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Clearwater International has advised the shareholders of healthcare consultancy Four Eyes Insight on its investment from mid-market private equity firm Livingbridge.
Founded in 2013, Four Eyes is a clinical productivity and service redesign specialist, providing detailed medical workforce plans to acute NHS trusts throughout the UK.
Stemming from the founders’ medical expertise, Four Eyes helps healthcare organisations best use their medical teams. Its service offering includes planning for demand and capacity, resource and constraint and cost improvement, allowing clients to realise savings and reduce patient waiting times.
The investment from Livingbridge will allow Four Eyes to expand its
Capstone has advised Green Dot, a telecommunications provider headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, on its deal to sell a 51 per cent stake to One Caribbean Media.
The acquisition will allow Green Dot to accelerate subscriber growth and continue expanding into new markets.
Green Dot, headquartered in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is a licensed telecommunications operator offering wireless ISP and subscription TV services to residential and business customers in Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and Suriname.
OCM is a regional media group quoted on the stock exchanges of Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados under the ticker symbol
IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has opened a new office in Manchester and made two senior hires for the North West and North London and the Home Counties.
IGF expanded its asset based lending (ABL) services earlier this year.
Richard Spielbichler, ABL director, will be leading the North West division from IGF’s new base in the heart of Manchester’s financial district. He joins IGF with 20 years of industry experience, following 12 years with GE Capital and previous business development roles within RBS Group.
Spielbichler says: “The North West boasts a thriving economy, particularly in the
Lending Club, the online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, has made two new additions to its investor group.
Valerie Kay will join Lending Club as senior vice president, head of institutional investors and Raman Suri will join as senior vice president, head of retail investors.
Both will report to Patrick Dunne, chief capital officer, who joined Lending Club in July after a 25-year career at BlackRock and other investment firms.
"A key strength of Lending Club's marketplace lies in the diversity of our capital, including the largest retail investor base of any marketplace lender and a broad institutional
TCP Capital (TCPC) has appointed M Freddie Reiss as an independent director, expanding the firm’s board of directors to seven members.
Reiss will serve on the audit committee, governance and compensation committee, and joint transactions committee.
Reiss has over 30 years of experience in strategic planning, M&A due diligence, cash management, forensic accounting and valuation.
Reiss retired from his role as a senior managing director at FTI Consulting in 2013. Prior to joining FTI, he was a partner and west region leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
He serves on a number of boards including Contech Engineered Solutions and Ares
Equistone Partners-backed Travel Counsellors, an independent provider of bespoke leisure and corporate travel, has seen a 22 per cent rise in turnover over the last 12 months.
The Manchester-based company, which has been backed by the private equity house since 2014, has reported turnover of GBP166 million for the year ending October 2015 – up from GBP136 million the previous year.
This growth is attributed to the adoption of the latest technology to enhance its services. In particular, the business has seen a 13 per cent increase globally in sales made through its in-house quote and booking technology, which
Earlybird Venture Capital has held the first closing of its Earlybird Health Tech Fund.
Headquartered in North Rhine-Westphalia, the fund will invest primarily in the field of medical technology across Europe and has a target size of EUR100 million to EUR120 million.
The fund’s investors include NRW.BANK, the Generali Insurance Group, the German household and medical products manufacturer Miele, as well as the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy with a share of the federally administered special fund of the European Recovery Program, the so-called ERP Fund.
For the first time in Germany, a public health insurer,
DOB Equity, a Dutch family office, has taken a minority shareholding in Twiga Foods, the Kenyan wholesaler, expanding its reach in the African micro-vendor food market.
DOB Equity says Twiga Foods’ integrated and tech-enabled business model reduces costs and increases convenience for vendors in Nairobi by allowing them to buy fruit and vegetables through their mobile phone and delivering supplies directly to retailers’ stalls.
In addition Twiga has become a reliable off-taker of produce for farmers, giving them the confidence to invest more in their farming.
Twiga Foods simplifies and shortens the often complex supply chains of key
Antares Capital is serving as administrative agent and sole lead arranger on a USD72 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Pathway Partners Vet Holding by investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity (MSPE).
Founded by Dr Jasen Trautwein in Austin, Texas and led by CEO Shawn McVey, Pathway is a veterinary hospital owner and operator.
Pathway owns over 30 general and specialty veterinary hospitals, providing systems and processes to enhance productivity and improve medical services while maintaining the practice’s local culture and community identity.
“The Antares team has delivered a financing structure
Dynasty Financial Partners has appointed Matthew Marsh as director of investment solutions.
Marsh will be responsible for leading investments solutions in the Western and Central divisions for Dynasty’s advisory firms, including the Dynasty TAMP, portfolio model management and rebalancing, SMA and UMA solutions, hedge funds, private equity, and capital markets.
Marsh will work closely with Scott Welch, chief investment officer, and Michael Moriarty, director of investment platforms, to provide Dynasty's network of advisory firms with technology and research to solve clients' investment needs. He will report to Todd Thomson, Dynasty Financial Partners' chairman who also chairs Dynasty’s investment committee.
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