SALU Capital (SALU), together with its partners Apex Group (Apex), and Inlife Holding (Inlife), has closed the purchase of all outstanding shares of Augur Financial Opportunities 2 SICAV (AFO-2), a Luxembourg investment vehicle managed by German Augur Capital that includes the fund’s portfolio companies, German life insurer myLife Lebensversicherung (myLife)
CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), an industrials-focussed private equity firm based in Chicago, has held the final close of CORE Industrial Partners Fund I with total commitments of USD230 million. The Fund was significantly oversubscribed with demand in excess of an initial target of USD200 million and initial hard cap of
Following a record year of investment and fundraising activity in 2018, Churchill Asset Management (Churchill), a majority-owned affiliate of Nuveen focussed on originating, underwriting and managing middle market senior loan investments, has promoted Mat Linett, Managing Director, from Deputy Head of Underwriting and Portfolio Management to Head of Underwriting, and
BGF has appointed Sophie Brand as an investor in its Leeds office. Brand joins from Deloitte, where she spent nearly eight years working across the firm’s Leeds and London offices. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in Deloitte’s audit practice, Brand has spent the past four years working in the
Tax specialist William Jean-Baptiste has joined Ogier’s team in Luxembourg as a tax partner. Jean-Baptiste (pictured), who joins Ogier’s eight-strong partnership in Luxembourg, focuses on tax structuring of international investment transactions, investment funds and on-going tax management. His experience covers acquisitions and holding structures for real estate, private equity
Latham & Watkins has appointed Ivana K Rouse as a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Investment Funds Practice in the firm’s Houston office. Rouse’s practice covers a broad range of private funds, including private equity-style energy, credit and mid-market funds, cryptocurrency funds and hedge
European impact investor, Wermuth Asset Management, has completed its second round of funding under the Green Gateway Fund 2 (GGF2) portfolio, doubling its investment in NexWafe. Until recently silicon solar wafers have been the costliest single components of a solar module, accounting for around 40 per cent of the total
Morrison & Foerster has appointed Christopher Kandel as a partner in the firm’s Finance practice in London. Kandel brings to the firm a wealth of experience in leveraged finance and complex international acquisition finance, and restructuring transactions. He comes to Morrison & Foerster from Latham & Watkins, where he served
Venture capital funding to automotive start-ups totalled USD8 billion in 2018, according to the latest Automotive Technology M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions adviser, Hampleton Partners. In parallel, almost 100 M&A deals were inked, including Renault, Ford and Volkswagen’s autotech acquisitions in the second half of 2018;
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made two investments totalling GBP1.95 million into two fast-growing Lincolnshire based businesses, Firetree Chocolate Ltd and YPP Group via the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). Foresight completed a GBP950k investment into premium chocolate maker Firetree Chocolate Ltd (Firetree) as part of a GBP1.2 million funding round
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