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FloWorks International (FloWorks), a specialty flow control distribution platform backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has acquired netMercury, a specialty parts and services distributor.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2000, netMercury is a distributor of critical parts and services to the global integrated circuit fabrication and technology industries with three locations in Dallas, Austin, and Phoenix. The Company’s family of products includes system controls, temperature controls, high purity valves and fittings, fluid pumps, liquid flow controls, cleanroom equipment, consumables, vacuum pumps, and wafer process equipment, among others. netMercury also provides project management, including repair
4Trans, a fintech specialising in financial products for supply chain and logistics companies, has secured €18 million in investment from backers including Atmos, Tera Ventures, and Lighthouse.
Impact investment fund management firm based in the UK, Advance Global Capital has also extended a revolving credit facility to the firm.
4Trans will use the equity funding to strengthen domestic operations, expand to Poland, develop its platform and grow its international team. With the debt funding provided, it will be supporting the working capital needs of small and medium sized businesses in the region.
The announcement follows a period of rapid growth
New research from Intertrust reveals that CFOs may in fact be underestimating investor expectations in reporting requirements, along with in-house and outsourcing investment.
Intertrust Group’s most recent report, The future private capital CFO: Unleashing potential in the ESG era, found that more than 40% of private capital investors are looking for live updates on portfolio performance, while around 55% will be looking for either live or daily updates on ESG performance – 10% higher than anticipated by CFOs.
In order to meet the need for frequent and reliable data in the years to come, CFOs and investors agree that
Franklin Templeton has appointed John Ivanac as Senior Vice President and Consultant Adviser, US Institutional Services, focused on alternative investment capabilities in the US.
Rotunda Capital Partners (Rotunda) has closed Rotunda Capital Partners Fund III with $405 million in total capital commitments.
The Fund was oversubscribed above its initial target of $295 million.
Fund III received capital commitments from a diverse set of investors, including public pensions, corporate pensions, insurance companies, healthcare companies, multi-manager funds, consultants, and family offices. Rotunda is especially thankful for the continued support by way of fund commitments from several former Rotunda portfolio company executives and family-founders with whom we have partnered in the past.
Mill Point Capital, a private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in the industrials, business services and IT services sectors, has sold KKSP Precision Machining LLC (KKSP), North American manufacturer of precision metal components, to Pine Grove Holdings (Pine Grove), an executive-led operations and investment firm focused on companies with high engineering content.
Mill Point will maintain a minority stake in the business going forward.
Since its 2017 acquisition by Mill Point Capital, KKSP has experienced tremendous success through the enhancement of technical capabilities, strategic M&A and rapid expansion into the Northeastern United States region and catalog components market.
Lindsay Goldberg, a family and founder-focused private equity firm, is to invest in MMS Holdings (MMS), a data-focused contract research organisation (CRO), alongside MMS Founder and CEO, Dr Uma Sharma, who will maintain a significant ownership interest.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has made a significant minority investment in Cellhire, a global provider of mobile Voice and Data and Internet of Things (IoT) communications services.
Headquartered in York, Cellhire offers high-speed and secure ways for businesses and partners to stay connected worldwide. It has built key partnerships with UK mobile network operators (MNOs) Vodafone, O2 and EE through long established ISP agreements. Internationally it has developed partnerships with more than 40 MNOs and rolled out its first Full MVNO on the Orange network in France. Recently it has worked with China Unicom at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Foresight Group (Foresight), a sustainable infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has selected the Eden Project (Eden) as its new sustainability partner.
Eden will advise Foresight on enhancing biodiversity across its portfolio with an initial focus on its infrastructure and forestry assets.
The partnership will provide Foresight with a framework for implementing a nature recovery programme and will enable Foresight to further develop its nature recovery statement – anticipated to be released later this year. This will provide a blueprint for Foresight’s assets and will demonstrate how businesses can contribute to nature recovery efforts.
The UK is considered
Eurazeo is selling its remaining 51% stake in Trader Interactive, a platform of branded marketplaces in the United States providing digital marketing solutions and services across the commercial truck, recreational vehicle, power sports and equipment industries, to carsales, an Australia-based online automotive advertising platform with a growing presence in Latin America and Asia.
This transaction follows the acquisition by carsales in August 2021 of 49% of Trader Interactive.
carsales, which operates several marketplaces across both the automotive and specialty vehicle segments, brings to Trader its extensive knowledge in building and developing scaled online marketplaces.
Under this agreement, Trader
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