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Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP), a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle-market healthcare businesses, has appointed Dave Prendergast as Vice President – Business Development, effective immediately.Prendergast joins EHP to lead the firm’s business development efforts, where he will focus on identifying investment opportunities in founder and entrepreneur-led lower middle-market healthcare businesses in North America, targeting platforms between $50 and $250 million in enterprise value in the healthcare services sector including provider-based services, pharma services, payor services and technology-enabled services.
Prendergast brings more than seven years of private equity experience in healthcare services, healthcare information technology (HCIT) and
Birmingham-based Zipabout Limited has secured a GBP650,000 investment from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Equity Finance Fund, managed by venture capital firm Midven. The MEIF investment closed a GBP1.35 million funding round, which involved participation from First Derivatives and Founders Factory.Zipabout works closely with transport operators to improve the experience of transport for all through its unique multi-source, big-data and communications platform. The Zipabout platform combines static, operational and behavioural data to better predict and manage the flow and capacity of transport networks.
Zipabout founders, Alex Froom and Daniel Chick, have an extensive track record in the sector, having worked successfully with large transport companies
Clessidra SGR, a management company in the Italian private equity market, has appointed Andrea Ottaviano as Head of Private Equity activities.
GCP is delighted to announce that it has supported Indigo’s acquisition of Foursite Design Consultants Limited (4site).
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in the global financial services industry, has completed a significant growth investment in Fortis Payment Systems (Fortis), a payments technology and merchant services provider.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Novi, Michigan, Fortis provides payment technology and processing capabilities to developers and businesses throughout North America. The Company’s proprietary payments platform, Zeamster, creates integrated commerce experiences for software and ERP providers as they transform the way businesses interact with their customers.
“Fortis has developed a highly configurable, powerful payments platform with industry-leading technical and security
BGF has appointed James Marshall to its Manchester investment team, covering the North West.
Marshall joins from Clearwater International and brings more than five years of working on deal origination, having joined the business with an economics degree in 2014.
Marshall’s role at BGF will see his continued focus on deal origination as he works alongside the investment team to identify ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams looking to secure investment to support their growth ambitions.
Marshall says: “BGF’s team in the North West has been consistently active in identifying and backing quality, high-growth businesses across all sectors and all corners of
OfficeSpace Software, a specialist in workplace management solutions, has secured a strategic equity investment from Resurgens Technology Partners, a software-focused private equity firm.
The partnership will enable OfficeSpace to increase investment in its market-leading software, accelerate key go-to-market initiatives, and further enhance its highly-regarded customer experience.
OfficeSpace is a leading SaaS-based platform for managing the workplace that gives forward-thinking companies the tools they need to engage employees, manage moves, maximise space, and keep real-estate costs low.
“The workplace management industry is in the early stages of a fundamental change, where companies need new ways to deliver an environment that
Thirteen has successfully issued a private placement to a group of high-profile UK and US institutional investors, securing a GBP100 million injection of new capital.
As the largest housing association in the North East with over 34,000 homes, Thirteen secured the funding after its leadership team impressed investors at a series of roadshows.
The GBP100 million private placement is spread over a number of tranches with 25-year to 35-year maturities and a weighted average cost of funds of 2.86 per cent.
The new funding will support the delivery of Thirteen’s development programme during the next five years, further strengthening an
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its second cornerstone commitment this year through its GBP500 million Managed Funds Programme.
The GBP100 million commitment is being made to the Hermes GPE Innovation Fund which is seeking to raise a target of GBP250 million. Investments are expected to be focused on later-stage opportunities in technology-enabled businesses across the UK and Europe with a productivity, people or sustainability theme.
The Managed Funds Programme seeks to draw in more institutional capital to the UK venture and growth capital markets and increase access to longer-term capital for
Europe’s private equity industry has shifted into buying mode, deploying large pools of capital while delaying exits, according to provisional full-year data from the CMBOR at Imperial College Business School, sponsored by Equistone Partners Europe and Investec Corporate and Investment Banking.
The cumulative value of European buyouts passed EUR100 billion for a joint-record third consecutive year in 2019. This was counterbalanced by a sharp drop in exits, with cumulative values falling from EUR105 billion to EUR68 billion (the lowest figure since 2012, ending a run of five straight years of >EUR100 billion in total exits) and volumes from 437 to
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