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This provides Skylight IPV additional stability for the next few years and the opportunity to continue to work with clients and further develop its technology to build an ever-improved service.
Private equity investor Berkshire Partners has appointed Matt Gooch, Saad Hasan and Ben Levy as Managing Directors effective 1 January, 2020. They join the 22 current Managing Directors in managing the firm and its affiliated investment funds. The firm’s 25 Managing Directors have an average tenure of 16 years with the firm.
Gooch joined Berkshire Partners in 2019 as Director of Business Development after more than 20 years with investment bank William Blair & Company, where he was most recently a Managing Director and head of European banking. At Berkshire, he leads the firm’s private equity investment sourcing efforts, alongside industry
Ara Partners Group (Ara Partners), a Houston-based private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments, has expanded its senior management team with the promotion of Johanna Schmidtke to Managing Director. Schmidtke joined Ara Partners in 2018 as a Principal.
“We’re delighted to announce Johanna’s promotion,” says Troy Thacker, Managing Partner of Ara Partners. “Since joining the firm in 2018, she has made major contributions to our efforts to build a strong portfolio of companies that contribute to the decarbonisation of the industrial economy.”
“As a firm, we benefit greatly from Johanna’s investment acumen, technical knowledge, and industry relationships,” adds Charles Cherington,
Growth private equity firm TA Associates has promoted eight staff members in its Boston, London and Mumbai offices, effective 1 January, 2020, including two new Managing Directors.“It is an honour to recognise the promotions earned by these talented and dedicated team members who have provided a tremendous level of value-add to TA Associates’ portfolio companies and ultimately for our investors,” says Brian J Conway, Chairman and Managing Partner at TA Associates. “We look forward to their continued success and contributions through their judgment, creativity and work ethic. We are particularly pleased that seven of the eight promotions were earned by
US Public Realtions firm Gregory FCA has secured a minority growth capital investment from Copley Equity Partners, a Boston-based private investment firm. Founder Gregory Matusky and President Joseph Anthony remain majority owners and will continue to lead the firm. All account management and professional staff remain in place and the firm will continue to operate from its suburban headquarters along Philadelphia’s Main Line.
“This investment allows us to continue to disrupt the public relations industry by investing in A-list talent, acquiring new service offerings to better support current clients, and more deeply penetrating the verticals we serve,” says Matusky. “To fund
BGF’s North West team has now invested GBP311 million across 34 businesses in the region with GBP59m of that total invested in the past 12 months. New investments included Manchester-headquartered FinTech company Planixs, international schools group Orbital Education and Joloda International, a fast-growing manufacturing firm based in Merseyside. This investment took BGF past its GBP2 billion investment milestone and scooped Deal of the Year (sub GBP10 million) at the 2019 Insider North West Dealmakers Awards. Last month BGF announced a GBP10m investment in CurrentBody, a Manchester-based online retail specialist for home-use beauty devices.
BGF also provided follow-on investment to four existing portfolio businesses, including web-hosting business,
The Everstone Group (Everstone) is to invest up to USD50 million in Slayback Pharma’s Series B funding round.
Global investment bank GCA Altium has announced is opening an office in Birmingham under the leadership of Jeremy Harrison and Jamie Hope, who were previously partners at Alantra in the Midlands.The launch of GCA Altium’s Midlands operations – the firm’s fourth office in the UK following London, Manchester and Leeds – supports its strategy of establishing a strong presence in all key UK markets.
Following the recent appointment of Oliver Vaughan, the addition of Jeremy and Jamie further strengthens the UK team’s coverage across technology, consumer, industrials and business services. In addition, it gives GCA Altium access to the Midlands
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has acquired Resolution Economics (Resolution) in partnership with the existing management team. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Resolution is a specialty consulting firm that provides economic and statistical analysis as well as expert testimony to leading law firms and corporations in labor & employment and commercial litigation matters. Resolution specializes in highly complex class action lawsuits and, as such, employs a highly technical workforce, including 14 with PhDs and 23 with master’s degrees. In addition, the company has over 70 SAS programmers, and 17 Resolution professionals have
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has promoted Kelly Ford to General Partner. “Kelly has brought a number of critical firsts to Edison Partners. She was our first operating partner. She brought the Edison Edge operating platform to life and ushered in our uniquely integrated approach to growth-stage investing—where operators and investors work as one team to deliver more than capital to our portfolio companies. She established our Center of Excellence for Sales & Marketing, and is also the creator of the Edison Growth Index, a proprietary study on the key characteristics of fast-growing technology companies,” says Chris Sugden, Managing
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