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Grant Thornton, aa audit, tax and advisory firm, has named Melanie Krygier as Growth leader of the firm’s Private Equity Tax practice.
Krygier, a San Francisco-based partner and leader of Grant Thornton’s M&A Tax Services West Coast practice, will join the Private Equity leadership team and focus on supporting private equity clients engaged in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
“Melanie’s extraordinary tax knowledge and years of experience helping private equity investors and their portfolio companies through M&A will be incredibly valuable for every client she works with,” says Carlos Ferreira, Grant Thornton’s national managing partner of Private Equity. “The private equity
Golden Gate Capital, a private equity investment firm, has partnered with Founder and CEO, Robert Peterson, to recapitalised All My Sons, a provider of moving and storage services.
Peterson will continue to lead the Company from its headquarters in Carrollton, TX and will remain a significant shareholder. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 1992, All My Sons is a family-owned business with nearly 30 years of moving experience. Operating 75 locations across 29 states, the Company is primarily focused on local moves with professional and efficient moving services designed to meet a wide range of customer needs. All My
Gen II Luxembourg Services (Gen II), a subsidiary of private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services, has earned ISO 27001 certification for its Information Security Management System.
ISO 27001 is widely regarded as the international standard for information security management. Validated by PECB MS, a global provider of audit and certification services, this certification affirms that Gen II meets ISO requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continual improvement of an information security management system.
“This notable achievement affirms that our controls, processes, and protections align with the most well-respected international security standards,” says Norman Leben, Managing Principal and Co-Founder,
easyvet, a US-based walk-in veterinary clinic group, has closed a USD7 million Series A funding round led by Relevance Ventures.
Founded in 2013, easyvet is dedicated to making pet care more convenient and affordable for pet parents and clinic ownership easy for veterinarians and investors. The easyvet franchise model is transforming veterinary medicine, lowering the costs of quality care for pets, meeting the needs of pet parents and veterinarians, and allowing more vets the freedom to start their own practice.
This round of funding is led by Relevance Ventures, an early-stage investor based in Nashville, Tennessee, and the only non-tribe
Clearview Capital Fund III (Fund III), an affiliate of Clearview Capital, has sold its majority interest in Controlled Products Acquisition Corp and its subsidiaries (Controlled Products) to Sentinel Capital Partners (Sentinel), a private equity firm that invests in middle market companies.
Terms of the transaction, which closed on 25 October, 2021, have not been disclosed.
Controlled Products is a manufacturer and distributor of premium quality synthetic turf solutions. From its headquarters and manufacturing facilities located in Dalton, GA, Controlled Products has built a broad multi-brand presence through a large dealer distribution network, as well as 27 corporate and franchise
Private equity fund managers are accelerating deal timelines in an effort to win bids, and more than half say uncovering risk during due diligence is a main challenge to closing deals, according to BDO’s Fall 2021 Private Capital Pulse Survey.
Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programmes, has raised USD215 million in a growth funding round with Learn Capital and A-Street Ventures, as well as existing investor Emerson Collective.
The funding will accelerate Amplify’s remarkable growth in providing students and teachers with high-quality, digital-forward instructional programs and helping districts address unfinished learning from the pandemic. Rob Hutter from Learn Capital and Marc Sternberg from A-Street Ventures have joined the company’s board, currently made up of Emerson Collective Managing Director and XQ Institute CEO Russlynn Ali, Amplify CEO Larry Berger, Monarch Global Strategies President and CEO Michael Camuñez, Emerson
RIMES, a global strategic data partner for asset managers, asset owners and service providers, is to acquire Matrix IDM, an Australia-based investment data management platform, for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition will bring together superior managed data services and powerful analytics technology to help asset owners, institutional investors, asset managers and service providers solve complex data problems. Matrix Co-CEO Stuart Plane will join the RIMES Executive Committee, and together with co-founder Neil Lotter and RIMES Head of Managed Data Services (MDS) Shaun Mirams, will lead the combined MDS and Matrix IDM business segment.
Brad Hunt, CEO, RIMES, says: “We
SEI has acquired Finomial, an investor lifecycle management firm offering cloud-native financial technology. The technology is expected to be added to SEI’s existing investor-focused platforms to further enhance automation and digitisation capabilities, as well as reporting and transparency.
Button Finance, a fintech mortgage lender focused on home equity, has closed a USD2 million seed raise.
The capital will allow Button Finance to hire talent and to develop its proprietary technology further. Entities advised by Hildene Capital Management, LLC (Hildene), participated in the seed funding round. Hildene is a USD13 billion structured credit focused asset manager based in Stamford, CT.
Button Finance enables homeowners to borrow against their home equity through a hassle-free online process that delivers quick decisions and funding in as little as five days. The company has built an AI-powered underwriting platform that enables it
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