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SK Capital Partners (SK Capital), a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals sectors, has appointed Asim Bhatia as director, business development.
Bhatia will be based in New York and brings nearly 25 years of strategic corporate development, M&A, investment banking, and corporate banking experience to SK Capital. In this role, he will coordinate and lead the firm’s efforts to identify and develop new investment opportunities.
Prior to joining SK Capital, Bhatia was a Senior Director of Corporate M&A at DuPont de Nemours, Inc, where he led both the acquisitions and divestitures of several
Palatine has strengthened its team with the appointment of Danielle Garland as investment director in its Buyout team based in London.
Garland joins from Mobeus Equity Partners having worked in M&A since 2008. At Palatine, she will be responsible for deal origination, execution, and working with management teams to deliver their strategy post investment.
Throughout her career, Garland has been a passionate advocate of increasing diversity in the profession, founding a series of highly successful events that connect female investors, founders and advisors within the private equity community. She will continue to drive this ambition forward at Palatine, given the
Nordstjernan Growth is investing SEK150 million in Mentimeter, a growing SaaS company in the field of audience engagement.
Mentimeter offers a solution to build enthusiasm in meetings and engage participants and audiences.
Mentimeter’s platform engages people globally; to date, over 200 million individuals have used the product.
reades is also coming in as a new investor in the company, and Alfvén and Didrikson – an existing owner – will be investing additional capital.
The investment is being made within Nordstjernan’s growth initiative, Nordstjernan Growth, and is the fourth holding in the Growth portfolio.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has acquired Technical Safety Services (TSS) from The Edgewater Funds and JZ Partners.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1970, TSS is a provider of testing, inspection, certification, and calibration (TICC) services to customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare and other life sciences end markets.
CEO Brent Hart will continue to lead TSS under LLCP’s ownership. Hart has been a part of the TSS team for nearly 20 years and has led the Company’s strategic expansion including the completion of over 20 add-on
London-based property technology firm REalyse has secured a seven-figure investment from independent asset manager BOOST&Co, which is set to fund major growth and create several new jobs.
REalyse will use the investment to grow its sales division following the successful delivery of a number of significant projects for blue-chip clients such as British Land, Lloyds Banking Group and JLL. The business is set to create three additional sales roles, adding to its current headcount of 26, with potential for further expansion in the coming months.
Founded in 2016, REalyse is a UK-based residential data and analytics platform, combining all
Aaro Capital, a DLT and cryptoassets investment specialist, has made three senior hires in its London office.
Enreach for Service Providers, part of Enreach — a European contact specialist backed by the independent investment group, Waterland Private Equity (Waterland), has appointed Iain Sinnott as Head of International Carrier Sales, Enreach for Service Providers.
Sinnott joins this part of Enreach to lead the growth and continued collaboration with the international carrier community, both fixed and mobile, including partners expanding beyond pure telephony into other contact services, such as integration with collaboration and other ICT tools.
Sinnot brings over thirty years of senior-level experience in the telecom industry and has also been a board member of the Cloud
A large majority (80%) of secondary fund managers expect 2022’s deal flow to exceed 2021’s as they observe a mature and robust market, on track to break more records, according to Investec’s fifth Secondaries Market Report.
Goodwin, a global law firm serving innovators and investors, has appointed regulatory partner Andrew Henderson to its Private Investment Funds’ practice in London.
Henderson has over 20 years’ experience advising financial institutions, including asset and investment managers, as well as family offices and technology providers on financial services regulation and risk management. He also works closely with dispute resolution and investigations on regulatory processes and has been seconded to the Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England.
Henderson is the latest appointment to the practice, following the recent additions of Esther Chiang (New York), Andrew Roeder (Boston) and
Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools, and insights, has published its annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report – ESG in Alternatives 2022: The Transparency Tipping Point – which reveals that 42% of AUM across private capital currently, is managed in funds that employ an active ESG policy.
The report provides the latest insights on developments in what is becoming a necessary competency for private markets managers that want to meet the growing expectations of investors toward evidencing ESG integration.
Investors are a key push factor in ESG uptake in private markets, as managers look to deliver against
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