Latest News
Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners’ portfolio company Aakash Chemicals & Dye-Stuffs has acquired Sandream Impact, a supplier of colourants and other specialty chemicals to the cosmetic, personal care, and nutritional markets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Sandream Impact serves a broad base of customers across the United States, Canada, and Europe, offering a comprehensive line of pearlescent pigments, nutraceuticals, and cosmetic actives. The acquisition of Sandream Impact by Aakash Chemicals brings a highly complementary focus on colorants and cosmetics and expands the product line of Aakash Chemicals in the special effect pearlescent pigments category.
“CenterOak has a
Canoe Intelligence (Canoe) a new AI-driven solution aimed at eliminating manual data entry for alternative asset investors. Canoe’s technology allows institutions, LPs, and family offices to automate data extraction and data management and refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth.
“Canoe is leading the charge against manual data entry,” says Seth Brotman (pictured), Canoe CEO. “Investors demand solutions to reduce the burdens of manual data extraction and management. “Canoe is that solution. By leveraging artificial intelligence, we empower allocators of all sizes to make better use of their teams’ capital resources and time. Canoe helps allocators make
The Nobel Sustainability Growth Fund, which makes UK sustainable private equity investments to build technology, manufacturing, services and asset development and is managed by Jim Totty and Nick Curtis, is close to its first close.
Launched in partnership with the Nobel Sustainability Trust ,which was founded by members of the Nobel Family, and Earth Capital, the global investment group founded by Gordon Power and Stephen Lansdown, co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, the fund invests in UK businesses that can address global markets.
Totty explains that Lansdown and Power have worked together for 20 years and are big supporters of sustainability through
Eaton Partners, a private capital advisory and fund placement firm and a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), has made several key hires, across geographies, to better serve clients in the private capital markets.
Professionals are being added in the firm’s New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Shanghai locations.
“With offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia, we are everywhere our clients need us to be,” says Peter Martenson, Partner at Eaton Partners. “At a time when fund raising is becoming more specialised, both by sector and geography, we are committed to adding associates that
IW Capital has today announced senior loan funding of GBP1.1 million to assist in the acquisition of Troika Systems, a specialist supplier to the printing and packaging industry, by Fresh Equity Limited.
Troika Systems Ltd is a long-established and award-winning UK manufacturer and distributor of 2D and 3D microscope scanning and management systems. Fresh Equity Limited, a Midlands-based SME investor, will be working with the management team to further grow the sector profile of Wiltshire-based Troika and its presence in the global marketplace.
The acquisition marks the first transaction that IW Capital has completed with Fresh Equity. Both parties
Maples Fiduciary, a provider of fiduciary, corporate formation and administration services to investment funds, partnerships, structured finance vehicles, corporate entities and private clients, has extended its Middle East offering to Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).
As a financial free zone, ADGM is an independent jurisdiction encompassing the entire Al Maryah Island with rules and regulations aligned with international best practices. In addition, ADGM’s three independent authorities – Registration Authority, Financial Services Regulatory Authority and the ADGM Courts – provide a controlled environment that enables registered companies to conduct business and operate with confidence. The extension of our offering to ADGM
Corviglia Capital Fund, a global fintech growth equity investor, has launched with a target of raising USD500 million in capital commitments.
The fund has been established in Luxembourg by two experienced entrepreneurs and executives – Petr Šmída and Cezary Smorszczewski – who each managed financial institutions valued at USD10 billion. Building its presence in London and Berlin, the fund aims to deploy USD250 million in the first three years, which has already been secured in the fund’s first closing.
“Banking and financial services are entering a period of unprecedented change with the leadership of the best entrepreneurs of today.
Syncron, a provider of cloud-based after-sales service solutions, has secured a USD67 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners.
The partnership with Summit Partners will support Syncron’s continued development of its category-leading enterprise SaaS solutions and further expansion of its global operations.
Servitisation – where organisations transition from selling one-off products to selling the output or value that products deliver – is leading manufacturers to evolve their after-sales service operations from reactive, break-fix models focused on repair execution, to a new paradigm focused on dynamic repair prevention and maximising product uptime.
Syncron offers a fully
BB&T Securities has selected CAIS to bolster its range of alternative investment offerings and can now offer access to hedge funds, private equity and debt, real estate and other non-traditional investment strategies to its financial advisers.
“BB&T Securities’s adoption of CAIS demonstrates our platform’s flexibility to serve wealth management firms of all sizes,” says Brad Walker, Managing Director at CAIS. “With a cumulative buying power of USD1 trillion, the CAIS advisor-network remains the platform of choice for alternative investment managers seeking access to the fragmented US wealth management channel.”
CAIS is an open-architecture alternative investment product platform offering wealth
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Jonathan Harrison as a Managing Director in its Business Services Group, based in London.
Harrison brings with him over 20 years of sector coverage and extensive deal experience joining from Robert W. Baird, where over the last decade he has been instrumental in creating and leading a preeminent business services practice in Europe. Prior to Baird, Jonathan led the Business Services investment banking sector activities for Deutsche Bank in EMEA.
“The success and growth of our Business Services Group over the past few years have been driven by bankers with a strong
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
