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Crestbridge’s team in Luxembourg has provided a range of services to support the successful close of Hiro Capital’s latest fund, bolstering its existing relationship with the innovative tech-focused Venture Capital firm.
An affiliate of funds advised by SK Capital Partners has recapitalised Techmer PM (Techmer) with an investment from Gryphon Investors (Gryphon), a middle-market private equity firm.
The transaction represents a successful initial phase of investment for SK Capital, which will remain a significant investor alongside Techmer founder John Manuck, and the Company’s management team. The combined knowledge and expertise of the new and continuing investors will support the future profitable growth of Techmer.
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Techmer is a designer and producer of engineered materials, and colour and additive masterbatch solutions for the plastics
Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group’s law firm in Ireland, has relocated Adam Donoghue, co-head of the Irish Funds & Investment Management Group (FIMG), from its London office to Dublin.
Donoghue has spent many of his 13 years with the firm developing the international footprint of the firm’s Irish offering. This has included a number of years in the firm’s Cayman Islands office, followed by the last five years successfully establishing and expanding a full-service Irish FIMG in London.
Donoghue’s relocation further bolsters the firm’s senior expertise in Dublin and will consolidate the firm’s position as the
Mercer Global Advisors (Mercer Advisors), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) backed by probate equity firms Oak Hill Capital and Genstar Capital, has acquired Jordan Financial Strategies, a wealth management firm located in Denver, Colorado.
Found by Kristy R Jordan, CFP, ChFC, CLU, in 1998, Jordan currently serves clients with assets under management (AUM) of approximately $120 million.
The firm provides a comprehensive wealth management and financial planning offering to clients.
Funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital) have invested in VanDeMark Chemical, a producer of life science chemistries, in partnership with existing co-owner Comvest Partners (Comvest).
SK Capital’s investment will serve as a catalyst for a new strategic direction as the Company seeks to deepen and expand its presence in fine chemistries for the global life science market. VanDeMark has been a platform company in Comvest’s private equity portfolio since 2019. Comvest will remain a co-owner of the Company.
VanDeMark is a specialist in the production of high-end specialty chemical intermediates and derivatives for a diverse set of end
Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen providing customised financing solutions to private equity firms and their portfolio companies, has appointed Nick Lawler as Managing Director and Head of Secondaries.
Lawler, who will be responsible for leading the firm’s new secondaries strategy and investing across the secondaries landscape, is based in Churchill’s Chicago office and reports directly to Jason Strife, Head of Junior Capital & Private Equity Solutions.
Prior to joining Churchill, Lawler spent 14 years at Northern Trust Corporation, 10 of which were at 50 South Capital Advisors, LLC, the alternative investment arm of Northern Trust. Most recently,
Inveniam Capital Partners (Inveniam), a fintechnoffering greater transparency and access to private market assets, has formed a strategic partnership with Apex Group to offer Valuation as a Service (VaaS) to clients worldwide.
Through the partnership, Inveniam and Apex Group will use Inveniam’s patented blockchain technology and the Inveniam.io data operating system to deliver digitally credentialed, higher-functioning private asset data for more consistent, fully auditable valuations.
Traditionally valuing real estate, private equity, infrastructure, and private credit assets involved an opaque and time-consuming process. Inveniam.io’s use of blockchain and artificial intelligence increases trust in the underlying data and provides a fully auditable
Concentric, a London and Copenhagen based pan-European venture capital firm, has completed the initial close of its second fund – Concentric 02. With the new fund Concentric will continue to invest at Seed+ stage, with a focus on startups in financial services, logistics, real estate, industrial software, and mobility.
The fund will take a hands-on ‘activist’ approach to working with portfolio companies. Concentric 02 starts with an underlying portfolio of seven investments.
Concentric 02 will make initial investments of between €0.5m and €1.5m, investing primarily in European startups and founders, with a portion allocated to emerging market businesses, when the
Advent International (Advent) has appointed Susan Gentile as chief financial officer (CFO) and Managing Director, effective 1 October, 2022. Gentile succeeds Eileen Sivolella, who has served in the role since 2009 and will assume the role of strategic advisor on an interim basis to provide continuity.
Gentile brings nearly two decades of experience across financial services. She most recently served as Chief Financial & Administrative Officer at HIG Capital, where she was responsible for leading the strategic direction of the global private investment firm since 2018, including managing its development and growing assets.
Prior to joining HIG Capital, Gentile spent
ClearCourse, a group of innovative technology brands providing software solutions and an integrated payments platform, backed by private equity investor Aquiline, has acquired Blue Zinc, a specialist in solutions for the management of patient referrals, clinical pathways and clinics for the physical (physiotherapy and wider musculoskeletal) and mental health segments in the healthcare sector.
The company will form part of ClearCourse’s Business Services division and expands the latter’s growing footprint in the healthcare space.
Blue Zinc’s flagship digital solutions are designed to cater to a customer base with specialist demands: up to a thousand small- to medium-sized clinics deploy TM3,
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