High Road Capital Partners has sold portfolio company Panos brands, marking the fifth exit for the firm’s debut fund, High Road Capital Partners Fund I. Rochelle Park, New Jersey-based PANOS is a leading manufacturer and marketer of natural and specialty food products whose portfolio of brands includes KA-ME Asian foods,
Chinese venture capital firm Qiming Venture Partners (Qiming) has held the closing of Fund V, its fifth US Dollar venture capital fund with USD648 million in commitments. This fund continues Qiming's strategy of funding innovations through outstanding Chinese entrepreneurs in the Information Technology, Internet and Consumer (Intersumer), Healthcare, and Cleantech
Noerr has advised the French Pernod Ricard Group on the agreement of a strategic partnership with Black Forest Distillers. The second largest spirits and wines group worldwide has taken over a strategic majority in the Black Forest company and will, in future, cooperate with the manufacturer of the well-known Monkey
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has launched the Fee Reporting Template, which builds upon ILPA’s reporting guidelines first issued in 2011 and is the first deliverable of the ILPA’s Fee Transparency Initiative launched in May 2015. The Template marks the industry’s first attempt to unify and codify the presentation
Idinvest Partners is making an investment in Secret Escapes, the exclusive members only travel club. Following the USD60 million Series C fundraising closed by the company during the summer of 2015, Idinvest Partners has decided to join some of the most successful international venture firms (including Google Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Index
Golding Capital Partners (GCP) has closed 2015 with another record by raising almost EUR850 million new capital for GCP investment programmes, outstripping the previous record set in 2014 by almost 10 per cent. The successful fundraising is further testimony to GCP's leading position in the European market for private equity,
A stronger euro helped boost second quarter 2015 returns as measured in US dollars in private equity and venture capital funds investing primarily outside the US. Funds focusing on ex US developed markets outperformed those targeting emerging markets – a result that was the reverse of the outcome for public
Atlanta-based venture capital firm BIP Capital has launched a franchise development division, the BIP Franchise Accelerator, to help emerging brands accelerate their growth. Currently, the BIP Franchise Accelerator's portfolio includes fast casual concepts Tropical Smoothie Café and Tin Drum Asian Kitchen, and the company is seeking to invest in brands
Antares Capital has appointed Melina Higgins as independent board chairman, and elected two new independent board members, Mark Furlong and Diane Nordin, to the Antares Midco, board of directors. “Our new board members understand the middle market, possess a wealth of knowledge around private equity, asset management and debt markets,
Macquarie Investment Management (MIM), the investment management arm of Macquarie Group, has appointed Dominic Janssens as the firm’s new global chief operations officer, based at its global headquarters in Philadelphia. In this role, Janssens’ responsibilities will include developing the strategy to optimise and scale MIM’s global platform in areas including
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