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Peter J Rooney, a seasoned M&A and private equity lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience, has joined Stroock’s national Corporate Group as a partner in the New York Office.
Rooney joins Stroock from Morrison & Foerster, where he was a partner.
Rooney’s practice centres on representation of US and multinational corporations, private equity firms and financial institutions in connection with leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and related financings.
“Pete is an incredible and dynamic addition to our firm,” says Jeff Keitelman, the firm’s co-managing partner. “In addition to his decades of experience representing clients in their critical
Keensight Capital, a private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth buyout investments, has acquired a majority stake in RAM Infotechnology (RAM-IT), a leading managed services company dedicated to the Healthcare sector based in the Netherlands.
Keensight Capital will leverage its extensive experience in Tech and Healthcare to support RAM-IT’s founders and management team in their ambitious development goals.
Founded 20 years ago, RAM-IT is the leading player in managed services for the Healthcare sector in the Netherlands and a technology leader in Europe, with 220 employees expert in IT infrastructure management. Growing steadily for many years, RAM-IT’s revenues have increased
RealBlocks, an alternative investments platform that enables global distribution capabilities for fund managers, has appointed Michael Hanus, CFA as the firm’s new Senior Managing Director of Distribution.
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Odore, a beauty tech start-up working with global brands including Guerlain, Clive Christian and L’Oréal has raised USD830,000 to transform how cosmetics and beauty businesses market their products to consumers.
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a USD25 million growth equity investment in Basis Technologies, a specialist provider of DevOps and test automation software for SAP systems.
Organisations across the world use Basis Technologies’ DevOps technology to support the transition from legacy on premise SAP software to modern cloud-hosted SAP systems, and to increase agility through fast, effective delivery of business innovation. The company provides the only complete automated DevOps and testing platform engineered for SAP and serves global enterprise customers including BP, Procter & Gamble and Booking.com, helping them to accelerate time to market, adopt new development methods and
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has formed Aquila Air Capital, a specialty finance platform focused on commercial aerospace, in partnership with aerospace industry veteran Al Wood and investment firm Kepler Hill Capital.
Aquila Air Capital will have a broad mandate to purchase, finance, and lease, aircraft, engines and other aviation equipment. The company’s vision is to become a trusted partner to all players in the value chain, from buyers and sellers of assets to operators in need of creative and timely solutions for their critical business needs.
Al Wood joins Warburg Pincus as an
Alternative finance provider Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided a GBP21.73 million asset-based lending facility to support the growth of Orchard House Foods.
The deal follows Elaghmore’s acquisition of the fresh fruit business in January 2021, and will enable the business to invest in new equipment and ongoing product development.
Orchard House Foods is the UK’s specialist supplier of prepared fruit, fresh fruit drinks and chilled desserts to retailers across the UK and Ireland, including Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Greggs and Pret a Manger. Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, the business has remained profitable and is well
Private equity-backed and family-owned businesses are significantly behind listed companies in gender diversity at board level, with women making up just 13 per cent and 10 per cent of boards respectively at these businesses versus 34 per cent at FTSE 350 companies, says New Street Consulting Group, the leadership and people solutions consultancy.
Large listed companies have been under pressure from group such as the Fawcett Society and Women On Boards to improve gender diversity for many years, while privately-held businesses have received less scrutiny.
In 2016, the Hampton-Alexander Review was set up to ensure FTSE 350 companies reached
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact), a boutique infrastructure investment firm, has selected Prescient Fund Services Proprietary Limited (Prescient) as the Fund Administrator for its first infrastructure fund, the Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1.
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact) is a specialised infrastructure and impact investment management business. The new fund, Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1 aims to provide growth capital for South African focused midmarket infrastructure businesses, which own real assets that provide essential services and have value creation potential to enable the infrastructure of tomorrow. Infra Impact typically secures significant minority
Aras has secured a substantial growth investment from GI Partners, a private investment firm. This investment will further accelerate Aras’ low-code platform innovation, global expansion, and customer success.
Aras continues to disrupt the industrial software market with its low-code platform and suite of digital solutions spanning the product lifecycle from global product development and systems engineering to manufacturing, maintenance, and digital twins. Large enterprises such as Microsoft, Honda, and Airbus use Aras to rapidly digitalise mission critical processes and replace legacy systems faster.
“We believe the pace of digital transformation in manufacturing is just beginning to increase, and that
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