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Lightstone Ventures closes USD50m Singapore focused fund

Lightstone Ventures has closed a USUSD50 million fund, Lightstone Singapore, focused on investing in Singapore-based life sciences technologies and companies.  Lightstone has partnered with Limited Partners Temasek, an investment company based in Singapore, and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, to create Lightstone Singapore, LP

Trivest adds Greg Baty as Partner

Miami-based private equity firm Trivest Partners has appointed Greg Baty as a Partner. Most recently, Greg was a Principal at Hamilton Lane, a global private equity management firm with approximately USD240 billion in total assets under management and supervision, where he managed the firm’s South Florida office. Over the past

Thoma Bravo debuts USD1bn lower middle market focused Discover Fund

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has completed fundraising for Thoma Bravo Discover Fund (Discover), which will focus on lower middle market software investments, with USD1.074 billion of commitments, reaching its hard cap. Thoma Bravo will invest Discover with a continued emphasis on its successful investment strategy in the software and

Ecosystem Investment Partners closes third fund above target

Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) has closed its third fund at USD303 million, surpassing its USD200 million target. Like its predecessors, Ecosystem Investment Partners III LP will invest in land-based environmental offset markets. EIP’s investment strategy remains focused on the Land-Based Environmental Offset (LEO) markets established to offset or “mitigate” unavoidable,

DNS Capital acquires IMI Holdings

DNS Capital has acquired IMI Holding Corp, the parent company of Industrial Magnetics, (IMI), Prater Industries, and Sterling Controls, from Chattanooga-based private equity firm, River Associates Investments. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. DNS Capital is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of

Creandum establishes EUR180 million venture capital fund in Guernsey

Lawyers from Carey Olsen's Guernsey funds team have advised Creandum on the establishment of their latest venture capital fund, Creandum IV, which was oversubscribed and held a first and final closing at EUR180 million. Private Equity Administrators Limited, Creandum's long term administrator, has again been appointed to provide administration services

Gide advises Canglong Optoelectronicon on acquisition of French high-tech company

Gide has advised Dalian Canglong Optoelectronic Technology Co on its acquisition of 70 per cent of the equity interests in French high-tech company Almae Technologies SAS. Canglong Optoelectronic is part of the FiberHome Technologies Group, a major Chinese state-owned enterprise specialising in the manufacturing of optical fibre and cable products

EnTouch Controls raises USD8m

EnTouch Controls has raised USD8 million in Series C financing led by Egis Capital Partners. Also participating were new investors Traverse Venture Partners, Aster Capital and Calvert Investments along with existing investors SJF Ventures and Trailblazer Capital. Richardson, Texas-based EnTouch provides facility asset and energy management intelligence and the financing

AAIP refinances SERS Ltd

African Alpha Investment Partners (AIIP) has invested an undisclosed amount into SERS Ltd, an Africa focused equipment financing company based in Mauritius. The transaction was a refinancing of a facility raised and arranged by AAIP in October 2014, extending maturities and reducing the company's cost of borrowing. The new facility

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