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Cavendish Corporate Finance, a UK-based sell-side mid-market M&A firm and part of the finnCap Group, as appointed technology M&A specialist Anthony Platt as a Partner in its Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) team.
Platt brings 17 years’ corporate finance experience predominately in TMT, spanning venture capital fundraising, private equity growth financing, MBOs, IPOs, M&A, restructuring assignments and carve out transactions, completing an aggregate deal value in excess of GBP5 billion.
For the last 12 years he has focused specifically on M&A within the technology sector, including significant experience in SaaS software, on-premise software, vertical applications, ICT services, hosting, cyber security,
Climeworks has completed a CHF100 million funding round, in what the company says is the largest ever investment into direct air capture.
The funding will be used to further scale and optimise Climeworks’ direct air capture technology and make it accessible to even more stakeholders; individuals, businesses and organisations alike.
Climeworks is one of the global leaders in carbon dioxide removal. Its patented direct air capture technology removes carbon dioxide directly from the air. It uses clean, renewable energy, thereby providing a truly pure carbon dioxide removal solution.
Current customers include established businesses and organisations worldwide,
Inflexion has made a minority investment in Auxadi, a Spanish tech-enabled, corporate services business. Auxadi provides a range of outsourced services including accounting, tax, payroll and related administration. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s dedicated minority investment fund, Partnership Capital II, and is Inflexion’s first investment in Spain following other successful investments in Europe.
Auxadi is the largest independent provider of corporate services operating in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin American markets. Headquartered in Madrid with a further 16 international subsidiaries, Auxadi has 500 customers across 50 countries, including leading real estate and private equity funds as well as major
Limerston Capital Partners I has acquired Forensis Group Limited and Forensic Axis Limited, (trading respectively as Forensic Access and Axiom International, specialists in forensic science services and international institutional reform and capacity building. Operating from state-of-the art facilities in Wantage (Oxfordshire), Forensic Access was established by Professor Angela Gallop in 1986 to provide high quality advice and guidance, and cutting edge science across all sectors of criminal and private sector justice. Forensic Access has since evolved to provide a comprehensive range of forensic science services both in the UK and internationally, with particular expertise in firearms and ballistics, fingerprints, forensic
Apex Group (Apex) has been appointed to provide fund administration and depositary services to the debut fund of Melior Equity Partners (Melior).Melior was launched in early 2020 following the completion of a spin-out of the investment team from The Carlyle Group’s Irish activities. The fund has recently held a first close for its Luxembourg domiciled debut fund.
Fund administration is at the core of Apex’s offering, providing clients with timely, accurate and independent Fund administration using innovative technology and highly qualified personnel with local expertise. In addition to fund administration, Apex will provide depositary services to Melior through subsidiary
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed new investment staff in its Boston and London offices. Benjamin Bold and Daniel Gold have rejoined as Vice Presidents in the firm’s Boston office, and Harry Mahadevan has rejoined as a Vice President in the London office of TA Associates (UK), LLP.
“We are delighted to welcome back Ben, Danny and Harry to TA Associates,” says Brian J Conway, Chairman and Managing Partner at TA Associates. “All three were valuable contributors while Associates at TA, demonstrating their ability to add value to TA’s growth private equity investment process, particularly in sourcing
CIL Management Consultants has appointed Axel Leichum as lead partner for North America. Leichum has 20 years’ experience as a management consultant, supporting corporates and investors with business planning, market studies, pricing strategies and commercial due diligence. He joins from strategy consultancy, Blue Canyon Partners.
Leichum’s appointment reflects the growing demand for CIL’s services across the market. CIL has enjoyed rapid growth in the geography since it first opened a US office two years ago, which reflects the strength of proposition CIL offers to its clients, leveraging its expertise in strategic support across a range of industries.
Leichum will focus on
Baird Capital’s global private equity team has invested in Blue Matter Consulting (Blue Matter), a strategic consulting firm serving the life sciences industry. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.Founded in 2012, Blue Matter provides consultancy services to the global pharmaceutical sector, principally in the areas of product and portfolio strategy, organisational design, and product launch planning and readiness. Blue Matter is a global business with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Zurich, and Berlin. The company has a wide range of therapeutic expertise, with a deep focus on oncology and rare diseases.
“We are so
The Manchester team at LDC, a mid-market private equity investor, has provided GBP6 million of follow on funding to enable portfolio company MSQ Partners’ acquisition of the Be Heard Partnership.The transaction confirms Be Heard’s delisting from the London Stock Exchange (AIM) at an enterprise value of GBP20.6 million. It creates a combined global workforce of 785 people and is part of MSQ’s ambitious buy and build strategy, designed to enhance its multi-disciplinary capabilities, particularly in tech and data analytics.
The combined group now blends the expertise of Be Heard’s agencies MMT Digital, Freemavens and Agenda21, which specialise in digital
Squla (Futurewhiz), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Scoyo, an online learning platform for primary and secondary school students in the German market.Squla is the leading consumer education company in the Netherlands and provides interactive educational tools for primary school pupils (Squla) and secondary school students (WRTS). Squla is linked to the national curriculum and is designed to supplement a student’s education in a fun and adaptive way. The company’s products are used in over 50,000 classrooms and by over 1.4 million users throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. With the acquisition of Scoyo, Squla
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