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Rizing, a privately held backed by private equity firm One Equity Partners, has acquired Aasonn, an SAP SuccessFactors Professional Services Firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Aasonn joins /N SPRO, a leading SAP Human Capital Management (HCM), SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Retail services firm under the Rizing HCM business portfolio.
Mike Maiolo, CEO of Rizing says: “The acquisition of Aasonn begins our journey on an aggressive growth strategy both organically and through acquisitions with our new investment partner, One Equity Partners. Our objective is to grow service offerings to support SAP’s initiatives around S/4HANA, Leonardo and Cloud solutions globally.”
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, have agreed a partnership to support the future growth of RIBA Enterprises Ltd, the commercial arm of the RIBA which trades as NBS.
NBS is a provider of technology, content and data services to professionals in the architectural, engineering and construction industries. Headquartered in Newcastle, NBS employs more than 200 people and for the financial year ending December 2017 recorded a turnover of GBP20.5 million.
The RIBA is the global professional body for architects and a registered charity with one of the largest and
Funds managed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have agreed to sell a majority stake in Karl Eugen Fischer, a manufacturer of cord-cutting machines for the tyre industry.
Equistone acquired Karl Eugen Fischer in August 2013 and is now selling its stake to DBAG Fund VII, managed by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG. Management will retain a shareholding in the company. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed.
Founded in 1940 in Burgkunstadt, Germany, Karl Eugen Fischer began developing cutting and pressing machines in 1949 and has produced cord-cutting machines for the tyre industry since the mid-1970s, laying the foundation for
Eight Advisory, a financial and operational consultancy firm specialising in transactions, restructuring and transformation, has hired former EY senior partner, Steve Taylor to expand its valuation practice in the UK.
Taylor joins with more than 25 years’ experience in valuations, advising governments, private equity firms, lawyers and corporates. He brings extensive knowledge in the industrial products, consumer products and financial services and is particularly well known for taking expert roles on fairness opinions and in commercial litigation.
Taylor joins a well-established European valuation team of 30 full time specialists at Eight Advisory to expand the UK and to provide
Cappitech, a provider of automated regulatory reporting technology for the financial services industry, has secured USD4 million in series A financing.
The financing round was led by 83North with participation from Rony Grushka and Kevin Gould, co-founders of Markit, one of the world’s most highly respected financial information companies with a market cap of USD20 billion. As part of the agreement, Rony Grushka, renowned for his expertise in accelerating global business growth, joins the Cappitech board.
Cappitech, a RegTech100 company which has been self-funded to date, plans to use the funds to accelerate product development, expand regulatory reach and
LBO France has acquired a majority stake in My Media Group, an independent French media buying agency.
Since it was founded in 2005, My Media has developed specific know-how in optimising TV-to-Web media campaigns (ie, the impact of offline communication, mainly television, on online traffic) and search engine optimisation (SEO) through Search Foresight, which is the leader in SEO consultancy in France.
My Media Group currently has more than 500 clients, for whom it manages each year more than EUR1 billion gross media space. As a leader in developing media strategies directly targeting customer acquisition, the company is particularly well
Eventador.io, a fully-managed Stream-Processing-as-a-Service provider has closed a USD3.8 million seed round (including conversion of USD1.3 m angel round) led by LiveOak Venture Partners with participation by Deep Space Ventures, RSH Ventures, Capital Factory and joined by existing investor, Keshif Ventures.
Venu Shamapant, Partner at LiveOak will join the board of directors.
Since launching in late 2016, Eventador has become the leading fully-managed streaming data solution built on Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. Customers can easily build, deploy, and manage modern streaming data applications, including a market-leading bring-your-own-cloud deployment model, without having to worry about the complex underlying infrastructure.
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has successfully raised GBP144.5 million of capital for Apposite Healthcare Fund II and associated vehicles.
Apposite received strong support from existing investors and a well-diversified group of new investors comprising fund of funds, financial institutions, family offices, endowments, foundations and corporates from Europe, Asia and the US.
Apposite Capital is dedicated solely to healthcare investment and operates at the small end of the private equity market. It has been successful in building market leaders since 2006 providing both capital and expertise to healthcare businesses in the UK
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has hired three associates to join its business development team – Michelle Benner, Ana Burke and Jose Rincon who all join as vice presidents, business development.
The trio will focus on new business development for UMBFS’ array of services for the asset management industry which include fund accounting, administration, tax, investor services, transfer agency, custody and distribution.
In addition, UMBFS has promoted Chanté Schultz to assistant vice president, business development. In her role, she will support the new business development efforts of the national sales team.
“We are committed to expanding our registered fund and alternative investment
Emerging market private equity funds offer institutional investors diversification, differentiated return drivers and an exposure to sector and geographical areas not accessible through stock exchanges. However, their performance is still unclear.
Data from eFront, the world’s leading alternative investment management software and solutions provider, shows that the pooled average performance of emerging market funds is lower than in developed markets, with returns of 1.46x and 1.55x respectively.
However, as a result of emerging markets being heavily focused on venture and growth capital investments, which have a longer time to liquidity and report the value of their portfolio as the
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