Tim Burke has joined Castanea Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in branded consumer products and services, as a partner. Rob Smith, a managing partner of Castanea, says: “Tim is an experienced private equity professional and consumer investor and we’re very excited to have him on our team.
Cirque Energy has entered into a USD5 million common stock purchase agreement with Kodiak Capital Group, a Newport Beach, California-based institutional investor. Cirque has agreed to file a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission covering the shares that may be issued to Kodiak under the terms of
Carne Group has received authorisation for an independent AIFMD-compliant management company in the Channel Islands. The new management company has become immediately operational with Carne Group’s fund clients. It is particularly suitable for alternative fund managers, including credit, hedge fund, private equity, infrastructure and real estate investment firms. Carne
Advent Life Sciences has closed its Advent Life Sciences Fund II (ALSF II), a GBP145.5 million (USD235 million) venture capital fund raised to seed and build life sciences companies in the UK, Europe and the US. The fund will back entrepreneurs and early-stage and mid-stage companies with the potential to
Infracapital, the infrastructure investment arm of M&G Investments and parent Prudential plc, has reached a final closing of its latest fund, Infracapital Partners II, with total commitments of GBP1.0 billion (USD1.6 billion). Co-investment pledges take the total investable funds to over GBP1.3 billion. As with its predecessor, Infracapital Partners LP,
Private equity firm GTCR is to sell portfolio company Devicor Medical Products to Danaher Corporation’s Leica Biosystems, a provider of anatomical pathology solutions and automation used to advance cancer diagnostics. Devicor is a medical device company specialising in products for use in breast biopsy procedures. The company is the global
Ogier in both the British Virgin Islands and Jersey has advised Seven Energy International Limited and its group on an issue of USD300m aggregate principal amount 10 per cent senior secured notes due 2021. The notes, which are listed on the Irish Stock Exchange's Global Exchange Market, were issued by
IMSPEX Diagnostics Limited has completed its GBP1.4 million funding round led by Finance Wales and the Angel CoFund. The funds will be invested in establishing a group administration and sales team who will be based in Abercynon. IMSPEX acquired Dortmund based technology company G.A.S GmbH in January 2013. The subsidiary
First Reserve has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to streamline its portfolio data collection process and to manage the performance data of its portfolio of energy assets. First Reserve is the largest global private equity and infrastructure investment firm exclusively focused on energy, with operations spanning the energy
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has closed Warburg Pincus Energy at USD4 billion, surpassing its fundraising target of USD3 billion and reaching the fund cap agreed with investors. Warburg Pincus Energy will be a companion fund to Warburg Pincus Private Equity XI, a USD11.2 billion global private equity fund, which
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