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YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has appointed Tiffany Young as investment manager, based at its London office. Young will join YFM’s investment team to support the origination and execution of new investments across both growth capital and buyout opportunities.
Young is an experienced investor having spent the last three years at venture capital fund, Pentech. Prior to this, she was part of the founding investment team at The AllBright Group.
Young is a member of Founders of the Future and is an alumnus of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation. In 2015, she launched the Breakfast With Tiffany blog to provide a
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital’s portfolio company, SMAC, a French provider of waterproofing and building envelope solutions, has completed the sale of its skylights-related division to Kingspan Light + Air, a division of Kingspan Group Plc.
The sale of the skylights division includes two business lines; Skydôme, a subsidiary focused on the production of daylighting, ventilation, smoke evacuation, and roofing access systems; and Essemes Services, a division within Skydôme specialising in the installation of skylights and the maintenance of fire safety equipment. OpenGate acquired SMAC from Colas Group in May of 2019. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
NewSpring, a family of private equity strategies, has announced that NewSpring Franchise, the firm’s newest strategy focused on investing in innovative franchise and multi-unit concepts, has completed its acquisition of Duck Donuts, one of the nation’s fastest-growing donut franchise companies. Free Fenix, a Charlotte, NC-based hybrid investment company, partnered with NewSpring on the deal, providing a significant investment to further accelerate growth.
Russ DiGilio, founder and original CEO of Duck Donuts, launched the now-iconic donut brand in 2007 in the town of Duck in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Since beginning to franchise in 2013, the company today operates
KKR, a global investment firm, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ensono, a specialist hybrid IT services provider, from Charlesbank Capital Partners and M/C Partners. The new investment follows multiple years of strong performance by Ensono, including robust growth in 2020 and its recently completed acquisition of Amido, a UK-based cloud native consultancy.
Ensono provides a comprehensive suite of services that help enterprises manage, optimize and modernize their IT systems across mainframe, cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Charlesbank and M/C Partners acquired the company in 2015 as a corporate carve-out. Since rebranding as Ensono in 2016, the company has achieved
New research with senior private equity and venture capital professionals reveals 71 per cent expect there to be more than 160,000 commercial air taxis operating around the world by 2050. Some 17 per cent anticipate there will be over 200,000.
Private equity, family office and merchant banking firm DPG is set to close in excess of a billion dollars in private capital over the next 18 months.
“We have structured many new deep investment partnerships with significant capacity combined with various private capital strategies we are actively deploying into the markets today,” says Chairman Dan Galvanoni. “DPG has established new institutional capital partnerships and ultra-high net worth family office clients that are aggressively looking to deploy capital into the current market dislocations we are witnessing today. We have never seen such liquidity within our investor base.”
The DPG senior management
Alantra, a global investment banking and asset management specialist, has appointed Tommaso Ferrari as Managing Partner to lead its Investment Banking division in Italy.
Ferrari brings to the role more than 20 years of experience in investment banking, strategy consulting and private equity in the Italian market. This includes market-leading transactions on behalf of Autogrill, Borsa Italiana, Dea Capital, Diasorin, Ducati, Italgas, Fincantieri, Finmeccanica, IlSole24Ore, Illimity Bank, MZB Group, NB Aurora, and OVS, as well as a range of SME companies in support of their expansion in Italy and internationally.
Ferrari joins Alantra from UBI Banca, where he led the
Addition Capital, the London-based family investment office, has completed a control investment into Be-A Education Ltd, supported by funding from Shawbrook Bank.
Hertfordshire-based Be-A Education is the operator of the highly successful and fast-growing New Skills Academy and Staff Skills Training businesses with a mission to make learning accessible to consumers and businesses globally. To date, the award-winning company has sold nearly 1 million courses to consumers in over 30 countries.
The strategic investment, in partnership with Be-A’s founders, marks a new phase in Be-A’s continuing mission to bring affordable and accessible upskilling courses to consumers and businesses globally through
Access Holdings, a Baltimore-based mid-market investment firm specialising in a purposeful buy-and-build investment approach, has added three new team members who will play key roles in further developing Access’s digital origination and portfolio monitoring capabilities.
Matt Johl, George Shipley, and Ellen Kirk Jarosinski will join Steve Chang and Merritt Davis in applying digital tools and capabilities to drive lead generation and performance management across the Access portfolio.
“I’m thrilled to now have four digital experts on our team who can help our firm and our portfolio companies embrace and apply digital tools and technology to drive growth,” says
Vidrio Financial (Vidrio), a provider of software and data services for institutional alternative allocators globally, has launched Vidrio ”One,” its first non-enterprise offering driven by increased demand from a broader range of institutional investors including pensions, endowments, foundations, consultants and family offices to allocate across the alternatives landscape.
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