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An affiliate of HIG Capital, along with Split Rock Partners, has closed the acquisition of HelpSystems.
Headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN, HelpSystems is a leading provider of system & network management, business intelligence, and security & compliance solutions. With over 9,000 customers across a broad range of industries, HelpSystems is the market leader within system & network management for the IBM-i operating system and is rapidly expanding its presence on the Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms.
Fraser Preston (pictured), Managing Director at HIG, says: “We are excited to begin our journey with Chris Heim, Dan Mayleben, and the rest
Clearlake Capital Group is to acquire Syncsort Incorporated, a global Big Data enterprise software provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Syncsort provides powerful, secure, enterprise-grade software that spans “Big Iron to Big Data,” including fast-growing analytical platforms such as Apache Hadoop, Splunk, Apache Spark, and the cloud, as well as more mature platforms such as the IBM z Systems mainframe. Syncsort continues to build upon an over 40 year track record of delivering innovation for the most important industrial-scale data platforms in the world, allowing organisations to collect, integrate, sort and
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Etraveli Holding AB, a portfolio company of Segulah IV, on its sale to ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG for EUR235 million.
For ProSiebenSat.1, Etraveli represents its largest international investment in eCommerce to date and it complements its travel portfolio brand 7Travel.
Etraveli is one of Europe’s largest Online Travel Agents, combining leading flight booking and metasearch capabilities.
The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, and operates in 40 countries and four continents. In 2014, Etraveli generated EUR900 million in Total Transaction Value and EUR69 million in Net Revenue. In the first
BGF (Business Growth Fund) is continuing to expand its team across the North of England with the appointment of Rob Johnson who will be based in the firm’s Leeds office.
Johnson joins BGF from Deloitte where he worked across mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and restructuring. Johnson joins BGF’s 60-strong nationwide investment team responsible for identifying investment opportunities and managing the deal process from origination through to completion. BGF’s investors also provide support either as board members or observers in the companies they back.
BGF has also announced the appointment of Pinesh Mehta who will be based in the
Laurie Coben (pictured) has joined Everocore’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director. Coben will lead Evercore's efforts in the Power and Utilities sector in New York.
Coben was most recently a Managing Director and the Global Co-Head of the Energy & Power Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. With over 30 years of investment banking experience and 21 years focused on the Power sector, she has advised clients on a number of notable strategic transactions, including advising PPL on its acquisitions of E.On's US business, AES on its acquisition of DPL, and Duke Energy on the
Cable TV ad management company Viamedia has received an additional growth capital investment from its private equity owner, Chicago-based Lake Capital.
The funds will be used to finance Viamedia's expansion with new partners and into new growth areas in cable TV spot and programmatic TV advertising by bringing to market new ad tech software solutions. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Lake Capital made its initial strategic investment in Viamedia in December 2010 to complement its portfolio of digital and marketing service businesses. Viamedia has recently signed up additional multi-channel video programming distributors (MVPDs) including the renewal
Xpenditure has raised USD5.7 million in Series A financing. Xpenditure offers expense management solutions for enterprise and SME customers in 40 countries, and integrates with all major online accounting platforms.
Xpenditure aims to become the market leader in expense management.
The USD5.7 million Series A round was led by various private investors, including existing shareholder Bart Swanson (Summly, Badoo, Amazon). Previous investors also include Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens (Netlog, Twoo – sold to IAC), and Jonas Dhaenens (Combell).
The round, one of the largest Series A by a Belgian enterprise SaaS to date, confirms expense management as
The saying goes that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ but when it comes to staying cyber secure, nothing could be further from the truth. Fact is, investment managers should be integrating cybersecurity issues, be they regulatory updates, software updates from their IT vendors, into their weekly meetings.
Even if it takes up just a few minutes of the agenda, getting into the habit of keeping staff aware of cybersecurity developments will allow it to become part of a firm’s broader risk management program and potentially mitigate human error; often the cause of so many internal data breaches.
In other words, cybersecurity should
The latest factsheet from Preqin provides a roundup of private equity fundraising in the third quarter, featuring breakdowns of fund closures by strategy and geography, data for time spent on the road, dry powder, and the 10 largest private equity funds to close in Q3.
View the full factsheet here.
Palatine Private Equity has completed the management buyout of Vernacare, the UK’s market leading provider of single use infection control systems to the healthcare sector. This is Palatine’s first deal from the GBP220m Fund III which closed in June this year.
Based in Bolton, Vernacare employs over 200 staff across the UK and North America and sells to a varied customer base in more than 50 countries worldwide.
The company manufactures and supplies a range of products including the Vernacare system, which is the most widely adopted single-use disposable system in the UK healthcare market. It is comprised of
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