Peer-to-peer finance platform Assetz Capital has appointed Rob Pailin as its chief commercial officer and member of the board of directors. Pailin joins from RBS Corporate, where was managing director of the bank’s corporate business in the north. As a senior executive at RBS for more than 10 years, Pailin was
Polaris has agreed to sell Avanti Wind Systems to Alimak Group, marking the private equity firm’s sixth exit in the past 18 months. With Polaris as its owner since 2011, Avanti, a specialist in service lifts as well as ladder and safety systems for the wind turbine industry, has doubled
Private equity firm Cinven has agreed to sell Host Europe Group (HEG), one of the largest privately-owned web services providers in Europe, to GoDaddy, a cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. Cinven acquired the core business within HEG in August 2013 for an original consideration of GBP438 million.
Clessidra SGR has signed a definitive agreement to sell all outstanding shares of ABM Italia to funds advised by BC Partners through their participation in Keter Group. ABM Italia is one of Europe's leading manufacturer of high-end resin storage systems for domestic/office applications such as cabinets, shelves and storage boxes.
Solace Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on distressed-for-control and special situations investments in North America, has closed its inaugural Solace Capital Special Situations Fund at USD576 million, in excess of its USD500 million target. Solace has flexible capital and targets control-oriented investments in complex, distressed or capital-constrained, lower-middle
O2 Investment Partners has appointed Sean Darin to the firm’s investment team. Darin will be responsible for evaluating new transactions, due diligence, underwriting, and monitoring O2's portfolio companies. Prior to joining O2, Darin worked for RIN Capital, a private investment firm, where he was responsible for evaluating and underwriting
Eze Software Group has rolled out a series of enhancements to its back-office operations workflows for private equity funds, simplifying a series of complex tasks to a single click. Eze Investor Accounting (formerly known as Penny-It-Works) handles partnership and investor accounting for some of the largest hedge funds and their
Exit Strategies, a specialist in the buy side, mergers and acquisitions space, closed three new buy side transactions in September 2016. “Our proprietary process and tools continue to be validated by these high quality transactions,” says Jordan Wagner, co-founder at Exit Strategies. The September closed deals originated and facilitated
Healthcare-focused private equity firms DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP) and Linden Capital Partners are to acquire Edge Systems. Headquartered in Signal Hill, California, Edge is a manufacturer and marketer of non-invasive equipment and consumables used in aesthetic skin health treatments. Edge's leading product is the HydraFacial line of facial skin
A cross-border team from law firm Goodwin represented the neuroscience company Cerevance in its financing by Lightstone Ventures and Takeda Pharmaceutical. Cerevance will focus on discovering and developing novel therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The USD36 million funding round includes a USD21.5 million Series A financing investment from
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