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Telestream, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital, has acquired Encoding.com, an Emmy award-winning cloud media processing platform used by Fortune 1000 Media & Entertainment companies, streaming services, broadcasters, and corporate video customers around the globe.
The acquisition solidifies Telestream’s market leadership in file-based video media workflows and orchestration from on-prem to cloud.
Encoding.com is a privately held company with headquarters in the US and development resources located around the world. The team will be integrated into Telestream and as part of the acquisition the two principals of Encoding.com, Gregg Heil, founder and CEO, and Jeff Malkin, President, will assume
Ironwood Capital has made a subordinated debt investment to support Newbury Franklin Industrials’ acquisition of Metro Plastics Technologies and MoldTech.
Newbury Franklin Industrials (NFI) is a value-added manufacturer and supplier of consumable industrial components for the North American maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) and general industrial markets. NFI comprises diversified industrial companies to provide one-stop-shopping for distribution and OEM customers.
Federated Hermes, a specialist in active, responsible investing, has been awarded a $1 billion private equity mandate from BT Pension Scheme (BTPS), one of the UK’s largest occupational pension schemes.
The mandate, called Horizon III, will be managed by Hermes GPE LLP, a specialist global private equity investor and wholly owned subsidiary of Federated Hermes, and will be invested over three years.
Horizon III will pursue the global thematically diversified strategy through a proven 50/50 funds and direct co-investment model established following similarly sized investment allocations managed for BTPS — Horizon I (2015) and Horizon II (2018).
Hermes GPE has
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
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