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Constitution Capital Partners (CCP), an alternative asset manager focused on the North American middle market, has appointed Michael Doppelt as Managing Director, Investor Relations. Based in New York, Doppelt will work with institutional investors, multi-family offices and private wealth clients.
“For the last decade we have dramatically strengthened our position as the trusted partner to institutional investors, consultants and multi-family offices,” says Daniel Cahill, Managing Partner of Constitution Capital. “Michael’s deep relationships and broad understanding of alternative investments will help us further broaden and deepen these relationships, and make him a welcomed addition to our team.”
Doppelt has over
Pagemill Partners, the technology division of Duff & Phelps, has published data revealing a sharp bounce-back in software deal activity in Q3 2020, with 466 transactions recorded between July and September 2020. As boardroom focus shifted away from bracing-for-impact, a combination of strong operating performance and more readily available financing resulted in a surge of activity, with both deal volume and spending reaching levels higher than any other quarter over the last three years.
Large-cap deals also returned in full force over the last quarter, with aggregate deal values almost 90% higher than in Q3 2019. With deals above USD1 billion
OnSite Waste Technologies, a specialist in immediate sterilisation of medical waste, has closed an oversubscribed USD3.5 million Series A funding round.
Palatine Private Equity has completed the sixth investment from its Impact Fund, with the acquisition of a stake in a fast-growing training company which helps individuals return to employment and develop new skills.Palatine’s returns-focused GBP100 million Impact Fund, which invests in profitable businesses making a positive impact on the environment or society, will now support Manchester-based Back2Work Group as it continues its growth plan.
Back2Work specialises in delivering intensive training courses to help the long-term unemployed return to work, retrain or re-skill. It also offers a digital marketing apprenticeship programme and runs on-line training courses for employed people to support
CenterGate Capital’s portfolio company Mid-State Industrial Maintenance (Mid-State) has expanded its service capabilities in the power generation and pulp and paper industries with the acquisition of AZZ SMS (SMS) from AZZ Inc (AZZ).
Private equity firm Grafton Capital has invested GBP7 million into Third Financial, a fast growing, investment platform and software provider. Grafton Capital’s investment takes it to majority ownership of the business, with GBP1.5 million of fresh capital being injected onto the balance sheet. The deal follows previous investment rounds in 2015 (GBP2.5 million), 2016 (GBP1.5 million) and 2019 (GBP1.25 million) to support the expansion of Third Financial’s infrastructure and outsourcing platform, which sits behind many of the UK’s leading wealth managers, IFA networks, family offices and disruptive fintech firms. This next phase will see a focus on accelerating the growth of
Atwater Capital (Atwater), a private equity firm that focuses exclusively on the media and entertainment sectors, is to acquire a minority stake in Freepik Company (Freepik), a global freemium provider of digital visual content. Vania Schlogel, Managing Partner & Founder of Atwater, has also been appointed to the Board of Freepik.
Atwater joins global investment firm EQT, which acquired a majority stake in Freepik in July 2020 via its EQT Mid-Market Europe Fund, and the Company’s founders and management as shareholders in Freepik. The Company’s management team, including the Co-Founders, Alejandro and Pablo Blanes and Joaquin Cuenca, will continue to lead
A new report released by BGF and academic Sir Anthony Seldon is calling for urgent action to recapitalise 21,000 businesses – the UK’s growth economy companies.
Eternygen has held first closing of its Series A2 funding round led by new anchor investor Evotec SE and additional funding from venture capital firms Epidarex Capital, IBB Ventures and a number of family offices. The new investment amounting to EUR5 million will be used to drive Eternygen’s development of novel treatments for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) to the next milestone, ie the selection of a preclinical development candidate, the initiation of IND enabling studies as well as growing clinical capabilities within the team.
NASH is a life-threatening metabolic disease which urgently needs new effective treatment options and represents a large and
PAG, one of the world’s largest Asia-focused investment groups, has chosen Broadridge as a cloud-based portfolio management technology provider. The enhancement will support PAG’s capabilities for its private debt operations.
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