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VPC adds to team and expands NYC and LA offices

Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has appointed Karrie Truglia as vice president in New York City to further develop the firm’s debt capital markets activity. VPC has also promoted three investment professionals to vice president and hired four new associates

Hastings Equity Partners acquires Hybrid Tool Solutions

Hastings Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market energy services and equipment companies, has made its fourth Fund III platform investment in Hybrid Tool Solutions (Hybrid). Hybrid provides its customers with a patent pending, revolutionary process for conducting frac plug drill outs. The Hybrid

Edmond de Rothschild aiming to increase AUM by 50 per cent in two years

The Edmond de Rothschild is looking to bolster its private equity offer, with the objective of increasing assets under management by more than 50 per cent over the next two years. As part of this strengthened commitment to private equity, the Group is launching ERES III, a new fund dedicated

Quad-C Management sells A Stucki

Middle market private equity firm Quad-C Management has sold A Stucki Company, a supplier of new and reconditioned railcar components, to Stone Canyon Industries. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Headquartered near Pittsburgh, A Stucki operates 17 global locations focused on the engineering, reconditioning, machining and manufacturing of

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Aberdeen closes FPE VI above target at USD295m

Aberdeen Asset Management  has held the final closing of private equity fund FLAG Private Equity VI (FPE VI) with USD295 million in committed capital, USD70 million above the Fund’s target. This is the first fund closing announced since the completion of Aberdeen’s acquisition of FLAG Capital Management last month, and

Pat Lardner, Irish Funds

Irish Funds welcomes CBI’s new UCITS regulations

Irish Funds, the representative body for the cross-border investment funds industry in Ireland, has today welcomed the publication of new Regulations for Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI).
  
Once implemented, the Regulations will simplify the existing regime for clients of the

Noerr advises QMATIC on German IT market acquisition

Noerr has advised the Swedish company QMATIC on a strategic investment in the German market. The provider of customer flow management systems is acquiring NetCallUp Software GmbH from Bocholt. The company offers a software-based queue management system called NetCallUp to provide efficient management of visitor flows. The system ensures organised

FAPI completes EUR775 million fundraising of Five Arrows Principal Investments II

Five Arrows Principal Investments (FAPI), the corporate private equity business of Rothschild Merchant Banking, has completed the final closing of Five Arrows Principal Investments II, its second European lower mid-market private equity fund. The fund size of FAPI II has been increased from the original target of EUR700 million to

Octopus raises GBP90 million fund

Octopus Investments has launched the GBP90 million Octopus Zenith Opportunities II aimed at providing growth capital to successful fast-growing later-stage companies across Europe.  The fund, which is now closed for investment, is dedicated to follow on investments into some of the most successful companies within the Octopus Titan Venture Capital Trust

Lighthouse holds final close of Fund II above target

Lighthouse Funds has closed its most recent mid market private equity fund, India 2020 Fund II, in June 2015 with aggregate commitments of USD138 million, well over its targeted size of USD125 million. The success of Lighthouse’s predecessor fund, Fund I attracted major Fund I investors to reinvest as well

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