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Inverness Graham Completes sale of Danville Materials

Inverness Graham, a private investment firm based in suburban Philadelphia, has completed the sale of Danville Materials, a manufacturer of consumable restorative products and small equipment for the dental market, to ZEST Anchors, Inc.  This marks the fourth exit for Inverness Graham in the last year and the seventh exit in

Arma Partners adds Pillar to North American business

Arma Partners (Arma), an independent communications, media and technology (CMT) focused M&A advisory firm, has strengthened its global advisory capabilities with the appointment of Ron Pillar as a partner spearheading the firm’s New York operations. Pillar has over 20 years of investment banking experience in the CMT sector and during

NorthEdge portfolio company Sumo Digital to open second studio in Nottingham

Sumo Digital has announced Nottingham as the location for its second UK and third global studio. Sumo, backed by private equity firm NorthEdge Capital, is a creator and developer of video game products and services, working on the world’s largest brands and franchises for leading publishers and platform holders across

Lewis & Clark Ventures closes USD104m fund

Lewis & Clark Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Tom Hillman, has raised USD104 million for a new fund that has already begun making investments in high growth companies across the Midwest. “We are entrepreneurs and have grown successful businesses,” Hillman says. “Our model is to pass on our

FRP Advisory expands into debt advisory services

FRP Advisory, the business advisory firm, has acquired Litmus Advisory, the debt advisory firm and specialists in structuring finance for companies and private equity firms looking at asset based lending (ABL). The arrival of a specialist debt advisory team is part of FRP Advisory's continued incremental expansion of its services from offering both

State Street’s GX Private Equity Index drops for first time in three years

State Street Corporation’s GX Private Equity Index(PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, saw an overall return of -1.37 per cent in Q3 2015, it’s first fall in three years. “The third quarter marks an abrupt end to an uninterrupted, 12-quarter streak of positive returns, the longest

Chubb launches new private equity practice

Chubb has created a new Private Equity Practice to provide specialised insurance solutions to US and Canadian private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Seth Gillston, the Executive Vice President who previously had been named to lead the practice, will manage a team of underwriters with deep industry knowledge and

Jon Coker appointed to co-managing partner at MMC Ventures

MMC Ventures has appointed Jon Coker, an MMC team member for nine years, as Managing Partner to share the responsibility of the day-to-day running of the business with Founder and Managing Partner Bruce Macfarlane. Since joining MMC in 2007 from JP Morgan, Coker has been influential in a number of

BGF exits Plastique following acquisition by TEQ

BGF (Business Growth Fund) has exited its investment in Plastique, a manufacturer of thermoformed plastic and pulp packaging after the company was acquired by TEQ, an Illinois-based thermoformed packaging company and subsidiary of NYSE-listed ESCO Technologies, for an undisclosed sum. Minority shareholder BGF invested GBP5 million in Plastique in July

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Tikehau IM’s Novo 2 Fund assists LFB expansion with EUR25m investment

The Novo 2 Fund, which is managed by Tikehau IM, has finalised its participation in a Euro PP private placement for the Laboratoire Français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (LFB). The Fund invested EUR25 million in this EUR124 million unlisted bond issue maturing in 2023. LFB, a public-sector corporation, was

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