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Nautic Partners Nautic Partners, a middle market firm focused on healthcare, industrial products and outsourced services, this week received clearance a to invest $150 million in ExactCare Pharmacy. We've chosen Nautic as today's free PitchBook Profile, so click here to view the firm's investments, closed funds, deal team and more. | |
| How do they do it? Diving into the top 2005-2009 vintage buyout funds | | Click to see the top funds revealed |
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| Among the bevy of handy charts and graphs included in our latest Benchmarking and Fund Performance Report is a breakdown of top-performing funds, sliced and diced by type, size and vintage. Curious about the different strategies firms employ, we decided to examine one benchmark in particular—2005 to 2009 vintage buyout vehicles larger than $500 million—to see what we could learn. So what goes into a successful fund? Click here for our findings, along with the firms behind the top performers in this benchmark. |
| Partners Group offers to buy TSX-listed Axia NetMedia at C$272M market cap Partners Group has agreed to acquire Axia NetMedia (TSX: AXX), a Canada-based company that designs, installs and operates fiber-based internet and data networks across North America and France. The offer is for C$4.25 per share—a 49% premium over Axia's share price at Tuesday's close—valuing the company at C$272 million. Partners Group's offer is unanimously recommended by Axia’s Board of Directors. If the deal reaches a close, it becomes a small boost to a slow start for PE investor activity in Canada this year. According to the PitchBook Platform, PE firms closed 28 Canadian deals in January and February this year, an almost 40% drop from the 46 deals completed in the same timeframe in 2015. Despite a humdrum open to 2016, activity in the country is elevated on a historical basis. PE investors closed 283 Canadian deals last year, which is up 26% from the 225 in 2012. PitchBook users can click here for a closer look at PE investor activity in Canada since 2010. Interested in accessing this data and much more from the PitchBook Platform? Contact us today. |
| The Daily Benchmark 2010 Vintage U.S. Venture Funds with Software Investments Deals in Play & Announcements WCAS to acquire Intuit’s QuickBase unit Completed PE Deals Ashlar Capital backs anesthesia business Arsenal-backed Accella adds spray foam manufacturer Portfolio Company News Silver Lake, TPG-backed Avaya launches cloud communications platform Europe HgCapital invests in retail SaaS platform LDC gains David Bains to direct investments Management News FTV Capital promotes four 2010 Vintage U.S. Venture Funds with Software Investments WCAS to acquire Intuit’s QuickBase unit Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Intuit’s (NASDAQ: INTU) QuickBase business, which provides a low-code development platform that enables the creation and rapid deployment of customized, purpose-built cloud applications. | |
| Ashlar Capital backs anesthesia business Arsenal-backed Accella adds spray foam manufacturer Silver Lake, TPG-backed Avaya launches cloud communications platform Avaya has launched Zang, a cloud communication and applications-as-a-service platform that allows users to build custom apps. | |
| HgCapital invests in retail SaaS platform HgCapital has announced an investment in Trace One, a SaaS platform for the retail and private-label goods sectors. The capital for the deal comes from HgCapital’s growth buyout-focused Mercury Fund. | |
| LDC gains David Bains to direct investments LDC has hired David Bains as its new investment director based out of the firm’s office in Birmingham, U.K. Previously, Bains worked as a managing director focused on leisure and consumer activities at Global Leisure Partners. | |
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