Financial services

Founded in 1862, Laconia-based Melcher & Prescott provides commercial insurance, employee benefits and personal, life and health insurance across New England.

Tahmasebi will lead new platform investments in founder-led financial, professional and business services companies in the lower mid-market.

The new hires span private equity, portfolio operations, investor relations and corporate functions, taking the firm’s headcount to more than 120.

Lovell Minnick Partners and Carlyle AlpInvest-backed SRS Acquiom agreed this week to acquire Pantarai, a provider of loan technology and services for the broadly syndicated loan and private credit markets.

Pantarai provides loan technology, loan closing services and middle office services across broadly syndicated loans and private credit markets globally.

Monomoy Capital Partners completes an investment in Creedence Energy Services, a provider of production and midstream chemical treatments for oil and gas operators; Permira portfolio company Acuity Analytics has acquired Continuus, a US-based data consultancy; Kian Capital Partners is acquiring Integrity Landscape.

Aiera provides permissioned, auditable access to broker research, expert insights, transcripts, filings and news within the AI tools and platforms institutions already use.

Anderson has more than 25 years of experience in procurement, global sourcing, supply chain and acquisition integration at PE-backed and listed companies.

Continuus works mainly with asset managers and other financial institutions on enterprise data strategy, governance frameworks and large-scale cloud data transformation programs.