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3i announces sale of OneMed generating proceeds of c. £100 million

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3i Group plc (“3i”), and funds managed by 3i, have entered into a sale and purchase agreement to sell their investment in OneMed, the leading medical supplies distributor in Northern Europe, to Nalka Invest AB.

Proceeds to 3i will be c. £100m. The transaction is expected to complete in March 2019, subject to customary antitrust approvals.

3i invested in OneMed in 2011. During 3i’s ownership, the company successfully strengthened its market positions in Sweden, Denmark and Finland and built its international footprint through three strategic acquisitions in the Netherlands and a major expansion in Norway.

For further information, contact:
3i Group plc
Silvia Santoro
Investor enquiries
Kathryn van der Kroft
Media enquiries
Tel: +44 20 7975 3258
Email: silvia.santoro@3i.com
Tel: +44 20 7975 3021
Email: kathryn.vanderkroft@3i.com

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Altas Partners Completes Sale of NSC Minerals

Altas Partners

Toronto, ON – January 17, 2019 – Altas Partners today announced that it has completed the sale of NSC Minerals Ltd. (“NSC” or the “Company”), a market-leading provider of salt products in Western Canada and the North Central United States. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

NSC is a leading producer of salt products to provincial, state, and municipal governments, contractors, and industrial customers. The Company offers a wide range of bulk, industrial, and packaged products used in critical applications such as road de-icing.

“Altas was a great partner to our management team,” said Neil Cameron, President and CEO of NSC Minerals. “Consistent with their approach, Altas has supported investments that have positioned NSC for long-term success. We are grateful for the insight they have provided, including supporting key strategic decisions and areas of investment across the business, and thank them for their partnership.”

“It has been a privilege to partner with Malcolm Leggett, NSC’s visionary founder, CEO Neil Cameron and the entire NSC team over the past many years,” commented Andrew Sheiner, Founder and Managing Partner of Altas Partners. “Through a collaborative partnership, we were able to enhance operational performance considerably, driven by logistics optimization and strategic capital investment throughout NSC’s network. We wish the NSC team all the best as they continue to build this wonderful business in the years to come.”

About NSC Minerals Ltd.
Founded in 1988 and based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, NSC is a market-leading provider of salt for de-icing, industrial, and agricultural applications. NSC distributes product through a best-in-class logistics network to customers including provincial, state, and municipal governments, contractors, and industrial customers in Western Canada and the North Central United States.

For more information: https://nscminerals.ca

About Altas Partners
Altas Partners is an investment firm with a long-term orientation focused on acquiring significant interests in high-quality, market-leading businesses in partnership with outstanding management teams. Key elements of the firm’s approach include responsible capital structures, active ownership through strategic and operational support and an emphasis on sustainable value creation. Altas invests on behalf of endowments, foundations, public pension funds and other institutional investors.

For more information: https://www.altas.com

Media Contacts:

Altas Partners
Sard Verbinnen & Co.
Andrew Cole / Julie Rudnick
U.S.: +1 (212) 687 8080

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Changes in Ratos’s management group

Ratos

Ratos is carrying out changes in its management group, meaning that it will now consist of:

Jonas Wiström, CEO
Helene Gustafsson, Head of IR and Press
Henrik Lundh, Vice President (new member since January 2019)
Anders Slettengren, Vice President
Magnus Stephensen, General Counsel
Peter Wallin, CFO (new member since December 2018)

Robin Molvin, Vice President and previous member of the management group, and Johan Rydmark, Director, are leaving Ratos. Meanwhile, Henrik Lundh has been appointed as Vice President and member of the management group.

“I look forward to welcoming Henrik Lundh as a member of Ratos’s management group, where I’m sure that his experience and knowledge will be of immense benefit in the future.

I want to extend a sincere thanks to Robin Molvin, whose important work with several of our portfolio companies throughout his many years here at Ratos has created significant value. Over the years, Robin has strengthened and assumed responsibility for Ratos’s presence in Denmark, which was the driving factor behind the acquisition of airteam and Oase Outdoors. At airteam, Robin has led the company’s growth journey and expansion into Sweden through strategic bolt-on acquisitions. I also want to thank Johan Rydmark, whose previous investment responsibilities at the portfolio companies Nebula and Serena, and previous operational development of portfolio companies such as Stofa, have created important value for Ratos”, says Jonas Wiström, CEO of Ratos.

