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Global private equity investors Advent International (Advent) has completed its offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Forescout Technologies’ common stock for USD29.00 per share, without interest and subject to any applicable withholding taxes, net to the seller in cash. Advent intends to complete the acquisition of Forescout imminently through a second-step merger.
Advent has partnered with Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint Capital), a private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries, on this transaction. Together they will provide Forescout with resources and expertise to help drive continued innovation and scale in Enterprise of Things security, delivering
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions adviser for privately held businesses, has advised Mach 7.4 Inc (dba SHIPS-a-Lot) on an investment by a private investor.Details of the acquisition, which closed on 5 August, 2020, have not been disclosed.
SHIPS-a-Lot, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a third-party logistics company that does freight fulfilment. The Company was founded in 2015 when three ecommerce entrepreneurs were running an online beef jerky company. Trying to scale the business, they looked for a fulfilment centre to help with orders as they worked on growth. This is when Max and Zach Zitney and their co-founder Zach
Keeper Security, the provider of a cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats, has closed a USD60 million minority investment by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. This is Keeper Security’s first equity raise since its inception.
The synergy of the Keeper Security-Insight partnership will further accelerate product innovation and development and catalyse expansion of the company’s global customer base of consumers and businesses. Following the investment, Thomas Krane, Principal at Insight Partners, will join Keeper’s Board of Directors. No other terms of this private transaction are being disclosed.
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Nova Pangaea Technologies, which has invented a way to use non-food biomass to make biofuels and other chemicals, has raised another GBP900,000 in the run-up to a planned Series A investment later this year.
The funding comes from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, the UK Government’s Future Fund and existing private investors.
The company also appointed Neil Guilder as CFO, Dr Neil Hindle as CTO and Peter McGenity as CCO in connection with the deal.
Nova Pangea Technologies completed its demonstration plant at Redcar in December 2019
A list of 80 City investment management firms have agreed to back an initiative to increase black representation within key functions in portfolio management and finance.
The new initiative, called #100blackinterns, aims to bring together long only and hedge funds, private equity, credit and real estate managers, together with consultants and pension funds within the investment management industry, to give portfolio management function internships to young, university-educated black people.
The firms taking part in the program have committed to offer a paid internship to a black candidate next summer in a frontline investment position, and applications are welcome from black
Jim Momtazee has launched Patient Square Capital, an investment firm that will focus on the healthcare sector. Patient Square will partner with best-in-class management teams whose products, services, and technologies improve health. The Patient Square team has a shared vision to create an investment firm capable of managing large pools of capital and with the expertise to meet the considerable and critical needs of the health care world.
Momtazee is the Managing Partner of Patient Square. He is a 21-year veteran of KKR, where he helped form its Health Care Industry Group in 2001 and subsequently led the group for over
Agiloft has secured a USD45 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused investor in innovative companies in enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing. The investment from FTV is the Agiloft’s first round of external funding and will be used to build on its leadership position in the rapidly growing enterprise contract and commerce lifecycle management (CCLM) space as it accelerates its AI-based product development and expands its vertical and geographic market presence. Agiloft’s no-code platform drives industry-leading configurability and automates complex enterprise workflows through an iterative design process at a fraction of the time
TASE UP, a new electronic platform from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is aiming to link private companies seeking investment with institutional and accredited investors. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Lowenstein Sandler has released Getting Paid: A Look at Representations & Warranties Insurance, a new report based on a survey that, among its many goals, sought to answer a key question about reps and warranties (R&W) insurance: Do insurers actually pay claims? The answer, according to the report, is “yes” with some important caveats. Eighty-seven per cent of respondents said at least a partial payment was negotiated for all R&W claims that exceeded the self-insured retention. But more than two-thirds of respondents said that all claims fall within retention–and therefore do not result in payment by insurers.
The report was
Inflexion has supported the expansion of its portfolio company Bollington Wilson, one of the UK’s leading independent insurance brokers, with the acquisition of Watson Laurie. The acquisition is Bollington Wilson’s fourth this year, expanding the Group’s offering and strengthening the regional presence of its operations.
Watson Laurie is a North West based corporate insurance broker specialising in Corporate Risks, Property and Construction, European Commercial Real Estate Financing, Latent Defects Insurance, SME schemes and other niches areas.
Inflexion has supported Bollington Wilson to achieve strong organic and acquisition led growth since it backed the buyout and simultaneous merger
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