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Palatine Private Equity has completed the seventh investment from its Impact Fund, with the acquisition of a significant minority stake in tranScrip, a fast-growing global business playing a key role in the innovation and commercialisation of new medicines, including treatments for Covid-19.
Headquartered in the Thames Valley, tranScrip provides a wide range of specialist professional services to pharma companies, ranging from global players to dynamic, fast-growing biotechnology companies.
Operating internationally, tranScrip is playing a leading role in accelerating innovation in healthcare, enabling people to live longer and healthier lives.
Led by co-founders Managing Partner Dr Flic Gabbay, who has more
Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth software companies, has sold AMTdirect, a provider of lease accounting, lease administration, and facilities management software, to MRI Software.
Jeff Ralyea, Chief Executive Officer of AMTdirect, says: “Over the last few years, the Luminate team has partnered with AMTdirect to deliver cloud-based solutions to leading corporations and retailers. We’ve been able to build the organization and products that now support lease administration, lease accounting, and facilities management for hundreds of enterprise customers.”
“AMTdirect has experienced considerable growth as a result of their ability to provide solutions to manage lease
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has sold its investment in ZorgDomein, Netherlands-based healthcare referral platform, to Rabobank.
Founded in 2000, ZorgDomein provides SaaS-based solutions to the Dutch healthcare sector. The Company connects various types of healthcare providers to patients through digital patient referrals, diagnostic requests and consultations. In 2019, over six million patients found the right care through 14+ million referrals in the ZorgDomein environment. More than 80,000 care providers, such as GP’s and specialists, use the platform on a daily basis.
Wouter Snoeijers, Managing Director of LLCP, says: “We believe that LLCP’s investment in ZorgDomein has been highly value
ICV Partners, an investment firm focused on lower middle market companies in business services, consumer goods & services, food & beverage, and healthcare, has expanded its Portfolio Operations Group with the addition of Mary Rachide who joins the firm as a Managing Director.
Rachide will be based in the firm’s Atlanta office.
“Mary brings years of experience in senior executive roles leading and advising both public and private company management teams in the middle market and multi-billion-dollar organisations across multiple industries and we are excited to welcome her to the ICV team,” says ICV President Willie Woods. “Mary’s skillsets
Francisco Partners has been named the top-performing firm in the 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking.
The San Francisco-headquartered tech specialist came top out of 529 private equity (PE) firms analysed, delivering an aggregate performance that was 2.40 standard deviations above the average. Genstar Capital Partners, and Vitruvian Partners were ranked second and third, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which had held top spot for the previous three years remained in the top 10 performing funds in the sample, at sixth position.
The annual ranking, developed on the research of HEC Professor and MJ Hudson Fund Performance Analytics founder, Oliver Gottschalg,
An innovative North East based immersive technology company is aiming to transform the way customers engage and experience entertainment, sport, visitor attractions, hospitality and retail.
Fame Media Tech – led by entrepreneur Bryan Hoare – is on a mission to transform customer experiences through mobile and content technology to help operators create more engaged and loyal customers, fans and visitors.
The County Durham business, whose team combines market leading technology with decades of experience in publishing and digital media, has already started to create innovative content experiences for millions of mobile users around the world and is now about
Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Kusters Beheer, a group of six companies offering advanced manufacturing capacities for the production of high-tech precision components.
The financial terms of the transaction, which remains subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities, have not been disclosed.
Going forward, the group will be led by Geert Ketelaars and Adwin Kannekens, Managing Directors of Wilting, one of the companies that make up Kusters Beheer; they will take up the positions of CEO and CCO respectively. As part of the transaction, the founding family as well
Centaur Fund Services, a specialist in fund administration and fiduciary services for the alternative investment fund industry, has expanded its US Private Equity and Real Estate (PERE) team with two additional new senior hires based out of its New Jersey office – PERE Managers Grant Della Torre and Kyle Solheim.
Since launching its Private Equity Service five years ago, Centaur Fund Services has gone through exponential growth in the sector. This has been backed by the firm’s heavy investment in PE specific technology developed specifically to support Centaur Private Equity clients. Centaur has also gained deep sector knowledge in Private
CBRE Caledon Capital Management Inc has acquired Karlssonbuss, a regional and school bus operator in southern Sweden.
The vendors of the family-owned bus operator, the Karlsson family, will continue to have a small equity stake in the business.
CBRE Caledon is making the investment on behalf of a fund sponsored by the firm as well as a separately managed account. It represents the second investment completed in the Nordics since 2019.
Karlssonbuss has been operating since 1949 in southern Sweden, with the majority of its customers being public transport authorities for regional routes and local authorities for school
Atrato Group, an alternative asset management and advisory group specialising in asset backed income strategies, has made four new hires across Compliance, Fund Finance and Fund Management.
The appointment of John Mahony, Haffiz Kala, Gary Chesterton and Gerald Bishop grows the Atrato Group team to 20 people, with 12 new appointments in the last 12 months.
Atrato Capital, an Atrato Group company, is the UK’s leading investment specialist in supermarket real estate. Atrato Capital is the investment adviser to Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), the only REIT specialising in UK grocery property. SUPR provides secure, long-dated, inflation protected income
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