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Private equity house, YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, has made a double promotion with Helen Villiers rising to investment director and Ben Pitt taking on the role of investment manager.
Having joined YFM as an investment manager in June 2019 after five years with Grant Thornton, Villiers has become a central figure in originating, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities, including the primary buyout of fire and electrical compliance specialist RGE in April last year.
Helen also represents YFM on the board of global aviation services provider ACC.
Pitt joined
Global law firm Paul Hastings has appointed private equity and M&A specialist Tom Cartwright as a partner based in London.
Cartwright joins from Morgan Lewis and adds firepower to the firm’s fast-growing London office, which has increased revenue by 41% over the last year on the back of strong demand in its Private Equity, Finance, Structured Credit and Securities & Capital Markets practices.
Cartwright’s areas of focus include advising private equity sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices on private equity investments and M&A transactions. He advises several leading US private pension plans, and represents a number of private
Impact investor North Sky Capital (North Sky) has made the final investment from Clean Growth V, an impact secondaries fund.
The investment was structured to provide attractive return potential with downside protection and centred on an LP interest in a 2018 fund managed by a highly experienced climatech general partner with whom North Sky has had a nearly two-decade long relationship.
In the last 17 years, North Sky has invested out of two flagship private markets strategies: sustainable infrastructure (direct investments) and impact secondaries (private equity).
North Sky was also the first firm worldwide to offer an impact secondaries
HGGC, a middle-market private equity firm with a sector-focused approach, has completed fundraising for HGGC Fund IV (Fund IV) with $2.54 billion of capital commitments.
Fund IV exceeded its $2.25 billion target and continued to diversify its global limited partner base, including a significant commitment from the General Partner and its affiliates, who collectively remain the largest investor across all HGGC funds, ensuring strong alignment of interests.
Fund IV is HGGC’s largest fund to date and is nearly 38% larger than the Firm’s $1.85 billion Fund III. With the closing of Fund IV, HGGC now has more than $6.8 billion
SilverEdge Government Solutions (SilverEdge), a cybersecurity, software, and intelligence solutions platform serving the Defence and Intelligence communities backed by private equity investor SilverEdge, has appointed Emily Ringer as chief human capital officer.
In her new role, Ringer will spearhead SilverEdge’s efforts to attain and sustain that goal as head of human resources, talent development, and communication for the platform. She will lead the company’s strategic planning and workforce development efforts to attract new talent, drive growth, and create a first-class work environment and culture where employees can thrive.
Ringer has 25 years of experience working in the government contracting industry
Wheel Pros, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of proprietary branded aftermarket vehicle enhancements for light trucks, SUVs, passenger cars and ATVs/UTVs backed by Clearlake Capital Group, and in partnership with management, is to acquire Transamerican Auto Parts (“TAP” or “the Company”) from Polaris, a specialist in powersports.
TAP is a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, retailer and installer of off-road Jeep and light truck parts and accessories. In 2021, TAP generated nearly $760 million in revenue.
The transaction is expected to close early in the third quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. Baird acted as financial advisor to Polaris in
Auxilius, a company that simplifies and streamlines clinical trial financial management for biotech companies, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by Renegade Partners, with participation from previous investors Bain Capital Ventures and XYZ Venture Capital, as well as a number of prominent angel investors, including Andy Palmer (Koa Labs), Chase Gilbert (Built Technologies), and Sam Whitaker (Greenphire). Roseanne Wincek from Renegade Partners is joining the board.
Aerin Medical Inc, a company dedicated to providing ear, nose and throat (ENT) physicians with non-invasive solutions for the treatment of chronic nasal conditions, has closed a $60 million equity financing.
The financing was led by new investor Ally Bridge Group, with all existing major investors KCK MedTech, Questa Capital and OrbiMed also participating.
The company intends to use the proceeds to scale commercialisation and expand market access to meet the demand from physicians and their patients.
As part of the deal, Ally Bridge Group managing director Kevin Reilly has joined Aerin Medical’s Board of Directors.
Lower middle-market, private equity firm Osceola Capital’s (Osceola) Revelation Pharma Corporation (Revelation) platform has made it’s eight acquisition, Wedgewood Pharmacy’s human-health book of business.
Wedgewood Pharmacy operates compounding pharmacies that offers sterile and non-sterile compounded medications for animal patients in 50 states.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Lauxera Capital Partners has acquired a €10 million majority stake in Matrix Requirements, a MedTech quality management software provider.
The software editor helps medical device companies meet their growing need for quality and regulatory compliance in a world where the lines between medical devices and software are blurring.
In addition to more traditional MedTech clients, Matrix’s product portfolio is designed to serve the fast-growing “software as a medical device” field encompassing digital therapeutics, connected devices, and technologies leveraging machine learning/artificial intelligence.
This is the seventh investment made by Lauxera Growth I, a growth and growth buy-out fund dedicated to investing
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