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Vista Equity Partners (Vista), is to acquire Avalara, a provider of tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, for $93.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $8.4 billion, inclusive of Avalara’s net debt.
The per share purchase price represents a premium of 27% over the Company’s closing share price as of 6 July, 2022, the last trading day prior to media reports regarding a potential transaction.
In partnering with Vista, which focuses exclusively on investments in enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses, Avalara will look to build on its successful platform by refining its go-to-market strategy, expanding
TruArc Partners, a private equity firm focused on the middle-market, has acquired Molded Devices, Inc, from PNC Mezzanine Capital and Molded Devices Founder Brian Anderson.
Molded Devices provides high-precision, value-added plastic and rubber component manufacturing solutions for medical and non-medical applications.
Molded Devices’ core manufacturing capabilities include injection molding, tube extrusion, blow moulding, dip moulding, and dip coating. The company also provides a range of value-added services including clean room assembly for advanced medical device production, product design and development, and engineering and tooling support – offering a full-suite of solutions to its customer base.
Jack Slinger will continue in
Softeq Development Corporation (Softeq), a Houston-based global hardware and software services development company serving Fortune 500 companies, has secured an additional commitment of $5 million to the Softeq Venture Fund from a new group of venture capital investors in New Hampshire, and created a new satellite venture studio.
Sidley is pleased to welcome Justin Macke as an M&A and Private Equity partner in New York. Prior to joining Sidley, Macke was a partner at Jones Day, working on a wide variety of transactions for private equity and corporate clients.
Macke has a diverse skill set that includes advising private equity clients on acquisitions, strategic transactions, and exits. He also advises corporate clients on M&A, corporate governance, capital raising, activism defense, and SEC matters. He has particular experience working on cross-border transactions and complex carve-outs.
Sidley’s extensive Private Equity practice, with more than 285 lawyers around the world, offers
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, is to sell the Power Generation business of BRUSH Group (BRUSH) to energy technology company Baker Hughes.
Jump Capital, Chicago-based VC for data-driven tech companies, has made two new appointments – Trisha Degg, VP of talent platform, and Ola Jewusiak, director of marketing.
Appital, the Equity Capital Marketplace, today announced it has secured an additional £1.7 million investment from Frontline Ventures and various angel investors.
The investment follows last year’s £2.5 million round led by Frontline Ventures and additional funding from angel investors, bringing the total investment raised to date to £4.85 million. The fundraising comes ahead of Appoital’s launch of the world’s first algorithmic bookbuilding platform in partnership with Turquoise, the pan-European MTF, majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group.
The Appital platform enables the buyside community to originate and participate in liquidity discovery, price formation and execution opportunities in multiple days
Chimera Investment (Chimera), an Abu Dhabi-based private investment firm managing a diversified portfolio of local and international investments, has acquired a majority stake in Beltone Financial Holding SAE (Beltone), an Egypt-based financial services provider.
Bridge Investment Group Holdings has launched its newest strategy, Bridge Ventures, which will focus on proptech investments, and appointed Jeremy Ford as its chief investment officer.
Bridge Ventures will focus on both early- and later-stage proptech companies and expects to pursue investments in industry-leading proptech funds.
Ford joins Bridge Investment Group from REEF Technology, where he was head of property strategy. Prior to REEF Technology, he held roles at BLG Capital Limited and The Carlyle Group. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the Edmund. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a Master of Business Administration from the
Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has appointed Lynnette Mays as director, Americas within its Investor Development Group.
Mays joins the Actis IDG Americas team bolstering Actis’ presence in the region. Her appointment follows that of Neda Vakilian, Managing Director of Global Relationships and Charles Daulon du Laurens, Head of EMEA Sales, both of whom joined Actis’s Investor Development Group in late 2021.
Mays has more than 20 years’ experience in roles across investment management, fundraising, investor relations, and institutional advisory. Prior to joining Actis, she was a director in the Capital Markets Group at Hines, where she
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