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IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund, alongside founders Maxime Aiach, Philippe Coléon and José Dinis, has acquired Domia Group (Domia), owner of French private tutoring market specialist Acadomia and French home cleaning provider Shiva, from Metric Capital Partners.
Acadomia is the leading player in the primary, secondary, higher-education and test-prep tutoring markets (at-home, centres and online). Since 1989, Acadomia and its employees have continuously innovated to offer quality learning experiences to more than 1 million families across different geographies, backgrounds, subjects and learning needs. Acadomia now operates a network of 100 agencies and 20,000 tutors dedicated to
The Gemini Companies (Gemini) has experienced double digit growth of new private equity (PE) fund clients to date for 2018.
“The growth potential for PE funds has no ceiling. In a competitive marketplace, the ability to adapt to investor demands is key. We strive to deliver to our clients cost-effective, data-driven insights, with a level of transparency that serves as an operational differentiator for us,” says Dominique Severino from Orthogon Partners, one of Gemini’s recently launched PE funds. “Gemini has partnered with us to provide the information, efficiently and securely, which is critical to our investors.”
When surveyed, Gemini’s
A consortium of Finnish institutions, including LocalTapiola, Varma and Ilmarinen, together with Mehiläinen management and in partnership with lead investor CVC Capital Partners’ (CVC) Fund VII, has agreed to acquire Mehiläinen, a private healthcare and social care provider in Finland.
The change in Mehiläinen ownership does not impact the company’s employees, customers or business partners. Mehiläinen’s management team will remain unchanged as owners in the company.
Founded in 1909, Mehiläinen has a long and proud history of providing high quality and customer-centric healthcare and social care services to the Finnish population. Today, the company provides a full range of
BaltCap, together with majority shareholder Dasha Group AS, has sold the majority of the shares in Runway BPO to global BPO and customer experience company Webhelp.
Runway BPO is multilingual nearshore BPO firm servicing Scandinavian and international customers.
“During BaltCap’s ownership Runway has grown from being a nearshoring BPO service provider in the Baltics to being a pan-European player, having a number of call centres in the Baltics, Ukraine and Spain,” says Sandijs Abolins-Abols, member of the Supervisory Board of Runway and Partner of BaltCap. “During the 7-year period the company has tripled in size and continues to grow
JP Morgan Asset Management has partnered with iCapital Network (iCapital) to provide a white label offering exclusively for Registered Investment Advisors and their clients providing access to a select group of JP Morgan Global Alternative strategies.
“As we get later in the economic cycle, identifying alternative sources of return is an essential consideration for investors looking to build stronger portfolios. Institutional clients have long embraced alternatives as a strategic part of their asset allocation, and many high-net-worth investors continue to be under-allocated to alternatives relative to their institutional counterparts,” says Anton Pil, Managing Partner of JP Morgan Global Alternatives. “Given
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has launched AbacusGlobalSync.
The new service enables AbacusFLEX IT-as-a-Service clients with geographically diverse offices to securely synchronise files and data within the Abacus Cloud, enabling them to increase efficiency and collaboration while maintaining security and audit controls of their data.
Today’s firms are spread across the globe and often face significant latency and editing conflicts when they need to access and synchronise their data, which can decrease productivity and impact the bottom line. Recognising that firms need fast, secure access to their information, regardless
Mecadaq Group, a provider of high precision manufacturing for the aerospace industry, has acquired Hirschler Manufacturing, a US based company specialised in hard metal machining.
Based near Seattle, Washington, USA, with EUR9m in turnover, Hirschler Manufacturing produces high-precision mechanical parts made from hard metals such as titanium, stainless steel, and inconel. The company has been a strategic supplier for more than 50 years to large clients in aerospace such as Spirit AeroSystems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, or Boeing, which has given the company the ‘supplier silver award’.
By joining the Mecadaq Group, Hirschler Manufacturing brings its customer portfolio, a recognised
NorthEdge Capital (NorthEdge) has appointed two new Portfolio Directors following an active start to 2018 in which the firm has completed five transactions at a combined value of GBP160 million.
Keven Parker and Andy Tupholme both join NorthEdge as Portfolio Directors.
Parker joins NorthEdge with over 12 years’ experience in leveraged buyout transactions gained at 3i Group plc as Head of the firm’s Manchester office and one of six Partners across its UK buyout team. He joins from construction firm Shepherd Group, where he was a main board Director and Group CFO.
Tupholme joins NorthEdge with 20 years’ investment experience,
Laven Tech has appointed Alex Law as its new Technical Director for the Digital Compliance Assistant, Due Diligence Manager and Know Your Customer Assistant software products.
As Technical Director, Law will be responsible for the technical architecture for each software and providing oversight and leadership over Laven Tech’s in-house software and engineering team. Law will draw on his extensive skills as a software engineer with over 20 years of experience providing customer facings solutions from concept through release in both the United States and Europe.
Law’s experience in software automation, capacity planning and third-party data integration enables Laven to expand
Maroon Group has acquired J Tech Sales, a national distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients.
J Tech’s management team, led by Jeff Tannenbaum and Barry Tannenbaum, will remain in place and continue to actively manage the business as an operating vertical within Maroon Group. Tannenbaum and Tannenbaum will become significant shareholders in Maroon Group, which is majority-owned by CI Capital Partners. This is Maroon Group’s eighth add-on acquisition under CI Capital’s ownership. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Established in 1997, J Tech Sales is a value-add distributor to the household, industrial & institutional (HI&I); Food & Beverage;
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