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Fintech company RiskFirst (a Moody’s Analytics Company) has appointed Tarik Ben-Saud in an advisory capacity to support and accelerate the development of RiskFirst’s front office investment management capabilities, with an initial focus on rolling out its fixed income and LDI attribution application, PFaroeAttribution. RiskFirst, a market leader in liability analytics to DB pensions, is applying its experience to develop a comprehensive suite of front office decision support tools, of which PFaroeAttribution is a core component.
Tarik, who has 30 years’ investment management experience spanning Head of Liability Driven Investing at BlackRock and Head of Integrated Solutions at Insight Investment, has extensive
Inflexion Private Equity has agreed to acquire Aspen Pumps, a manufacturer of specialist pumps, from 3i Group plc. The investment is being made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V, Inflexion’s dedicated mid‐market buyout fund. This will be Inflexion’s second period of ownership of Aspen, following a highly successful partnership between 2007 and 2015, during which EBITDA tripled.
Aspen is the global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of mini pumps that remove condensate water from air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The group also sells a range of ancillary products for air conditioning installers and engineers. The company has offices and warehousing
Europe is the only region worldwide to have recorded positive M&A performance in 2019, with European dealmakers marginally outperforming their regional index by +0.6pp (percentage points) over the last 12 months, according to the latest results from Willis Towers Watson’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QDPM), run in partnership with Cass Business School.
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
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