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HIG Growth Partners (HIG Growth), the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of two managing directors – Patrick Conroy and Hans Sherman. The firm has also added three principals.
The appointments come following a record year of capital deployment and continued strong returns for HIG Growth.
Conroy and Sherman will focus on growth equity investments across tech-enabled consumer and software verticals.
Conroy has spent over a decade investing in and advising high growth technology businesses and joins HIG from Revolution Growth, where he was a Partner. He began his career
GrowthCurve Capital, a control-oriented private equity firm focused on the financial and information services, healthcare, and technology sectors, has appointed Angela Geffre as head of human capital and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee.
Geffre brings 20 years of human capital experience from private equity and Fortune 500 companies. Her previous experience includes growing businesses and leading global Talent Centers of Expertise and Human Resources at Sun Capital Partners, Inc, JLL, Kellogg Company and Procter & Gamble. She has led several organisational transformations, accelerating business growth through talent acquisition, performance management and feedback, organisational design, diversity, leadership development, and
Business and financial advisory firm Grant Thornton UK has promoted Martin Verrall to transaction tax partner in its South region.
Verrall has a wealth of experience at Grant Thornton, joining as a graduate 15 years ago and spending the last decade working in transactions. In recent years, his key responsibilities have been focussed on leading sell side transaction tax.
Based in the firm’s Gatwick office, Verrall will lead a team of ten located across the South of the UK, with input from other VAT and employment specialists.
In this position, Verall will continue to provide specialist expertise and
Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity), a provider of high-value research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector, and a portfolio company of Equistone, has acquired Cians Analytics (Cians), a provider of research and analytical support for financial institutions.
As hedge fund managers jostle for investor attention and investor requirements become more onerous, creating operational efficiencies within areas like investor onboarding can provide managers with a competitive advantage while also helping to ensure the longevity of their business.
Rivus Capital, an urban tech investor with offices in Munich and Berlin, has appointed Patrick Schloter as partner and head of private equity. The 37-year-old has extensive professional experience in the investment business and in management consulting, having held positions in Frankfurt, London and Munich.
Rivus Capital engages in private equity and venture capital investments in the core sectors of Real Estate Technology, Mobility, Energy and Impact. These four segments are grouped together as “Urban Tech”.
In contrast to many other investment companies, Rivus Capital does not manage the capital of institutional investors. Instead, the company invests its own funds
Shareholders of Euromoney Institutional Investor have voted in favour of a bid by Becketts Bidco, a consortium of Luxembourg-based private equity firm Astorg Asset Management and London-based private equity firm Epiris to acquire the business, according to a report by Private Equity Insights.
The deal for the London-based global B2B information services business needed that backing of 75% of shareholders for it to go ahead.
In the end, 415 scheme shareholders voted in favour while 34 voted against representing a 92% majority, while in the general meeting 66,247,589 shares voted in favour and 7,371,449 voted against, a majority of 90%.
The Teachers’ Retirement System of Texas has made an additional private markets’ allocation totalling $685 million to range of funds including commitments to private equity, energy and natural resources, as well as a digital assets venture capital fund, according to a report by AlternativesWatch
Bain Capital is considering selling human resources software developer Works Human Intelligence Co (Works) for as much as $ 2 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that the private equity firm is already working with an adviser on the details of a potential deal and has been in touch with potential buyers. It’s reported that Bain is open to either a sale of its full stake in Works or a partial sale.
Founded in 1996 as Works Applications Co., Works is a Tokyo-based company offering software for payrolls, attendance management, talent management,
US private equity firm GTCR is considering a £1.3 billion deal to acquire UK-based digital identity specialist GB Group (GBB), according to a report by Private Equity Insights.
The report cites a statement by the Chicago-based private investment firm as confirming recent press speculation that it is interested in acquiring GB Group, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The statement also said that, as yet, there is no certainty a formal bid will be made and that further statements will be made ” as and when appropriate”.
Now that talks have commenced, GTCR has until 4 October to
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