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Scottish Equity Partners-backed Exco InTouch, a provider of patient engagement, data capture and digital health solutions for the clinical research and healthcare industry, has been acquired by ERT, a provider of patient data collection solutions for use in clinical drug development.
The combined organisation will provide the biopharmaceutical industry with electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA), patient engagement and digital health supporting the entire clinical development to commercialisation spectrum.
Jan Rutherford, a partner at SEP and non-executive director of Exco InTouch, says: “Exco InTouch has been widely recognised as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK, quadrupling its turnover over the last three years and increasing its staff to over
ClearlySo has launched ClearlySo ATLAS, an impact assessment solution for private equity and venture capital investors.
Octopus Ventures, a London based venture capital firm, is the first customer to go-live and is in the process of rolling out the solution across its portfolio.
ClearlySo ATLAS helps private equity and venture capital investors assess the social and environmental impact of their investments and provides practical suggestions for action. Research increasingly shows that there is a positive correlation between impact and financial return, and lack of awareness about negative impact is a risk.
The methodology ClearlySo ATLAS uses to assess
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has appointed Fazle Husain as a partner and head of US healthcare.
Husain will be based in CVC’s New York office and will join the firm in January.
Husain joins CVC from the private equity firm Metalmark Capital where he was head of healthcare investing, having joined in 2007.
Prior to joining Metalmark, Husain was a managing director at Morgan Stanley in the private equity business, where he spent 18 years.
He has a successful track record of investing in healthcare companies for over 25 years, including investments in the healthcare
New Water Capital Partners, a Boca Raton-based private equity investment firm focused on lower-middle market companies in transition, has promoted Andrew Ravenna to vice president.
Since joining New Water Capital as a senior associate, Ravenna has been instrumental to the growth of the fund and a key factor to the firm’s success since closing the fund.
Prior to joining New Water Capital in 2015, Ravenna worked for Milestone Partners, Arsenal Capital Partners and Barclay’s Capital.
KKR has held the final closing of KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Fund (NGT), a USD711 million fund dedicated to growth equity investment opportunities in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) space in North America, Europe and Israel.
The fund is focused on generating strong returns for investors by investing in high-growth companies.
Beyond access to financial capital, KKR offers partner companies access to KKR’s operational expertise, network, industry expertise, global reach and insights from its more than 100 current portfolio companies worldwide, which translates into over USD7 billion in IT spend and over USD10 billion in marketing spend
Eaton Partners, a placement agents and advisory firm for private fund sponsors, has formed a distinct team that will work with and raise capital for unique private credit strategies globally.
Targeted strategies include asset-backed and direct corporate lending, distressed debt, real estate credit, and other specialty credit.
The team will primarily focus on representing credit managers located in the US, Europe and Asia.
“Recent regulatory hurdles have led to a secular retrenchment from banks in the commercial lending arena, and as a result, we’ve seen that opportunities for private credit managers are greater than ever,” says Jeff Davis
PIMCO has formed a joint venture with Solar Capital Partners as the firm continues to develop and expand its private credit platform.
Solar Capital Partners is an investor in private corporate credit with a 10-year track record of making private loans to corporate borrowers. The firm also has a network of relationships with middle market borrowers and private equity sponsors.
PIMCO is an alternatives manager with more than USD27 billion in alternative assets with a significant presence in private corporate credit across a range of strategies.
The joint venture is the result of collaboration between PIMCO and Solar Capital
Irish independent investment management service provider Crossroads Capital Management (CCM) has licensed AlphaDesk, the cloud-based software provider to hedge funds and other investment managers.
In partnership with AlphaDesk, CCM enables both discretionary and non-discretionary investment managers to access a fully integrated portfolio management and order management system for trading, compliance monitoring and portfolio risk reporting.
With increased regulation in Europe, the market for investment management platform solutions has expanded rapidly in recent years, particularly with AIFMD.
Donnacha Loughrey (pictured), managing director for Crossroads Capital Management, says: "We are delighted to partner with a leading technology provider such as
The number of mid-sized US companies already engaged in or open to buying and selling has risen sharply since last year, setting the stage for a very active 2017 merger market, according to the sixth annual Citizens Commercial Banking Middle Market M&A Outlook.
The survey of 600 business leaders shows a significant increase in the level of interest among both buyers and sellers compared to 2016.
“It’s looking like 2017 is going to be an active year for M&A, with our survey showing a significant increase in the number of companies interested in selling,” says Bob Rubino, executive vice
Wing Venture Capital has closed Wing Two, its USD250 million second fund.
Wing Two has the backing of universities and private foundations.
Wing is a venture capital firm devoted to early-stage, long-term company building in business technology. The firm was founded in 2013 by Gaurav Garg and Peter Wagner, two veteran venture investors whose collective body of work includes dozens of early-stage companies, 16 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plus outcomes following IPOs or acquisitions.
Prior to launching Wing, Garg and Wagner were partners at Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, respectively. Notable companies they have helped build
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