Salient Partners has successfully completed its acquisition of Forward Management, creating a USD27 billion diversified asset management firm and reaffirming the firm’s position as provider of liquid alternative and real asset investment strategies. The combined firm has 250 employees across its offices in Houston, San Francisco and New York.
Shoreline Capital, a private fund manager in Chinese distressed debt and special situation investments, has closed its third fund at USUSD500 million. The fund, Shoreline China Value III, was over-subscribed. Meanwhile, Shoreline held the first close for Fund IIIÂ’s overflow fund at USD115 million. Based on current indications of interest, Shoreline
The amount of capital awarded by investors to separate account structures reached an all-time high in 2014. In an extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight – June 2015, Oliver Senchal examines the growing prominence of this type of alternative structure in the broader fundraising market, including investor appetite and fund
Noerr has advised the private equity investor American Industrial Partners (AIP) on the acquisition of the German OEM fasteners division of Anixter. The total volume of the global transaction is USD380 million. Anixter is one of the world’s leading providers of products in the fields of data communication and security
The unlisted infrastructure fund market targeting Germany, either solely or as part of a wider geographic focus, remains relatively small, with data from Preqin’s Infrastructure Online service revealing only 18 unlisted vehicles have reached a final close since 2010. Fundraising has declined from six funds closing in 2013 raising an
Hokkei, a new Cardiff based restaurant launched by two MasterChef finalists Dale Williams and Larkin Cen, is looking to raise GBP275,000 through the Seedrs equity crowdfunding platform. Williams and Cen are looking to share 25 per cent of the business which aims to flip Chinese takeaway food on its head
Nordic Capital Fund VII (Nordic Capital) has acquired Sunrise Medical, a specialist in premium mobility products, from Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone). Sunrise Medical develops, designs, manufactures and distributes manual wheelchairs, power wheelchairs, scooters, as well as seating and positioning products. The Company’s products are sold in over 130 countries. Sunrise
eQ Asset Management has held the final close at USD80 million for its North America-focused private equity fund, eQ PE VII US. The fund was raised in only five months and closed above its target. eQ PE VII US invests in funds investing in unlisted small and medium-sized companies operating
Capital Dynamic has launched commercial operations of six onshore wind farm projects since the beginning of 2015 – five in the UK and one wind power generating facility in the United States – with total power generation capacity of 179.1 megawatts. Capital Dynamics, through its Clean Energy & Infrastructure (CEI)
Life Time Fitness has completed its acquisition by an investor group led by affiliates of Leonard Green & Partners and TPG. The execution of a definitive merger agreement outlining the terms of the transaction was initially announced on 16 March, 2015. Other key investors include LNK Partners and Life Time
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