Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), a USD4 billion global venture capital firm, has promoted Kristina Shen to Vice President. In this role, Kristina will continue to work closely with BVP's investing partners to identify entrepreneurial opportunities in startups aligned with cloud computing, mobile and Internet sectors. Based in San Francisco, Kristina
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners have signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in international musical and theatre group, Stage Entertainment. Under the terms of the transaction, CVC will acquire a 60 per cent stake from the company’s founder, Joop van den Ende, who will remain a 40
KKR and the management team, Drawbridge Realty, have recapitalised the company’s existing portfolio and formed a new independent platform to help grow the business. With assets under management of approximately USD800 million as of 1 June, 2015, Drawbridge is a real estate investment manager focused on acquiring, developing and managing
A formal strategic partnership has been signed by the Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Dmitri Kobylkin, and the Chairman of the Board of private equity infrastructure investor Rise Capital AB (Rise Capital), Gerard Lopez. This took place at the St Petersburg Economic Forum in Russia and in the
As the costs of doing business have increased, more and more hedge fund managers are adopting the cloud; this has revolutionised the way all businesses operate, not just hedge funds. But as technology improves and brings greater operational efficiency and data management capabilities to hedge funders, they are having to
Ten Alps has completed a major recapitalisation, brought in new Board members and is acquiring Reef Television, a UK production business. Mark Wood, Chief Executive Officer of Ten Alps, says: “This is a significant moment in the turnaround of Ten Alps. The proposed acquisition of Reef Television is an important
Belgian-Dutch investment company Waterland Private Equity Investments (Waterland) is to provide growth capital to the Intelligent Group, the Belgian market leader in developing and providing hosting services. Intelligent was founded in 1999 by Jonas Dhaenens under the Combell brand and has grown to become the most important provider of hosting
Emerging-market investment firm Actis has elected Torbjorn Caesar as the Firm’s new Senior Partner. Caesar has assumed his new role with immediate effect, succeeding Paul Fletcher, who becomes Non-Executive Chairman of the Firm. Fletcher says: “I am delighted that Torbjorn will take over as the Senior Partner of Actis. During
Paul Hastings has advised Masonite International Corporation in connection with the proposed sale of Premdor France Group to the investment fund Perceva. Masonite International Corporation is listed on the NYSE and is one of the global leaders in manufacturing doors for construction, with sales of USD1.8 billion in 2014 and
CAIS, an alternative investment platform for the independent wealth management industry, and investment consulting specialist Mercer, have added institutional private equity to the CAIS platform. For over 30 years, Mercer has advised top institutions allocating more than USD22 billion across private equity, venture capital and real estate investments. Now, through
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