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Edison Partners, a growth-equity investment firm, has completed the sale of its stake in Solovis to Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ), generating over a 50 per cent IRR on its USD13 million total investment.Headquartered in Dallas, Solovis offers multi-asset class portfolio management, analytics and reporting tools for asset owners and allocators. Solovis’ solutions, which enable public and private assets to be managed on the same platform, will become available through Nasdaq’s eVestment group and broaden eVestment’s capabilities for institutional investors.
The third fintech exit for Edison Partners this year following the acquisitions of Scivantage by Refinitiv and Clearpool by BMO Financial
Segulah Fund V is to acquire a majority stake in NVBS Rail, to support the company’s growth.
US-based private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire Command Alkon from its current owner Quilvest Capital Partners.
Command Alkon supplies collaboration platforms for construction’s heavy work, focused on the software and technology-enabled services sectors.
“This agreement is a testament to Command Alkon’s sustained growth, leading market position, and the opportunities opened by our purpose-built platform for heavy construction,” said Larry Neubauer, a senior partner at Quilvest and chairman of the board at Command Alkon.
“Both the board and Quilvest are excited to announce Thoma Bravo’s stewardship of the company. Their investment track record in B2B enterprise software should
In the following Q&A, Alex Lesch, Partner and member of the Investment Strategy and Risk Management team at Adams Street Partners, explains the importance of operational due diligence and why ongoing collaboration with GPs helps solidify investment confidence.
Private Equity firm Resolute Capital Partners (RCP) has joined Elliott Management, a hedge fund manager, and Soft Bank, a high-tech funding firm, by investing in PLUM Lending (PLUM). Earlier this month, RCP completed a USD2 million equity investment in PLUM through its technology fund, Strategic Technology Assets II (STA II). STA II invests in early-stage technology companies within the healthcare, financial services, and regulatory sectors. RCP leadership believes these sectors are defensible due to each sector’s immense national and global demands.
“More often, companies are demanding an investment partner that can provide operational expertise and support in addition to capital investments,” says
KKR has appointed Hidekazu Harada as a Managing Director in the firm’s Private Equity team based in Tokyo, effective immediately.Harada brings over 20 years of investment banking experience to KKR. He joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he worked for 16 years and was most recently a Board member and Co-Head of Japan Investment Banking. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch he was primarily responsible for financial sponsors, TMT, mergers & acquisitions, management buyouts, and leveraged finance. Prior to his time at the bank, he spent four years at Daiwa Securities SMBC’s Tokyo and London offices where he
Investor services group IQ-EQ has appointed Sukanya Lal as a Business Director in its Singapore team, with a primary focus on developing the group’s network and business opportunities in India.With almost 19 years’ experience in the finance industry, Lal has developed a successful career in business development and sales spanning multiple financial service sectors, including fund services, custody services, asset management and insurance.
Before joining IQ-EQ in Singapore, Lal had held a series of senior business development roles spanning Mumbai and Delhi. Most recently, she was Associate Director of Business Development, Marketing and Sales for a leading global provider of
Bondstone, a Portuguese private equity real estate investment and asset management firm, has hired António Dias as its chief financial officer. Dias brings more than a decade of experience in corporate finance, M&A and private equity as well as programmatic portfolio management and will support Bondstone’s ambitious investment plans.
Dias joins Bondstone, which launched in February, from MarginKey, a Portugal-based consulting firm focused on small and medium-sized enterprises, in which he was founding partner and CEO. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and the private equity industry, having previously served at a leading Portuguese private equity firm, Oxy Capital.
Dias obtained a degree in law from
German family-equity company Haniel has become a regional cornerstone investor of Gilde Investment Management’s Gilde Healthcare V fund.
The growth capital fund focuses on healthcare sectors including digital health, medtech and therapeutics, both in Europe and North America.
The fund will have a special focus on private healthcare companies enabling improved care at affordable cost, according to Haniel. Treatment and diagnosis of infectious diseases like Covid-19 forms part of its strategy.
Gilde Healthcare V raised EUR416 million and is supported by a mix of international investors. The fund will typically make equity investments in a portfolio company of between EUR10
Seafort Advisors has invested in Deskcenter AG, the parent company of Deskcenter UK, becoming the company’s new majority shareholder as a result.
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