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IQ-EQ has appointed Stefan Rolf as global head of securitisation and private debt, a new leadership position signalling the extension of IQ-EQ’s service range in the securitisation and private debt space.
Rolf is a seasoned senior leader with over 25 years’ experience in financial services and banking. He has worked in Germany, the Netherlands and Singapore holding a series of regional and global leadership roles, including Global Head of Securitisation for both Volkswagen Financial Services and ING Bank. Before joining IQ-EQ, Stefan was ING Bank’s Global Head of Balance Sheet Distribution.
In his new role, Rolf will drive the
Investcorp, a global alternative investment firm, has agreed to sell its stake in United Talent Agency (UTA), a global talent and entertainment company, to EQT Private Equity. Investcorop says the sale represents a ‘highly successful investment’ for the firm and its institutional investors.
Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialising in digitally-driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare, and service sectors, has made a £1.2 million follow-on investment in plant-based ice cream business NORTHERN BL°C.
Made on behalf of the Mobeus VCTs, the investment will enable NORTHERN BL°C to relocate to a new, larger site in its home city of Leeds, supporting its aim to become the UK’s number one plant-based ice cream brand with the business having almost tripled its sales in the last three years.
NORTHERN BL°C will commence its move into the former Bagel Nash production site on North
Runway Growth Capital (Runway), a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has hired Jeff Goldrich as managing director, Technology.
Operating out of the Chicago office and reporting directly to Founder, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer, David Spreng, Goldrich will employ his sector expertise to originate top tier growth and late-stage investment opportunities. Goldrich’s goal is to support entrepreneurs and investors while expanding Runway’s footprint.
Goldrich’s experience covers dozens of relationships across a range of company sizes, stages, industry verticals, ownership structures, and transaction types.
Previously, Goldrich was
Monomoy Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm focused on operational value creation, has sold its portfolio company, Construction Resources Holdings (CR) to International Designs Group (IDG), a portfolio company of Mill Point Capital.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Construction Resources is a distributor of value-added building products in the Southeast, including surfaces, appliances and architectural specialty products. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with showrooms, surface galleries and design centres located regionally.
Monomoy initially acquired Constructions Resources and Builder Specialties to create the CR platform. Merging two family-owned and operated businesses that strategically fit together,
Meow, a compliant crypto yield offering for corporate treasuries, has closed a $22 million Series A financing led by Tiger Global, with participation from QED Investors, cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and others.
The funds will be used to support the company’s rapid growth with new hires and enhanced product features.
Meow provides institutional and corporate investors with a compliant-first approach to participating in emerging cryptocurrency investment opportunities. Since launching in early 2022 following seed financing from cryptocurrency industry leaders and investors, including Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund and Lux Capital, Meow’s offering has quickly been embraced by corporate treasury departments. In
Hogan Lovells has expanded its M&A year based in Boston with the appointments of Joe Basile and Zohar Nevo. Both join from Foley Hoag, where Basile, who joins as a senior advisor, was a partner and co-chair of that firm’s M&A practice group.
At Hogan Lovells, they reunite with their former Foley Hoag colleagues Alex Aber and Adrienne Ellman. Aber joined Hogan Lovells as an M&A partner in Boston in June, while Ellman joined the New York office of Hogan Lovells as an M&A partner in February. Both previously co-chaired the M&A practice at Foley Hoag with Basile.
Basile
Excellere Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm specialising in partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams through recapitalisations and management buyouts, has promoted Matt Halverson to principal and Ryan Revolinski to senior associate.
Halverson joined Excellere in 2014 and has been a key deal team member on AIS Healthcare, SCA Pharma, and Mentis Neuro Health prior to its sale. In addition, he has helped lead Excellere’s origination efforts in the medical products sector as well as made significant contributions to the firm’s value creation tools and processes.
Revolinski joined Excellere in 2020 and is an active team member on portfolio companies
An affiliate of funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital) is to sell NuCera Solutions (NuCera) to Chase Corporation, a manufacturer of protective materials for high reliability applications for $250 million.
Formed through the carve-out of Baker Hughes’ specialty polymer business, NuCera is a specialist in the production and development of high-end polymer technologies and polymerisation methods serving demanding applications. NuCera differentiates itself with a broad portfolio of approximately 120 functional polyethylene and specialty polymers that serve as mission critical performance additives to customers worldwide. The Company operates globally with headquarters in Houston, Texas, a primary production facility in
Ceros Financial Services’ investment banking division, Ceros Capital Markets, has completed an approximately $15 million Series A round for GT Metabolic Solutions, which has developed minimally-invasive incisionless bypass technology for bariatric, metabolic and digestive surgery.
The company will use the funding to complete initial clinical trials for its incisionless Duodenal Ilial Bypass anastomosis for bariatric and metabolic surgery.
GT Metabolic’s technology enables incisionless bariatric surgery and involves no cutting, no suturing and no permanent implant, enabling these procedures to move to the outpatient surgical setting. The platform works by creating a delayed anastamosis, a technique that involves the use
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