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Motive Partners, a specialist private equity firm focused on building, backing and buying the financial technology companies, has appointed Bridget van Kralingen as Partner.
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has appointed Rush Baker as partner, head of investor relations, and Casey Myers as partner, head of Edison Edge value creation platform.
Baker will lead communications with existing and prospective limited partners. In sourcing new capital partners for the firm, he will leverage the firm’s strong foundation of superior performance, and bring it to new markets.
Before joining Edison, Baker was a partner at Snowbridge Advisors, a New York-based private fund placement platform specialising in private equity and debt fund advisory and capitalisation. He began his career in finance at Deutsche Bank where
Apex Group has closed its acquisition of Darwin Depositary Services, a Netherlands-based provider of depositary services to alternative investment funds including hedge funds, real estate, debt and private equity funds as well as funds investing in infrastructure and renewable energy.
Cinven is to acquire TaxAct for approximately $720 million with the company set to be combined with Cinven’s existing portfolio company Drake Software under a single holding company to create a full-service tax ecosystem provider.
Global software and technology investment firm Thoma Bravo has closed a strategic growth investment in SMA Technologies, a provider of automation solutions for the financial services industry.
Financial terms of the transaction, which sees existing investor ParkerGale Capital retain a minority position in the business, have not been disclosed.
SMA, which was founded by former NASA automation experts in 1980, will use the new funding to fuel growth.
SMA Technologies’ OpCon is a workload automation and orchestration platform for banks, credit unions, insurance companies and other financial services businesses.
Raymond James served as financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Domain Capital Group and its subsidiary Domain Capital Advisors have closed more than $700 million in equity commitments for an entertainment fund and co-investment vehicle focused on film, television and music, with an allocation for other related investment opportunities.
To date, the fund has deployed more than $170 million across the three media.
The fund follows the company’s successful deployment of an $830 million separate account launched in 2012, which focused primarily on film and television assets. DCA manages entertainment investments for corporate and public state pensions, insurance companies, university endowments, and multi-family offices, among others.
DCA’s media and entertainment
Jeff Zucker, the former boss of CNN, is in advanced talks to join RedBird Capital Partners, a private equity firm with a focus on professional sports investments, according to media reports.
Zucker, who prior to CNN headed up WarnerMedia’s Turner Sports division and also led NBC’s Olympic Games coverage, is being lined up to lead a new $1 billion sports investment fund at RedBird.
The firm already has a diverse portfolio of professional sports investments having recently acquired Italy’s AC Milan football club. RedBird is also the third largest shareholder in John W Henry’s Fenway Sports Group, the parent company
An affiliate of HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of the distribution segment of Avient Corporation which will now operate as an independent entity and be renamed Formerra.
Private equity major Apollo Global Management has chosen Anchorage Digital to provide custody services for its digital assets holdings.
As the USA’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, Anchorage expects to custody a significant portion of the alternative asset manager’s digital asset portfolio.
A segment from Apollo’s Adam Eling, the firm’s COO of digital assets said that the it was drawn to working with Anchorage by the company’s “commitment to operating under strict regulatory oversight, their strong emphasis on security and segregation of client assets, and their ease of use for asset managers to hold digital tokens”
Anchorage Digital is
JP Morgan Asset Management has launched a new life sciences private equity team, Life Sciences Private Capital, which will invest in both early and growth stage healthcare companies across multiple strategies aligned to specific market opportunities.
The team, led by new hire Dr Stephen Squinto as chief investment officer and managing partner of Life Sciences Private Capital, will focus on novel therapeutics and technologies in several target areas including Genetic Medicine, Oncology, Neurodegenerative Disease, Rare Diseases, Autoimmunity, AI/ML platforms, Metabolic Diseases and Neuropsychology.
Squinto joins from OrbiMed Advisors and brings more than 30 years of experience in the biotechnology
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