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Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount), a growth-focused private equity firm, has made a strategic growth investment in Optima Partners Holdings (Optima), a provider of specialised compliance advisory services to the investment management industry in the United States, United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.
Headquartered in New York City, Optima provides clients with a broad suite of outsourced compliance services to help them remain compliant with relevant regulatory bodies and major regulatory and legislative regimes. With approximately 1,000 clients, Optima’s global team of regulatory and compliance experts provides customised services tailored to each client’s individual needs.
Sagemount’s investment was led by Gene Yoon, Pavan
Blue Sage Capital has completed an investment in Baker Manufacturing Company (Baker) a manufacturer of residential, industrial, municipal, and environmental water well equipment and accessories, as well as specialised rotary gear pumps and ductile and grey iron castings.
Baker is well positioned in several niche markets and has established a portfolio of well-known products, including the pitless well adapter.
Blue Sage was represented in the transaction by Queen Saenz + Schutz PLLC (Legal), Cherry Bekaert (Accounting, Tax, IT), and USI Insurance Services (Insurance).
Baker was represented by Kroll Securities, LLC (Financial Advisor) and McDermott Will & Emery LLP (Legal).
Aduro Advisors (Aduro), a fund administration provider for venture capital and private equity firms, has acquired VMS Fund Administration (VMS), a venture capital and private equity fund administrator based in Princeton, New Jersey.
Partners Capital has held the final closing of its inaugural private equity environmental impact fund, Partners Capital 15 degrees Fund, LP, with $143 million in client commitments.
The fund has strong support from a variety of limited partners globally, including foundations, endowments, and family offices.
The fund will invest in private equity opportunities focusing on proven technological innovations and long-established businesses which are most critical to the global energy transition to net zero carbon emissions. The private equity investment partnership will invest via specialist fund managers as well as direct co-investments in a diversified set of environmental sustainability sectors and
Resource Partners, a consumer-focused private equity group in Central and Eastern Europe, has held the first closing of its third fund – Resource Eastern European Partners III SCA SICAV-RAIF (REEEP III) – which has a target size of €200 million.
The first investment of the newly established vehicle will be Deeper UAB, a global leader in the castable sonar market that is supported by Resource Partners since mid-2021.
REEEP III will continue the investment strategy of its predecessors, supporting private consumer-focused companies with equity tickets in the range of €5-30 million.
Resource Partners in its third-generation fund is supported by
OMERS Private Equity has entered into an agreement with management shareholders and Livingbridge to acquire Network Plus, a utility and infrastructure repair and maintenance service provider in the UK.
OMERS Private Equity invests on behalf of OMERS, the defined benefit pension plan for municipal employees in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
As one of the UK’s leading utility and infrastructure service providers, Network Plus partners with blue chip organisations to maintain and deliver essential services – including water, electricity, gas and telecoms – to homes, businesses, and industry. The Company is headquartered in Worsley, Greater Manchester with a team of
Private equity firm Clearhaven partners has invested more than $100 million to acquire a controlling interest in SundaySky, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for efficient video creation and personalisation.
This investment provides capital for growth and liquidity for existing shareholders.
With this new investment partnership, SundaySky is positioned for its next phase of growth, focused on its video platform for creation, personalisation and distribution at enterprise-scale.
SundaySky customers benefit from the ability to use video across multiple use cases, helping their organisations to achieve quantifiable business outcomes, such as increased revenue, reduced costs, lower churn, and higher customer satisfaction. SundaySky’s platform
Pryor Cashman has appointed Robert M Friedman and Richard C Leska as partners in the firm’s Corporate Group.
Friedman was formerly a partner at Moses & Singer, while Leska was formerly a partner at Meister Seelig & Fein.
Friedman has extensive experience representing clients in the formation of private investment funds in venture capital, growth, buyout, mezzanine, infrastructure, secondary investment, special opportunities, real estate, hedge, debt, and art asset classes in the United States, Europe, India, Israel, and Japan. He also advises management of private investment funds in structuring general partners and management companies, and in the full range
International private equity firm, Cinven, has held the final close of its inaugural Strategic Financials Fund (SFF) with €1.5 billion of total capital commitments.
The SFF builds on Cinven’s leading financial services investment platform in Europe with an investment strategy focused on areas where Cinven has developed significant investment expertise, such as life and non-life insurance and reinsurance, asset-backed speciality finance, wealth management, insurance distributors and other ‘capital light’ financial service providers.
The SFF is focused on investing in companies with long term track records of consistent growth and cash generation across a broad spectrum of the European financial services
Outdoor Living Supply (OLS), a distribution platform for outdoor living products with a focus on hardscapes backed by Trilantic North America, has acquired Norristown Brick, an independent distributor of masonry, landscape, and hardscape materials.
This acquisition further strengthens OLS’s presence in the mid-Atlantic market.
Based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Norristown Brick was founded in 1986 with the goal of providing a comprehensive selection of quality hardscaping and masonry materials to its customers. A third-generation business, the Company has been grown by the Lyons and Swire families into a leading regional supplier with 13 full-time employees, servicing both commercial and residential
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