Solutions
Vietnam-based Anfin, a fintech firm with a proprietary stock trading platform, has raised USD1.2 million in a seed round led by Goodwater Capital and Global Founders Capital (GFC) – the latter coming in as a returning investor.
Joining the round is a new investor, XA Network as well as First Check Ventures, another existing investor of Anfin’s. The fresh injection will be channelled into doubling down efforts to further develop Anfin’s platform to provide its retail investors real-time fractional share trading.
The investment comes at the heels of a recent agreement inked in December 2021 with Viet Tin Securities
Markerstudy has acquired BGL Insurance (BGLi) from BGL Group, a digital distributor of insurance and household financial services, subject to regulatory approval.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to complete during the first half of 2022.
Markerstudy was advised by KBW, Slaughter and May, and Oliver Wyman. BGL Group was advised by Fenchurch Advisory Partners and Dentons.
Semcon is expanding its offering in digital learning by establishing a local presence in a new geographic market through the acquisition of UK-based Walkgrove.
Walkgrove began operating back in 1994 and the company has a long tradition of providing high-quality learning solutions. Its customer base includes organisations from many different sectors, such as insurance, health and social care and humanitarian, including The UN and Oxfam. Its operations are based near Nottingham and Derby in the UK East Midlands. Walkgrove’s 20 employees have broad expertise in the development and production of learning material, with 85 per cent of its current portfolio
Victory Capital Holdings has successfully closed its acquisition of WestEnd Advisors (WestEnd).
WestEnd will become Victory Capital’s 12th Investment Franchise.
Founded in 2004, and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, WestEnd provides financial advisors with turnkey, core model allocation strategies serving as holistic solutions and complementary sources of alpha. The firm offers four primary ETF strategies and one large cap core strategy, all in tax efficient Separately Managed Account (SMA) structures.
Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specialising in infrastructure and real assets, has recapitalises Cologix, a private interconnection and hyperscale edge platform in North America.
The recapitalisation is being effectuated as a sale of Cologix by Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II LP and co-investors (Fund II) to Stonepeak-managed vehicles comprising a combination of existing Fund II investors who have chosen to reinvest in the business in partnership with a number of new third-party investors.
Fund II acquired a majority stake in Cologix in March of 2017 and subsequently partnered with Mubadala Investment Company for an incremental growth capital investment in January 2020.
Pacific Current Group Limited (PAC) a global multi-boutique asset management firm, has acquired a 35 per cent stake in Banner Oak Capital Partners (Banner Oak), a private equity real estate firm.
Banner Oak is a Dallas-based alternative investment manager offering a private equity real estate strategy focused on the creation and growth of fully integrated private real estate operating companies. Currently, Banner Oak manages approximately USD5.7 billion in assets across its platform.
PAC is making an initial investment of USD35.0 million (AUD48.2 million). The agreement also includes an “earn out” provision that could result in Banner Oak receiving additional consideration
GovExec, an information services and insights company for government leaders and contractors, has acquired News Service of Florida, a provider of political and policy news.
The acquisition will see News Service of Florida become a part of GovExec’s City & State (CS) platform, which also operates in New York and Pennsylvania, and builds on GovExec’s highly strategic acquisitions the company has carried out over the last year to reinforce its commitment to actionable intelligence and decision support tools for government leaders and contractors.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Peter Goldstone, Chairman of GovExec, served as an adviser,
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has closed the eighth strategic add-on for its utility market intelligence, data science and consulting platform, E Source, with the acquisition of AAC Utility Partners (AAC), a provider of vendor-independent customer information systems (CIS), programme management and consulting services to municipalities and utilities throughout North America.
AAC assists clients in the areas of strategic software assessment, selection, project implementation, system testing and cloud consulting.
Since 2005, AAC has been guiding electric, gas, water, wastewater and multi-service utilities through successful technology projects. AAC will become part of E Source’s Technology Planning and Implementation (TPI) business unit which
Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based global investment firm, and Permira, a growth-focused global private equity firm, are to sell a majority of their respective stakes in Teraco Data Environments (Teraco) an African, carrier-neutral, data centre and interconnection services provider, to Digital Realty.
Both Berkshire Partners and the Permira funds, as well as existing investor van Rooyen Group, will retain minority equity interests in the Company. Teraco’s current management team, including Chief Executive Officer Jan Hnizdo, will continue to lead the Company and will remain significant investors in the business.
Alpine Investors (Alpine), a people-driven private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company, MidAmerica Administrative & Retirement Solutions (MidAmerica) to US Retirement & Benefits Partners (USRBP).
MidAmerica administers retirement and health & welfare plans for public sector employers.
Terms of the sale have not been disclosed.
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