Private equity firm Arle Capital Partners (Arle) has agreed to sell Fokker Technologies BV (Fokker) to GKN plc (GKN) for an enterprise value of EUR706 million. Fokker specialises in the design, development and production of lightweight aero structures, electrical wiring interconnection systems and landing gear. It also provides maintenance,
The Sterling Group, a middle market private equity firm based in Houston, Texas, has closed on USD1.25 billion in investor commitments for its most recent fund, Sterling Group Partners IV. Fund IV was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap in three months. Consistent with Sterling's successful 33-year history, Fund
Hedge funds are on track to deliver solid returns in July, up 1.4 per cent month to date (0.4 per cent last week). In line with our overweight recommendation, CTAs and Global Macro managers outperformed other hedge fund strategies. Meanwhile, Event-Driven managers underperformed both last week and on a month-to-date
Marwyn Value Investors (MVI) has entered into a conditional placing letter to subscribe for a further GBP55.0 million of new ordinary shares in Zegona Communications as part of the placing of new ordinary shares to fund the proposed acquisition of Telecable Capital Holdingand its subsidiaries. This would increase the MVI
The ‘flowers through the letterbox’ gifting companyBloom & Wild has has raised a GBP2.5m Series A funding round, led by MMC Ventures, alongside existing angel investors including Samos, Catamaran Ventures and Scott Sage. Launched in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild have developed a unique flower
Charles River has relocated to a new office in Tokyo to support continued growth in the Japanese market and meet increased client demand for the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) delivered as a hosted service. “Charles River has provided clients in Japan with on-the-ground support since 2007,”
GSR Capital is launching a new USD5 billion mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fund, which will target cross-border buyouts and M&A of industrial and emerging technology companies with multi-billion dollar scaling opportunities in China. The GSR Global M&A fund is anchored with USD1billion committed from GSR GO Scale Capital Limited Partners
The latest hedge fund launch data is analysed in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q2 2015, which looks at the structure, location, investment focus and strategy of hedge funds launched in the second quarter. Single-manager hedge funds dominated launch activity over the quarter, accounting for 79
The Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund (NVCF) has held its final closing achieving its maximum fund size of USD300 million. The Fund's final closing included new commitments from Sun Life Financial and a number of high net worth and family office investors, as well as additional commitments from existing NVCF investors.
Following-up on its first closing held in January at EUR160 million, BlackFin Capital Partners is on track to reach its “hard- cap” amount of EUR400 million before the end of 2015. Current commitments stand at an aggregate amount in excess of EUR300 million, both from investors in BlackFin’s first fund,
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