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Alternative student transportation company, ALC Schools (ALC), has been acquired by an affiliate of Palladium Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in New York, NY. The student transportation provider, which saw record numbers in 2019 in terms of transporting special-needs, McKinney-Vento, and displaced students for school districts, says Palladium’s partnership will help support continued growth. “We’re very excited about the future of ALC with this acquisition. We chose to join with Palladium after very careful consideration, and we couldn’t be happier to be a part of their family,” says Gregg Prettyman, Chief Operating Officer for ALC.
For more than two
Equiteq, a global investment bank for the knowledge economy, has appointed Anirban Dasgupta as Managing Director to further bolster the firm’s practice in North America. With competition for complex people- and innovation-driven assets at an all-time high, both corporate and financial acquirers are turning to external IP, process and sector expertise to find and activate the most strategic targets. Equiteq offers unrivalled support through its global footprint, sector focus, multi-disciplinary resources and long-term engagement model.
Based in New York, Dasgupta will lead Equiteq’s buy-side and market intelligence practice in the region, driving specialist insight into the increasingly mature and competitive community
Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has appointed Arjan Hannink as Director and Léa Najmark as Analyst. Arjan brings over 10 years of experience in private equity and strategy consulting, while Léa already has a significant international experience in private equity.
Hannink joins Keensight Capital from Agilitas Private Equity in London, where he was involved in several transactions across Europe, bringing transformational growth to companies with highly defensive business models.
Hannink started his career at AT Kearney where he worked seven years in Paris, Amsterdam, and Brussels. He completed due-diligences for private
Continuing its strategic growth in London, international law firm Proskauer has appointed Litigation Partner Dorothy Murray.“Dorothy has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration which will be a valuable asset to our clients both locally and internationally,” says partner Timothy Mungovan, Chair of Proskauer’s Litigation Department. “We are delighted to welcome her as our first Litigation partner in London.”
Murray focuses her practice on investment and commercial disputes. She supports clients across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, asset management/private equity, energy and telecoms. She has experience managing arbitration and litigation in both common and civil law jurisdictions as
Advent International has appointed Nicolas Chavanne to head up the firm’s retail, consumer and leisure sector team in Europe.
Chavanne joins from TowerBrook, where he most recently served as a managing director. He has over 14 years of investment experience across Europe, including consumer-facing deals, omni-channel distribution businesses and investments within the wider retail, consumer and leisure sector.
Prior to TowerBrook, Chavanne worked at Greenhill, an investment bank, having started his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He graduated with an MA in management, financial and legal engineering from Ecole Supérieure De Commerce De Paris, in 2000.
“Now is an
As global utilities seek to adapt to a digital world, Energy Impact Partners offers a collaborative platform to invest in technologies that will help them transform.
New York-based investment firm Energy Impact Partners is leveraging a unique investment model to transform the energy and other asset-intensive sectors. EIP’s philosophy is to create a collaborative platform, where industrial players including the likes of Southern Company, National Grid, TransCanada and Alliant Energy, actively participate in providing capital to innovative companies. And in doing so, support their transition plans to becoming cleaner, more resilient energy companies of the future.
EIP’s origins link back
IK Investment Partners has appointed Tom Salmon to its small cap team as a partner in the firm’s London office.
IK’s small cap team partners with management teams across four core sectors: business services, consumer/food, engineered products and healthcare.
Salmon will mainly focus on the origination of investment opportunities in the UK with an enterprise value of up to around GBP100 million. He joins IK from Duke Street Private Equity where he was a partner. Prior to Duke Street, he was a partner at 3i where he co-managed the UK team and spent 13 years covering origination, execution and portfolio
Alltub Group, which is majority owned by private equity firm One Equity Partners, has appointed Mark Köllmann as CEO, as of 1 March , 2020. He succeeds Oliver Höll, who has been CEO of Alltub Group since 2016. Köllmann has more than three decades of experience in the international packaging industry. He joins Alltub from Jiffy Packaging, a producer of polyethylene foam and bubble wrap in Europe, where he successfully led the turnaround of the company as CEO. Previously, he led the European business of ITW-Signode from 2006 to 2011 before becoming CEO of Maillis Group until 2013.
Following a Master’s
Advent International and Cinven have agreed to acquire thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Technology business, together with the RAG-Stiftung.
Monroe Capital (Monroe) has acquired and recapitalised Ascent Behavioral Health (Ascent), in partnership with Cimarron Healthcare Capital and Ascent’s management team.
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