The changes will take effect as of today, 17 January 2019.

For further information, please contact:
Jonas Wiström, CEO, Ratos, +46 8 700 17 00
Helene Gustafsson, Head of IR and Press, Ratos, +46 8 700 17 98

About Ratos:
Ratos owns and develops unlisted medium-sized companies in the Nordic countries. Our goal as an active owner is to contribute to long-term and sustainable operational development in the companies we invest in and to make value-generating transactions. Ratos’s portfolio consists of 12 medium-sized Nordic companies and the largest segments in terms of sales are Construction, Industrials and Consumer goods/Commerce. Ratos is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and has approximately 12,300 employees.

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Kissner Group Holdings Acquires NSC Minerals from Altas Partners

Overland Park, Kan. and Toronto, ON – January 17, 2019 – Kissner Group Holdings LP, the parent company of a leading bulk salt, specialty packaged salt and evaporated salt producer, Kissner, today announced that it has acquired NSC Minerals Ltd. (“NSC” or the “Company”), a market-leading provider of salt products in Western Canada and the North Central United States, from an investor group led by Altas Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

NSC is a leading producer of salt and calcium chloride products to provincial, state, and municipal governments, contractors, and industrial customers. The Company offers a wide range of bulk, industrial, and packaged products used in critical applications such as road de-icing.
NSC will continue to operate under its existing brand as a subsidiary of Kissner. The Company’s production, packaging and storage facilities in Canada and the U.S. will remain fully operational.
“NSC is a well-run and highly complementary addition to our growing platform and solidifies Kissner’s position as one of North America’s premier, multi-regional salt companies,” said Mark Demetree, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kissner Group Holdings LP. “With its strong position in the Western Canada highway de-icing salt market and growth potential in the calcium chloride market, NSC expands our geographic presence in Canada and enhances our financial scale and flexibility with non-cyclical, recurring revenue. I look forward to welcoming the talented NSC team to Kissner as we pursue our next phase of growth together.”
“We are pleased to continue to help expand Kissner’s geographic footprint and aggressively support the company’s management team in their growth efforts,” said Jeffrey Siegal, Partner at Metalmark Capital. “We look forward to our continued work with this great company to further its capabilities to deliver exceptional products and service to its customers.”

“It has been a privilege to partner with Malcolm Leggett, NSC’s visionary founder, CEO Neil Cameron and the entire NSC team over the past many years,” commented Andrew Sheiner, Founder and Managing Partner of Altas Partners. “Through a collaborative partnership, we were able to enhance operational performance considerably, driven by logistics optimization and strategic capital investment throughout NSC’s network. We wish the NSC team all the best as they continue to build this wonderful business in the years to come.”
The transaction closed January 16, 2019.

About NSC Minerals Ltd.
Founded in 1988 and based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, NSC is a market-leading provider of salt for de-icing, industrial, and agricultural applications. NSC distributes product through a best-in-class logistics network to customers including provincial, state, and municipal governments, contractors, and industrial customers in Western Canada and the North Central United States.
For more information: https://nscminerals.ca/
About Kissner Group Holdings LP
Kissner Group Holdings LP is the parent company of Kissner and is owned by Metalmark Capital Holdings LLC (“Metalmark Capital”), a private equity firm, Silvertree‐KMC II LP, a venture between Silverhawk Capital Partners and Demetree Salt, LLC, and the Kissner management team.

