Transactions

Liberty Corporate Finance is delighted to announce they have advised the management team of Kaizen, a leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions for global financial institutions, on the £42 million minority investment from Guidepost Growth Equity, a Boston-based growth equity firm partnering with entrepreneur-led technology companies. This represents Kaizen’s first external investment since its founding in 2013 by CEO Dario Crispini.

Kaizen is the global leader in regulatory reporting quality assurance with its pioneering ReportShield platform, which enables its clients to fully test the accuracy and quality of regulatory reports at the trade level, identify 100% of errors at scale, and efficiently remediate with global regulatory coverage including MiFID, EMIR, SFTR, CFTC, and SEC, among others.  Kaizen has established itself as a trusted partner to the world’s largest and most sophisticated banks, asset managers, hedge funds and brokers to ensure accurate, complete, and timely reporting in an increasingly challenging regulatory environment, evidenced by strong revenue growth since inception. More recently, the Company has diversified its product suite to include solutions for managing and reporting shareholding disclosures, regulatory rules management, trade and communications surveillance and research management. Kaizen has also invested in London Reporting House and Cumulus9.

The investment from Guidepost Growth Equity will be used to accelerate product development, invest in go-to-market initiatives, expand in North America, and enhance Kaizen’s award-winning compliance technology.

Liberty advised founders Dario Crispini and Ian Rennie, and the management team on the terms of the transaction.