Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm with over USD2.0 billion of assets under management, today announced that an affiliate has successfully completed the acquisition of TruGreen LandCare from The ServiceMaster Company. TruGreen LandCare is a leading US provider of landscape maintenance services to commercial, industrial and municipal
Kronos Incorporated has formally terminated its previously announced agreement to acquire API Healthcare Corporation from Francisco Partners. 
“We remain committed to executing our business plan of leadership by making significant investments in innovative workforce management solutions that are designed to help healthcare organisations deliver superior patient care while controlling labor
Sittercity has closed USD22.6 million in series B equity financing led by existing investors Baird Venture Partners (BVP) and New World Ventures (NWV). They were joined by new investors State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Western Technology Investment along with existing investors Point Judith Capital, Apex Venture Partners and I2A. Sittercity,
Private equity investors are coping with the challenges of valuation and audit of alternative assets, but a majority say their documentation process may not meet new accounting standards for hard-to-price and hard-to-value assets, according to an informal survey by Northern Trust. Northern Trust conducted the survey of its global custody
Five individuals from leading international private equity firms have joined the new Advisory Council of award-winning venture philanthropy charity, Impetus Trust. The 18-member Advisory Council will meet twice a year to debate issues of strategic importance to society, consider how financial and political trends may affect the Impetus portfolio of
Meritech Capital Partners (MCP) has closed Meritech Capital Partners IV, a USD425 million late-stage venture capital fund. The fund will continue MCP’s successful strategy of investing in rapidly-growing technology companies primarily in the United States. This fund brings the firm’s cumulative capital under management to USD2.6 billion and is a
Cordiant Capital, the Montreal based fund manager that specialises in loans to emerging markets, has committed a USD17 million mezzanine funding towards the construction of a new USD214 million corn ethanol producing plant in Hungary. Demand for renewable fuels in Europe is increasing as a result of the EU’s
GlobeOp Financial Services’ assets under administration (AuA) increased to a record total of USD167 billion as at 31 March 2011, a 12% increase from USD149 billion at 31 December 2010 and a 46% increase in the past 12 months, according to the company’s interim management statement covering the period since
Many private equity portfolios are staging a post-recession comeback and are outperforming their non PE-owned industry peers, according to the latest study of the European private equity industry by AT Kearny. The report analyses PE transactions in four core European markets – the United Kingdom, DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland)
BNY Mellon will be the first global custodian to make the Burgiss Group’s new private capital benchmarking service, Private iQ, available to institutional clients. Private iQ provides information and tools to help clients analyse the behaviour and performance of private capital markets. Subscribers will be able to benchmark private
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