About Kissner
Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, Kissner is a leading, vertically integrated bulk salt, specialty packaged salt and evaporated salt producer focused on governmental and commercial customers in the Great Lakes, Great Plains, Midwest and East Coast regions and Ontario province. Kissner owns and operates two rock salt mines located in Detroit, Michigan and Lyons, Kansas, as well as an evaporated salt business (US Salt) which has a salt refinery in Watkins Glen, New York.
For more information: http://www.kissner.com

About Metalmark Capital

Metalmark Capital is a leading private equity firm that seeks to build long-term value through active and collaborative partnerships with business owners, founders, and executives. The firm focuses its investment activity in growth industrials, natural resources, agribusiness, and healthcare. Metalmark Capital manages funds with $3.7 billion in aggregate capital commitments. For more information: http://www.metalmarkcapital.com About Silvertree-KMC II LP Silvertree-KMC II LP is a special purpose vehicle, led by Silverhawk Capital Partners and Demetree Salt, LLC. Silverhawk Capital Partners is an independent investment group established in 2005 to invest in management buyouts and other private equity transactions in the growth industrial, energy/natural resources and business service sectors. The partners of Silverhawk have invested as a team and operated businesses since 1989, and have successfully deployed more than $1.3 billion of capital at high rates of return. For more information: http://www.silverhawkcapitalpartners.com Demetree Salt, LLC is a family investment office.

About Altas Partners
Altas Partners is an investment firm with a long-term orientation focused on acquiring significant interests in high-quality, market-leading businesses in partnership with outstanding management teams. Key elements of the firm’s approach include responsible capital structures, active ownership through strategic and operational support and an emphasis on sustainable value creation. Altas invests on behalf of endowments, foundations, public pension funds and other institutional investors. For more information: http://www.altas.com

Media Contacts:
Altas Partners Kissner Group Holdings LP Metalmark Capital
Sard Verbinnen & Co. Mike Lenox Sard Verbinnen & Co.
Andrew Cole / Julie Rudnick U.S.: +1 (913) 713 0630 Warren Rizzi
U.S.: +1 (212) 687 8080 U.S.: +1 (212) 687 8080

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GP Bullhound advises Method Communications on its sale to Chime Communications Group

Gp Bullhound

GP Bullhound acted as exclusive financial advisor to Method Communications, a technology PR and marketing agency based in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, on its sale to Chime Communications Group, the global sport, entertainment and communications group. Through the acquisition, Method will become part of the Chime Specialist Group, a family of best-in-class agencies that are challenging traditional agency models.

David Parkinson, CEO of Method, commented: “We are thrilled to be part of Chime and anticipate a phenomenal partnership as we move forward. GP Bullhound’s deep expertise and global network in the digital marketing sector proved invaluable in helping us find the right partner and was instrumental in making this process a success.”

Adam Birnbaum, Director at GP Bullhound, commented: “It was a pleasure to have advised Method in this strategic transaction with Chime. Method’s unique expertise and approach has enabled them to become one of the most recognized technology agencies in the U.S. and will fit very well within Chime. Method’s impressive client roster of leading technology companies will benefit from the breadth of Chime’s capabilities.”

The transaction is further testament to GP Bullhound’s expertise in advising category leaders in the digital services sector, with more than 20 transactions completed in the last 24 months including the sales of Oliver to You & Mr Jones, Namics to Merkle, Kepler Group to KYU, Solita to Apax Digital, and Karmarama to Accenture, among many others.

Inquiries
For inquiries please contact: Adam Birnbaum, Director, at Adam.Birnbaum@gpbullhound.com

About GP Bullhound
GP Bullhound is a leading technology advisory and investment firm, providing transaction advice and capital to the world’s best entrepreneurs and founders. Founded in 1999, the firm today has offices in London, San Francisco, Stockholm, Berlin, Manchester, Paris, Hong Kong, Madrid and New York. For more information, please visit www.gpbullhound.com, or follow on Twitter @GPBullhound

 

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Vistara Capital Partners is proud to announce our investment in CoolIT Systems.

Vistara

Vistara Capital Partners is proud to announce our investment in CoolIT Systems, the leader in modular liquid cooling technology targeted at data centers. This investment, made by the Vistara Technology Growth Fund III LP, is expected to bolster CoolIT’s anticipated growth as the demand for liquid cooling technology continues to rise.

CALGARY, AL – CoolIT Systems, the world leader in modular, scalable data center liquid cooling technology, has partnered with Vistara Capital Partners as the company expands production capacity to service new and existing global data center customers.

Vistara’s investment was made by the recently announced Vistara Technology Growth Fund III LP, a USD$100 million fund focused on providing flexible and tailored debt financing for technology companies across North America.

