Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has appointed Erik Nobel as a Managing Director, responsible for establishing and managing the firm’s newly opened office in Stockholm, Sweden. Nobel will lead LLCP’s structured equity origination and investing efforts in the Nordic region. Mike Weinberg, Partner
Crowdcube, a UK equity crowdfunding platform, has formed an exclusive 12 month partnership with Linklaters to be its legal advisor for the ongoing service delivery to technology companies post-funding. Fintech is Crowdcube’s biggest growth area, having raised GBP53 million in investment for fintech companies in 2017 and has worked with
Capzanine has announced the sale of its minority stake in Finance Active, a digital finance solutions provider, to Cathay Capital. The transaction also involves a major investment from Jacques Descourtieux and Patrice Chatard, the Founders, as well as a buy-in from new key managers. Founded in 2000 in Paris, Finance
Aire, which aims to make credit fairer for consumers, and more valuable to lenders, has closed a Series B round of funding from Crane Venture Partners, Experian Ventures and Orange Digital Ventures. Since receiving Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval, the company has grown from a start-up with eight people to
Far fewer active fund managers outperformed their benchmarks in 2018, according to an analysis of 15 key equity and bond fund segments by Scope. In fact, under a quarter of active equity funds beat benchmarks in 2018 and just 16 per cent of bond funds outperformed. Scope’s study, which covered
Eiger Advisors – a UK-regulated business assisting alternative and traditional asset management businesses – and Investeam – an established, Paris-based third-party manager – have announced a new commercial partnership. The partnership will support UK based fund managers wishing to access the French, Luxembourg and Belgium institutional investors, and French, Luxembourg
BlackRock Real Assets (BlackRock) is to sell five operating wind farms and one operating solar project (the Portfolio) located across the UK to Equitix Investment Management (Equitix). This marks the fourth realisation in the past three months for BlackRock’s Renewable Power platform and the latest addition to Equitix’s significant capabilities
Renaissance Capital has appointed Nancy Adel Fahmy as Vice President, Financial Services Research, in Cairo, Egypt. The bank has also made structural changes and promotions within its Research department – Metin Esendal will oversee healthcare coverage from London, while Artem Yamschikov will take over transport and infrastructure coverage from Moscow.
Muzinich & Co has provided funding for the acquisition of Fraureuth-based manufacturer Spindel-und Lagerungstechnik Fraureuth (SLF) through private equity sponsor Avedon Capital Partners in collaboration with SLF’s founders. This partnership approach is designed to expand new strategic goals, further invest in SLF’s operations and pursue new market opportunities. The ambition
MJ Hudson has advised NextEnergy Capital on the first closing of NextPower III LP (NP III), a solar energy fund, with initial commitments of circa USD160 million. NP III’s investment strategy is to invest in new-build solar photovoltaic (PV) projects internationally. NP III is expected to build a diversified portfolio
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