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Shore Capital Partners (Shore Capital) has sold The Stepping Stones Group (SSG) to Five Arrows Capital Partners (Five Arrows), with Shore Capital retaining a minority stake.
The Stepping Stones Group is a provider of therapy and education solutions to children with special needs and autism in educational settings. Led by CEO Anthony Rintala, SSG has approximately 900 clinicians providing services to over 300 school districts and 42,000 children across more than 20 states in the US.
Five Arrows Capital Partners is the North American corporate private equity business of Rothschild Merchant Banking (“RMB”), the investment arm of Rothschild &
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has led a new USD42 million growth investment in digital personal finance platform MoneyLion. The company will use the funds to expand its product line.
Edison invested USD15 million of the USD42 million follow-on investment. In total, Edison has now invested USD27 million in MoneyLion and the company has raised over USD67 million in equity financing. MoneyLion has experienced nearly 100 percent compound annual growth since Edison’s initial investment in November 2016.
Financially underserved consumers spend an unthinkable USD173 billion annually to manage their day-to-day financial lives, including USD97 billion on short-term credit
The last couple of years have been a period of recovery for the EU. Since Q2 2016, GDP growth has been on an upward trajectory, having risen by 2.3 per cent year-on-year, according to Eurostat. That is even stronger than the US, which, by comparison, grew by 2.2 per cent.
A rising tide lifts all boats and in that respect, Italy has seen rising valuations and multiples, but it is fair to say that the country is still slightly lagging behind its EU neighbours including Germany and France.
Not that this is a bad thing. Indeed, for private equity
Following on from the GP survey it produced earlier this year, SEI once again partnered with Preqin, this time to garner the views of investors to understand how they approaching alternative asset investing.
Equity investments made through the ENVESTORS investor network have surpassed GBP100 million in value.
To date, ENVESTORS has facilitated investments in 212 companies, with multiple funding rounds resulting in over 810 deals in those businesses. The average investment secured by these companies was around GBP475,000, with investors making an average investment of GBP40,000.
The company that secured the investment that broke ENVESTORS’ GBP100m threshold is CARELINELIVE, a cloud-based management platform for the domiciliary (home care) industry. CARELINELIVE successfully raised GBP330,000, the maximum funding required to support its platform. CARELINELIVE enables a care agency to run their entire business from
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Brant K Brown ,an associate general counsel at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), as counsel in the firm’s Washington office.
Brown’s hire is the latest regulatory addition to the firm’s Washington office in recent months, following former Chairman (and Director of the Office of Enforcement) of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Norman C. Bay and former Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury Priya R. Aiyar, who joined the firm in September.
“Brant’s strong reputation and experience bring added depth to our team of asset management
WillScot Corporation (Williams Scotsman) has acquired Onsite Space (Tyson Onsite) expanding its Ready to Work services to customers in the Midwest, most notably in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
The acquisition increases Williams Scotsman’s offering by approximately 1,750 units.
Brad Soultz, president and chief executive officer of Williams Scotsman, says: “We are excited to announce the addition of Tyson Onsite to our Company. Tyson Onsite is highly complementary to the Williams Scotsman market strategy and strengthens our position in key Midwestern markets. I am pleased to welcome Tyson Onsite employees to our Company and look forward to the many growth opportunities ahead
Northlane Capital Partners (NCP) has invested in Smart Wave Technologies Corp, a designer and manufacturer of innovative electronic and electromechanical systems for a broad range of end markets, including the away-from-home restroom market.
NCP invested alongside SmartWave founder Peter Zosimadis, who remains with the company as its Chief Technology Officer. Industry veteran Jack Vresics joined SmartWave as CEO at close. The NCP team previously invested in a successful business led by Vresics within the same core end market as SmartWave.
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Toronto, SmartWave designs and manufactures components for products that require sensing, verifying, or dispensing
Midland Basin Partners (MBP) has agreed a USD75 million credit facility with Orion Energy Partners, to fund the expansion of MBP’s existing midstream platform focused on water infrastructure.
MBP provides responsible water sourcing, transportation and storage solutions to energy producers in the Permian Basin, with an initial focus on the Midland Basin. Orion Energy provides creative capital solutions to middle market energy infrastructure businesses across North America and select international markets.
“Our partnership with Orion Energy will provide MBP with the long-term strategic and financial support we need to grow our business and achieve our goal of serving our
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has completed a GBP1.95 million investment in eSafe Global Limited (eSafe), which monitors online user behaviour and cyber bullying within a school or college digital environment.
The funding will enable eSafe to take advantage of wider market opportunities which have arisen as a result of increased legislative, regulatory and political pressures to incorporate improved safeguarding monitoring systems within the education sector. The new investment will also support the expansion of eSafe’s sales, marketing and operational teams at its Salford headquarters, along with further development of its innovative service and technology platforms.
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