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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.
The total value of UK listed companies taken private by private equity firms increased from GBP2.3 billion to GBP21.1 billion in the last 12 months, shows new research from accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP.
Sproud, the Swedish maker of a range of plant-based milks announces today that it has raised GBP4.8 million from growth capital investor, VGC Partners.
The investment will be used to grow Sproud’s team, accelerate the brand’’s distribution and brand building activities in the company’s core markets – including the UK, US and Canada – and for further development of its plant-based and 100% vegan product offering.
Sproud launched in Sweden in 2018, and has expanded to 15 markets in just two years. It is available across the UK via supermarkets and online retailers such as Waitrose, Ocado, and Amazon, in
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Chris An as a Senior Vice President in the firm’s Hong Kong office. An will focus on investments in companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
“We are very pleased to welcome Chris to TA Associates,” says Edward F Sippel, head of TA Associates Asia Pacific Ltd. and a Managing Director and Co-head of Asia operations for TA Associates. “With his deal sourcing, due diligence, financial modeling and deal structuring experience, we are confident Chris will prove a valuable addition to our team. We will leverage his deep knowledge of the Korean
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