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PwC UK has made changes to its Deals leadership team and strengthened the practice with the promotion of 18 new equity partners, effective 1 July 2021.
Hein Marais takes on leadership of Transaction Services and Nicola Preedy will head up Regional Deals. They join the firm’s Deals leadership team reporting to Ken Walsh, UK Head of Deals.
There are promotions to partner across each of the four business units – Business Restructuring Services, Corporate Finance, Forensic Services and Transactions Services.
Isabelle Gross, Jane Steer, Katie Lightstone, Kim Milward-Oliver, Toby Banfield and Zena Alston are appointed as partners in the Business
Barings has served as lender on a senior secured facility to support Inflexion in its acquisition of ANS Group, a leading provider of digital transformation and cloud managed services. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
ANS and existing Inflexion investment UKFast will be brought together under one parent group to address the rapid market growth opportunity for digital and cloud services. The group will combine ANS’s public cloud, DevOps, applications and data expertise with UKFast’s leadership in private cloud, hosting and security, to create the UK’s independent leader in secure cloud-led digital transformation across the public and private sectors. Each
Nordic Capital has held the first and final close of its first Evolution Fund at just over EUR1.2 billion (including GP commitment of 6.8 million per cent). Launched in April 2021 and raised in only three months, the Fund was substantially oversubscribed at its hard cap and significantly exceeded its target.
With the Evolution Fund, Nordic Capital will build on its long and successful investment experience in the mid-market, applying its value creation model to a broader size range of mid-market companies in its selected sectors and geographies, leveraging its own expertise and extensive expert networks.
Focusing on control buyouts,
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, as provided a unitranche loan to HPI Group, a Netherlands-based producer of plastic products for varying end markets.
The company focuses on added-value, often co-developed, niche products with either specific technological or product critical requirements. Key product examples are paint testers, capped juice bottles for self-service and technical plastic products with specific designs for industrial applications. HPI is continuously emphasising the usage of monomaterial and is perfectly positioned to work with 100 per cent recycled raw materials thanks to the set-up of its machine park, contributing to
Digital training platform Virti has raised USD10 million in a Series A funding round to further its goal of improving human performance using world-class interactive technology.
The round was led by deeptech investors IQ Capital and joined by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a new, UK-based learning technology VC fund.
Launched in 2018 by Dr Alexander Young – an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon – Virti helps organisations optimise learning, training and performance using interactive simulations and AI-powered data analysis. The technology turns traditionally subjectively-assessed skills (such as communication, teamwork and decision-making under pressure) into objective and measurable data to improve
Polaris is to sell ProData Consult to Axcel after three years of ownership and strong progress driven by solid organic growth and several acquisitions in Norway and Sweden.
The ambition of creating a Scandinavian market leader with a leading nearshoring-as-a-service function in Poland has been realised, and ProData Consult is strongly positioned for European expansion under new ownership.
Since Polaris’ investment in ProData Consult in 2018, the company has generated average annual growth of 26 per cent and increased the number of active consultants on assignments for client by 20 per cent to some 3,000. In 2019, ProData Consult acquired
Global professional services provider Suntera Global has been granted a licence to provide fund administration services in Jersey.
Awarded by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), the new licence enables Suntera Global to support private equity, real estate, venture capital and other alternative fund managers with a full range of administration services from Jersey, from fund set-up and structuring, through to back-office reporting and accounting, and governance and oversight.
The new licence complements the Group’s existing fund administration capabilities through its highly experienced teams in the Cayman Islands, Bahamas and Isle of Man who support the needs of fund managers
SS&C Technologies Holdings has appointed Suresh Krishnamurthy to lead client solutions for SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets, SS&C’s private equity and real assets fund administration business.
He will report to Bhagesh Malde, global head of SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets.
“We are very excited to have Suresh join our rapidly growing private equity and real assets business. His extensive expertise and track record in building solutions for Alternatives clients will enhance SS&C’s capacity to help our clients improve, transform and manage their business processes at scale,” says Bhagesh Malde.
As the alternative investment landscape continues to expand, demand has grown for
Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ) has added Gregory Ruback as a partner in the Finance & Derivatives Group, resident in the firm’s New York office. He joins SRZ from DLA Piper, where he was a partner in the Finance Group.
“Greg is a market-leading lawyer with specialist expertise, and we are thrilled to welcome him to SRZ,” says Craig Stein, co-head of the Finance & Derivatives Group.
“Greg’s substantial expertise across a broad range of industries and asset classes will further enhance our strong capabilities and client offerings,” says Boris Ziser, co-head of the Finance & Derivatives Group and a
Sandvik has signed an agreement with Battery Ventures to acquire US-based Cambrio, a company with an end-to-end portfolio in CAD/CAM software for manufacturing industries like automotive, transportation, energy, medical and aerospace.
“This is in line with our strategic focus to grow organically and through acquisitions in the advanced manufacturing space, with special focus on industrial software close to component manufacturing, industrial metrology- and additive manufacturing solutions. Cambrio will enable a broadened customer offering, covering more of the total manufacturing value chain,” says Stefan Widing, President and CEO of Sandvik.
Sandvik’s strategic ambition is to provide customers with software solutions
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