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Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to acquire Green Street, a provider of commercial real estate intelligence and analytics. Green Street’s current majority owner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the technology and healthcare industries, will retain a minority position in the business.
Green Street Chief Executive Officer Jeffry Stuek, Jr, along with the senior leadership team, will continue leading the company.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022 pending customary regulatory approval, have not been disclosed.
Veremark, a pre-employment screening and verified career credentials firm, has raised a further $8.5 million in an equity funding round led by new US venture capital investor Stage 2 Capital, just nine months after its initial $2.8 million seed round.
Samaipata, a Pan-European venture capital firm also joined the round as a new investor, and several existing investors Triple Point Ventures, ACF Investors, Vulpes, and SOV provided follow-on investments, bringing the company’s total funding to $12.3 million.
Veremark aims to simplify the process of checking the claims and credentials of prospective employees based around the world through its digital platform.
RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird), along with private markets investment firm StepStone Group, is to acquire a majority stake in Talent Systems, a casting software and talent marketplace for the entertainment industry.
Talent Systems was formed by Co-CEOs Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin and in 2021 managed over 50,000 projects and more than two million auditions, facilitating the effective discovery, auditioning and hiring of talent across film, television, commercials, theatre and digital productions.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
With the deepest pool of professional talent and project roles, Talent Systems delivers valuable solutions to all constituents
Petershill Parthjers has reported aggregate partner-firm AuM of $266 billion and aggregate fee-paying partner-firm AuM of $184 billion as at 30 June 2022. Both amounts are unchanged from the levels reported at 31 March 2022.
Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has made four new senior hires across its offices.
Anders Svenningsen joins as managing director and head of business development for the Nordics in Copenhagen, where he will be responsible for Pemberton’s Nordic Franchise and investors. Svenningsen brings over 25 years’ experience in finance. Prior to joining Pemberton, he was Head of Nordic & Dutch Markets at Citigroup, responsible for the client franchise in the region across all markets business and products.
Christoph Polomsky will be based in the Frankfurt office and will serve as managing director in the Business Development Team for the
OMERS Private Equity is to acquire Bionic (Bionic), a provider of essential energy, insurance, finance and connectivity services to UK small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) from ECI Partners and its founders.
OMERS Private Equity will take a majority stake in the Company, with the management team, led by Paul Galligan, CEO of Bionic, and ECI Partners and the founders investing alongside OMERS. OMERS Private Equity will provide resources and expertise to help drive the Company’s organic growth as well as further accelerate its strategic expansion through M&A.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close by Q3, subject to customary
McNally Capital (McNally) has held the final closing of its inaugural private equity fund, McNally Capital Fund II, with over $150 million in limited partner fund commitments and related co-investments.
The firm has over $500 million in total assets under management (AUM) and now has 15 investment and operating professionals to support its growth.
McNally Capital has already completed the first two investments out of McNally Capital Fund II with the acquisitions of Orbis Operations and Smith & Oby. Through the fund, the firm will continue its differentiated investment strategy of investing in founder-, family-, and management-owned companies in the
The Finance Durham Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has supported local business, Conduit Construction Network Ltd (CCN), with a £600,000 funding package.
The investment has enabled the business to substantially scale-up its operations and relocate to a new 54,500 sq ft facility in Belmont Industrial Estate, creating 30 new jobs in County Durham.
CCN manufactures high-quality door sets and screens for the commercial, education and healthcare sectors.
The Durham move adds significant capacity and brings operational benefits with a plan to increase production and sales significantly. Alongside relocation,
LeapFrog Investments, a profit with purpose investment firm, has appointed Roger Ferguson as a member of its Global Leadership Council and Julie Wallace as its head of impact. This appointments follow Dominic Barton, former global managing partner of McKinsey, joining as chairman of the Management Board.
Ferguson is the former President and CEO of TIAA, one of the 30 largest asset managers in the world and a pioneering ESG investor, and was previously the first African American to be Vice Chair of the US Federal Reserve. Wallace was Global Head of Sustainability and Community Engagement at Standard Chartered Bank, driving
GreyLion Partners (GreyLion) and Vestar Capital Partners (Vestar) have completed an equity recapitalisation of 360training, a provider of online training and continuing education to regulated industries, to support the Company’s rapid growth and accelerate acquisition activity.
Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
The new investment will help 360training pursue large and small strategic acquisitions within its core markets and in new markets and geographies. 360training helps organisations develop their workforces and remain compliant with labour regulations and industry certification mandates, with a content library offering more than 6,000 courses across five major verticals: Environmental Health & Safety, Food
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