Back to blog Private Equity – May 2019 Investment Trends
The trending private equity investment sectors for May 2019 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.
Environmental
Acquired TAS Environmental Services (Fort Worth, TX, US), a provider of specialized environmental and industrial services. TAS offers comprehensive services including industrial cleaning, hydro blasting, waste transportation and disposal, emergency response, tank cleaning, box rental, and pipeline maintenance and remediation.
Invested in GFA International (Delray Beach, FL, US), a full-service Environmental and Geological consulting organization providing Environmental Consulting, Health & Safety, Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Materials Testing, Inspections, as well as Code Compliance services.
Invested in The Cleaning Guys, LLC dba CG Environmental (Fort Worth, TX, US), an emergency response and hazardous/non-hazardous materials remediation and waste disposal company. CG offers a wide range of environmental services, including the following: Emergency Response, Field Services and Hazardous / Non-Hazardous Waste Services.
Software Technology
Invested in Idera (Houston, TX, US), a provider of infrastructure software tools for database monitoring and design, application development, DevOps and software testing.
Invested in PDFTron Systems (Vancouver, BC, CA), a provider of high-performance document processing tools for software developers.
Invested in Vamp.io (Amsterdam, NL), offers a release management solution that enables container-based software delivery.
Logistics
Acquired Alpine Air Express (Provo, UT, US), a logistics and transportation platform providing regional air cargo services throughout the Mountain Region of the Western United States.
Invested in AMS Fulfillment Holdings (Valencia, CA, US), a full service outsourced logistics provider offering order management, warehouse and inventory management, reverse logistics and other value-added, complex fulfillment services.
Acquired A&R Logistics (Louisville, KY, US), a provider of integrated dry bulk logistics solutions for the chemical and plastic industries.
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