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Ingenious Med has secured a majority stake investment from North Bridge Growth Equity, a private equity firm focused on investing in high-growth technology companies.
Atlanta-based Ingenious Med provides a cloud-based, patient encounter platform, IM1, for the healthcare industry. The solution automates physician and care team workflow at the point of care, unifying communication, coding, revenue, and business and clinical intelligence into a single, easily integrated solution that can be accessed through mobile devices or the Web.
Ingenious Med serves 25,000 users at 900+ healthcare facilities across the US, including seven of the 10 largest hospitalist management companies as well
Fortress Risk Management has raised USD3.5 million in funding with a group of institutional investors, including Black Dragon Capital and Advantage Capital Connecticut Partners.
The investment will be used to support the company’s growth, accelerate its customer base and assist with the expansion and development of new products and services.
"We have brought together a deep bench of highly regarded industry experts who led the transformation of core in the community financial technology space and understand the desperate need for a company like Fortress,” says David Mitchell, president of Fortress Risk Management. “The old way of doing things is
Carey Olsen's financial and corporate and investment funds work in the Channel Islands, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands has been recognised in the 2015 International Financial Law Review 1000 (IFLR1000) guide.
The new results come just after the firm gained tier 1 rankings across all of its Channel Island practice areas in The UK Legal 500.
The IFLR1000 is a guide to the world’s leading financial law firms and is based on independent research which includes interviews with the featured firms, client and competitor feedback and market analysis from the past 12 months.
For the
L Capital has opened a London office headed by Paul Skipworth, the former president and managing director of Glenmorangie and senior vice president of strategy for Moet Hennessy, LVMH Wines & Spirits.
“London is a key private equity market and the UK is home to many iconic consumer brands. Our team of multi-disciplinary professionals have unique expertise in managing companies and brands with high emotional content and which offer a distinctive experience for consumers. Given the strength of the UK market and the opportunities which it offers, it is an obvious next step to expand our network into this market,”
Private equity firm Advent International has appointed Dr Dahai Yu as an operating partner.
An executive with extensive operational expertise in the international chemicals industry, Yu will advise and work closely with Advent’s chemicals team to help source new investment opportunities globally, including China, and support Advent’s global chemicals assets post-investment as appropriate.
Yu will take on an advisory role at Allnex, a supplier of coating resins and additives, which was formed following Advent’s acquisition of Cytec Industries’ coating resins business last year.
Yu’s industry experience spans over two decades. Most recently, he held various positions at one
Law firm HowardKennedyFsi has advised Christian Nellemann, chief executive and founder of XLN, following the decision by private equity firm ECI Partners to sell its stake in XLN to its management team.
XLN is a provider of fixed line and mobile telephony, broadband, energy and card processing services to small and micro businesses across the UK.
XLN’s management team is financing the purchase through vehicles managed or advised by GSO Capital Partners, a division of the Blackstone Group.
Paul Glassberg, a partner in HowardKennedyFsi’s corporate team, says: “I have been advising Christian for a number of years and
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has agreed to acquire a 29.7 per cent interest in Pamplona Capital Management’s CSC ServiceWorks.
Terms of the transaction, expected to close in December, have not been disclosed.
CSC is the largest North American route-based service provider of multi-family housing and commercial laundry services.
CSC was created In May 2013 when Pamplona simultaneously acquired Coinmach Service Corp and AIR-serv Group. Under Pamplona's ownership, CSC has expanded its senior management team, invested in information technology and systems, completed several acquisitions, and grown organically, while nearly doubling EBITDA to greater than USD325 million.
Tikehau Investment Management and Emisys Capital have jointly arranged a unitranche bond facility backing the acquisition of GF by a group of investors led by LBO Italia.
Created in 1979 by Franco Serventi, GF is a fast growing producer and distributor of automated inspection and filling machines for the pharmaceutical industry. The company is headquartered in Parma (Italy) and exports more than 80 per cent of its production worldwide.
The acquisition was completed by CR Holding, a special purpose vehicle owned by a group of investors led by LBO Italia together with GF’s founder, and financed by the unitranche
NICE Actimize has partnered with Alacra to integrate Alacra's customer onboarding and Know-Your-Customer tool, Alacra Compliance Enterprise (ACE) and Alacra's Reference Data Platform, into NICE Actimize's Customer Due Diligence (CDD) anti-money laundering solution.
Powered by Alacra and supported by NICE Actimize's extensive experience in providing anti-money laundering solutions, the NICE Actimize CDD solution will offer seamless integration with third-party data providers to allow financial institutions to easily identify and manage the investigation processes of high risk customers by leveraging external data sources to offer enhanced real-time data investigations.
The joint solution will proactively monitor the latest breaking news, as well
The private equity investment company sector has experienced its share of ups and downs over the last ten years.
The average discount for the private equity sector widened dramatically at the end of 2008 during the financial crisis to 51 per cent, compared to an investment company industry average of 18 per cent. The current average private equity sector discount (at 20 October 2014) of 19 per cent is in stark contrast with an average investment company discount of five per cent.
Whilst the private equity sector has under-performed the wider investment company sector over the last decade, performance has
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