“With our order backlog expanding by 400% in the last year, access to additional capital is critical for continued success,” said CoolIT Systems CFO, Peter Calverley. “With the creative financing package provided by Vistara the financial foundation is in place for 2019 to be another year of significant growth in data center liquid cooling sales for CoolIT.”

“CoolIT Systems is at an exciting inflection point, managing a significant expansion of their business as liquid cooling is experiencing accelerated adoption by data center OEMs and operators,” said Vistara Partner, Noah Shipman. “Investment structures that efficiently facilitate growth over time is a hallmark of Vistara. We are thrilled to invest in and support another emerging Canadian technology leader.”

About Vistara Capital Partners

Headquartered in Vancouver BC, Vistara Capital Partners provides highly flexible and tailored technology growth capital for tech companies across North America. Founded, managed, and funded by seasoned technology finance and operating executives, “Vistara” (Sanskrit for “expansion”) is focused on enabling the growth and expansion of its portfolio companies. Additional information is available at www.vistaracapital.com.

About CoolIT Systems

CoolIT Systems specializes in scalable liquid cooling solutions for individual servers through to the world’s most demanding data centers and HPC systems. Through its modular, rack-based Direct Liquid Cooling technology, Rack DCLC™, CoolIT enables dramatic increases in rack densities, component performance and power efficiencies. From Passive Coldplate Loops specifically designed for the latest high TDP processors from Intel, NVIDIA and AMD, to Rack Manifolds and Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs), CoolIT’s reliable technology installs into any server or rack, ensuring ease of adoption and maintenance. For more information about CoolIT Systems and its technology, email or visit https://www.coolitsystems.com/.

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Infor Announces $1.5 Billion Investment Ahead of Potential IPO

Golden Gate Capital

NEW YORK — January 16, 2019 — Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced an agreement to receive a $1.5 billion investment from shareholders Koch Equity Development, LLC (KED) and Golden Gate Capital.

This investment builds on KED’s investment of more than $2 billion in early 2017, and it represents an important milestone as Infor considers a potential IPO in 2019 or 2020, subject to market conditions.

“Koch and Golden Gate Capital have been phenomenal partners for Infor, and all of our 17,300 employees are excited about this milestone as we prepare for the next stage of growth,” said Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor.

Under Phillips’ leadership, and over the course of Infor’s partnership with KED and Golden Gate Capital, Infor has invested approximately $2.5 billion in product design and development over the last five years and delivered more than 475 new products, 1,870 integrations, and 20,700 industry features in its CloudSuite product line. Infor CloudSuite is now the only fully multi-tenant ERP suite spanning front and back office applications, as well as logistics with global support (in terms of languages, currencies, and localizations).

“Koch was a customer of Infor before we became an investor in the Company, and Koch Industries’ companies continue to move their most mission critical applications to Infor CloudSuites,” said Jim Hannan, Koch Executive Vice President and CEO of Enterprises for Koch Industries, Inc. “Infor’s innovative products have helped lead our digital transformation as we continue to deploy them globally for 120,000 employees.”

With over $3 billion of revenue in fiscal year 2018, Infor became the first company to move mission critical ERP application suites to public clouds for entire industries. Infor’s CloudSuites are the foundation for digital transformation for more than 9,500 customers in 110 countries. Infor applications span financials, manufacturing, supply chain, human resources, and customer relationships.

Over the last five years, Infor has consistently gained market share in cloud applications, and 70% of its software license revenue is now derived from cloud applications.

Fundamental to Infor’s strategy is its ability to engineer each CloudSuite for a specific industry. Infor eliminates the need for expensive customizations and runaway consulting engagements. Customers routinely lower costs by 25% or more by retiring mods, eliminating big bang upgrades, and reducing infrastructure costs after moving to CloudSuite.

Infor has expanded its presence in key industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, the public sector, and hospitality. Over 72% of all hospitals in the U.S. run Infor applications, as well as 19 of the top 20 automotive suppliers and 8 of the top 10 fashion brands.

“Companies see the value in shifting their enterprise applications to the cloud but can’t make that transition until critical industry features are replicated there. Infor built these previously bespoke features as standard cloud services and now has access to valuable data across business functions to build predictive analytics and insightful correlations on our Coleman AI platform,” said Phillips.

