HIG Capital

Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management LLP and Canadian pension fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec teamed up to acquire control of wealth-management services provider FNZ in one of the year’s largest fintech deals.

“Anything in the public software space is of interest to us. Anything is fair game,” says CFO Brian Miller. Tyler recently acquired Socrata and Sage Data Security.

Full integration probably takes three times longer than expected; acquiring companies must be persistent.