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Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, has led a GBP2 million investment into Plank Hardware, a direct-to-consumer home décor brand whose stylish hardware products have tapped into the boom in DIY and renovation projects among millennial and Gen Z consumers.
Plank Hardware was founded in London in 2019 by Tom Revill and Annie Aveyard. The husband-and-wife duo identified an opportunity to provide high-quality, design-led products that could enable aspiring DIY enthusiasts to create beautiful home renovations on a modest budget. Its products today span handles, hooks, knobs, and rails that provide the perfect finishing touch to DIY projects and inspire
Funds advised by Apax are to acquire Eating Recovery Center (ERC Pathlight), a provider of eating disorder and mood and anxiety treatment in the US, in partnership with Oak HC/FT and management, from CCMP Capital.
ERC Pathlight is a specialist in eating disorder treatment. The company’s differentiated clinical model meets patients where they are in their treatment journey by offering the full continuum of higher levels of care. Through the recent expansion of its Pathlight division, ERC Pathlight addresses a more comprehensive set of behavioural health conditions including primary mood and anxiety disorder treatment. ERC Pathlight lowers financial barriers to
Varagon Capital Partners, LP (Varagon) is serving as Administrative Agent, Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Fireboy-Xintex by United Safety & Survivability Corporation (USSC).
USSC is a portfolio company of private equity firm Dubin Clark.
Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a private equity firm that specialises in investments in healthcare and industrial companies, has completed a majority recapitalisation of BioIVT, Inc (BioIVT) with Linden Capital Partners (Linden), a Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Westbury, New York, BioIVT is the market leader in providing of mission-critical biological specimens and value-added services for the academic research, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics discovery and development markets.
Gene Gorbach, an Investment Partner of Arsenal, says: “We are proud to have partnered with the talented team at BioIVT in building an enterprise
Legal bills are never much fun when they land in the inbox. This is especially true for private equity firms, for whom legal costs can be among their single biggest areas of expenditure.
But a flurry of cloud-based technologies is transforming the way the industry handles its legal work – and the trend may only just be getting started, says Nicholas d’Adhemar, founder of legaltech firm Apperio.
A former in-house private equity counsel, d’Adhemar understands all too well the ease with which legal costs can mount during a deal, especially when unforeseen complications arise.
“What rankles PE managers is the
Private equity managers have had a frenetic 12 months. From the depths of the pandemic, the industry has staged a remarkable rebound, eagerly hunting down deals as firms rush to spend dry powder.
With more than USD580 billion in deals announced in the first half, 2021 is on track to be a record-breaking year – the first ever in which private equity firms deploy in excess of USD1 trillion in capital, according to figures from EY.
So how have evolving technology trends been affecting the industry?
Jacob Zornes of UMB Fund Services has a better perspective than most. With decades of experience
Over the past 18 months, the shift towards working from home has exposed private equity firms to a far higher threat of cyberattacks, and many have wanted to review their cybersecurity options to ensure good defences against cyber-attack, says George Ralph, Global Managing Director and CRO of business IT consultancy RFA, who specialise in cloud, data, and cybersecurity solutions.
For firms conducting big deals potentially worth billions of dollars, the loss of any sensitive data or information could be hugely damaging.
That is why training every member of staff properly and effectively in the safe use of technology is a
By Rebecca Symonds, Chief Operating Officer, EWM Global – Private equity firms are digitally transforming their operating environments at break-neck pace. From the front- to the middle- and onto the back office, technology has revolutionized the way that firms interact with their investors, portfolio companies and even the regulators.
However, many firms are yet to take advantage of some of the most vital transformation opportunities. Surprisingly, these are opportunities which would directly benefit valued GP deal team members and employees. Employee/member incentive systems in place at most firms continue to resemble the pre-digitisation private equity industry where paper and email were
Faced with historic low-interest rates and equity markets at all-time highs, allocators are directing record capital flows towards the world’s private markets. But, for the asset managers racing to capture those flows, there is no easy money.
The surge in allocations has been accompanied by an uptick in manager responsibilities and servicing expectations. Investors and regulators call for similar levels of support and operational rigour to those seen in traditional markets. But, without the right operational infrastructure to meet those demands, managers will struggle to succeed.
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Latest Preqin figures show the number of private equity and venture
By Katey Bogue, Head of Private Fund Solutions, Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions – As the size and importance of private fund portfolios continue to scale rapidly for LPs, so too do the complexities of raising and reporting for GPs. There are increasing volumes of portfolio data to harness, more demands from investors to address, and more operational risks to navigate.
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