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The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Premier Electronics (Premier).
Based in Michigan, Premier provides fire and life safety system inspections, repairs, maintenance and installations for retrofits and new construction. The investment is an add-on to Riverside’s CertaSite platform, a fire and life safety platform committed to the highest levels of customer service, responsiveness, building safety and code compliance.
CertaSite goes beyond compliance, focusing on partnerships and professionalism while providing customers a simplified and dependable solution to manage fire protection and life safety systems in commercial buildings.
“We
Nonantum Capital Partners (Nonantum), a middle-market private equity firm, has acquired Helix Traffic Solutions (Helix), a provider of mission-critical traffic management services and equipment.
Helix offers a full suite of traffic safety solutions, including traffic control, flagging, equipment rental, and sign installation services. All of Helix’s services are provided to keep road workers, utility contractors, and the general public safe on active roadways where repairs, construction, and upgrades are being performed.
Helix has accelerated its growth in recent years by acquiring several founder-led traffic service businesses, creating a network of companies that offer customers a highly professionalized, local, and client-centric
Glasgow-based private equity firm N4 Partners (N4) has appointed Benny Higgins as Chairman effective, 1 September.
Higgins has previously worked at high-profile organisations throughout financial services beginning his career at Standard Life, where he became a member of the Standard Life Group Executive Committee in 1996, before moving to RBS to become Chief Executive of Retail Banking where he led the successful integration of NatWest Retail Banking – one of the largest hostile takeovers ever undertaken in banking.
Following a senior role with HBOS, Higgins held the position of Chief Executive at Tesco Bank from 2008 until 2018. Latterly,
Lightyear Capital (Lightyear), a New York-based private equity firm focused on financial services, has appointed Marc West as a Senior Adviser to Lightyear Fund V, and its parallel investment vehicles.
West is an experienced and knowledgeable leader in fintech who has successfully scaled and led businesses by leveraging technology to streamline operations and digitise financial products and services to improve customer experience and enhance client value proposition.
West brings extensive leadership and knowledge of financial technology related to Fund V’s investment themes, including the digitisation of financial products and services, the integration of payments technology, and the growth of data
Kemira, a global chemicals company, has invested in a minority share of SimAnalytics, a Finnish start-up known for its advanced process harmony prediction and analysis tool.
The partnership strengthens Kemira’s ability to support customers’ business with data-driven predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions. The two companies have worked together on customer projects involving pulp and paper production processes, which are typically complex and where disruptions are costly.
”There is a lot of know-how on machinery, process chemistry and data science within the paper industry, but typically these factors have been monitored and optimised in silos. Together, we bundle
Ironwood Capital’s portfolio company, Peltram Plumbing Holdings, LLC (Peltram) has acquired Power Plumbing (Power), a plumbing services provider based in Houston, Texas, with a primary focus on the multifamily construction market.
Ironwood Capital provided a follow-on investment in support of the acquisition. Peltram is a Crescendo Capital portfolio company.
The Power acquisition is the third for Peltram, which previously acquired Precision Plumbing in October 2020 and ER Plumbing in May 2021, both based in the Charlotte market. With the addition of Power, Peltram now has significant operations in Seattle, Charlotte, and throughout Texas, with expertise in single family, multifamily,
Despite the threat of another wave of Covid-19 looming large, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors, who endured a volatile year in 2020 and the first half (H1) of 2021, seem to be reposing their faith in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed its 1,000th add-on acquisition across more than 140 platform investments in six industries: business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial services & technology, software & technology, and financial services.
Audax was established over two decades ago with a goal of creating a purpose-built organization with trusted relationships. Audax Private Equity is a pioneer of the Buy & Build strategy, which it has successfully executed over the course of the firm’s six flagship private equity funds and across various market conditions and financial cycles.
The firm averages seven add-on investments per each platform investment. Further, the firm
Arctaris Impact Investors (Arctaris) has appointed Mark Garcia as Chief Financial Officer. Garcia joins Arctaris after 13 years at Thomas H Lee Partners, where he served as Co-Chief Financial Officer.
“On behalf of Arctaris, I am very pleased to welcome Mark Garcia, to our leadership team as our firm continues to grow,” says Jonathan Tower, Founder and Managing Partner of Arctaris. “His extensive background in accounting and financial leadership will make an immediate impact as we fulfil our mission of investing in underserved communities with transparent reporting to our investors.”
Arctaris is committed to delivering broad social impact and investment
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