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Council Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, has sold its stake in Atlanta, GA-based EspriGas to an entity affiliated with Kaltroco, a private investment company with operations in both the United States and Europe.
CEO Mike Walsh will remain a significant shareholder in EspriGas alongside Kaltroco. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
EspriGas is a technology and data-driven medical and industrial gas company that utilises a network business model to manage the gas supply chain. The company leverages its unique service and technology capabilities to handle the complex logistical needs of large, multi-site companies
Appnovation has secured GBP9.3m in equity financing from a joint partnership between the Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF) and the UK’s BGF.
The investment will allow Appnovation to accelerate its international growth and expansion strategy, spurring jobs and economic growth in Canada, the UK and beyond.
Appnovation is a full-service digital consultancy, focused on delivering meaningful business outcomes that drive innovation, growth and ultimately value for its clients. Through digital strategy and a deep industry focus across a variety of verticals (including some of the largest financial services and pharmaceutical companies in the world),Appnovation’s expertise with user-centric, design-led experiences and open technology platforms, helps brands to
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated treasury management solutions, has expanded its treasury and portfolio finance solutions to support private markets fund managers.
Hazeltree Private Markets is a purpose-built cash management and investor interactions solution to improve operational efficiencies and controls, reduce risk and exposure, and drive performance opportunities.
Hazeltree Private Markets automates the lifecycle of cash management from multi-bank and internal systems aggregation to projections of known and potential cashflows to automated cash movement suggestions in line with client-configured algorithms to the execution and movement of funds across a client’s banking eco-system. Hazeltree provides treasury teams with full transparency of
Plimsoll Productions (Plimsoll) has partnered with mid-market private equity firm LDC in a deal valuing the company at around GBP80 million.
LDC has invested for a minority equity stake in Plimsoll which will continue to be led by CEO and Founder Grant Mansfield.
Headquartered in Bristol, the international centre of the natural history television industry, Plimsoll is one of the largest independent television production companies in the UK. Its BAFTA, EMMY and Academy Award-winning team specialises in wildlife, documentary, live and factual entertainment shows and it is a global leader in natural history programmes.
Since the business was founded in 2013, Plimsoll
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested GBP2 million in high-growth FinTech provider Delio Limited (Delio).
The funding will support the business scale its international sales team across key global financial locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America.
The initial GBP2 million investment in Delio, a white-label software platform which helps global financial institutions manages its private asset offerings, will also support further product innovation, including “add-on’s” to its existing innovative SaaS solution. This funding adds to the overall investment round totalling GBP3.3 million, which includes further funding from existing investor the Development
Blackstone has appointed Limin Wang as a Managing Director on the Quantitative Research team in Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM).
Limin joins from Laurion Capital Management, where he spent four years as a Portfolio Manager. Prior to that, he spent over ten years with Credit Suisse as a director on their proprietary trading desk. He also has held roles at Lehman Brothers and at Columbia University, where he served as a research scientist in theoretical physics. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil/MA in Physics from Columbia University, and a BA in Physics
Pacific Private Fund Advisors (PPFA) recently surpassed the USD1 billion milestone for invested assets under management (AUM), bringing total invested and committed AUM to over USD2.7 billion.
PPFA, a subsidiary of Pacific Global Asset Management LLC, manages private equity investment portfolios for Pacific Life’s general account and third-party institutional clients.
Specialising in alternative investments, PPFA has launched 11 private equity funds over the past five years.
“Our team has worked hard to build the investment program at PPFA,” says James Burritt, managing director of PPFA. “I am proud of our investment performance and our growth, which makes me excited about
Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology venture capital firm, has appointed healthcare technology executive and entrepreneur Ian Chiang as a Principal.
Chiang has focused on the transformation of healthcare throughout his career. He joins Flare Capital after having served as a Senior Vice President and a founding member of CareAllies, Cigna’s family of multi-payer provider services, population health management, and home-based care businesses
“Given Ian’s extensive experience in the healthcare technology sector, we are thrilled to welcome him to the investment team. In addition to his work with Cigna’s CareAllies, Ian has been a healthcare entrepreneur and has spent five
Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Lauren King as a partner in the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice in New York.
King focuses on the organisation and operation of private investment funds. She represents a wide variety of funds with extensive cross-border components, including secondary, buyout, real estate, special-opportunity, hybrid, credit and venture capital funds. King also advises private asset managers on the full spectrum of corporate matters, including governance, upper-tier structuring, succession planning, marketing and limited-partner transfers. Additionally, she represents secondary investors in connection with general partner-led restructurings and other secondary transactions. King has significant private equity and joint
Corporate and funds lawyer Andrew Tually has rejoined Carey Olsen’s its Singapore office.
Tually began working in the firm’s Guernsey office in 2007 before relocating to Carey Olsen in Singapore in 2017. Following a year with one of the leading commercial law firms in Australia, Tually returns as counsel in Carey Olsen’s Singapore corporate and funds practice to provide specialist Cayman Islands and Guernsey legal advice to the firm’s growing Asia client base.
Tually has over 12 years’ experience in connection with the structuring, formation and provision of ongoing advice to open-ended and closed-ended collective investment schemes, including private
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