Private equity funds managed by Blackstone have agreed to acquire MBAe, a Tier I engine component manufacturer and repair business, from Arlington Capital Partners. MBAe has facilities across the US, UK and Poland. The company has a well-balanced manufacturing model providing complex machined and fabricated assemblies into production and aftermarket
Simility, a cloud-based fraud detection startup, has closed its USD5.7 million seed round, including tier one investor Trinity Ventures along with angel investors, adding USD2.25 million to the previously announced USD3.45 million investment led by Accel Partners. “Investing in Simility is an investment in preserving trust in e-commerce, and they’ve
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has advised the UK Department of Health on the launch of the global Dementia Discovery Fund. The Dementia Discovery Fund is the world’s first venture capital fund dedicated to funding pre-clinical research for a cure or treatment of dementia and is a collaboration between
Hedge fund launches are under the spotlight in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q3 2015. Alternative mutual funds saw a significant rise in their share of new fund launches in Q3 2015. These structures accounted for 13 per cent of the new launches monitored by Preqin’s
This extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Real Estate, Q3 2015 examines current closed-end private real estate funds in market, looking at target capital, primary geographic focus, time spent on the road and a sample of the largest funds currently fundraising. The number of closed-end private real estate funds in
Private equity firm GTCR has closed the previously announced sale of AssuredPartners to Apax Partners. Founded in 2011, AssuredPartners is the an independent P&C insurance brokerage with offices in over 30 states, the District of Columbia and London. Through Assured’s network of agencies, the Company provides property and casualty and
Private investment firm Lindsay Goldberg has appointed Eric Fry as a Partner. Fry has more than 22 years of private investing experience and most recently was a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s global private equity group. Alan Goldberg, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lindsay Goldberg, says: “Having known Eric
In May 2014, MS Management Services SA, a Luxembourg-based subsidiary of the Maitland group, a leading global fund administrator, received authorisation from the CSSF to act as a third-party AIFM to alternative investment funds. At the same time, it established its own umbrella fund platform, MS SICAV SIF, to support
Collaboration is extremely important for any service provider looking to do business in Luxembourg and in that respect, Circle Partners (`Circle'), an independent fund administrator, is no exception. Having first established a footprint in the Grand Duchy in 2011, Circle has invested considerable time and money and is now beginning
One of the biggest challenges of AIFMD is that it directly impinges on investment activities at the manager level, as opposed to the fund level under the UCITS IV framework. This has required a shift in mindset, not just for managers, but also fund authorities in well-established fund jurisdictions such
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