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LGT Capital Partners has held the final close of Crown Secondaries Special Opportunities II (CSSO II), its second dedicated direct secondaries fund, with total subscriptions of USD1.57 billion.
Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III) has agreed to acquire PRIMAVERA Business Software Solutions (PRIMAVERA), a Portuguese specialist in business management software.
The Company will be combined with existing Oakley Capital portfolio company Ekon, a Spanish provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, to create a new group under the name Grupo Primavera, which will be the largest independent provider of business software in Iberia. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
Founded in 1993, PRIMAVERA provides ERP and cloud business software solutions to over 32,000 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (“SMEs”) across Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. PRIMAVERA
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has released a new whitepaper – “Increasing Allocation to Private Markets” – which reviews the trend of investors increasing their allocation of capital to private market investments such as private equity, private debt, real estate, absolute return, infrastructure and GP stakes.
During a turbulent 2020, when traditional asset classes faced several challenges, such as historic lows in fixed income yields and a volatile equities market, capital continued to shift towards private markets. Investor appetite has been influenced by factors such as active management approaches and longer investment horizons that offer
IK Investment Partners (IK) is in exclusive discussions with Fremman Capital to sell its stake in VPS from the IK VII Fund. Financial terms of the intended transaction have not been disclosed.
Enseo, a services provider offering in-room technology solutions to the hospitality, senior living, education, and healthcare markets, has secured a growth investment from alternative investment firm HIG Capital.
With this investment, Enseo will rapidly accelerate growth, both organically and inorganically. Enjoyed by guests in more than 300,000 rooms worldwide, Enseo will continue to innovate in hospitality and aggressively expand into senior living, education, healthcare, and other new vertical markets.
“HIG is excited to partner with founder-led companies like Enseo that are leaders in their fields,” says Todd Ofenloch, Managing Director at HIG “Enseo is uniquely positioned to build upon its
Gresham Technologies (Gresham), a global fintech that specialises in providing real-time solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, payments and cash management, has closed its acquisition of Electra Information Systems (Electra).
First announced in May 2021, the USD38.6 million acquisition reinforces Gresham’s market leadership position in reconciliation solutions for financial markets and strengthens the fintech’s rapidly expanding operations in North America.
This strategic investment follows Gresham’s successful acquisition of Inforalgo Information Technologies in July 2020 to enhance the firm’s regulatory reporting and connectivity capabilities. The deal will enable Gresham’s customers to benefit from a rich portfolio of cloud services,
Golding Capital Partners has has held first close of its co-investment fund, Golding Buyout Co-Investment 2020, with capital commitments of EUR161 million.
The asset manager for alternative investments has thus been able to place three quarters of the target volume of EUR200 million with investors – primarily pension funds and insurance companies – within just a few months. With its first dedicated buyout co-investment fund Golding is seamlessly following on from the fund-raising success of previous buyout products. At the beginning of the year “Golding Buyout 2018” held its final close with a record volume of EUR375 million.
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Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) environmental testing and compliance platform Alliance Technical Group (Alliance) has acquired Horizon Air Measurement Services (Horizon).
Headquartered in Camarillo, California, Horizon provides source emission (or stack) testing services to customers across the Western United States.
Acquiring Horizon adds the talent necessary to continue the expansion of all Alliance service lines in the region.
“Adding resources to our rapidly expanding West Coast operations was imperative, and Horizon delivers on both strategic and geographic fit,” says Alliance CEO Chris LeMay. “As Alliance continues to expand, we look to partner with high quality, customer-focused companies across all
Private equity firm August Equity has completed a strategic investment in Integrity360, one of the UK and Ireland’s fastest growing cyber security specialists, as part of a significant growth and expansion plan.
In addition to the investment funding, Integrity360 founder and CEO Eoin Goulding is partnering with Ian Brown, who joins the company as Executive Chairman, with Goulding taking on the new role of President. Brown, an established entrepreneur and industry veteran has been running technology businesses for over 25 years, including most recently SecureData, the leading UK cyber security services business acquired by Orange in 2019.
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MetaProp, the New York-based PropTech venture capital firm, today announced the closing of its latest real estate technology seed fund. The oversubscribed USD100 million MetaProp Ventures III, LP (Fund III) is more than two and a half times the size of MetaProp’s second fund, which closed at USD40 million in 2018.
Founded in 2015, MetaProp’s investment team has invested in 130+ early-stage technology companies across the property value chain. MetaProp’s portfolio comprises some of the world’s highest-profile innovation leaders, including Side, Attentive, Spruce, Bowery, Briq, HqO, VergeSense, and Morty. Initial Fund III investments include fast-growing PropTech startups Proper.ai, Ergeon, GoFor,
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