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Broad Sky Partners (Broad Sky), a private equity firm that partners with middle market business services and consumer companies, has appointed Marjorie Lopez as Vice President. Lopez will focus on Broad Sky’s investments in the Consumer sector.
Prior to joining Broad Sky, Lopez supported Consumer sector investments at RX3 Growth Partners. There, she worked on notable investments such as Nom Nom (acquired by Mars) and Orgain (acquired by Nestle). She led RX3’s investments in Taxa Outdoors and Therabody, marking the latter’s first institutional investment. Previously, she was an associate in Barclay’s Consumer Retail Investment Banking group and an analyst in the
US LBM, a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity, and a distributor of specialty building materials in the United States, has acquired Deco Truss, a manufacturer and supplier of structural roof and floor trusses to customers in South Florida and the Caribbean.
Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, is to acquire a majority stake in Levanta Renewables (Levanta), a Vietnam and Southeast Asia-focused renewables platform.
Founded by Sudhir Nunes, who has significant experience in executing renewable power projects, Levanta has 300MW of onshore wind power projects in advanced development. With Vietnam as the anchor market, Actis will build on Levanta’s pipeline and apply its proven buy-and-build strategy to scale the business into a 1.5GW renewable platform across Southeast Asia, delivering power to a range of offtakers, including C&I customers.
The acquisition, Actis’ first Energy Infrastructure investment in Vietnam, will support
Global investment firm Carlyle has appointed David McCann has interim global head of investor relations, effective 10 August, 2022, succeeding Nathan Urquhart who has decided to leave the firm to pursue new opportunities.
Urqhart will remain at Carlyle until the end of 2022, working with senior leadership to ensure a smooth transition.
McCann, with more than three decades of experience in investment management, joined Carlyle in 2014 and is responsible for building partnerships with our largest LPs across North America.
Prior to joining Carlyle, McCann was Head of Asset Management Distribution for Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. Previously,
Partners Group is expanding the shareholder base of United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC), a North American provider of utility location services with Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg) acquiring a 50% stake in then business. Partners Group will retain a 50% co-lead interest.
Lower mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has supported quality assurance and testing firm Testronic, part of the Catalis Group, to complete two new acquisitions. Testronic has acquired Check Disc Labs (CDL) and Giant Interactive, representing the third and fourth acquisitions for Catalis Group since NorthEdge’s investment into the firm in 2020.
The two deals follow a series of other bolt-on acquisitions in NorthEdge’s technology portfolio over the last 12 months.
CDL, a quality assurance provider for physical and digital media content, and Giant Interactive, a provider of award-winning entertainment and content delivery services, will join the Testronic family, adding 120 highly
Tristone Healthcare, a buy and build social care investment group, has added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of John McCooey as Commercial Director.
McCooey, who joins from Amelia Knight Group, has more than 25 years’ experience in finance and commercial director level positions, with particular expertise in operational and strategic financial management, improving profitability and business efficiencies, together with acquisition, divestment, and business integration. He will be responsible for driving commercial excellence within the existing portfolio, as well as supporting the M&A team to integrate new businesses into the portfolio.
At the end of 2021, Tristone
GI Partners, a private alternatives investment firm, has acquired five ‘always on’ properties representing 860,000 square feet, on behalf of its Essential Tech + Science Fund (ETF Fund).
The properties, all of which are located in high density Northern Virginia markets, are leased to many of the largest defence and government contracting companies in the US.
GI Partners has historically acquired similar ‘always on’ assets—those that house mission critical technology operations and non-biological R&D — in its core real estate funds. This investment represents the first ‘always on[ acquisition in its core plus ETS Fund.
The properties include
CDPQ has committed $75 million to B2B SaaS customer engagement and retention platform CleverTap’s $105 million Series D Funding round. IIFL AMC’s Tech Fund also participated along with existing investors Tiger Global and Sequoia India.
The funds will be used to support CleverTap’s global expansion and enhance the development of its world-class solutions and technology.
Founded in Mumbai in 2013 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, CleverTap’s customer engagement and retention SaaS platform leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to offer a comprehensive user engagement suite that enables brands to build valuable, long-term relationships with their customers. CleverTap’s subscription-based solution has
Funds managed by Carlyle’s Global Infrastructure platform have committed up to $1 billion to partner with Tillman Global Holdings to accelerate investments in Tillman Infrastructure, a privately held cell tower platform in the United States.
Since its founding in 2016, Tillman Infrastructure has become one of the largest providers of build-to-suit tower assets in the country and these funds will seek to further support that growth trajectory. Tillman Global will use the funds to seek to accelerate growth to meet increasing demand for mobile internet infrastructure, and to continue to invest in premium mobile infrastructure to serve its underlying mobile
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