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An investment group led by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and also comprising PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media, has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of Newcastle United Limited and Newcastle United Football Club Limited (Newcastle United) from St James Holdings Limited.
Manulife Investment Management has closed Manulife Co-Investment Partners II (MCIP II), a USD683.5 million private equity co-investment fund, which exceeded its original target of USD600 million.
MCIP II is the firm’s second co-investment fund, primarily investing in a diverse portfolio of North American middle market companies. MCIP II further fulfils Manulife Investment Management’s commitment to provide global investors access to its private market capabilities across private equity and credit, infrastructure, real estate, timberland, and agriculture.
“We are pleased to have closed the Fund above target – and well in excess of the size of our first equity co-investment fund,”
Kentik, the network observability company, has closed a USD40 million Series C funding round led by existing investor Third Point Ventures.
Investors from prior rounds – August Capital, Tahoma Ventures, DCVC, Engineering Capital and Vistara Growth – were joined by new investors Golub Capital, Gaingels and Delta-v Capital to complete this round. To date, Kentik has raised USD102 million in total financing.
With the explosion of digital business, the API economy and consumer expectations for instantaneous service, applications rely more than ever on network health and performance. At the same time, those networks are increasingly diverse and no longer
HIG Capital (HIG) has completed the recapitalisation of Health Network One and its various affiliates and subsidiaries, a provider of specialty benefit management services for health insurers.
Founded in 1999, Health Network One partners with health plans to optimise care across a number of specialties, including Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy; Dermatology; Vision and Ophthalmology; Podiatry; Gastroenterology; and Urology. Through the Company’s comprehensive network of over 10,000 providers and dedicated in-house clinical expertise, Health Network One helps deliver high quality and convenient healthcare to over five million covered lives. In addition to helping drive medical outcomes, Health Network One’s cost-effective
Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty (P&C) carriers, brokers, and MGAs today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Maprisk.
Maprisk provides geospatial data and analytics software to enable underwriting automation and allows P&C carriers and MGAs to smartly plan and proactively respond to natural disasters. With the addition of Maprisk to the Insurity suite, P&C carriers and MGAs writing personal and commercial lines can seamlessly integrate geospatial data and analytics across the full policy lifecycle, from quoting and underwriting to claims.
The acquisition of Maprisk builds on Insurity’s prior acquisition of SpatialKey, the
Funds managed by Blackstone Capital Partners have signed a definitive agreement with EQT VII fund (EQT Private Equity) and KHF to acquire a majority stake in VFS Global.
EQT Private Equity will remain indirectly invested in the Company with a minority position alongside Blackstone. Blackstone, as majority shareholder, and KHF, as minority shareholder, will be co-investors in the Company following the closing of the transaction.
VFS Global is the global market leader in visa outsourcing services, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland and Dubai, UAE. Founded by its current CEO, Zubin Karkaria in 2001, the Company pioneered the professionalisation of the visa
Global law firm White & Case has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of partners Ross Allardice, Mark Evans and Tony Brown, who all return to the Firm’s London office.
“The addition of Ross, Mark and Tony further deepens our bench of private equity partners in London and strengthens our private equity practice in EMEA, continuing the growth and success of our standout Global Private Equity Industry Group,” says White & Case partner John Reiss, Head of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. “The new partners will also help grow our sponsor mandates in key investor
Nexteam Group, which is backed by Tikehau Capital and ACE Capital Partners, and Ventana Group are to merge to create an industrial player serving the aeronautics, space and defence sectors.
The new group created, specialising in the aeronautics, space and defence sectors, will be built on its industrial centres of excellence and the commercial and geographical complementarities of the merged entities.
The planned merger is based on the commitment of the management teams of both groups. Convinced of the recovery of the sector and the positive dynamics brought about by this merger, the shareholder-managers are increasing their level of investment
Riskonnect, a specialist in integrated risk management (IRM) solutions, has acquired ICIX, a California-based value chain governance company that empowers businesses to manage, monitor, and verify ESG performance.
The acquisition accelerates Riskonnect’s global growth by expanding its IRM product suite to better serve the increasing risk and compliance demands of the fast-growing ESG market.
“Organisations are actively incorporating ESG into their overall risk and compliance strategy to build resilience and meet heightened expectations for how they make a positive environmental and social impact. We’re committed to helping organisations along that journey,” says Jim Wetekamp, Riskonnect’s CEO. “The addition of
Independent Iberian asset manager GED Capital has participated with its fund Conexo Ventures in the USD8 million Series A investment round of Troop, a startup that helps with the organisation of in-person meetings for all users.
In addition to GED Capital, other investors participating in the round included Madrona Venture Group (USA), Epic Ventures (USA), All Iron (ES), Plug and Play (USA), Travel Tech 1 – Top Seed Labs (ES) and Founders Factory (UK). The round has also been supported by some of the travel industry’s leading players, including Trivago founder Rolf Schromgens, former Egencia CEO Rob Greyber, former Uber
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