Abacus Group, a provider of IT services for alternative investment firms, has completed the acquisition of competitor Proactive Technologies. The two companies will merge under the Abacus Group umbrella. Since its founding in 2007, Proactive has grown to service over 120 alternative investment clients, mostly in the New York City
STAR Capital Partnership (STAR Capital) is to acquire ASL Aviation Holdings. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, ASL Holdings is a global aviation services provider with operations on six continents. The Group’s multiple airlines provide ASL with wide-ranging traffic rights and valuable slots at key airports across Europe, Asia and Africa.
French private equity investor Siparex recorded a fifth consecutive year of growth in 2018, with business brisk across all of the company’s operating segments. The Group met or exceeded its targets, with EUR235 million in investments and EUR260 million in exits. All five lines of business (Midmarket, Midcap, Small Cap,
Prestige Funds, a specialist in the management and distribution of direct lending funds, has launched a new multi-manager investment fund that will specialise in allocating to both UK and international private debt and high yield credit managers. ‘Multi Finance Opportunities Fund’ was recently launched and is managed by Prestige Capital
Neptune Financial (NepFin), a technology-enabled lower middle market commercial lender, has expanded its presence in the Midwest by opening a Chicago office, which will be led by Matthew Kirst, Senior Managing Director. In this role, Kirst brings deep industry knowledge and expertise to the firm and will drive initiatives throughout
Macfarlanes has advised LGPS Central Limited, one of the eight local Government pension scheme pools in England and Wales, on the launch of its inaugural pooled private equity vehicle. Macfarlanes assisted with both the structuring and the formation of the platform. The platform is predicting annual fund launches, the first
BlueGem Capital Partners (BlueGem) has sold Crafts Group Ltd (DMC) to and Lion Capital (Lion). The DMC Group comprises a portfolio of leading European brands in the needlecrafts space, including DMC, Wool and the Gang (WATG) and Sirdar. The portfolio also includes Tilsatec, a leading brand of high- performance technical
Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital investor has announced a GBP2.4 million investment in DeepCrawl, a web crawler and marketing insights platform. The funding follows on from DeepCrawl’s GBP1.75 million Series A, which was also led by Beringea – other existing high net worth investors supported both rounds. DeepCrawl has
Business recovery, financial advisory and property services consultancy Begbies Traynor Group has appointed restructuring and corporate finance specialist Martin Barron as a partner in its BTG Advisory team. Joining Begbies Traynor Group from Grant Thornton where he was a partner and led the firm’s restructuring team across Yorkshire and the
Investment into VCTs managed by Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager – including the current offer for Foresight 4 VCT – will now be able to accept ISA funds through a new partnership with Platform One. The partnership will allow investors to transfer funds from
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