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PATRIZIA AG has completed the first close of a new €100 million venture capital fund “Sustainable Future Ventures” (SFV).
The initial close includes funds from a range of investors including pension funds and family offices, as well as strategic real estate operators and investors.
The newly launched fund, which is the first in a new fund series, is led by partners Conan Lauterpacht and Matthew Chagan. It will target investments in technology companies that enable a more sustainable built environment and will focus on late Seed to Series B technology companies globally, with a strong focus on Europe. The
Concrete Ventures has launched a new investment platform which id targeting €10 million to invest in series seed and series A Proptech software companies in EMEA.
Concrete’s investment themes are concentrated around data driven solutions to provide improvements in sustainability, data, and workflow efficiency in the built environment.
Following a successful initial four year investment period, investing over €20 million in 20 primarily European startups on behalf of Starwood Capital Group and JLL Spark, Concrete has launched a new investment platform to address the demand from a wider group of both leading global real estate investors/developers and financial institutions looking
New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with more than $37 billion in assets under management and Emmes, a global, tech-enabled full-service clinical research organisation (CRO) dedicated to supporting the advancement of public health and biopharmaceutical innovation, have formed a partnership to support and accelerate Emmes’ next phase of growth.
Affiliates of New Mountain will acquire the ownership interest of Behrman Capital, the majority investor in Emmes since March 2019, and the ownership interests of Emmes’ other investors. The transaction is expected to close in early July and terms were not disclosed.
Emmes provides its clients with expertise in biostatistics,
GlacierPoint Enterprises (GlacierPoint), a portfolio company of Mill Point Capital (Mill Point) and the parent company of E&M Logistics, Jack & Jill and A Panza & Sons, announced today that it has partnered with Gillette Creamery (Gillette), a full-service direct store food and ice cream distributor servicing all of Eastern New York State and bordering states.
The addition of Gillette to the GlacierPoint platform widens the combined company’s distribution capabilities, with capacity to service customers from the Mid-Atlantic region up to the US-Canadian border. The partnership also provides a significant opportunity to accelerate growth within GlacierPoint’s foodservice distribution business. Gillette’s
Global investment firm KKR is partnering with Andrew K “Andy” Silvernail, the former chairman and CEO of Madison Industries and IDEX Corporation, to pursue new acquisition opportunities.
Silvernail will work alongside KKR as an Executive Advisor to evaluate Americas investment opportunities across multiple sectors, including industrials, health care, and consumer products. Once a company is acquired, Silvernail will collaborate with KKR to drive breakthrough operating performance and implement KKR’s broad-based employee ownership program. Silvernail will be spending a portion of his time advising on investments for KKR Ascendant, a new strategy within KKR’s Americas Private Equity platform that focuses on
Corporate lawyer Alexandra Aguirre has joined Holland & Knight’s Miami office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, M&A and Securities and Latin America Practice Groups.
Aguirre focuses her practice on international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border financing transactions, as well as private capital investments throughout Latin America and the United States. She previously was a partner with Morrison & Foerster.
Aguirre also advises families and their family offices in matters relating to running a privately held business by providing corporate advice tailored to family businesses, including corporate and family governance structure, policies and procedures, succession planning,
High Street Capital’s (HSC) portfolio company Knight Material Technologies (KMT) has completed the acquisition of Electro-Chemical and its subsidiary Superior Dual Laminates (collectively, EC-SDL).
EC-SDL manufactures and installs anti-corrosive plastic linings and coatings for steel and fibreglass tanks, piping, and other specialty equipment. The acquisition of EC-SDL, which offers a complementary service to KMT’s existing corrosion-resistant ceramic linings, allows the company to broaden its suite of product offerings and become a more complete solution to many of its customers in the chemical process and mining industries. The transaction also provides a platform for KMT and EC-SDL to penetrate new markets,
Risk services company Sigma7 has acquired Virginia-based Risk & Strategic Management, Corp (RSM), a full-service risk and business continuity, management services, and training organisation.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
RSM is a specialist in developing and producing advanced leadership and staff training solutions to help organisations meet duty of care, capacity building, organisational resiliency and crisis management needs. It offers accredited, security-oriented training packages, delivered through e-learning formats as well as immersive experiences at its 87-acre training facility. The company works with a wide range of commercial corporations across industry sectors, humanitarian aid agencies, faith-based groups and
Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has appointed Jason Hogg as an Executive-in-Residence (EIR).
In this role, Hogg will identify and pursue investment opportunities with a focus on financial technology, insurtech, cyber insurance and software.
Hogg recently served as Executive Vice President at lease-to-own fintech company Acima. Previously, he was CEO of Aon Cyber Solutions, CEO of Blackstone-backed B2R Finance and a Senior Advisor at private equity firm Tritium Partners, where he focused on investments in fintech as well as information and digital services. Hogg has also held executive positions at American Express
EQT Private Equity, via the EQT IX fund, is to acquire SPT Labtech, a manufacturer and designer of automated instruments and consumables for life science research, in a deal worth £650 million.
Together with management, EQT Private Equity will support and accelerate SPT Labtech’s future growth.
Based in Melbourn, UK, SPT Labtech is a manufacturer and designer of automated liquid handling, sample preparation, and storage instruments, as well as corresponding consumables and support services for life science research. The Company was founded in 1997 and spun out from TTP Group. Since 2018 it has been owned by Battery Ventures.
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