Infor CloudSuite is also future proofed for innovation. Infor applications run on public scale clouds and open source infrastructure not tied to a single data store and scale out at lower costs using commodity compute and storage on demand. Vertical integration is a legacy of on-premise computing, and modern applications leverage global, commodity infrastructure.

Leadership Quotes

“Infor has undergone a remarkable evolution over the years. We remain strong supporters of the Company’s strategy and leadership team as they pursue their next phase of growth and continue to enhance the operations of businesses across a range of sizes and industries,” said David Dominik, Managing Director of Golden Gate Capital, which made its first investment in Infor in 2002.

“Koch continues to be impressed with Infor’s hyper-scaled, versatile technology, both as an investor, and as a customer of their software solutions,” said Matt Flamini, KED’s President. “Our confidence in the Infor team comes not only from their financial performance, but from the real world results we’re seeing as we implement Infor solutions throughout Koch Industries.”

“Infor’s emphasis on innovation and commitment to delivering solutions to its customers underpins the success of CloudSuites, which offers an unparalleled combination of industry-specific functionality and scalability. We are extremely excited about the opportunity ahead as the Company continues to deliver transformative new products and features,” said Rishi Chandna, Managing Director of Golden Gate Capital.

“Infor has used its partnership with Koch as an opportunity to co-innovate across the wide range of industries in which we operate,” said Brett Watson, Senior Managing Director of KED. “This investment is the result of a shared vision to continue creating innovative solutions that help companies operate more efficiently and effectively.”

About Infor

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. With 17,300 employees and over 68,000 customers in more than 170 countries, Infor software is designed for progress. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

Infor customers include:

• 19 of the top 20 aerospace companies
• 9 of the top 10 high tech companies
• 18 of the 25 largest U.S. healthcare delivery networks
• 18 of the 20 largest U.S. cities
• 19 of the top 20 automotive suppliers
• 17 of the top 20 industrial distributors
• 15 of the top 20 global retailers
• 4 of the top 5 brewers
• 17 of the top 20 global banks
• 9 of the 10 largest global hotel brands
• 8 of the top 10 global luxury brands

About Koch Equity Development, LLC (KED)

With offices in Wichita and London, KED focuses its efforts on strategic acquisitions and industry agnostic principal investments. Significant principal investments completed include Getty Images, Global Medical Response, Meredith/Time Inc., Solera Holdings Inc., The ADT Corporation, and Transaction Network Services. Since 2012, KED has invested more than $10 billion of equity in principal investments.

Since 2003, Koch companies have invested nearly $100 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures. With a presence in 50 countries, Koch companies employ nearly 120,000 people worldwide, with about 65,000 of those in the United States. From January 2009 to present, Koch companies have earned more than 1,300 awards for safety, environmental excellence, community stewardship, innovation, and customer service.

About Golden Gate Capital

Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with over $15 billion of capital under management. The principals of Golden Gate Capital have a long and successful history of investing across a wide range of industries and transaction types, including going-privates, corporate divestitures, and recapitalizations, as well as debt and public equity investments. Other notable software investments sponsored by Golden Gate Capital include BMC Software, Vector Solutions, Neustar, Inc., LiveVox, and 2020 Technologies. For more information, visit www.goldengatecap.com.

Contact Information

Sharon Sulc
Infor
614.537.6634
sharon.sulc@infor.com

Rob Carlton
KED | Koch Communications and Marketing
316.828.4070
Rob.Carlton@kochcm.com

Jenny Gore | Alyssa Lorenzo
Golden Gate Capital | Sard Verbinnen & Co.
312.895.4700 | 310.201.2040
JGore@sardverb.com | ALorenzo@sardverb.com

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CapMan Infra invests into onshore wind farm in Sweden

CapMan Infra has completed its second investment on behalf of NH Investment & Securities Co., Ltd. (“NHIS”) and NH-Amundi Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“NH-Amundi”), major financial institutions in Korea. The investment is a managed account solution into Överturingen Wind Farm, a large onshore wind farm in Southern Norrland in Sweden. The investment highlights CapMan’s capacity to serve large international investors and CapMan Infra’s ability to access high quality Nordic infrastructure opportunities.

