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Private equity firm Sterling Partners has partnered with Q-Centrix, an outsourced healthcare outcomes data provider focused exclusively on serving the quality departments of acute care hospitals.
Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
“Q-Centrix has quickly become a national leader in core measure and registry abstraction services over the last several years across the US, serving hundreds of client healthcare facilities and their patients,” says Dan Hosler, principal at Sterling Partners. “We are excited to help Q-Centrix continue its growth trajectory, as it benefits from the health care system’s shift to an increasingly quality-based reimbursement model, which creates regulatory
Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has exited Société d’Articles Hygiéniques (SAH), a Tunisian feminine and baby hygiene products manufacturer, following the company’s listing on the Tunis Stock Exchange (TSE).
The fixed offer price of TND9.35 per share values SAH at TND270.5m (USD163.5m).
The sale of 14,176,590 shares, representing 48.99 per cent of the company’s capital at listing, allowed ECP’s investment to deliver a cash multiple of 2.4x on exit.
SAH’s IPO was split into a global private placement, which represented 90 per cent of the shares offered and was fully subscribed by 85 local and international investors, and a
Munich-based Aurelius Group has sold the healthcare activities of ITC firm brightONE (Eschborn) to T-Systems International.
The business was sold as part of a share and asset deal. The transaction also involved the service and maintenance operations in India, in addition to the German and Dutch units.
The sale is currently awaiting approval from the competition authorities.
A team from CMS Hasche Sigle led by Stuttgart-based partner Dr Maximilian Grub advised the inhouse team at Aurelius AG on the legal aspects of the transaction, with support from CMS Derks Star Busmann.
The brightONE Group's healthcare business covers
HowardKennedyFsi, has advised on an offer for subscription to raise a further GBP10m for The City Pub Company (East) PLC and The City Pub Company (West) PLC under the Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Prior to the offer, the companies had already raised some GBP13m under the EIS.
The offer, supported by EIS promoter RAM Capital, was fully subscribed in less than two weeks.
Lenny Norstrand, founder of RAM Capital, says: “In all my time as an EIS fundraiser, I have never seen a company close so quickly after launching their prospectus as City Pub Company has recently done.”
The Riverside Company has completed the fundraising for its latest fund, Riverside Capital Appreciation Fund VI (RCAF VI), at USD1.5bn, 50 per cent above its USD1bn target.
This makes it the largest fund in the 25-year history of the global private equity firm dedicated to the smaller end of the middle market.
Like all Riverside funds, RCAF VI targets healthy, growing companies that can benefit from the firm’s hands-on, global resources.
Riverside seeks to double or triple EBITDA in its investments, using its considerable operating resources to globalise businesses, drive organic growth, and complete strategic add-on investments. RCAF
Encore Consumer Capital has promoted Kevin Murphy to managing director and Bill Shen to director.
Murphy is a board member of Encore investments Atlantic Aqua Farms, MyChelle, Tarte and ThunderWorks. He has been with Encore since soon after the firm's founding in 2005.
Robert Brown, Encore co-founder and managing director, says: "Kevin was our first key hire and is a great asset to the firm. He is a strong leader of our investments and a great partner to our management teams. We are thrilled to promote him to managing director."
Prior to joining Encore Murphy worked at Genstar
Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private investment firm focused on middle market healthcare and technology companies, has promoted two investment professionals.
The promotions further strengthen the firm's investment team as it continues to invest Riverside Fund V, a USD561m equity fund.
David Del Papa (pictured) has been promoted to principal. He has over five years of private equity experience and joined the firm in 2012 as a vice president. He has been involved in all facets of the investment process and played a key role on several Riverside Partners investments including ITC Global, First Light Fiber (formerly Tech Valley Communications), Thinklogical,
Middle market private equity firm BV Investment Partners’ Fund VII portfolio company, PetroSkills, has acquired Resource Development Company, a provider of e-Learning content and software to the petroleum industry.
RDC's ePilot e-Learning content library, which covers disciplines within midstream, downstream and related oil, gas and chemical markets, complements PetroSkills' expansive library of technical content and enhances PetroSkills' digital offering.
RDC also provides a technology platform, ActiveLearner, which strengthens PetroSkills' virtual and hybrid learning delivery capabilities and broadens the range of products and services available to members of the PetroSkills Alliance and to PetroSkills' customers worldwide.
The RDC transaction
Commonfund has released a new white paper, “Alternatives Reality: What to Expect from Future Allocations”, by Verne O Sedlacek, the firm’s president and chief executive.
The paper explains why alternative strategies, especially private equity, venture capital and hedge funds, have been successful in increasing institutions’ portfolio returns and reducing risk over the past 20 years.
The paper also concludes that the fundamental principles that have contributed to historically higher returns among alternative investment strategies remain largely unchanged today.
The 2012 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments found that allocations to alternatives increased to 54 per cent for 831 institutions representing
Palamon Capital Partners has elected Julian Carreras, Pascal Jean-Noël Noth and Gary Pritchard to the partnership.
Carreras, previously a principal, originally joined Palamon in 2003 from Goldman Sachs. A Spanish national, he has consistently played an important role in executing the firm’s investment strategy across continental Europe with a particular focus on Spain and Italy. He sits on the board of SARquavitae, Spain’s largest provider of elderly care, where he also serves on the Executive Committee. He is also active in a board capacity in Palamon portfolio companies EnGrande in Spain, Sigla in Italy and Quality Solicitors in the UK.
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