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DLA Piper has launched a global, dedicated end-to-end Investment Management and Funds practice offering to support to the entire investment management and investment funds value chain.
Co-led by International partners, Catherine Pogorzelski and James O’Donnell and US partners, Jesse Criz and David Parrish, the global dedicated practice builds upon the firm’s already well-established investment fund and investment management capabilities in the US, Europe and Asia by offering a global “one-stop shop” to serve the legal needs of asset managers, investment fund sponsors and investors across all industry sectors, geographies, asset classes and investment strategies covering:
• The full investment fund
Pollen Street Capital has agreed a sale of Aryza Holdings Limited (Aryza) to Atlas Bidco 1 Limited – a company owned by Macquarie Capital Principal Finance, Pollen Street, and Aryza senior management.
Aryza is a global provider of case management and process automation software solutions for regulated industries serving the insolvency, credit, and debt recovery sectors.
Pollen Street first invested in Aryza (originally known as Vision Blue) in 2017. Since then, Aryza has grown rapidly in size, breadth of offering and geographical footprint, now operating from six countries across three continents. More recently, Aryza has developed a platform for M&A
CI Financial Corp (CI) has made a strategic investment in GLAS Funds (GLASfunds), a turnkey alternative investment platform and alternative asset management firm based in Cleveland.
Founded in 2009, GLASfunds is a tech-enabled platform providing investors with secure and streamlined digital access to institutional-quality alternative investment opportunities and asset management oversight. It has approximately USD1.1 billion in combined assets under management and assets under contract.
CI’s investment will strengthen GLASfunds’ offering to the broader market, while providing CI Private Wealth clients with enhanced access to alternative asset classes through a best-in-class platform.
“Alternative assets are an increasingly important part of
Euronext has congratulated SPEAR Investments I (SPEAR), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has listed on Euronext Amsterdam, becoming the SPAC-listing on Euronext markets in 2021.
SPEAR has a multi-disciplinary team, combining equity capital markets professionals, M&A professionals, investment professionals, C-suite and senior leaders, operators and technology experts and founders. SPEAR expects to focus on targets with strong business fundamentals, and technology, innovation and/or changing business model-led growth.
The admission and issue price of the units offered by the company was EUR10 per unit. The SPAC-listing raised EUR175 million altogether. SPEAR is sponsored by STJ Advisors and AZ Capital. STJ
bd-capital, a pan-European, operationally-led private equity firm, has made its latest investment into TAPTAP Digital, an advertising technology and marketing intelligence software platform in Southern Europe, Latin America and Africa. This is bd-capital’s first investment in Spain.
TAPTAP was founded in 2010 by Alvaro del Castillo. The business has developed its own software platform called Sonata that helps deliver relevant advertising content to consumers while protecting their privacy. It aggregates and cross references multiple sources of location data, which helps advertisers to increase brand awareness, build purchase interest and boost consideration.
A key changing pattern of consumer behaviour is the
TELEO Capital Management (TELEO) has acquired Flatirons Solutions, Inc (Flatirons) from Presse Participations.
Flatirons is specialist in technical content management solutions for the aviation and defence industries. This investment marks TELEO’s second investment in aviation software and fifth corporate carve-out since 2019.
Flatirons offers a critical SaaS solution for the global aerospace industry which helps improve the productivity of maintenance procedures, ensuring regulatory compliance. TELEO’s investment will support the continued innovation of Flatirons’ software, driving significant operational efficiencies for the aerospace industry.
“The aerospace market is rapidly changing in response to regulations and technological advances. Flatirons provides organisations with a
Prytek Holdings (Prytek) has completed a strategic investment in Hirewell, a US-based talent acquisition solutions firm, as it continues its expansion.
Prytek enters the Human Capital space by investing into Hirewell, a US-based talent acquisition solutions firm and merging ICV, an AI sourcing solution (a Prytek technology company) to create a vertical integrated holding and delivering a managed service solution. This combined solution includes data technology, natural language programming, and business intelligence to marketplaces and offers an entire recruiting managed service.
Prytek will provide strategic capital to accelerate Hirewell’s organic growth and invest in technology to integrate it into
Pexapark, a provider of software and advisory services for post-subsidy renewable energy sales, has formed a new partnership with ConWX, a provider of power forecasting services for global energy providers, to enable asset developers, owners and investors to more effectively site and value new renewable energy projects.
The agreement will see ConWX make its power and weather modelling data available to Pexapark users via the PexaQuote Price Reference platform. Combining these industry-leading data streams will help developers, producers and investors to swiftly quantify the value of new wind and solar asset investment opportunities.
They will be able to identify
McVeigh Global Meetings and Events (MGME), a corporate meetings and events company and a portfolio company of private equity firm Infocommerce Partners, has acquired PRIME Event Partners, a Canadian full-service event management company.
This move expands on MGME’s global presence, with offices in Toronto and Vancouver, bringing new growth opportunities and enhanced service capabilities to clients across North America and around the world.
“We are very excited to welcome the PRIME team to our family,” says Jeff Guberman, CEO of MGME. “The acquisition of PRIME builds on our global business strategy with an incredible team that brings depth of experience
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a GBP749,000 growth capital investment into TMAC, using equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) as part of a cGBP1.5 million funding round.
Founded in 2018 by Jimmy Hosang and Sean Northam, TMAC is a rapidly growing contact centre software solutions company. Based in Manchester and with significant operations across the Midlands, TMAC’s proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning software drives efficiency, reduces costs and improves results for large contact centres primarily in the insurance, retail and banking sectors.
It offers three affordable modular
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