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LGT Capital Partners has held the final close of Crown Asia-Pacific Private Equity V (CAPE V), its fifth private equity investment programme investing in the Asia-Pacific region, at the hard cap of USD1.65 billion and above the target fund size of USD1 billion.
The fund’s investor base includes more than 50 institutions, including pension funds, insurance companies, university endowments and foundations in Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia and the Middle East.
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) specialty sealing supplier Marco Rubber & Plastics (Marco) has acquired Ipotec a provider of highly engineered rubber products serving a diverse set of end markets including industrial, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace and medical.
As an ISO 9001 certified supplier, Ipotec specializes in silicone rubber-based technologies because of its outstanding thermal stability, mechanical properties and biocompatibility making the products ideal for sealing, fluid transport, insulation and other applications.
Ipotec services over 2,600 global customers through direct domestic and international supplier relationships. Ipotec was founded and operated by Alan Randle who will remain involved to ensure a successful
Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally-driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare, and service sectors, has made a £3.5 million investment in fu3e., an adaptive management reporting software platform for the real estate sector.
The fu3e. platform combines two leading digital products aimed at managing development risks and digitising management processes and is designed to sit above and integrate with existing management reporting software solutions. The platform is designed for real estate funds, assets owners, developers and professional consultants providing users with real-time data enabling them to operate with insight, manage risk effectively and make
FIRSTavenue, a global private funds placement agent and investment advisory firm, has appointed Nick Chronias, Partner, as global head of the capital solutions group, which dedicated to servicing the growing private funds secondary market.
Based in London, Chronias was previously co-Head of Private Placements for FIRSTavenue.
The Capital Solutions Group builds on FIRSTavenue’s deep experience in private credit and private infrastructure by focusing specifically on the secondaries markets within these asset classes.
Downing has expanded its Development Capital team with five new hires since the start of 2022.
This takes the team up to 15 professionals and demonstrates the team’s growth and ambitions in supporting asset-backed operating businesses.
The Downing Development Capital team invests in management teams across a range of sectors including elderly care, specialist care, education, housing and hospitality & leisure, with initial investments between £5 million and £50 million.
Among the new hires were investment directors Jon Simon and Gautam Chhabra. Jon Simon has joined from BGF where he was a senior investment professional working across a broad range
3i Group (3i) and its co-investor Cathay Capital, have entered into exclusive negotiations for the sale of its investment in Havea Group (Havea) to funds advised by BC Partners, alongside Havea’s management team.
Proceeds to 3i will be at a c50% uplift to its 31 March 2022 valuation.
Havea is a European natural healthcare player featuring a unique consumer/patient-centric approach centred on 5 strategic brands: Aragan, Biolane, Densmore, Dermovitamina and Vitavea. The Group and its brands help consumers prevent and treat common health issues with premium natural healthcare products. Powered by innovation and with a focus on sustainability –
Ulu Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm with $200 million AUM and 10 unicorns in its portfolio, has promoted two first-generation American women to partner.
Kathy Chen and Nancy Torres are taking up leadership positions within the growing investment team at Ulu Ventures, headed by Managing Directors Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera, (who is also CEO and co-founder) along with CFO and investment team member, Steve Reale (who was also recently named partner).
These promotions will boost Ulu’s capacity to review new investment opportunities, expand expertise in industry sectors, and build on Ulu’s pioneering work of investing in diverse founders; more
Software investment firm Thoma Bravo has completed into acquisition of Anaplan Inc, provider of a leading cloud-native platform for orchestrating business performance, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $10.4 billion.
The acquisition was previously announced on March 20, 2022 and approved by Anaplan stockholders at the Special Meeting of Stockholders held on 21 June, 2022.
Under the terms of the amended merger agreement, Anaplan stockholders will receive $63.75 per share in cash, which represents a premium of approximately 41% to the volume weighted average price of Anaplan’s common stock for the five days ending 18 March, 2022, the last
Cinematic Health Education, a national leader in preparing allied health professionals for rewarding health care careers, has closed a $4.1 million funding round with investments from Education Technology leaders Rethink Education and Juvo Ventures.
This Series A round will enable Cinematic Health Education to scale its management and sales teams and build additional courses following the principle that compassion is essential for caregivers and caregiving in the Home Health market. The company will replicate its highly differentiated and successful approach to training Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) candidates, which features a Hollywood-quality movie embedded in a 40-hour Federal and State approved
Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Fund III (Fund III) is to sell its stake in Facile.it (Facile), an Italian online price comparison platform, to Silver Lake.
Fund III invested in Facile in 2018, alongside EQT Private Equity. During the course of the investment the business has continued to pioneer the Online Price Comparison market in Italy, developing innovative products that save its users hundreds of millions of euros every year. Over time, Facile has expanded its diversified product offering and unique omnichannel distribution proposition that underpin its long-term growth trajectory, allowing it to benefit from the continued market digitalisation and e-commerce
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