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Kennet Partners Limited (Kennet) and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (Goldman Sachs) are to sell their co-owned portfolio company, Nuxeo, a content services platform and digital asset management (DAM) provider. to Hyland Software.
Kennet and Goldman Sachs are expected to make a five-times return on their investment in Nuxeo.
Kennet and Goldman Sachs acquired Nuxeo in 2016. Nuxeo’s platform focuses on Digital Asset Management for companies with fast product life cycles such as media, fashion and consumer electronics, and Enterprise Content Management for financial institutions. Nuxeo has a range of global customers across its target sectors such as ABN-AMRO, Fox,
ICV Partners, an investment firm focused on lower middle market companies in business services, consumer goods & services, food & beverage, and healthcare, announced today that has appointed former Coca-Cola Company executive Bill Ford as a Managing Director in its Portfolio Operations Group (POG) to help drive operational excellence within ICV’s portfolio companies.
Based in the firm’s Atlanta office, Ford joins ICV’s expanding POG, which in January included the addition of senior operating executive Mary Rachide. The POG now consists of three highly qualified professionals.
“Bill understands the consumer and value of brands and has helped to ignite growth
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with over EUR35 billion of equity capital under management, is to acquire KPMG’s UK restructuring business, a leading provider of insolvency, financial restructuring and turnaround services in the UK and globally.
Terms of the transaction, which is expected to complete in April 2021, have not been disclosed.
KPMG UK Restructuring is a leading multidisciplinary practice of approximately 22 partners and 528 staff located across the full breadth of the UK. The group advises companies, lenders, equity holders and a wide range of other stakeholders including Government, regulators and pension trustees to
A new global research programme conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and supported by Adams Street Partners (Adams Street) finds that 85 per cent of global institutional investors expect private markets to outperform public markets in the long term, with 80 per cent of respondents agreeing that these markets are less susceptible to volatility.
The latest CEPRES Private Capital Market Outlook highlights the impacts of Covid-19 and offers an economic review of 2020, an analysis of the last quarter of the year, and insights for 2021.
Anghami will become the first Arab technology company to list on NASDAQ New York via a merger with Vistas Media Acquisition Company Inc a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that raised USD100 million in its August 2020 initial public offering.
The transaction implies an initial pro-forma enterprise valuation of approximately USD220 million, or 2.5x 2022 estimated revenues.
The transaction is expected to close in Q2 of 2021.
SHUAA Capital, the UAE’s premier publicly listed asset management and investment banking firm and Vistas Media Capital Singapore, the parent of the sponsor for Vistas Media Acquisition Company Inc, have gathered
Playfly Sports, a full-service sports marketing company, has acquired three of FOX Sports’ leading businesses: Home Team Sports, Impression Sports, and FOX Sports College Properties.
These additions provide Playfly Sports with the ability to help brands and advertisers reach households nationwide via live US broadcasts of MLB, NBA, and NHL games, and expand their presence in the collegiate and high school multimedia rights space.
Playfly Sports’ platform offers brands a differentiated advertising and media engine consisting of scaled linear, digital, and experiential assets that connect with sports fans at a local, regional, and national level.
“Playfly now has the unique
NewSpring Growth has invested in Deposco, a provider of cloud-based omnichannel fulfilment software solutions.
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with over EUR35 billion of equity capital under management, has expanded its European WhiteHorse team with the addition of Michael Lucas as a Managing Director.
Lucas, who will be based in HIG’s London office, has 27 years of experience in leveraged finance and direct lending. Prior to joining HIG, he was a Founding Partner and Head of the UK at Bridgepoint Credit. Prior to that, he spent over 20 years at ING where he was most recently acting as Global Head of Financial Sponsors.
Pascal Meysson, Head of HIG WhiteHorse Europe,
Everberg Capital (Everberg), a structured capital fund focused on investing primarily in the US middle market, has become a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
The PRI is a global network for investors committed to integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into their investment decision making.
Launched in 2006, the PRI now includes over 3,600 signatories consisting of asset owners, investment managers and service providers. The group’s six principles help members incorporate ESG and sustainability issues into long-term investment decision-making.
One example of Everberg’s commitment to ESG principles is the firm’s recent investment in Penn
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