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Concord Capital Partners has appointed Samuel Landman as chief investment officer (CIO).
The commercial real estate veteran will work on the acquisition, financing, and disposition of real estate assets to help drive the firm’s growth.
Landman has more than 17 years of experience sourcing, acquiring, developing and structuring multifamily, industrial and office projects nationally and globally. As a key member of the Concord investment team, Landman will lead the firm’s corporate equity and debt strategies, focusing primarily on investor relations, partnerships and joint venture structuring.
Landman’s hire is part of Founder and CEO Reuben Robin’s decision to refocus his firm’s
The Sterling Group has completed its acquisition of Ergotron, a global company focused on improving how people work, learn, play and care for others.
The Sterling Group will support Ergotron as it enters a new phase of growth, just on the heels of celebrating 40 years in business.
For decades, Ergotron has been using human-centred design principles and the Technology of Movement to build environments that help people thrive. A pioneer of the sit-stand movement in the workplace, Ergotron offers award-winning standing and mobile desks, ergonomic wall mounts and monitor arms for office and industrial settings. Ergotron also has a
Sidley Austin has appointed Gabriel (Gaby) Valdes as a Global M&A and Private Equity partner in Miami.
Prior to joining Sidley, Valdes, a Miami native, was a corporate partner in the Private Equity practice at McDermott Will & Emery. In addition, Miami natives Karla Utset, previously at McDermott Will & Emery; Marcos Alvarez, previously at Holland & Knight; and Anabelle Dahdah, previously at Jones Day, will be joining in Miami as Senior Managing Associates in the M&A and Private Equity Global Practice group.
Valdes focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, and other corporate transactions involving
Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), a New York-based middle-market private equity firm, has promoted Michael Gebhardt to principal.
Since joining Sagewind in January 2021, Genhardt has led the firm’s investment in Federal Advisory Partners LLC and assisted with multiple add-on acquisitions across the portfolio. Prior to joining Sagewind, he was a vice president at Tailwind Capital, a middle-market private equity fund. He began his career at Oliver Wyman and was previously an associate at Riverside Partners.
RCP Advisors, a sponsor of private equity funds-of-funds, secondary funds, and co-investment funds focused on North American lower middle market buyouts, has held the final closing of RCPDirect IV (the Fund).
The Fund was oversubscribed, with approximately $645.4 million in aggregate commitments, exceeding its target of $500 million.
The Fund has a broad LP base of both new and existing investors, including endowments, foundations, public pension plans, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
RCPDirect IV will continue the same investment strategy employed by RCP’s previous co-investment funds and will generally partner with lead buyout fund managers who raise funds between $100
QHP Capital (QHP), a management company for NovaQuest Private Equity (NQPE), has acquired Lexitas Pharma Services (Lexitas), a full-service ophthalmology contract research organisation (CRO) supporting biopharmaceutical and medical device clinical trials.
Since 2011, Lexitas has provided clinical trial and medical strategy solutions to biopharmaceutical and medical device companies developing ophthalmic products. The Company provides end-to-end support and development expertise in the anterior and posterior segments of ophthalmology.
Additionally, Lexitas appointed Jeanne Hecht as Executive Chairwoman of the Board. Hecht is a seasoned ophthalmology CRO industry executive having previously served as CEO of Ora, an ophthalmic CRO, where she expanded Ora’s
Iron Path Capital, a private equity firm focused on healthcare and specialty industrials, has appointed Ted Clark as a partner to lead investment initiatives with a focus on high-quality businesses in the specialty industrials sector.
Clark joins Iron Path after stepping down as EVP and chief operating officer and transitioning to an advisory role with HB Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL), a global specialty chemical company founded in 1887. Clark joined HB Fuller following its 2017 acquisition of Royal Adhesives and Sealants (a platform Clark founded with Quad-C Management in 2003), where he served as president and CEO.
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Gresham House has acquired New Century Care (NCC), an elderly care provider operating care homes across the UK, for $21 million.
The investment was made by Gresham House’s second flagship sustainability fund, BSIF II, in partnership with specialist care and education provider Salutem.
NCC currently provides care for nearly 300 elderly residents across six sites in the south of England and Scotland. Under its new ownership and management, its capacity and offer will expand, adding much-needed new beds and specialist care for the elderly care sector – where currently an estimated 1.4 million older people in the UK do
Caymus Equity Partners (Caymus Equity) has invested in Overland vehicle Systems (OVS), partnering with Founder and CEO, Sean Angues.
OVS is a supplier for overlanding and off-road enthusiasts headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California. The investment builds on OVS’s high-growth vision and provides the Company with the capital support necessary to achieve the vision laid out by Sean Angues and his team.
OVS has developed a full line of products marketed for overlanding, camping, cargo management, recovery gear, and air management providing customers everything they need to adventure. The company’s supply process positions itself as an industry leader in adding
British Business Investments has made a £20 million to funds managed by Beach Point Capital Management (Beach Point).
Beach Point has successfully run funds in the United States and Ireland and is now expanding into the UK market. This commitment by British Business Investments will enable Beach Point to make investments of between £2 million and £5 million to smaller UK businesses with high growth ambitions.
Beach Point will invest across all regions of the UK, though will particularly target Northern Ireland, where it is intended that a minimum of £10 million will be invested, and the North of England
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