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Resurgens Technology Partners, a software-focused private equity firm, has made a strategic investment in Pennsylvania-based EnergyCAP, Inc.
EnergyCAP’s solution, which includes its industry-leading software and complementary services, is used by more than 2,100 organisations across government, education and commercial sectors to streamline utility bill accounting and energy management.
For decades, EnergyCAP has empowered organisations to derive value from their energy information. The company’s award-winning EnergyCAP software is at the core of each implementation and delivers the functionality that energy, sustainability and facility managers need to meet energy conservation goals, improve their organisation’s bottom line and protect the environment. A market
There has been some improvement on gender diversity in private equity and venture capital, but considerable progress is required on ethnicity, a new report has found.
The survey report, produced by the British Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (BVCA) and Level 20, builds on the 2018 ‘Women in Private Equity’ report and highlights data from across the industry including, for the first time, on ethnicity. The report also expands on data published by Diversity VC in 2019 in the ‘Diversity in UK Venture Capital’ report.
The data collected on gender indicates the overall proportion of women in the industry
TA Associates, a specialist global growth private equity firm, has appointed Andrew Lowry as a Vice President in its Boston office and as a member of the firm’s Strategic Resource Group.
“We are very pleased to welcome Andrew to TA,” says Kevin Masse, a Managing Director and Chief Portfolio Officer at TA who leads the firm’s Strategic Resource Group. “Andrew brings to the firm what we believe to be an ideal skill set to further our efforts as active, constructive and value-add partners with management teams. We look forward to his collaboration with our portfolio company management teams to help
Quantuma has appointed a new director, Valentina Vitali, to its corporate finance team.
Vitali’s appointment follows a significantly active period for Quantuma and the wider K3 Capital Group’s corporate finance teams. This includes Quantuma’s team completing eight transactions in the last fortnight, at a combined value of over GBP130 million, and KBS being named the UK’s most active M&A adviser across multiple regions across the UK in the Experian MarketIQ UK and Ireland M&A review.
Prior to joining the firm, Vitali was an associate director at Grant Thornton, focusing on private equity transactions and origination. In this role, she was
Nyobolt, the original founder of ultra-fast charging niobium-based battery technology, has appointed Bernstein Asia analyst, Mark Newman as Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Strategy.
Newman will be responsible for developing Nyobolt’s commercial partnerships in sectors that will benefit from the record-breaking ultrafast charging and high-power of Nyobolt’s technology such as automotive, energy storage, consumer devices, and industrial equipment.
Newman previously spent 11 years as Managing Director and Senior Analyst covering technology at Bernstein, where his research was focused on batteries, electric vehicles and semiconductors. During this time, he was lead author of numerous Bernstein Blackbooks including “The
Regulation has been at the forefront of investors’ minds ever since the global financial crisis in 2008. In the current environment, the need for oversight and monitoring is even more necessary as the industry navigates uncharted waters. However, this requirement for more robust supervision needs to be tempered with flexibility.
Ireland’s amended Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) Act, which came into effect on 1 February, strikes a balance between regulation and broad investment capabilities. Barry O’Connor (pictured), partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds Group at Matheson, explains: “Within the ILP and in contrast to similar vehicles in other jurisdictions
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in financial services, financial technology and related business services, has acquired a majority stake in UniversalCIS, a technology-enabled provider of credit data and related origination solutions in the mortgage industry.
Moving forward, Lovell Minnick and UniversalCIS’ management team will work closely to leverage this investment to fuel continued growth of the Company and provide additional capital for future acquisitions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered outside of Philadelphia with four additional operations centres across the country, UniversalCIS provides a leading technology platform that offers credit data
Private assets have experienced significant growth in the last few years and Ireland is now set up to further benefit from this expansion through the Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Act 2020 (ILP Act) which was enacted into law in December 2020.
“Private equity funds have performed well and are increasingly popular with investors and asset managers alike,” observes Vanora Madigan, executive director, DMS Governance, “These funds are established in Ireland as Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Funds (QIAIFs) which have few investment restrictions and allow PE managers to raise capital within the EU marketplace with relative ease by availing of the
LDC, a mid-market private equity investor, has appointed Craig Hinde as Origination Director, strengthening its Midlands team.
Hinde will be responsible for identifying potential investment opportunities in the region, leading transactions and supporting the management teams of LDC’s portfolio businesses as they pursue their growth ambitions.
Hinde, who will be based in LDC’s Birmingham and Nottingham offices, joins from private equity-backed technology-led marketing business Inspired Thinking Group, where he was business development director. He has nine years’ experience in private equity and working with private equity-backed businesses and was previously an origination manager at LDC. Hinde played a
Managers looking to take advantage of the new structure launched in Ireland, the Investment Limited Partnership (ILP), will be able to maximise cost efficiency and time-to-market. The Irish legislation allows the adoption of an umbrella structure, meaning managers can launch sub-funds swiftly and save on legal and audit fees.
“A General Partner (“GP”) can have sub funds in the LP, which have segregated liability between them. This offers speed to market for those sub-funds since the manager will have the legal structure and the necessary service providers all lined up for the umbrella fund. Therefore, adding a sub-fund will not
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