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Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, is to sell its portfolio company GL Education to Renaissance, a portfolio company of Blackstone Group and Francisco Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
ArcLight Capital Partners, a middle market infrastructure investor, has sold Great River Hydro, a US renewable energy infrastructure platform and the largest conventional hydroelectric portfolio in New England, to affiliates of Hydro-Québec for a value of approximately $2 billion.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is one of several investors considering making a bid to acquire a 34% stake in the UK’s largest port operator, Associated British Ports (ABP), from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Dubai-based Cypher Capital is looking to raise over $100 million for a new venture capital fund that will look to invest in startups focused on web3 and blockchain technology businesses, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Petra Funds Group has appointed Adam Weiss as managing director and head of credit in the firm’s private credit fund administration business, which has doubled in size over the last 12 months. Weiss previously worked for Riverstone Holdings as the firm’s COO of credit.
IQ-EQ has appointed Matthew Abbott to the newly created role of global head of sales operations as the investor services group expands its commercial leadership team. Abbot has over 20 years’ industry experience spanning investor and asset servicing and wealth management.
Prior to joining IQ-EQ, Abbott was Director and Global Head of Sales & Client Enablement for HSBC Securities Services, where he was tasked with delivering executive management support and sales optimisation initiatives. He has also held director-level positions with RBC Wealth Management International and RBC Investor & Treasury Services.
In his new role, Abbott will be based in
The Riverside Company has added to its SaaS portfolio through an investment in Gastromatic, a Germany-based provider of workforce management software solutions for small and medium sized businesses operating in shift-based industries.
Gastromatic’s software platform acts as the single source for all employee related data and enables customers and their staff to benefit from modern and digital workflows, resulting in more efficient operations and increased employee satisfaction.
Already more than 2,600 customers in shift-based industries rely on Gastromatic’s software platform to manage their workforce and to automate business processes, from staff scheduling to time recording to payroll across 12,000
Harris Williams, a global investment bank specialising in mergers and acquisitions advisory services, has appointed Martin Keck as a managing director in the Technology Group. Keck will be based in the firm’s Boston office.
Keck was most recently a managing director at Needham & Company and brings nearly 20 years of advisory experience to Harris Williams, including sector-specific expertise across education technology, HR and talent technology, and non-profit software.
Prior to joining Needham, Keck held roles at Expedia, Inc, Bain & Company, and Silver Lake Partners. He earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a
ORIX Corporation USA has made two senior investor solutions hires within its asset management business as the firm continues to strengthen distribution capabilities for its integrated private markets product offering for broad middle-market focused private credit, real estate and private equity offerings.
Paradigm Governance Partners, a governance and financial services firm with a presence in the Cayman Islands and New York, has added two experienced independent directors to its growing governance team.
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