David Lonsdale has been promoted to partner at London-based private equity firm August Equity. Lonsdale (pictured) joined August Equity in 2008 and most recently led the investment in Westpoint, the UK’s largest farm and production animal veterinary group which provides support services to the UK livestock and food industries.
Rockpool Investments has invested GBP10m in Aegis Data, a data centre park in the UK. This is the largest investment Rockpool has made since it opened for business in 2011 and it brings the total invested by Rockpool to GBP50m. It is also the first time Aegis Data has raised outside
DVN (Holdings) Limited’s wholly owned subsidiary, Frontier Services Limited, is to acquire Phoenix Aviation, a company incorporated in Kenya, for a total consideration of USD14m . This landmark transaction for DVN was the subject of a formal Stock Exchange of Hong Kong announcement yesterday. Through the transaction, Phoenix will become
Funds advised by Triton are to acquire the auxiliary components business of Alstom’s Thermal Power division for an enterprise value of around EUR730m. The transaction was approved by the board of directors of Alstom on 31 March. The transaction is expected to close before the end of first half of
Accel-KKR has completed fundraising for Accel-KKR Structured Capital Partners II with USD325m in committed capital, exceeding its target. The new fund continues the predecessor fund's focus on making minority equity investments in growing technology companies via senior equity and other structured securities. Accel-KKR raised its first Structured Capital Fund,
New York-based private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has invested in Novel Ingredient Services, a specialty nutraceutical ingredient services supplier, in partnership with management. Headquartered in West Caldwell, New Jersey, Novel was founded in 1995 and serves more than 400 customers in multiple product segments including sports nutrition, herbs and
Jersey Finance has appointed Richard Corrigan as its new deputy chief executive officer. Corrigan (pictured), who joined Jersey Finance at the start of 2013, will continue to lead the organisation’s market development effort. In his earlier banking career he held senior roles with both The Royal Bank of Scotland
SunGard has launched Investran 7, Data Exchange and Insight to provide better data transparency and reporting for general partners, limited partners, fund of funds managers, family offices and service providers. By streamlining the management of information throughout a private equity firm, the new solutions connect front, middle and back-office operations,
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has partnered with management to complete the acquisition of Nobles Worldwide. Based in St Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and founded in 1948, Nobles is a provider of flex chutes that are used in a variety of air, naval and ground military applications. Nobles is the
Tim Farazamand, managing director at LDC, has taken over as chairman of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA). Farazmand (pictured) succeeds Simon Clark, managing partner at Fidelity Growth Partners Europe. “It is a great honour to be taking over as chairman of the BVCA, especially at such
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