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Beauty Industry Group (BIG), a specialist in hair solutions, has acquired BELLAMI Hair (BELLAMI), hair extensions and haircare brand.
BIG will support BELLAMI as it advances its differentiated go-to-market strategy and grows its strong consumer following to build on its current momentum. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Co-Founders Nikki Eslami, who will continue to serve as an advisor, and Julius Salerno, Chief Executive Officer, started BELLAMI in 2012.
An affiliate of middle market private equity firm Gemspring Capital has acquired GoldenSource Corp (GoldenSource), a provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions to financial services companies worldwide.
Zenitech, a high-growth transformational technology provider and a portfolio company of UK private equity Buy & Build specialist Sovereign Capital Partners, is to acquire Autsoft, a Hungarian-based provider of software and technology development services, subject to Hungarian Government approval.
Palatine has grown both its Buyout and Impact teams following an active first quarter of the year.
Rupert Brown has been promoted to senior investment director and moves across to the Impact team, whilst the Buyout team has welcomed new recruit Carly Sinicrope as investment manager. Both will be based in the London office.
Brown has been a part of the Palatine team since 2016, working on new deals and with portfolio companies where he has been an advocate of promoting sustainability.
Sinicrope joins the firm from corporate finance advisor Clearwater International, where she was embedded within the M&A team
Monroe Capital has appointed Gila Cohen as Managing Director, Head of Global Institutional Partnerships based in the firm’s New York office.
She will be responsible for new initiatives to expand Monroe’s global footprint, among institutional investors, focusing on the high growth Opportunistic and Real Estate private credit areas of the firm.
Prior to Monroe, Cohen was Chief Investment Strategy Officer of MUFG (USA), and was responsible for advising, directing, and governing the strategic alternatives investment portfolio, as well as playing a strategic role in the firmwide missions for ESG and DEI.
International web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Swedish web hosting business, Cloudnet.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Cloudnet was established in 2010 and has grown to become Sweden’s largest managed hosting company specialising in the operating system Linux.
Cloudnet currently services c500 SME customers primarily located in Sweden. In the year ending December 2021, Cloudnet reported revenues of SEK25 million.
The company will join Miss Group’s growing team of over 300 people, adding to its customer base of >700,000 businesses globally in the Nordic and DACH regions, Europe and North America.
Latham & Watkins has advised private equity fund manager Capital D on the sale of Qmee, a Reading, UK-based app survey platform and fraud prevention technology provider, to Kantar, a marketing data and analytics company.
The transaction is expected to close in June 2022.
Qmee offers brands access to consumers’ opinions and attitudes via a fun and easy to use app. Post-completion, Qmee will become a part of Kantar’s Profiles Division, which is responsible for primary research within Kantar.
The Latham team was led by corporate partners Paul Dolman and Edward Kempson, with corporate associates Tom Channing and
Alternative asset manager Gresham House has made a £37.5 million investment in N Family Club (NFC), a nursery group operating 20 locations across the South East and Midlands.
This is the first investment in the education sector made by its second flagship sustainability fund, the British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund II (BSIF II), and is driven by the long-term benefits from high-quality early years education on the outcomes of our children’s lives and society.
Good Growth Capital has closed its oversubscribed third fund at over $100 million in capital commitments.
The majority women- and minority-owned firm is known for investing early in complex technologies that are yielding top returns. Good Growth Capital’s first fund, a 2017 vintage, is tracking to earn top-decile returns.
The firm also reports a double-bottom line as an impact investor, focusing on investing for the highest possible return while investing in companies that meet pressing societal needs. This new fund makes Good Growth Capital the largest venture capital fund in South Carolina history and one of the largest early-stage funds
BGF has added Daria Polunina to its team in London as a portfolio manager.
Polunina joins BGF from Saphir Capital Partners, where she spent almost ten years as Director of the firm’s London office. Polunina also brings experience of managing and sitting on boards of UK-based portfolio companies as well as providing M&A advisory on buy-side mandates for external clients.
In her role at BGF, Polunina will be working closely with CEOs and business owners in the company’s portfolio and liaising with the portfolio’s management teams. She will also sit on the boards of portfolio companies including Apex Housing
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