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McGuireWoods is launching an initiative to help Black private equity and finance professionals develop business opportunities and drive progress toward a more diverse and inclusive community.
The Black Professionals in Private Equity & Finance (BPE) initiative will bring together professionals from across the financial services sector to network, share ideas and promote change in the industry. BPE will feature panel discussions and roundtables with leaders in the financial services sector and an online series highlighting trailblazers and rising stars.
McGuireWoods partners Greg Kilpatrick, chair of the Securities & Capital Markets Department, and Gerald V Thomas II, chair of the Tax
HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and nationally recognised impact investor, has invested in 83bar, an Austin, Texas-based specialist in patient journey management for both clinical trials and commercial clients across pharma, medical device, and diagnostic industries.
The mezzanine debt infusion will be used to restructure existing debt, provide share redemption for a small group of existing investors, and provide supplemental growth capital. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Founded in 2015, 83bar provides a cost-effective patient activation platform to find and retain qualified individuals for clinical trials and commercial clients. The company locates patients on behalf of
Gauge Capital (Gauge), a middle market private equity firm, has closed its third fund with an oversubscribed first and final close of USD800 million in commitments.
The Gauge Capital team is the largest investor in the fund and represents over 25 per cent of the committed capital. Ropes & Gray LLP served as counsel.
Gauge Capital is a private equity firm that partners with owners, managers, and equity stakeholders of successful middle market companies to maximise their potential. The firm focuses on investing in growing services and technology-enabled companies in the business and consumer, healthcare, industrial, government and food sectors.
Flexpoint Ford, a private equity investment firm specialising in the financial services and healthcare industries, has promoted Michael Fazekas and Dominic Hood to Managing Director, and Dan Grigorescu, Vilas Nair and Thomas Shi to Principal.
“We are excited to announce the promotions of these talented investment professionals. As Flexpoint grows in size and scope, continuing to develop our world class team of experienced investors is important to the long-term success of the firm,” says Don Edwards, CEO and Founder of Flexpoint Ford. “These promotions reflect the important contributions that these individuals have made to the growth and performance of the
The Eurazeo group raised EUR2.8 billion from its investor partners across 2020, an increase of 18 per cent compared with 2019.
Amid a volatile context caused by the Covid-19 crisis, this strong performance provides further vindication of Eurazeo’s strategy of diversification. The Group remains a leading investor in private markets and one of the few in Europe to offer clients investment solutions in three high-return asset classes (Private Equity, private debt and real assets), covering the whole business development cycle (Venture, Growth, SME, mid-to-large cap), and with expertise in all promising business sectors. The trust placed in Eurazeo by major
Blue Point Capital Partners (Blue Point) has made its eighth Blue Point IV platform investment with the acquisition of Cleveland-based Transtar Holding Company (Transtar).
Transtar is a global leader in the value-added distribution of original equipment and aftermarket automotive products for the transmission and driveline repair market. The local partnership with Blue Point will accelerate the Company’s growth through continued refinement of its industry-leading e-commerce technology, enhancement of supply chain efficiencies and execution of strategic add-on acquisitions.
Transtar has distributed thousands of high-quality branded and propriety parts to transmission repair shops and other automotive channels around the globe since 1975.
Global law firm White & Case has advised Memsource, an AI-powered translation management system headquartered in the Czech Republic, and its majority shareholder The Carlyle Group, on the acquisition of a majority stake in Phrase, a German software localisation platform, from its existing shareholders.
“Our international team helped to successfully navigate this important strategic acquisition, which is the first since Carlyle’s investment in Memsource last year,” says White & Case partner Ken Barry, who led the Firm’s deal team. “The strong combination of Memsource and Phrase together with Carlyle’s investment in this accelerating sector highlights White & Case’s robust expertise
Swander Pace Capital (SPC) has completed the sale of Clarion Brands, a consumer products company specialising in over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare solutions and dietary supplements, to Bridges Consumer Healthcare LLC, a consumer healthcare company partnering with Charlesbank Capital Partners.
Clarion markets a portfolio of leading niche OTC and dietary supplements brands that are sold to food, drug, mass, and online retailers throughout the United States and Canada.
Swander Pace Capital partnered with the former management team of Insight Pharmaceuticals following its sale to Prestige Brands Holdings in 2014, and created the Clarion consumer healthcare platform. Under the ownership of SPC,
Caring Brands International (CBI), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has completed the acquisition of its Interim HealthCare home health and hospice franchises in San Diego.
The addition of the San Diego Franchise expands CBI’s branch footprint and marks the first acquisition within the Interim HealthCare network domestically.
Founded in 1966, CBI is the largest franchisor of home healthcare services globally and produces approximately USD1.1 billion of annual systemwide sales across over 550 global locations. CBI offers franchises under three brands: Interim HealthCare (United States), Bluebird Care (United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland) and Just Better Care
A new report by technology-focused investment bank ICON Corporate Finance, has revealed that despite Covid causing a 50 per cent year-on-year collapse in Tech M&A activity in the second quarter, a remarkable bounce-back led to a spate of M&A activity in businesses focussed on Digital Transformation, resulting in a near record final quarter, boding well for 2021.
The report, which analyses some of the largest and most interesting FinTech deals in 2020, and which looks at trends in the tech sector, saw M&A activity rally, up 6 per cent in Q4 compared 2019, which had itself been a record year
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