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Limerston Capital portfolio company Prism Healthcare has completed the acquisition of Repose Furniture Limited (Repose) adding a further GBP7 million in revenues and GBP1.7 million in EBITDA.
Based in Cradley Heath (Birmingham) Repose designs, manufactures and distributes bespoke, specialist rise and recliner chairs for use in the healthcare sector in the UK and internationally.
Prism Healthcare is a vertically integrated provider of specialist equipment that gives mobility to the elderly, disabled and mobility disadvantaged within their own homes, care homes or hospitals. Prism Healthcare’s diverse portfolio of UK manufactured healthcare equipment covers safe patient handling, bathing, accessibility and pressure area
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has further strengthened its Yorkshire team with the appointment of Will Scales as an Investment Director.
As Investment Director, Scales is responsible for identifying potential investment opportunities, leading transactions and supporting the management teams of LDC’s portfolio businesses as they pursue their growth ambitions.
Scales, who will be based in LDC’s Leeds office, joins the private equity firm with more than a decade of experience of working in corporate finance. Prior to LDC, he spent eight years at global investment bank Rothschild & Co, as a member of its corporate finance team. There he
Equality Health, a provider of technology, services and support for value-based care, has secured a strategic investment from General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, to fuel the Company’s next phase of growth as a value-based primary care network serving the Medicaid, Medicare and ACA Exchange populations.
Existing investor Endeavour Capital will remain a minority shareholder, and Town Hall Ventures will also invest in the Company. As part of the transaction, Equality Health will acquire Phoenix-based consulting firm Daraja Services and plans to integrate the firm’s suite of healthcare economics, technology and actuarial capabilities.
Equality Health was founded
Foreside Financial Group (Foreside), a provider of governance, risk management, and compliance service and technology offerings to clients in the global asset and wealth management industry, is to acquire Capital Markets Compliance (CMC), a compliance, consulting, and FINOP practice.
Citizens M&A Advisory served as the exclusive financial advisor to Health iPASS, a high-growth, innovative provider of cloud-based patient engagement software and revenue cycle management technology, in its sale to Sphere, backed by Waud Capital.
Health iPASS specialises in solutions that enhance provider revenue collections and deliver a streamlined healthcare consumer experience from appointment to final payment. The software helps providers accelerate cash flow, reduce the cost to collect, lower claim denials and improve patient relations. The technology improves the healthcare consumer experience by simplifying the check-in process and payment experience by facilitating pre-service, time-of-service and post-service engagement and patient
Sector-specialist M&A advisory firm Ciesco has reported global resilience in the tech, digital, media and marketing sectors in the face of the Covid crisis.
Ciesco tracked global M&A activity in these sectors, reporting 1,091 M&A transactions in 2020, with announced deal values of USD55.9 billion. This value excluded the one mega-deal of the year (defined as a deal greater than USD10 billion): the USD27.7 billion acquisition of communication platform Slack by Salesforce. This took place despite a mostly pandemic-induced 19 percent drop in M&A activity last year.
Digital Media, Traditional Media and MarTech were the most popular sectors for
Mid-State Industrial Maintenance (Mid-State), a portfolio company of CenterGate Capital, has further expanded its service capabilities in the aggregates industry with the acquisition of Mine Equipment & Design (MED).
Allvue Systems (Allvue), an alternative investment technology solutions provider, is to provide TrustServe with comprehensive solutions for its General Partner (GP) and management company clients in private equity, real estate, venture capital, fund of funds and family offices.
As part of the technology solution, Allvue will deliver its Fund Accounting, Investor Portal, Business Intelligence (BI) and Report Automation solutions, enabling TrustServe to streamline and seamlessly manage record-keeping, reporting and investor communications for their customers. Allvue’s platform will support TrustServe’s broad customer base, servicing all closed-ended fund types, including private equity, venture capital, fund of funds, energy infrastructure, real estate, private
Given the economic instability generated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, European private equity deal activity showed remarkable resilience last year, according to Pitchbook’s 2020 European PE Breakdown.
The report found that private equity deal volume rose to a new quarterly peak in Q4 last year, closing more than 1,200 deals for the first time.
Both deal value and volume recorded third- and fourth-quarter decade-raging records, respectively, during what proved to be the worst economic climate since the Great Depression in Q2 2020, with 4,179 deals closing for a total of EUR449.1 billion.
The European private equity industry held back
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising lower mid-market companies, is to sell Pet Supplies Plus (PSP), the third largest pet specialty chain in the US, to Franchise Group. The deal is valued at USD700 million.
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