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Petsky Prunier has advised Allconnect, a technology-enabled sales and marketing solutions company that partners with utility and energy companies to help customers in more than 50 million households compare and purchase home services, on its sale to Red Ventures, a digital consumer choice platform.
Allconnect was a portfolio company of Covestco and Maveron, among other investors.
Founded in 1998, Allconnect offers customers a convenient single source to compare and connect integrated media, broadband, home protection, energy, and green products. Through more than 20 million annual consumer touch points, the company acquires customers, increases revenue, and generates higher customer satisfaction
Counsel On Call, a leading alternative legal solutions provider of technology-enabled managed legal and secondment services and portfolio company of Gridiron Capital, has acquired DSicovery, LLC (DSi), a renowned eDiscovery, digital forensics and data management company.
The combination of Counsel On Call’s expert attorneys with enhanced technology based legal solutions from DSi will offer a comprehensive and unified approach to complex business challenges and ever-changing legal demands.
With more than 35 years of combined experience serving the legal services industry, Counsel On Call and DSi have worked with half of the FORTUNE 100 and one-third of AmLaw 200, as
Apex Fund Services (Apex) has been granted official approval and licensing by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (AGDM) and has become one of the first Independent fund administrators approved to carry out Regulated Activity in the jurisdiction.
Over the past year, Apex Abu Dhabi has increase its assets under administration by 40 per cent as it goes from strength to strength in the region. Having recently acquired Equinoxe Alternative Investment Services, with the backing of Genstar Capital, Apex has stepped up to be ranked one of the world’s top 15 largest fund administrators.
Genstar Capital has partnered with existing management to acquire Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), from Vestar Capital Partners for USD720 million.
The transaction is expected to close by early fourth quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. ISS will continue to operate independently once the transaction is completed and the current ISS executive leadership team will remain in place.
“The ISS leadership team and I are extremely pleased to partner and collaborate with Genstar, whose deep experience and successful track record working with industry-leading firms such as ours, will help us further accelerate the growth of our product and service offerings
Iron Cove Partners, a national insurance brokerage specialising in the needs of the alternative asset management community, has launched the Iron Cove Hedge Fund Select Policy, through a new partnership with a Lloyd’s Cover Holder and Financial Services Syndicate.
Iron Cove’s partnership with Lloyd’s allows the firm to offer the new insurance product in exclusivity.
“I am excited by the opportunities the new partnership offers,” says Iron Cove Vice President, Gregory C Sibilio (pictured). “Our new facility addresses the full range of liability exposures for our hedge fund and private equity clients under one policy form, and our manuscript
Noerr has advised the US group HB Fuller, a manufacturer of industrial adhesives, on the strategic acquisition of competitor Royal Adhesives & Sealants in a USD1.58 billion deal.
The seller is the private equity company American Securities LLC.
The acquisition promotes HB Fuller’s continued focus on technical adhesives and other highly specialised market segments. Once the transaction is completed, combined revenue will be around USD2.9 billion. HB Fuller alone had 2016 revenue of approximately USD2.1 billion.
The Noerr team, led by London partners Dr Thomas Schulz and Robert Korndörfer, advised H.B Fuller on the aspects of the transaction
Private equity firm Vance Street Capital has partnered with management to acquire RST Instruments (RST), a provider of complex geotechnical instrumentation and data systems, from Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company.
Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, RST designs and manufactures highly-engineered geotechnical instrumentation and data systems for applications where structural integrity must be assured. End use applications for RST’s products include critical structures such as bridges, hydroelectric dams, mines, railroads, airports, tailings dams, tunnels and highways.
RST’s products monitor, measure, log and transmit readings of geotechnical properties such as inclination, pressure, displacement and temperature so
Preqin’s latest survey of alternative assets investors finds that they have generally been satisfied with the performance of their portfolios in recent years, and most are seeking to maintain or increase their allocations over the next 12 months.
However, across all closed-end private capital asset classes, investors reported high pricing as a key challenge facing the industry, with deal flow also a prominent concern.
Regarding hedge funds, investors reported performance and fees as key issues facing the industry. As dry powder has reached record highs across the private capital industry, and the number of funds seeking investment has risen,
Cove Hill Partners, a newly formed private equity firm, has closed on its first long-duration private equity fund with over USD1 billion of commitments from investors and founders.
Cove Hill’s first fund significantly exceeded its target with the support of a highly-aligned investor base comprised of families, university endowments and charitable foundations who will invest alongside the founders’ personal capital. Cove Hill focuses on partnering with outstanding management teams to build market-leading consumer and technology companies.
Launched earlier this year, Cove Hill was founded by seasoned technology and consumer private equity investor, Andrew Balson. A 17-year veteran of Bain
East African agribusiness Agilis Partners (Agilis) has completed the acquisition of the Joseph Initiative by buying the stakes of multiple minority shareholders including Dutch Oak Tree Foundation’s (DOTF) shares.
DOB Equity acted for and on behalf of DOTF. Agilis will implement a new capital structure and increase collaboration between JI and other Agilis investments, which will enhance the company’s growth prospects, financing opportunities and profitability.
JI is a leading grain management and merchandising group founded in January 2013. JI has built a network of grain collection, primary processing and storage infrastructure across Western Uganda. DOTF, an impact investor, financed
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