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Northern Trust Corporation has reached an agreement with Citadel to bring Omnium technology development in-house – including a team of key development professionals as well as software development rights for its Omnium technology platform.
The agreement gives Northern Trust greater control over technological enhancements. Additionally, the transaction enables deeper collaboration between Northern Trust’s operations professionals and the team of developers to provide innovative solutions for alternative fund managers, asset managers, institutional investors and family offices worldwide.
Northern Trust acquired Citadel’s hedge fund administration business (Omnium®) in 2011 and licensed their middle and back office investment technology. That business, now
Cohen & Company has opened a new office in downtown Chicago, Illinois and announced several significant management-level hires.
The firm recently announced it had merged with Arthur Bell CPAs to create the premier, full service accounting and consulting practice supporting asset managers with the best talent, technical expertise and client service approach. This announcement illustrates Cohen & Company’s follow-through on that strategy.
As a leading US financial marketplace, Chicago is home to many of Cohen & Company’s existing clients. The new office is led by Vince Curttright, an audit partner formerly with a large, national firm. Vince brings over
Tikehau Capital, through its asset management branch Tikehau IM, has arranged a EUR33.6 million Unitranche facility to support L Catterton in its acquisition of Scandinavian fashion brand Ganni.
Founded and headquartered in Copenhagen in 2000, Ganni is a premium fashion brand offering differentiated women’s apparel. Ganni succeeded in establishing an international presence through its owned stores and more than 400 premium retailers in 20 countries including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, Germany and the US.
L Catterton took a majority stake in Ganni alongside its current management team, and will bring its unparalleled expertise in brand building and its
Private equity firm CenterGate Capital has made an investment in AC Photonics (ACP), a provider of precision optical and fibre optic components and modules designed and engineered to its customers’ precise specifications.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ACP designs and engineers its products to its customers’ precise specifications, creating photonic solutions across a wide range of fiber optic communication applications. With an industry leading quality control program that delivers high reliability products, its product portfolio includes fiber optic components and modules, both passive and active, fused and/or filter based- all of which are relied on by its customers to enhance
Carolon Capital Ltd (Carolon) is partnering with TB Capital in Sweden and Ely Solutions in the United Kingdom on the distribution of fund products throughout Europe.
Carolon is currently marketing a diverse suite of products that include both UCITS funds and non-UCITS funds. The strategies include US micro-cap, small-cap emerging markets, all-cap emerging markets, mining and natural resources, listed private equity, infrastructure and fixed income mandates.
TB Capital works with asset managers to deliver multi-strategy products to institutional investors throughout Sweden, Norway and Finland. Ely Solutions has expertise in business development for a variety of products in the financial services
Private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Talkwalker, a global listening and analytics company.
The acquisition allows the software company to leverage Marlin’s operational resources and expertise in growing technology businesses. Talkwalker’s founders and management team will continue to lead the company during this exciting new stage of growth with a focus on accelerating product innovation and international expansion.
Utilised by over 1,000 clients, Talkwalker’s state-of-the-art multi-tenant cloud platform uses AI-powered technology to analyse images and text in 187 languages across social, online and traditional media. The company’s social listening and analytics software allows
Palatine Private Equity continues to invest in its UK team with the promotion of James Painter to Investment Manager and the appointment of Mathew Thompson as Financial Controller.
Painter joined the firm in February 2016 as Investment Executive from KPMG’s corporate finance team. He has been involved in a number of transactions at Palatine including the buyout of holiday park operator Verdant Leisure, the GBP21 million investment in housebuilder Westleigh, and the firm’s investment in TTC Group, a provider of road user and cycling education courses.
More recently, Painter was involved in Palatine’s investment in ZyroFisher, the leading distributor
Sheridan Capital Partners (SCP) is to invest in SpendMend (SpendMend), a provider of spend visibility and audit recovery services to the healthcare industry.
Sheridan has invested alongside SpendMend’s founders and management, who will retain a meaningful ownership stake in the business. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, SpendMend provides audit recovery, cost containment, and spend visibility services to leading healthcare providers nationwide. SpendMend’s services deliver tangible results, including monetary recoveries, cost reduction insights, and analytics and benchmarking tools to its customer base. SpendMend is an expert in its field, having specialised in spend
Waterland Private Equity is selling its interest in the A-ROSA river cruise group to Duke Street. The British company based in London is acquiring all the shares of the European rivers premium cruise specialist together with the existing management team.
“We are delighted to have found in Duke Street a new investor who will push ahead with growth of the A-ROSA river cruise group,” says Jörg Dreisow, Managing Partner at Waterland.
The independent private equity firm acquired a majority share in the leading German river cruise provider in 2009, and has since contributed significantly to the company’s growth and
Barings has sold its investment in Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) to 3i Infrastructure.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, WIG is an independent communications infrastructure provider. The Company operates a portfolio of over 2,000 communication towers and is the United Kingdom’s market leader for the deployment of neutral host distributed antenna system networks needed to deliver mobile signals to large public venues. Barings initially made its controlling investment in WIG in December 2012, and the transaction comes as the Company continues to scale up its deployment of high capacity, 5G-ready wireless infrastructure. This includes new communication towers serving rural communities, together with small
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