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The Ufenau V German Asset Light fund, advised by Ufenau Capital Partners, has held its final closing at the fund’s hard cap of EUR227 million.
In addition to commitments from returning investors, which included entrepreneurs that form part of Ufenau’s Industry Partner network, Ufenau V received new commitments from a number of global blue chip investors.
Ufenau V was significantly oversubscribed.
Ufenau V will pursue the same investment strategy as its predecessor funds, with a focus on applying a systematic buy-and-build strategy to majority investments in asset light service companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria; entrepreneur-led companies with
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the acquisition of ProPharma Group by private equity sponsor Linden Capital Partners.
Founded in 2001 and based in Overland Park, Kansas, ProPharma is a provider of outsourced medical information, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory compliance consulting services to customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
The company has grown to a global organisation operating five contact centres across the US, Europe and Australia.
ProPharma serves a customer base which includes many of the world’s largest and well-known
Livingstone has advised Info-Assure, a provider of cyber-security and information assurance services, on its sale to BSI.
Headquartered in Farnborough, UK, Info-Assure provides information assurance, security testing and incident response services to clients in the government, defence, policing, banking, retail and energy sectors. It is one of only eleven companies worldwide accredited by CESG, the information security arm of GCHQ.
Livingstone has worked closely with Martin Walsham and the team at Info-Assure for over two years as they rapidly grew the business into one of the UK’s foremost assurance, testing and response providers including introducing consultant finance director Richard
Seacoast Capital has held the closing of Seacoast Capital Partners IV with total commitments of USD239 million.
Limited partners include banks, private pension funds, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Along with significant support from private limited partners, Seacoast received approval from the US Small Business Administration (SBA) for its fourth Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) license.
Over 85 per cent of investors from the firm’s 2012 vintage USD150 million fund, Seacoast Capital Partners III, returned to invest in Seacoast IV.
Consistent with the investment strategy of its predecessor funds, Seacoast IV
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, has reported year-on-year growth of over 30 per cent up to the end of the third quarter of 2016.
The company’s employee count also exceeded 100 as it expanded its footprint in the Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco markets.
“Year-over-year, Abacus has added 40 new clients, including firms in the United Kingdom and Sweden,” says CEO Chris Grandi (pictured), who founded Abacus in 2008. “We have also tripled our data centre capacity to meet the increasing demand for our services.”
Grandi adds that Abacus’s
A company backed by private equity firm Permira is to acquire Tricor, a provider of integrated business, corporate and investor services in Asia Pacific, from The Bank of East Asia (BEA) and NWS.
The total consideration amounts to HKD6,470 million (USD835 million), including at least HKD400 million (approximately USD50 million) in cash acquired as part of the transaction.
BEA and NWS Holdings hold 75.61 per cent and 24.39 per cent respectively, in Tricor, through East Asia Secretaries (BVI) Limited, which is Tricor's sole shareholder. Tricor’s management will become investors in Tricor alongside the Permira funds.
Founded in 2000,
OpenGamma, an open source financial software developer and provider of derivatives risk analytics, has raised USD13.3 million from institutional investors.
The funds will be used to address increasing demand from financial institutions for more efficient use of capital and technology resources.
By deploying a range of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions based on an open source library of standardised derivatives pricing and risk models, OpenGamma is offering a more cost-effective and nimble alternative to legacy, enterprise-wide platforms.
Accel and ICAP are leading the funding, with additional investment from financial technology pioneer, Cristóbal Conde. Conde joined the OpenGamma board in 2014
MTS Health Investors, a healthcare-focused private equity fund, has closed its fourth fund, MTS Health Investors IV, with USD365 million in limited partner and general partner commitments.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its fundraising cap.
Senior managing director Curtis S Lane says: “We are grateful for the ongoing support of our existing investors and pleased to add a distinguished group of new investors to this fund. MTS recognises the confidence our partners have placed in us and will continue to work diligently to execute our strategy.”
Fund IV will continue MTS’s focus on investing in businesses
Marlin & Associates’ client BillingTree has completed a majority recapitalisation with Parthenon Capital Partners in partnership with BillingTree's senior management team.
BillingTree is a provider of omni-channel, integrated payments solutions to the healthcare, ARM and financial services industries.
Parthenon is a growth-oriented private equity firm that partners with and invests in leading management teams and their companies.
Marlin & Associates, a boutique investment banking and strategic advisory firm, acted as exclusive strategic and financial adviser to BillingTree in the transaction.
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, BillingTree was established in 2003 to meet the market's growing need for a
ClearlySo, a European impact investment bank, has completed a GBP1.1 million equity investment into Latimer Group, a youth co-creation agency, from a mix of institutional and individual investors.
Latimer is using the capital to accelerate the growth of its agency business, bring in senior hires and build out its technology platform, Bulbshare.
Latimer specialises in building communities that help drive rapid innovation for brands and partner organisations. In the last five years, the Latimer team has worked with over 50,000 young people to generate insights that lead to co-created content using unique methodology that puts consumers at the heart of
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