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Paul Hastings LLP, a global law firm, has promoted private equity lawyer Jamie Holdoway to partner in its London office.
Holdoway will continue to work with Private Equity practice lead Anu Balasubramanian and recent lateral Partner Tom Cartwright, in leading the market with their specialist focus on complex cross-border M&A, co-investments, liquidity solutions and strategic bolt-ons for portfolio companies across a variety of sectors including technology, software, business services and digital infrastructure.
Following a strong financial year in 2021/22 that saw the London office’s revenue grow by 41% and the total number of legal professionals rise to more than 150,
Connection Capital, the private client investment business, has hired James Greenwood into its SME Investment team as appetite from private investors for access to UK private equity and debt transactions continues to grow.
Greenwood joins from Liberum Capital where he worked on a wide range of transactions across both public and private markets. Prior to that he worked for Panmure Gordon. At Connection Capital, James will be responsible for sourcing and executing prospective transactions and managing portfolio companies.
Greenwood began his career at a tech start-up before making the leap into Corporate Finance and M&A with Strata Partners. He holds
Bevi, a smart water coolers company, has partnered in a $70 million Series D investment with Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), an environmental sustainability-focused growth investment platform.
Bevi machines offer a more affordable and environmentally sustainable alternative to bottled water and flavored seltzer and has helped customers save over 300 million single-use bottles and cans to date.
The $70 million in equity funding will support Bevi’s rapid growth and expansion into new verticals and products.
hh2 Cloud Services (hh2) a provider of software for the construction industry backed by lower middle-market private equity firm Capstreet, has appointed Jamie Clymer as chief executive officer and Patrick Sadler as chief financial officer.
Previous CEO Devon Dorrity will assume the position of CTO at the Company.
Clymer has extensive experience achieving revenue, profit and overall business growth objectives within rapidly changing SaaS and internet-media environments. Most recently, he was CEO of FRONTSTEPS, a leading SaaS and mobile platform for Association Management Companies and Association Boards. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President at RealPage, a leading SaaS
Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent private capital fund administrator, has appointed Michael Abatemarco as head of credit, effective 9 August.
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) accounting, tax and valuation advisory firm, WilliamsMarston as acquired Tucson, Arizona-based Oracle Capital (Oracle Capital), a provider of complex valuation consulting services to pre-IPO, public and private equity-backed companies.
This is the fifth acquisition WilliamsMarston has completed in the past two years which brings the Firm’s headcount to nearly 200 professionals.
Oracle Capital provides complex valuations for intangible assets, impairment of intangible assets, stock options, financial instruments, solvency & fairness opinions and fair value accounting to privately held and public companies in a variety of industries. Managing Partner, Rob Maxfield, and his entire team joined WilliamsMarston
Not-for-profit investors see private markets as the biggest opportunity for higher returns in the coming years, according to Mercer’s first Global Not-for-Profit (NFP) Investment Survey.
Gresham House’s Baronsmead VCTs have exited their stake in compliance software business Ideagen following its sale to private equity firm Hg Capital.
The deal values Ideagen at £1.1 billion, making it the first Baronsmead VCTs unicorn in pound sterling at the point of exit.
The Baronsmead VCTs’ investment generated a 13.5x return at the point of exit, with Hg Capital’s take-private deal completing in July 2022.
Ideagen is a Software as a Service (SaaS) business focused on helping companies in highly regulated industries – including banking, insurance and healthcare – comply with regulation and manage governance risk. Established
Pembroke VCT has led a £2.5 million investment round in Auddy, a podcast business founded by former Virgin Executive and Virgin Radio International founder, Andrew Craissati.
Auddy’s investment, which totalled £1.8 million, was supported by existing investors Haatch Ventures and Brick Capital Ventures.
With over 4,000 podcast shows, 12 million monthly downloads and a historical 11 million downloads in the UK alone, Auddy’s podcasts include popular titles such as Science-ish, Inside the Tour and Smoke Screen.
The investment will help support Auddy to continue its organic growth and further invest in both technology and content. The market for
JTC has launched a fund administration offering in Ireland to complement existing Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), depositary and corporate services.
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