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Solace Capital Partners (Solace), a private equity firm focused on providing creative capital solutions for middle market companies, has sold Patriot Environmental Services (Patriot), a provider of comprehensive environmental services and emergency oil spill response, to Heritage-Crystal Clean for $156 million.
Vestar Capital Partners, a US private equity firm, has promoted several investment professionals, including Neil Merchant, Mark Dirzulaitis, and Angela Yun to principal, and Alex Veronneau to vice president.
Merchant, a member of the Firm’s Business & Technology Services group, joined Vestar in 2018. He previously worked at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe focusing on healthcare and technology investments. Merchant holds both a BS in Economics, cum laude, and an MBA in Finance and Management, with Honours, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dirzulaitis, a member of the Firm’s Business & Technology Services group, joined Vestar in
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the middle market, has closed the merger of its portfolio company, Altima Dental, with 123Dentist, a dental support organization (DSO) based in Vancouver, to create one of the largest DSOs in Canada.
The transaction was financed through equity capital provided by 123Dentist’s existing private equity sponsor, Peloton Capital Management, and new investors KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Heartland Dental, a KKR portfolio company and the leading dental support organization in the US Sentinel will retain a minority equity stake in the
PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies, has appointed private capital veteran and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Head of Technology, Media & Telecom, Financial Services and Healthcare, Bogdan Bo Cenanovic, as a Managing Director.
Cenanovic will aim to bolster PSG’s Canadian deal flow pipeline. To date, PSG has completed four platform investments in Canada – DigitalEd, Introhive, Penny AI and Wagepoint – and 28 add-on acquisitions.
In addition, Cenanovic will lead underwriting for PSG’s Encore strategy (Encore), which is primarily focused on making investments in select PSG portfolio companies upon their complete or partial
Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), a fast growing and purpose led alternative asset manager, has appointed William Tice as Partner. He will lead Business Development and expand the firm’s presence in North America.
Tice will be based in Austin, Texas.
Tice brings over 30 years’ experience in financial services with extensive experience in credit, specialty finance, and private equity. Prior to joining Pollen Street, Tice was President of Vida Capital, where he led business development and investments in specialty finance and special situation opportunities. Before that he held senior business development and investor relations roles at Siguler Guff, Q
Percheron Capital (Percheron), a private equity firm focused on partnering with high-quality essential services businesses, is to acquire a majority stake in McWilliams & Son (McWilliams), a residential HVAC and plumbing services platform.
Following the transaction, McWilliams’ Chief Executive Officer, Trey McWilliams, will remain a significant investor and continue to lead the Company.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
McWilliams & Son offers residential HVAC and plumbing maintenance, repair and replacement services with a reputation for outstanding quality and customer service. The Company’s people-first values focused on service, trust and reliability have resulted in industry-leading customer satisfaction scores
Palatine-backed CTS Group (Construction Testing Solutions), a provider of geotechnical consulting, construction materials testing and surveying and monitoring services, has acquired Concept Engineering Consultants Limited, a specialist in geotechnical, structural and geo-environmental services.
This is CTS Group’s eighth acquisition since Palatine’s initial investment in late 2018. The deal further strengthens CTS as a market leader and expands and enhances its geotechnical consulting, testing, coring and drilling capabilities.
Operating across the UK and with headquarters in London and operations in both London and Coventry, Concept Engineering employs 105 staff. Founded 25 years ago, Concept Engineering Consultants work on civil, structural and
Agathos Management, a lower mid-market private equity firm, has appointed James Bakewell as Partner and Investment Committee member. Bakewell has 15 years’ private equity experience as an investor and strategic growth specialist in service-oriented businesses across the UK.
Thoma Bravo, one of the private equity players in the global software investment space, is to open its first office in London, according to a report by Private Equity News.
AbbeyCross, a B2B trading and compliance marketplace focused on improving the underlying market infrastructure for emerging market (EM) currencies, has raised USD2.47 million in non-priced, convertible notes in its pre-seed funding round.
The round was led by Third Prime. Communitas Capital also invested, with the balance being spread across eleven strategic angel investors from within the payments industry.
AbbeyCross is improving the underlying market infrastructure for EM currencies. Working with global banks, their currency suppliers, and other financial services providers, AbbeyCross removes inefficiencies in the market. As a result, AbbeyCross brings deeper currency liquidity, price transparency, and market data
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