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The EQT Mid Market Europe Fund (EQT Mid Market) today announced that it is partnering with co-founders Josef Wildgruber and Uwe Behr to invest in BBS Automation.
BBS Automation is a provider of flexible and high-quality automation solutions for complex manufacturing and testing processes. The company develops, builds and installs high-quality automated systems for a wide range of industries and requirements. With more than 600 employees across production sites in Germany, China, Malaysia and the US, BBS Automation partners with blue chip customers on a global scale.
EQT Mid Market intends to leverage its long-term experience in the Industrial
Honigman has appointed Norbert Knapke as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. He will serve as a member of the Corporate department and Private Equity practice group.
Knapke’s practice focuses on counselling private equity firms and operating companies on various transactional matters, such as acquisitions, recapitalisations, divestitures, financings and governance. He joins Honigman’s Chicago office from Kirkland & Ellis, where he worked on matters ranging from private and public target acquisitions, growth equity investments, initial public offerings, structuring executive compensation plans and debt financings.
“Norbert is an outstanding legal mind and a terrific example of the top tier
Tikehau Capital has acquired a stake in Filiassur to support the company’s expansion and growth in Europe. Tikehau is investing EUR30 million in the firm, a leading French direct distributor of personal insurance.
Filiassur was founded in 2007. Following a period of rapid growth in France driven by its expertise in designing and marketing innovative niche insurance solutions, it now has 300,000 policyholders. Filiassur operates in a market with a large untapped potential: ageing populations and the progressive roll-back of social security systems mean that demand for tailored personal insurance solutions now far outstrips supply.
Tikehau Capital’s investment will
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) is to acquire Cordium, a provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) services. The financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close this summer, subject to regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed.
The complementary strengths of both firms will ensure that clients will have access to the highest calibre regulatory consultancy services and technology – and will serve as the springboard for further product innovation and global expansion. The acquisition also will expand ACA’s services in Europe to include Cordium’s regulatory hosting platform, Mirabella, and a post-Brexit EU office.
Robert L Stype, CEO
Advent Capital Management has appointed Alex von Ziegesar as managing director of business development, reporting to Kris Haber, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer.
Von Ziegesar will be responsible for marketing a variety of traditional and alternative strategies in the US institutional channel.
“We’re extremely excited to welcome Alex to the Advent family, where we continue to see a need and demand from institutional investors for innovative traditional and alternative strategies given rising volatility and climbing interest rates,” says Haber. “Given his experience working across various asset classes, as well as his ability to form lasting business relationships, Alex will
Alternative investment firm Angelo, Gordon & Co has selected Intapp Terms to track and manage side letters, limited partnership agreements (LPAs) and other investor contracts.
Angelo, Gordon’s investor relations and compliance teams will use AI-assisted technology from Intapp to categorise the terms specified in each LPA and side letter as new clients are on-boarded, and then employ Intapp Terms to search and check individual investor requirements, and efficiently ensure compliance with those requirements.
The Intapp Professional Services Platform will also automate alerts to relevant employees or departments when information needs to be disclosed to investors, or when any other
Agio, a provider of managed IT and cybersecurity services, is to launch Agio SkySuite, a fully-hosted public cloud productivity and cybersecurity suite tailored for small and emerging alternative investment firms.
SkySuite is the first and only program of its kind, providing emerging funds with a fully-hosted infrastructure in Microsoft Azure’s Public Cloud. The program is an outgrowth of Agio’s ongoing partnership with Microsoft Azure, a leading public cloud service.
A comprehensive IT and cybersecurity solution, SkySuite is designed specifically for emerging funds and startups that may lack the necessary in-house resources to develop and manage their own infrastructure within
In the US alone there are more than 200,000 middle market companies with revenues between USD10 million and USD1 billion. If one narrows that range to USD50 million to USD1 billion in revenue, there are 32,000 businesses, with around 15 times as many private businesses to public businesses.
That’s a pretty big engine of economic growth and one that Brightstar Capital Partners is training its investing and operating talents on to seek out good US businesses with a clear growth trajectory.
“Our strategy has always been about how to be more than a capital provider to middle market, closely held
Leading global investment firm KKR is to take a larger stake in Cherwell Software through its Next Generation Technology Fund, which focuses on investments in software, security, Internet, digital media, and information services.
This latest investment of USD172 million will be in addition to KKR’s initial USD50 million investment made in Cherwell in February 2017.
Cherwell offers software that has enabled thousands of organisations to modernise their business operations by automating services digitally. After establishing itself as a leader in the IT Service Management (ITSM) space, Cherwell is poised to expand into the service management market, which is estimated
In mid-March, we published the first of a two-part article series with SEI Investment Manager Services on how a top-down, bottom-up solution can go some way towards helping fund managers grapple with regulatory compliance demands as efficiently as possible.
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