Under the managed account, CapMan Infra will manage NHIS and NH-Amundi’s acquisition of a 50% stake in the wind farm under development. Once completed, the wind farm has a capacity of 235 MW with an ability to produce green electricity for up to 265,000 apartments or 40,000 stand-alone houses annually. Construction on the wind farm has started and the park is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2019. CapMan Infra will manage the asset and the investment will generate long-term management fee for CapMan during the investment period.

“CapMan Infra is excited to partner with NHIS and NH-Amundi to help construct one of the largest onshore wind farms in Sweden. The transaction highlights our ability to access high-quality Nordic infrastructure projects,” says Harri Halonen, Partner at CapMan Infra.

“This mandate demonstrates our ability to provide value-add service to large institutional investors looking to increase their exposure to Nordic private assets. Our strategy includes broadening our international client base, and the co-operation with NHIS and NH-Amundi is a perfect example of its successful implementation,” comments Joakim Frimodig, CapMan’s CEO.

CapMan Infra’s investment focus is core infrastructure and core+ assets with limited market or contractual risks in the energy, transportation and telecom sectors. CapMan Infra recently held a first close on its first midcap Nordic infrastructure fund. The managed account investment into the wind farm is completed exclusive of the fund. The Nordic team operates from Helsinki and Stockholm with a total of 60 years of experience in infrastructure investments.

Scala Fund Advisory acted as placement agent and Newsec as financial advisor in the completion of the managed account investment.

For further information, please contact:
Harri Halonen, Partner, CapMan Infra, tel. +46 768 710 062
Joakim Frimodig, CEO, CapMan Plc, tel. +358 50 529 0665

About CapMan

CapMan is a leading Nordic private asset expert with an active approach to value-creation in its target companies and assets. We offer a wide selection of investment products and services. As one of the Nordic private equity pioneers, we have developed hundreds of companies and real estate and created substantial value in these businesses and assets over the last 30 years. CapMan employs today approximately 120 private equity professionals and has approximately €3 billion in assets under management. We mainly manage the assets of our customers, the investors, but also make investments from our own balance sheet. Our objective is to provide attractive returns and innovative solutions to investors. Our current investment strategies cover Buyout, Growth, Real Estate, Infra, Credit and Russia. We also have a growing service business that currently includes procurement services (CaPS), fundraising advisory (Scala Fund Advisory), and fund management services. www.capman.com

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Manual raises £5M to build its well-being guide for men

Felix Capital

Backing the round is the U.K.’s Felix Capital, Germany’s Cherry Ventures and U.S.-based Cassius Capital.

The first iteration of the startup’s offering is being launched today: a new website that aims to arm men with the knowledge and tools they need “to proactively solve their well-being and look after their health.”

“At Manual  we want men to take control of their health and happiness by helping guide them to the choices that work best for them. We believe this starts with promoting a change in how men approach their well-being,” Manual CEO George Pallis, who co-founded the company along with Michalis Gkontas, tells me.

“Michalis and I both have firsthand experience of the physical and mental toll that can happen when you’re not looking out for yourself, and at Manual we want to encourage men to talk openly, challenging the outdated notions of masculinity where ‘being a man’ meant sweeping problems under the carpet.”

Pallis says Manual’s vision is to improve the everyday lives of men by providing knowledge and solutions for key parts of their well-being, citing a report by the National Pharmacy Association that suggests almost 90 percent of men don’t seek help unless they have a serious problem.

“The goal is to change habits in the way men understand and fix their problems,” he says. “Manual will provide users with products, services and in-depth information so they can implement a holistic approach to their wellness.”

At launch, Manual is focusing on solutions to what Pallis says are two of the most common men’s health problems: erectile dysfunction (ED) and hair loss. The plan is to then build up other well-being offerings from there, “from sex to skin, and hair to general well-being.”

