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‘Payments infrastructure often sits outside the traditional operating-partner toolkit. It's neither a classic commercial lever nor a pure cost lever, so it can fall between the cracks,’ partner Ronny Wittig tells PE Hub.

Dalcour Maclaren is a Bicester, UK-based consultancy that secures land, planning and environmental consents for major utilities and infrastructure projects, including HS2, Sizewell C and the Gatwick Northern Runway expansion.

The San Francisco-based firm made its first platform investment in the UK in September, with the launch of Eight Group Service Partners, a hard facilities management platform.

Monterro announced this week that the firm is opening its first UK office in London.

Ridge, founded in 1946 and headquartered in Oxford, provides planning, design, engineering and project management services across the UK built environment sector.

EQT’s Mid Market Europe fund has signed a definitive agreement to sell Ontinue, an AI-powered managed cybersecurity services provider focused on Microsoft architecture, to Quorum Cyber.

The London office will strengthen Monterro’s ability to support portfolio companies with international expansion.

ICG is a London-listed alternative asset manager with $126 billion in assets under management, active across private equity secondaries, private debt, credit and real assets.

Expansion is a ‘natural next step’ for the software-focused private equity firm, Sjoerd Aarts, managing partner and head of Benelux and UK, tells PE Hub.