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The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has signed a definitive agreement to sell Greenphire, a specialist in financial lifecycle management software for clinical trials, to Thoma Bravo, a software focused private equity firm.
The pending transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year, subject to the satisfaction of regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. Financial details were not disclosed.
Founded in 2008, Greenphire enables pharmaceutical industry leaders worldwide to run more efficient and successful clinical trials. The company’s end-to-end solutions optimise clinical trial performance by streamlining
Medtanken, a leading primary care group in Western Sweden and a portfolio company of Procuritas Capital Investors VI (Procuritas), has successfully made its first step into the specialist care sector by acquiring Citysjukhuset.
With its passion for building strong sustainable businesses through transformational growth, Procuritas is facilitating accelerated development and multi-regional and digital expansion of the group. Today’s expansion follows last month’s news of Medtanken’s first bolt-on growth acquisition of Kvarterskliniken.
Medtanken has a vision of delivering and enhancing quality primary care provision in Sweden and today it also announces the successful launch of a new app offering a digi-physical
Pathway has closed on a USD400 million customised fund of funds (FOF) for an Asia-based institutional investor.
The fund will seek to build a diversified portfolio of primary fund investments and co-investments in both the small and middle markets globally.
The fund represents a continuation of Pathway’s successful 30-year history of investing in private markets, which totals more than USD95 billion in commitments. To date, Pathway has developed more than 95 customised solutions for our clients across private equity, private credit, and infrastructure mandates.
Novo Holdings has co-led with Vivo Capital the over-subscribed USD200 million Series A and Crossover round in Esco Lifesciences Group (Esco), a leading provider of life sciences tools and services.
A new venture investment business has been formed via a partnership between the city advisory group Forster Chase and four successful CEOs/entrepreneurs, designed to guide and turbo charge young companies through to highly valuable exits.
Forster Chase Ventures, in conjunction with the other companies in the group (Forster Chase Executive Search, Forster Chase Corporate Finance) will create significant value for founders and shareholders by delivering exceptional strategy, people, distribution and capital solutions. Given the cashflow challenges that young businesses often face, this will be a cost-effective model that is focused on long term mutual success and growth.
Over multiple years
FFL Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, and the Dr H Doug Barnes Family have acquired all of the outstanding Class A common shares of the New Look Vision Group Inc for USD50.00 in cash per Share, other than certain Shares held by certain shareholders who received consideration consisting of common shares of the purchaser.
“We look forward to working together with our new partners to take New Look Vision to the next level of growth and add value for our customers, partners and employees across North
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust (DORE) has signed an exclusivity agreement with AB Edsbyns Elverk (EE), a local Swedish multi-utility (EE) to buy EE’s subsidiary Elektra Nät AB (Elektra) and a portfolio of three hydropower plants.
Elektra is a local regulated electricity distribution company in Edsbyn, central Sweden.
DORE has submitted an indicative bid in excess of SEK300 million (GBP25.5 million), whose confirmation is subject to final due diligence by the Company and approval by EE shareholders at its Annual General Meeting on 29 June. The assets are in line with DORE’s investment strategy and the acquisition of Elektra will
Deepbridge Capital, a UK venture capital investment manager, has secured a GBP15 million commitment from British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, to fund early-stage businesses across the UK.
This commitment from British Business Investments’ Regional Angels Programme, which is designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early stage equity finance for smaller businesses across the UK, will be invested alongside Deepbridge’s own funding over the next three years.
It will match funds raised via Deepbridge’s private investors, including the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS and the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS. Deepbridge’s EIS funds enable
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Simple Admit, a provider of automated patient relationship management solutions for surgery centres, on its merger with HST Pathways, a Bain Capital portfolio company and provider of cloud-based software focused on the ambulatory surgery centre (ASC) space.
For over a decade, Simple Admit has crafted industry-leading software solutions that connect patients with ASC staff through user-friendly online services that improve efficiencies, communication and cost savings from pre-admissions through post-op care. The combined HST Pathways and Simple Admit platform will deliver a best-in-class approach to outpatient surgery, transforming revenue cycle
Independent asset manager BOOST&Co is expanding across the UK, offering a wider range of funding options to SMEs by establishing a presence in Birmingham, Reading and Leeds.
The lender has hired nine new principals to better serve businesses throughout the country, and now has dealmakers in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Reading and Leeds.
This expansion will enable BOOST&Co to provide more UK businesses with alternative finance – particularly important as high-street banks increasingly shy away from lending to SMEs. The lender has instead committed to supporting these companies, wherever they are based, by hiring principals across the country
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