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Tarrytown Expocare (Tarrytown), a portfolio company of Sheridan Capital Partners, has completed acquisitions of Long’s Drugs, located in Thomson, Georgia, Long’s Closed-Door Pharmacy, located in Columbia, South Carolina, and Adler’s Pharmacy LTC, located in Cherry Hill, NJ. These acquisitions are the latest completed by Tarrytown as the Company continues expanding into new states in order to provide quality care to the Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled populations. The Company now serves individuals in 13 states. “We are thrilled to announce our acquisitions of leading providers that expand our ability to serve individuals across the U.S. These pharmacies are representative of the cultures
Ultimus Fund Solutions (Ultimus), an independent provider of full-service fund administration, accounting, and investor solutions, has helped a new client, Primark Capital, bring a new fund product to market. As an interval fund that focuses on private equity, the new Primark Private Equity Investments Fund is one of the first funds that gives non-accredited retail investors access to private equity market investment opportunities. Primark Capital’s leadership is a combination of the former CEO of a USD12 billion RIA and two co-founders of Red Rocks Capital, a USD1.9 billion private equity fund. Ultimus aligned with a multi-organisational team of industry professionals to
Apex Group (Apex), a global financial services provider, has been appointed to provide fund administration to the USD200 million “Financing Opportunities Fund” of SHUAA Capital (SHUAA), an asset management and investment banking platform in the UAE. The fund is targeting special situations in the GCC and has already attracted a total of USD68 million in commitments from investors.   Apex’s experienced team will deliver a full suite of fund administration services to SHUAA including financial reporting, investor communication, capital transactions and accounting support. Fund administration is at the core of Apex’s offering, providing clients with timely, accurate and independent fund administration
LearnUpon, a leading cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS), has secured USD56 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners. This funding represents LearnUpon’s first major capital raise and will be used to fuel hiring, support continued execution of the company’s product roadmap and meet accelerating customer demand.   LearnUpon was founded in 2012 on the belief that a learning management system should be intuitive for users, quick and seamless to set up, and delivered with industry-leading customer support. Combining powerful functionality with unparalleled ease of use for both learners and administrators, LearnUpon helps enterprises democratise learning by dramatically increasing
bfinance, aa independent investment consultancy, has appointed Anna Morrison as Senior Director, Private Markets. Joining the research team at bfinance’s London office, Morrison brings twenty years’ experience in financial services and investments in the US, Europe and Asia.    Morrison will lead the Private Equity advisory practice and becomes the third Senior Director in bfinance’s Private Markets team, alongside fellow Senior Directors Trevor Castledine (Private Debt) and Anish Butani (Infrastructure). She will report to Managing Director Peter Hobbs (Real Estate, and Head of Private Markets), whose division has doubled in size over the past two years and now comprises ten private
CRUX, a British-Israeli startup that has developed the world’s first Knowledge Quantification platform, has announced a GBP1 million seed investment round led by WENVEST Capital, the B2B SaaS venture capital firm, and includes A-Round Capital and Founders Factory. With an overwhelming volume of information on both publisher and corporate platforms, CRUX’s groundbreaking deep tech supports digital media companies, financial services firms and management consultancies in helping users become more informed and more engaged. CRUX creates unique knowledge journeys around any topic, by measuring users’ knowledge build-up in real time, and directing users to the most valuable content for them. CRUX uses
The Private Equity Team has advised long-standing client GTT Communications, a specialist in the provision of cloud networking services, on the sale of its infrastructure business to I Squared Capital for USD2.15 billion. The acquisition is expected to close, subject to satisfying all required regulatory approvals and contingencies included in the agreement, during the first half of 2021. The infrastructure division of GTT Communications consists of the business and activities of providing Pan-European, North American, sub-sea and trans-Atlantic fiber network and data center infrastructure services to customers.  I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment management firm focusing on energy,
BHI, a full-service commercial bank, says its Specialty and Sponsor Finance Group continued to maintain a high level of activity for new and existing clients during the peak of the global pandemic. 
Landmark Information – a provider of information to the UK’s property market – has has acquired the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) due diligence platform, RiskHorizon, from global sustainability consultancy Anthesis Group.   The platform delivers valuable global insights to a broad group of asset owners and managers, from private equity and investment houses to corporates and their lawyers. It provides a comprehensive and actionable ESG due diligence screen of their global corporate acquisition(s) or investments across the world. It also enables the effective management of ESG within an existing business, newly acquired assets and supply chains.   RiskHorizon helps deal makers
Sherpa Capital, an Iberian private equity fund manager specialising in medium-sized companies, has appointed Isaac Lahuerta as an Investment Director in the firm’s special situations team.Lahuerta joins Sherpa Capital after working for more than two-and-a-half years as a Principal at private equity firm BTC, where he made debt and equity investments in companies in special situations.   Before that, he served as an investment analyst in London for global investment firm Avenue Capital Group, which specialises in distressed investments.   With more than five years of investment experience in special situations, Lahuerta started his professional career in Deutsche Bank in

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