Middle market private equity firm GI Partners has acquired One Wilshire, a downtown Los Angeles network facility and data centre. In addition, the firm acquired three fully leased corporate office properties in El Segundo, California. The acquisition was made through TechCore, a USD1bn discretionary core real estate fund managed by GI
Water Street Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has completed an investment in RTI Biologics. Headquartered in Alachua, Florida, RTI specialises in orthopaedic and other biologic implants. Water Street has invested a USD50m private placement of convertible preferred equity to support RTI
Ayasdi has raised USD30.6m in series B venture funding, led by IVP with participation from Citi Ventures, GE Ventures, and existing investors Khosla Ventures and Floodgate. In conjunction with the financing, Steve Harrick from IVP will join Ayasdi’s board of directors. Six months after the company’s initial launch,
Tiger Bay Advisors, a provider of consulting and business process outsourcing (BPO) services to asset managers, has completed its acquisition of Gramercy Park Advisors, a boutique strategic advisory firm focused on the asset management industry. The combination marks a new type of firm within the industry – one with
Omnes Capital, formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity, is investing EUR15m in the Eratome group, a social housing renovation specialist, as part of a primary LBO alongside founder, chairman and chief executive officer Jean-Michel Nucera, the company’s managers and FSI Régions – bpifrance. Founded in 1991 by Nucera, the Eratome group
Private equity firm Nautic Partners has partnered with management to acquire Applied Consultants, a provider of inspection services to the oil and gas pipeline infrastructure industry. Applied was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Longview, Texas. Applied offers an array of inspection services on pipelines, compressor stations
In the first half of 2013, 17 Israeli private equity deals attracted USD939m, a decrease of 48 per cent from USD1.8bn attracted in 26 deals in H1/2012, according to the latest quarterly survey by IVC and GKH. The largest transaction was the USD500m buyout of tire manufacturer Alliance Tire
BV Investment Partners has completed a recapitalisation of The Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing Company (ECRM), an integrated marketing services, software and data provider serving consumer product manufacturers and retailers. The investment in ECRM will make BV the majority shareholder and is being done in partnership with ECRM’s founding family
After an explosion in internet-related investment activity in Europe in 2012, activity in the first half of 2013 fell temporarily by one third versus the same period last year as investors temporarily paused for breath, according to analysis by Magister Advisors, an M&A advisory firm to the technology industry.
The US wireless industry promises to get more interesting – and much more competitive – with the expected closing on 10 July of SoftBank’s USD21.6bn acquisition of Sprint Nextel, and Sprint’s purchase of spectrum-rich Clearwire. Law firm Morrison & Foerster has been advising SoftBank in both the Sprint and
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