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Fund administrator Saltgate SA has appointed Jean-François Flamant to its board in Luxembourg. Flamont joined Saltgate as its head of depositary last year.
He has over two decades’ experience in financial services and oversees Saltgate’s depositary servicing for fund managers to help drive the firm’s client service.
Flamont joined Saltgate from TMF Group, where he was head of depositary services. He also spent 20 years as an alternative funds specialist at ABN Amro and BGL BNP Paribas.
Saltgate launched in 2007 to provide fund administration and accounting services for private equity, debt, and real estate asset classes.
After two years of record benchmark returns, some limited partners in the asset class are confronting the reality of below-average performance, with a survey by Private Equity Wire predicting average returns will continue to fall in H2 2022.
Funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital) and Edgewater Capital Partners (Edgewater), are to acquire the scintillation and photonic crystals business of Saint-Gobain, (Saint-Gobain Crystals). SK Capital will lead the investment with Edgewater acting as a meaningful minority shareholder with Board involvement.
Saint-Gobain Crystals is a technology specialist and provider of single scintillation crystals for radiation detection applications, as well as sapphire and garnet substrates for photonics and power electronics applications. The Company differentiates itself with deep R&D capabilities and expertise in crystal growth, packaging, and integration, as well as unique intellectual property supported by a portfolio of 174
Swiss Foodtech Startup Planted, known for its clean-label biostructured meat, has closed a series B financing round of CHF70 million led by L Catterton, a global consumer-focused private equity firm.
L Catterton was joined by existing investors such as Vorwerk Ventures, re:food, Movendo, Be8 Ventures, ACE, ETH Foundation, Yann Sommer, as well as new investor Tengelmann Ventures in the round.
Planted will use the funds to launch its new whole-cut line of products including its chicken breast, further its international expansion, and increase production capacity.
Founded in July 2019, Planted, an ETH Zurich spin-off, produces ‘meat’ from alternative proteins
AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity firm specialising in aerospace, defence & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets, a has promoted Tyler Rowe to principal, and Austen Dixon, Graham Kantor and Eugene Kim to vice presidents, effective immediately.
Rowe is a member of AEI HorizonX team, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company, where he. helps identify, evaluate and lead unique venture investments across all of AEI HorizonX’s target markets. Focused on early-stage investing for the last 12 years, he holds a BA from the University of Alabama.
Dixon,
L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp (LCAAC) has appointed Sanford Litvack to its Board of Directors, effective 10 August, 2022. John Sculley has stepped down as an independent director of the Company.
With over six decades of commercial litigation and corporate operations experience in both the private and public sectors, Litvack adds a rare combination of legal acumen and business insights to LCAAC’s Board. He is currently a partner of leading boutique trial and arbitration law firm Chaffetz Lindsey as well as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Formerly, Litvack was senior counsel in the litigation department at
Apex Group has acquired Modal Group’s alternative fund administration business in Brazil (MAF), having received full regulatory authorisation from the Brazilian Central Bank.
FX HedgePool, a peer-to-peer matching platform for institutional foreign exchange transactions, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Information Venture Partners (Information VP), with participation from Fidelity International Strategic Ventures (FISV) and NAventures, National Bank of Canada’s corporate venture capital arm.
Osceola Capital-backed PayrHealth has acquired Supero Healthcare Solutions, a provider of enrolment and credentialing service founded in 2009.
This acquisition deepens PayrHealth’s credentialing offerings and strengthens its integrated, proactive approach to payor relationship management.
PayrHealth can now offer this proven credentialing solution with 10+ years of experience delivering operational excellence and outcomes to its clients. PayrHealth previously offered more limited credentialing services exclusively to existing payor contracting and revenue cycle management clients.
Technical Safety Services (TSS), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired CEPA Operations (CEPA), a provider of regulatory certification services for controlled environment equipment used in pharmaceutical and healthcare settings.
TSS is a leading provider of testing, inspection, certification, and calibration (TICC) services to customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare and other life sciences end markets. TSS provides on-site technical services mandated to occur at regular intervals to ensure all clients remain in compliance with regulatory standards.
The company’s services are performed across the lifecycle of a customer facility and ensure the compliant operation of controlled
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