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Access Holdings, a Baltimore-based mid-market investment firm specialising in building enduring businesses, has appointed Kimberly (Kim) Kile as the firm’s first-ever Head of Investor Relations and Communications.
As the head of investor relations and member of the executive team, Kile will lead fundraising efforts for the firm’s flagship funds, co-investments, and new products. Additionally, Kile will source and cultivate new relationships with potential investors and work closely with the firm’s existing limited partners. Kile will also lead Access’s public relations efforts with oversight over the firm’s fundraising, communications, and marketing.
“As Head of Investor Relations & Communications
Los Angeles-based Atwater Capital, a Media & Entertainment-focused private equity group, is on a mission to spot and invest in companies best placed to benefit from digitisation as demand for distributed content increases.
Private equity fund Abac Solutions has closed the sale of Isolana, the Spanish independent distributor of interior finishing and general building materials, to BME Group (owned by Blackstone) after completion of customary regulatory approvals.
Isolana, which traces its origins to 1939, was acquired by Abac Solutions in 2019. The group consists of two distribution formulas, under the brands Isolana and La Especialista, as well as the metal profiles manufacturer Isopractic and the installation company La Instaladora.
Isolana is one of the market leaders in the supply of interior finishing building materials in Spain, with 36 distribution centres and 70,000 sqm
DLA Piper announces the appointment of Jonny Powling as a partner in its Corporate practice, based in London.
Powling joined the firm on 1 June from Addleshaw Goddard, where he has been a partner since 2016. He has extensive experience advising all market participants on private fund matters and acts for a broad range of clients including both managers and investors on fund establishment, fund structuring, primary and secondary fund investments, co-investments and secondary sales and purchases. Powling practices across a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on private equity and real estate – also advising on joint
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has announced that its Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on the 2 of June approved the board’s recommendation to delist from the Bahrain Bourse and convert the company into a closed shareholding company. This remains subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and completion of the required legal process and is expected to be to completed during the third quarter of 2021.
Over the past four decades, Investcorp has been on a remarkable growth journey and has evolved into a genuinely global alternative investment manager with approximately USD35.4 billion in AUM, diversified
Macfarlanes has advised Dublin-based commercial security, cleaning and support services company, Bidvest Noonan, on an agreement that will see facilities management company Cordant Services join its group.
The acquisition is the company’s fourth in 2021 and will bring the total number of employees to more than 27,000 and annual revenues beyond GBP700 million.
The Macfarlanes team was led by corporate and M&A partner Simon Perry with assistance from solicitor Cristina Leon Barbadillo.
The team also included finance partner Malcolm Hitching and solicitor Duaa Abbas, competition partner Malcolm Walton and solicitor Matthew Jones, commercial partner Will Hedges, solicitor Mark Cusack, real
Social Investment Managers and Advisors LLC (SIMA), a new generation of impact investment manager, and Renewvia Energy Corporation, a global solar developer, has announced a partnership to electrify rural communities in Kenya underserved by conventional utilities.
The agreement includes a commitment of USD1 million from the SIMA Off Grid Solar and Financial Access Senior Debt Fund I, BV to enable Renewvia to expand energy access on the islands of Ringiti and Ndeda, where it currently owns and operates two solar minigrids, and to contribute to the development of new solar minigrids in five communities in Turkana County, Kenya.
Tunstall Healthcare (Tunstall), a UK-based, global provider of software solutions, services and technology for the telecare and telehealth markets, has acquired Secuvita BV (Secuvita), a technology solution provider in the Netherlands. The transaction will support Tunstall’s strategic expansion in digital solutions and services and strengthen its position in the Dutch market.
Tunstall integrates smart technology with high quality monitoring and support services to give individuals increased independence, improved quality of life and wider choice in their care options. Backed by its majority shareholders, who are funds managed by Barings and M&G, Tunstall operates in 22 countries globally and supports more
British health technology company Visionable has appointed Christèle Brouste as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Antony Martin as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately.
Visionable redesigns healthcare through a digital collaboration platform which enables clinicians to deliver better patient outcomes. The expansion of the company’s executive leadership team follows Visionable’s rapid growth in 2020, which saw GBP17 million of investment that the company raised in Series A and Series A1 funding rounds. Visionable has appointed Brouste and Martin to lead further expansion and innovation, and draw on their expertise to help drive growth in new markets and territories.
Yellow Wood Partners (Yellow Wood), a Boston-based private equity firm focused on investing in consumer brands and companies, has completed the previously announced acquisition of the Scholl footcare brand, which operates globally outside of the Americas, from UK-based Reckitt.
The acquisition reunites the international Scholl with the Dr Scholl’s sold in the America’s after 30+ years of separate ownership and creates the leading global footcare brand operating as an integrated business in 50+ countries with annual retail sales exceeding USD700 million.
Dana Schmaltz, Partner of Yellow Wood, says: “As part of Yellow Wood’s ‘preparation to meet opportunity,’ we began speaking
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