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McGuireWoods Consulting has launched a new practice area centred around advisory services for private equity investors and portfolio companies, helping them to understand the implications of state-level policy decisions and market trends for their investment and business decisions.
The private equity advisory service team is uniquely situated to provide timely and detailed information about state political trends, probable election outcomes, and actual or anticipated legislative and regulatory actions that impact the potential value of private equity investments.
“A number of firms provide insight regarding federal policy trends, but few if any have the capability of providing insight regarding state level
Brainlabs, a portfolio company of mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge, has acquired User Conversion, a conversion rate optimisation agency.
Livingbridge invested in Brainlabs in 2019 to accelerate the business’ growth and support the firm in its ambition to become the global leader in digital marketing. Since then, Brainlabs has expanded its offering and footprint through two add-on acquisitions, in the form of US digital marketing agency Hanapin Marketing and SEO specialist Distilled in 2020.
User Conversion represents Brainlabs’ third acquisition. Founded in 2015 and based in Manchester, User Conversion is a leading CRO agency, crafting bespoke conversion strategies to transform
Sunset Pacific Transportation, (Sunset Pacific), a portfolio company of private investment firm Granite Creek Capital Parters, has acquired Radius Global Solutions (Radius Logistics), a Canadian corporation.
“The acquisition of Radius Logistics represents a significant addition to the fast-growing Sunset Pacific platform, bringing together two operationally-strong companies and expanding their geographic footprint to include two of North America’s major logistics hubs,” says Brian Boorstein, Co-founding Partner of Granite Creek. “In particular, the acquisition of Radius Global Solutions will provide Sunset Pacific with a strong footprint in Canada.”
Granite Creek partnered with supply chain and logistics expert Red Arts Capital and
Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) are to sell their majority stake in Oikos Group, a European provider of prefabricated houses, headquartered in Schlüchtern, Germany, to West Street Capital Partners VIII, a fund managed by Goldman Sachs.
Equistone acquired Oikos Group – consisting of the brands Bien-Zenker, Hanse Haus and Living Haus – at the beginning of 2018 and, together with management, drove the growth strategy as well as the digitalisation and operational excellence of the group. The financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed and the transaction remains subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities.
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Foreside Financial Group (Foreside), a provider of governance, risk management, and compliance solutions and technology offerings to clients in the global asset and wealth management industry, has acquired the regulatory compliance business of JG Advisory Services LLC, a comprehensive regulatory solutions provider for hedge and private equity funds.
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Ocorian, a financial services group and provider of Capital Markets services, Fund services, Corporate services and Private Client services, has acquired Emphasys Technologies.
Emphasys Technologies is a US-based service provider to the capital markets community, specialising in tax reporting and calculation agency services to asset-backed transactions. The deal, which was agreed on 4 March 2021, is expected to complete later this month.
Emphasys Technologies provides capital markets services, leveraging its in-depth experience of modelling asset backed transactions and related tax returns, as well as its proprietary software that helps it deliver seamless solutions in a highly efficient manner. Emphasys
Niklas Holck, the former Chairman of Nordic Eye Venture Capital, has launched his own boutique VC firm, based in Singapore.
Tradeworks.vc is an investment syndicate that aims to build an ecosystem of “Digital Trade Enablers”, with the purpose of driving trade and economic development through innovation in Logistics primarily, crossing into e-Commerce.
Tradeworks.vc has raised USD1.5 million at launch and its first investments in two logistics technology scale-ups based in Singapore and Chennai respectively, will soon be announced. The anchor investor is Guernsey-based OracleVC, led by Tom Whitby. The firm has a global focus, targeting early growth startups and
Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset management group, has opened a new office in Frankfurt and appointed Dominik P Felsmann as Head of Germany, effective 15 March 2021.
The opening of an office in Frankfurt constitutes the firm’s twelfth office globally and further expands Tikehau Capital’s footprint in Western Europe, alongside its offices in Paris, London, Brussels, Milan, Madrid and, most recently, Luxembourg and Amsterdam.
Thomas Friedberger, Co-CIO and CEO of Tikehau Investment Management, says: “We are thrilled to welcome Dominik to Tikehau Capital as we look to build an increasing presence in Germany and the DACH region. What sets
Temasek, an investment company headquartered in Singapore, has formed a USD500 million strategic partnership with leading global impact investment group LeapFrog Investments.
The strategic partnership will take the form of a multi-fund investment by Temasek to anchor LeapFrog’s future funds. Temasek will also take a minority stake in LeapFrog and provide growth capital to support the expansion of the LeapFrog team and investment capabilities across Asia and Africa. LeapFrog and its investment process will continue to be managed and controlled by its team of partners, with Temasek taking one non-executive seat on LeapFrog’s Management Board.
Benoit Valentin, Head,
The Pritzker Organization (TPO) has made a growth investment in Crown Health Care Laundry Services (Crown), a provider of outsourced linen management services and specialty products to hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities.
As part of TPO’s investment, affiliates of Quilvest Capital Partners (Quilvest), the Company’s existing financial partner, sold its majority interests. Blenheim LP (Blenheim), an existing minority investor, will remain a significant shareholder along with Crown management. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Crown is a clear leader in the healthcare linen services market. By leveraging its differentiated and sustainable strategy focused on superior
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