Parabellum acquires Crux; Martis buys majority stake in Deerfield

– Parabellum Investments (UK) acquired external data management platform Crux Informatics Inc. D.A. Davidson was financial adviser to Crux and Goodwin Procter LLP was legal advisor.

– Corten Advisors UK LLP and Ampersand Management LLC completed their previously announced acquisition of drug development intelligence platform Beacon Intelligence from Hanson Wade Ltd. Alvarez & Marsal was financial adviser and Winston Taylor and Carey Olsen were legal advisers to Corten and Ampersand.

– Martis Capital Management LLC acquired a majority stake in healthcare and life sciences marketing firm Deerfield Group Inc.

– Cathay Capital invested in autism therapy center operator Ascendia Autism Care. Berkery Noyes was financial adviser and Haynes Boone was legal adviser to Cathay.

– Awani Capital Management LP invested in specialty ingredients provider Kalustyan Corp.

– IVEST Consumer Partners and Cloverlay Inc sold the intellectual property of the Care Bears franchise, part of Cloudco Entertainment LLC, to Authentic Brands Group LLC. The Raine Group was financial adviser to Cloudco.

– NVP Associates LLC- and Storm Ventures LLC-backed artificial intelligence automation platform developer Pinkfish AI Corp. was acquired by Genesys Cloud Services Inc.

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