Solutions
Mercer Global Advisors (Mercer Advisors), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), has acquired Precipio Wealth Management (Precipio), a wealth management firm located in McLean, Virginia.
Precipio serves clients in 19 states with assets under management (AUM) of approximately USD250 million. Precipio was founded as a fee-only RIA in 2009 by Edgar L Parrish, Managing Principal, CFP, CIMA, AIF, and Katherine M Parrish, Managing Principal, CIMA, AIF. Precipio offers comprehensive financial planning and portfolio management to high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, and retirement plans, with a practice that stretches back to the 1970’s. Precipio’s entire team will be joining Mercer Advisors.
Golub Capital acted as Administrative Agent and Joint Lead Arranger on a USD1 billion GOLD facility to finance the merger of 2020 Technologies (2020) and Compusoft by Genstar Capital and TA Associates.
GOLD financings are Golub Capital One-Loan Debt facilities. The GOLD facility was funded using a combination of US dollars, Canadian dollars, British pounds sterling and eurodollars.
Golub Capital has been Administrative Agent to 2020 since Genstar acquired the company from Golden Gate Capital in May 2021. Golub Capital more than doubled the size of the GOLD facility to support 2020’s subsequent merger with Compusoft. The combined company
Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud native security provider, has acquired Argon, a specialist in software supply chain security.
Argon and Aqua now offer the industry’s first solution to secure all stages of software build and release. Shifting further “left,” Aqua Security’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) is now the only solution that can protect the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) from code through build to runtime, ensuring the end-to-end integrity of applications.
“With the addition of Argon to the Aqua Platform, we continue to execute on our vision of full lifecycle cloud native protection,” says Dror Davidoff, CEO and
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company BL Rankings (Best Lawyers) to Abry Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Best Lawyers is a leading provider of ranking and marketing services to the global legal community. The Company generates proprietary, peer-reviewed rankings of lawyers and law firms across various practice areas, which reach a readership audience of over 19 million people annually. As a supplier of critical marketing tools for its customers, the Company offers a suite of digital and non-digital products to its diverse global customer base.
Procuritas Capital Investors VI (Procuritas), the private equity investor focused on investing in and growing Nordic mid-market companies, has sold Ouriginal Group AB (Ouriginal) to Turnitin, a specialist in academic integrity and education software.
Ouriginal, previously named Urkund, is a market leader in the Nordics and the DACH region for plagiarism prevention and detection software, mainly used by educational institutions. Since Procuritas first invested in 2018, Ouriginal has nearly tripled in size, driven by strong organic growth, a successful acquisition of PlagScan, and the internal expansion of the sales and marketing capabilities.
Ouriginal management worked closely with Procuritas to
An affiliate of middle-market private investment firm Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock) has made a significant strategic growth investment in Dealt Financial Group, an equipment finance platform.
The structured growth investment will empower Delta to execute an innovative, scalable, and institutional approach to the USD1.4 trillion equipment finance and leasing market. Delta, established by a team of industry professionals and military veterans, primarily focuses on enterprise scale “Fair Market Value” operating leases of mission-critical assets across a range of industries. The company’s core social impact objective is to engage and benefit the military veteran community.
“This partnership with Peak Rock
Lessen, a marketplace platform for the delivery of property services, has closed a USD170 million Series B funding round led by Fifth Wall with additional funding coming from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst and Navitas Capital. The funding round sees the company valued at over USD1 billion.
The Series B funding announcement comes just five months after Lessen closed its Series A round, led by the same group of investors, bringing total capital invested to USD214 million. Proceeds from the current investment will be used to fund new technology products, support new field operations teams and facilitate market expansion.
Lessen modernises
Rockit Pest, a portfolio company of private equity firm Halle Capital, has acquired Home Pest Control (HPC), a provider of pest control services in South Carolina.
The acquisition is consistent with Rockit’s strategy of identifying and investing in pest control businesses that are poised for long-term growth in both South Carolina and the greater southeast region.
Steven Leidinger, who has been an owner and general manager of the business for 26 years, will continue to manage the business as President of HPC. “I’m excited for Home to join the Rockit Pest family,” he says. “Rockit has established itself as a
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, the professional body for the global alternative investment industry, has launched a Latin America Chapter, CAIA LatAm, that will bring together CAIA Members and candidates from across Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Led by Chapter Head Daniel Mueller, CAIA, Partner, Head of Latin America with Alpine Capital Advisors, the new LatAm Chapter will focus on providing opportunities for CAIA Members across Latin America to network, share ideas and insights, discuss best practices, and engage in an environment that will foster the continued growth of the local alternative investment industry and
STP Investment Services (STP) has acquired third-party fund administrator Tower Fund Services (Tower).
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