It is also worth noting Pallis and Gkontas’ startup and entrepreneur backgrounds. Pallis was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Felix Capital. Before that he ran marketing at Deliveroo, as director of Marketing, and before that he was an early employee at TransferWise. Gkontas built and exited healthy food startup Forky to Vivartia in 2018. The pair say that the stresses associated with startup life also informed their decision to build a platform targeting men’s well-being.

Meanwhile, Manual says its seed funding will be invested into the development and growth of the platform. In addition, the new capital will be used to scale the team, split between its HQ in London and a technical team in Athens, and for further European expansion.

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TA Associates Announces Investment in LIST S.p.A.

TA associates

BOSTON and PISA, Italy – TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, today announced that it has completed an investment in LIST S.p.A. (“LIST”), a developer of software solutions for the financial industry. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

LIST is a provider of mission-critical trading and compliance software solutions and infrastructural services to a wide range of financial institutions. The company’s trading and brokerage platform offering, FastTrade, supports operations in a multi-asset and multi-market environment with modules for pricing, quoting, hedging, position keeping, algorithmic trading and execution management in high and low-touch business environments. LIST’s capital markets, governance, risk and compliance solutions are used by more than 130 customers ranging from investment banks and asset managers in Italy to large global financial corporations. The company is headquartered in Pisa, Italy, and has additional offices throughout Italy and around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Canada, India and Malaysia.

“As one of Europe’s leading capital markets technology providers, LIST has a strong and long-term track record of delivering exceptional software and services across a wide range of trading and compliance needs,” said J. Morgan Seigler, a Managing Director at TA Associates who will join the LIST S.p.A. Board of Directors. “Importantly, we are investing alongside what we believe to be a seasoned, passionate and talented management team that will continue to actively build the company. We are honored to be a part of the LIST family and are excited to begin working closely with management to help LIST capitalize on its strategy and international growth initiatives.”

“Over the course of our 33-year history, we have strived to provide our customers with high quality products and services to help them meet their unique trading and compliance needs,” said Enrico Dameri, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LIST S.p.A. “We believe our partnership with TA Associates will help us expand our offerings and territories, while continuing to deliver the services our customers have come to expect. Perhaps what we are most excited about is that TA is fully-aligned with and supportive of our strategy, and has committed to working collaboratively with our team to accelerate our forward momentum. We welcome TA as an investor and look forward to benefitting from this partnership.”

“Software services for financial-focused companies around the world are increasingly playing a more critical role in a variety of daily operations,” said Naveen Wadhera, a Managing Director at TA Associates who will join the LIST S.p.A. Board of Directors. “As institutions around the world continue to shift towards electronic trading practices, we believe LIST is well positioned to take advantage of further growth opportunities in international and emerging markets. We are pleased to have the opportunity to partner with LIST’s management team and founders as we seek to create significant additional value in the company.”

In addition to Morgan Seigler and Naveen Wadhera, Stefan Dandl, a Vice President at TA Associates, will also join the LIST S.p.A. Board of Directors.

Latham & Watkins LLP provided legal counsel and KPMG served as financial advisor to TA Associates. Nctm Studio Legale provided legal counsel and Studio MCCR served as financial advisor to LIST S.p.A.

About LIST S.p.A.
LIST S.p.A. has been a leader for more than 30 years in designing and developing innovative software solutions for the financial world. The company has conceived, designed, developed and produced software and cutting-edge systems for capital markets, helping to create the first electronic Monetary and Financial markets. The company has developed platforms and solutions for trading on financial markets, which have been milestones in the evolution of Trading Systems. LIST has also created integrated solutions for managing risk, audit and governance of organizations and financial processes (governance, risk and compliance). The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Pisa, Italy. More information can be found at www.list-group.com.

About TA Associates
TA Associates is one of the largest and most experienced global growth private equity firms. Focused on five target industries – technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and business services – TA invests in profitable, growing companies with opportunities for sustained growth, and has invested in more than 500 companies around the world. Investing as either a majority or minority investor, TA employs a long-term approach, utilizing its strategic resources to help management teams build lasting value in growth companies. TA has raised $24 billion in capital since its founding in 1968 and is committing to new investments at the pace of $2 billion per year. The firm’s more than 85 investment professionals are based in Boston, Menlo Park, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong. More information about TA Associates can be found at www.ta.com.

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