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Emplify, a data-driven employee engagement improvement company, has secured a USD15 million investment led by growth equity investor Edison Partners.
The company plans to reinvest the funds back into its core product and service innovation and into expanding its sales and marketing teams to drive future growth. Prior investors, including Allos Ventures, Cultivation Capital, Mark Hill, Bob Davoli from Gutbrain Ventures and 4G Ventures managing director Bill Godfrey, also participated in the round.
“Emplify is scientifically tackling the most pertinent issue employers face today: building a culture that attracts, engages and retains talent,” says Ryan Ziegler, general partner at
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed its acquisition of EIS, a distributor, fabricator, and converter of electrical process materials, wire, cable and assemblies serving end-user segments in electrical power and related markets.
EIS provides more than 100,000 products from 38 branches and four fabrication facilities to more than 20,000 customers across North America.
Larry Griffin, CEO of EIS, says: “We are excited to partner with Audax as we embark on our next phase of growth. Our independent structure will allow us to devote renewed energy on better serving our core end markets as we look to expand both organically
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has expanded its investment team with the appointment of David Nixon to help manage funds across the North East.
Joining as Investment Manager to source and complete deals on behalf of Maven’s private equity funds, Nixon will also help manage the GBP27 million North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the GBP20 million Finance Durham Fund, established by Durham County Council.
Based across Maven’s Newcastle and Durham offices, David will be responsible for new investments across the North East of England. Prior to Maven,
The infrastructure division of GED, GED Infrastructure SGEIC, is to sell its stake in Telecom Castilla – La Mancha (Telecom CLM) to a pan-European fund manager specialising in infrastructure Equitix.
The closing of the transaction will take place after the accomplishment of the Condition Precedents (Antitrust clearance amongst others).
Once the operation is completed, Equitix will control 55% of the company. GED’s stake in Telecom CLM was initially acquired by Ahorro Corporación Infraestructuras in September 2007. GED has been managing this fund since 2015, when the private capital funds manager acquired the infrastructure fund management business of Ahorro Corporación.
ProFinda has received GBP1 million of funding from Nesta Impact Investments, a venture capital arm of one of the UK’s leading innovation foundations.
Nesta Impact Investments supports businesses like ProFinda which have the potential to deliver clear social impact as a part of their business model.
ProFinda’s mission is to revolutionise how organisations and their supply chains of people understand their collective skills so that work and projects can be directly matched to actual knowledge, capability, experience and skills.
The Nesta investment will be used to:
● build on success with blue chip clients and partners
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This week we look at the growing popularity of private equity secondary investments, with Cari Lodge, Head of Secondaries at Commonfund Capital, forecasting that secondary market volume is “on track to reach USD100 billion this year”.
We also have news of the latest fund from One Equity Partners which has closed with total capital commitments of USD1.75 billion, plus funds from Sverica Capital Management fund and KGAL Investment Management which have closed at USD450 million and EUR750 million, respectively.
And we also look at new deal research from CEPRES which shows the IRR spread between top performing funds and the market
Sidley Austin has appointed Eleanor Shanks as a partner based in London. Shanks, who will be a member of Sidley’s global M&A and Private Equity practice, joins from Proskauer Rose LLP.
“Eleanor is one of the most respected private equity lawyers in London and highly regarded for her work across the European transactional market,” says Tom Thesing, managing partner of Sidley’s London office and member of its Executive Committee. “She has also been recognised as one of the leading women private equity lawyers in Europe. Her arrival supports our strategy to continue diversifying our team and investing in key practices
Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity investors, has made a GBP15 million investment in Nationwide Hire, an aggregator of equipment rental and hire services.
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Fareham, Hampshire, Nationwide Hire manages a network of over 4,000 suppliers based in over 9,000 locations across the UK and Ireland with access to more than five million products. With over 70 staff and turnover exceeding GBP16 million Nationwide Hire provides major plant and machinery, equipment, tools and specialist services to companies operating across a wide range of sectors including construction, facilities management, retail, events, waste management and crisis support.
Värde Partners and Agam Capital are forming a joint venture pursue the acquisition, reinsurance and management of life and retirement businesses globally.
The joint venture combines the investment management expertise of Värde Partners with the proprietary insurance solutions platform developed by Agam, and will have the capability to price and manage complex insurance products with embedded market and actuarial risks, on a global basis. It will serve as a turnkey solution for financial modelling and enterprise risk management to provide comprehensive economic solutions to life insurance companies.
In connection with the launch of the JV, Värde Partners is seeking
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed fundraising for One Equity Partners VII, LP (Fund VII) with USD1.75 billion in total capital commitments, bringing the firm’s total AUM to USD6.5 billion.
Fund VII attracted commitments from a range of premier global institutional LPs, including pensions funds, financial institutions, family offices, asset managers, fund of funds, insurance companies and foundations.
“We are grateful for the significant support we received from new and existing limited partners in the U.S. and globally as we raised Fund VII, our second institutional fund since we spun out of JP
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