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Clearview Capital Fund III, an affiliate of Clearview Capital, is to sell Advanced Medical Personnel Services (AMPS), a healthcare staffing company, to AMN Healthcare Services, and innovator in healthcare workforce solutions and staffing services.
The sale price is USD200 million, with up to an additional USD20 million to be paid based on AMPS’s 2019 financial performance. The transaction is expected to close in early June and is subject to customary closing conditions.
AMPS is an innovative healthcare staffing company specialising in the placement of therapists and nurses in contract positions across multiple settings including hospitals, schools, clinics, skilled nursing
ARQIS has advised Alloheim Senioren-Residenzen SE on the acquisition of the Meppen-based Pro Talis Group, which is active in inpatient care, outpatient care, day care and assisted living.
The takeover is subject to the approval of the relevant antitrust authorities. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
The Pro Talis Group operates 14 senior citizens’ centres with more than 1,100 nursing beds, an ambulance service, two day-care centres and two assisted living facilities with a total of 54 apartments. Since the founding of the family business by Egbert Möller in 2003, the company has steadily expanded
Alantra, an independent global investment banking and asset management firm, has advised Inflexion and Vivona Brands (Vivona) on the sale of the business to US based private equity firm, Webster Equity Partners.
Vivona (formerly NPW) was founded in 1992 and aims to deliver on-trend beauty, wellbeing and lifestyle brands to global retailers and beauty-savvy consumers. Headquartered in the UK, Vivona’s products are sold internationally through partnerships with major retailers including Ulta Beauty, CVS, Walgreens and Target in the US and Sephora, Superdrug and Boots in EMEA. Its portfolio includes a number of hero brands such as Oh K!, a range
Sphera, a global provider of Integrated Risk Management software and information services with a focus on Environmental Health & Safety, Operational Risk and Product Stewardship, has acquired SiteHawk, a software and services provider for Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and chemical data management solutions.
Sphera acquired SiteHawk, a Smyrna, Tennessee-based software company, to advance usability and capabilities for chemical management and managed regulatory content. The SiteHawk product accelerates Sphera’s next phase of product integration for Product Stewardship into SpheraCloud, the Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that was launched in 2017.
SiteHawk’s chemical management products are used in many of
How and what we eat in restaurants or on-the-go is changing thanks to new robotics startup Karakuri which has secured a GBP7million seed investment, led by Ocado.
With growing demand for personalised nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle, Karakuri uses the latest innovations in robotics, machine learning, optics and sensors to allow restaurants and food retailers to offer personalised, freshly prepared, high quality meals, which maximise nutritional benefits and minimise food waste.
Research shows that almost two-thirds of consumers globally follow a diet that limits or prohibits consumption of some foods or ingredients. Whether you have a food intolerance
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM) – a Cambridge-based health tech startup that helps doctors and healthcare providers to deliver personalised treatment regimens – has raised GBP2.1 million in venture capital funding, raised from Longwall Venture Partners, IQ Capital and Martlet, the investment arm of the Marshall of Cambridge group.
Several leading Cambridge Angel investors took part in the financing, including the well-known serial entrepreneur, Sherry Coutu CBE.
Closed Loop Medicine is a new breed of therapeutics company that combines proven drug treatments with digital therapeutics. Digital therapeutics deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients that are driven by high quality software programs
Omnes has completed the buyout of Camerus Group which it has invested in since 2013. Omnes becomes a minority shareholder alongside Bpifrance and Siparex Mezzanine.
This refinancing deal allows Camerus Group to continue its ambitious organic development and external growth strategy. In this instance the Group has completed a build-up deal on Lign’Expo.
Camerus Group is one of the leading French furniture rental companies for trade fairs, conferences and professional events. With three locations in Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, the Group generated more than EUR16 million in revenues in 2018. It is the preferred partner for major trade fairs
Akin Gump has advised Lighthouse, one of India’s leading, middle market private equity firms, in the final closing of Lighthouse India Fund III, with a value of USD230 million, and with additional capital available for co-investment opportunities. Fund III closed on 30 April, 2019.
Investors in Fund III include global institutions and a number of global endowments, pension funds and family offices. Including predecessor funds, Lighthouse now advises and manages cumulative assets under management of nearly USD500 million.
Akin Gump served as international legal counsel for Fund III, assisting on fund structuring, fund documentation and investor negotiations. Investment management partner
Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity consulting firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has acquired inCyber Security, inCyber Compliance’s consultancy division.
The acquisition gives Drawbridge Partners a portfolio of high-profile and long-term clients as the firm continues its impressive growth and focus on expanding its advisory, product and application portfolio.
Through the acquisition of inCyber’s best-in-class cyber advisory business, Drawbridge reinforces its holistic consultancy and solutions-based offering, providing financial services firms more tailor-made cyber programs, technical assessments, and strategic advice to ensure they have access to the highest degree of protection against internal and external threats.
Institutional alternative asset manager Crestline Investors has appointed Steven List as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of the firm’s Recovery Funds. He will be based at Crestline’s Fort Worth office.
“Steven joins us with over 25 years of asset management and corporate restructuring experience. His unique skill set is a great fit to help manage Crestline’s Recovery Funds while also providing the firm a great senior resource,” says Douglas Bratton, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Crestline.
List was previously a Partner at CR3 Partners, a national restructuring firm where he focused specifically on interim management, bankruptcy and
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