxford, and Hines.
With the acquisition, VTS has now invested hundreds of millions of dollars in tenant experience, more than all other proptech companies combined. The acquisition will strengthen VTS’ existing market-leading tenant experience solution, VTS Rise, enabling both Rise and Lane customers to benefit seamlessly from the combined technology. In addition, VTS will add new tenant engagement capabilities to VTS Rise including Lane Perks which provides building occupiers with access to a private network
Funds advised by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight), a global private investment firm, are to acquire a majority stake in Integrated Power Services (IPS), a specialist in industrial aftermarket services.
Searchlight acquired the Company from funds advised by Odyssey Investment Partners (Odyssey). Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, IPS provides maintenance, repair and replacement solutions for critical process equipment serving industrial and renewable energy end-markets in North America. With 33 service centres and field offices, IPS serves over 5,000 unique customer locations and covers equipment spanning motors, generators, pumps
Spark Orthodontics, aa orthodontic group practice with 10 offices in Pennsylvania, and in which Rock Mountain Capital holds a significant minority investment, today announced the acquisition of Cumberland Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics of Tennessee. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Cumberland’s eight offices in the Nashville, TN area will retain the Cumberland name and will roll up under Spark Orthodontics. Cumberland’s four founders, Brent Miller, DDS; Jennifer House, DMD; Jack Stalker, DDS; and Peter Wojtkiewicz, DMD, will become members of the Spark management team.
With this acquisition, Spark becomes a multi-specialty practice, covering the entire pediatric dental
Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity investor, has acquired Agape Care Group (Agape Care), a provider of hospice and palliative care in the South East USA, with a deep presence across South Carolina and Georgia.
The Company offers full end-of-life care for members of its community both in patient homes and healthcare facilities.
“Agape Care is a remarkable operation that balances the great responsibility of providing the highest quality care for its patients and families with a strong growth-oriented business backbone,” says Dan Harknett, Partner at Ridgemont. “We are excited to be investing in a platform with a
Partners Group, a global private markets firm, and Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg) have acquired BluSky Restoration Contractors (BluSky), a US provider of restoration services for commercial, industrial, healthcare, and multifamily real estate, on behalf of their clients.
Kohlberg and Partners Group acquired equal equity stakes in the transaction, with the Company’s management team also retaining a meaningful ownership stake. BluSky’s previous majority owner, Dominus Capital, retained a minority stake in the Company.
BluSky specialises in real estate damage services that stabilise emergency situations and restore businesses and property back to pre-loss condition. The Company’s restoration, remediation, environmental, and preventative
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