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Sovereign Capital Partners, a UK private equity buy & build specialist focused on specific service-based sectors, has promoted four of its team to partner status – Jake Warman, James Buckhalter, Peter Eckersley and Tom Wilding.
Warman has been promoted to Talent Partner and will have an enlarged focus on Board development and other management enhancement activities. He joined Sovereign in 2014, before becoming an Investment Director in 2017 and then a Director in 2019. Prior to Sovereign, Warman was a Director at Skillcapital and started his career as a solicitor.
Buckhalter has been promoted to Investment Director. He joined
Clearview Capital Fund IV has recapitalised Inventive, a designer, developer and manufacturer of products for the towing, fishing, ATV/UTV and garage end-markets. The deal marks the fund’s fourth platform investment in the outdoor industry and the sixth platform investment in the outdoor industry across all Clearview Capital funds.
Inventive also represents the fourth platform investment Fund IV has made in collaboration with Vertikal Brands, a team established by Clearview Capital which includes former members of the Battenfeld Technologies management team, to pursue the acquisition of premium brands in the outdoor industry.
Founded in 2006, Inventive, which provides domestically manufactured
Private-equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG are planning to make a joint take-private bid to acquire US business software solutions provider New Relic in a deal that could be worth over $5 billion, according to a report by Reuters.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has held a first close for the 1GT climate private equity strategy at $500 million of equity capital commitments. Investors include public and private pension funds and an insurance company in the Nordic region, Germany and the UK.
GTreasury, a treasury, payments, and risk management software provider, has secured a majority investment from Hg, an investor in global software and services companies. The company’s management team and former majority owner, Mainsail Partners, will continue as investors in the business.
Based in Chicago, Illinois, GTreasury is a specialist in treasury management systems (TMS) for organisations worldwide. GTreasury’s SaaS solutions assist treasury departments to manage liquidity needs, payment execution, bank relationships, FX hedging, and auditing and compliance requirements. GTreasury provides these practitioners with real-time insight and access into their global liquidity needs, serving over 700 customers across 30 industries in
LRVHealth, a healthcare venture capital platform founded in 2000, has raised $200 million for its fifth fund, which will look to make investments in early-stage companies focused on innovation in the healthcare sector.
Irish private investment house Elkstone, has secured the support of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) as anchor investor for the final close of its €100 million Early-Stage Irish Venture Fund.
With Enterprise Ireland also on board, the fund has already deployed over €10 million to date and aims to complete its initial investments by 2026.
Having backed Irish unicorns like Flipdish and LetsGetChecked at seed stage, Elkstone and its private clients are focussed on enabling the next generation of Irish entrepreneurs.
Elkstone’s €100m fund is Ireland’s largest early-stage venture fund. To date, Elkstone’s Venture arm has invested in more
Monument Group, an independent global capital advisory firm, has appointed Lars Fonkert as a vice President. Fonkert, who is based in Monument Group’s recently opened Amsterdam office, will be part of the European distribution team.
Fonkert brings extensive consulting and institutional sales experience to the role. He was most recently responsible for business development among institutional investors for Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, consulting across a range of asset classes. Prior to Amundi, Lars was at financial data and analytics firm FactSet, managing a base of institutional, investment banking and private equity accounts. Lars holds a MSc. in Business Administration
FFP, an offshore fiduciary and restructuring practice, has launched a new fund administration business in the Cayman Islands providing a broad range of fund-focused services to hedge funds, private equity firms, venture capital funds and family offices.
Canadian private equity group Brookfield has put UK and Ireland holiday resort company Center Parcs up for sale with a price tag of between £4 billion and £5 billion, according to a report by The Financial Times.
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