Falconhead Capital, a private equity firm specialising in growing sports and consumer-focused businesses, has sold its portfolio company NYDJ Apparel to Crestview Partners and Maybrook Capital Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Vernon, California, NYDJ offers a range of products to women. Under
Private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has appointed Otis Spencer, Jr as operating partner effective 2 January. Spencer reports to Lloyd G Trotter, founding and managing partner. Spencer will have the primary directive of creating value by driving operational execution within the GenNx360 portfolio. In addition, he will work
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has named Julius Genachowski as managing director and partner in the US buyout team. He will focus on investments in global technology, media and telecom, including Internet and mobile. Genachowski (pictured) is returning to the private sector after serving as chairman of
Keensight Capital has acquired a majority stake in Smile, a European open source solutions specialist, alongside the firm’s management and its historic investor, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners. Founded 20 years ago, Smile has become over the last ten years a key player in the open source market in Europe,
Deutsche Bank’s fund services business has appointed Kelly Gouveia as a vice president and head of its trustee business in Jersey. 

 The fund services business in Jersey is a full fund service provider, providing third party fund administration, trustee and transfer agency services to hedge funds, private equity, real
Mid-market private debt manager Beechbrook Capital has completed two new mezzanine loans through its second fund, Beechbrook Mezzanine II, as well as its first exit from Beechbrook Mezzanine I. The two new investments are a mezzanine loan to Simply Biz, a business that provides compliance and business support to over
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted eight attorneys to the partnership, effective 1 January 2014. Rob Boller is in the firm’s litigation practice. He represents companies, partnerships and individuals in a variety of litigation and criminal/regulatory matters, with a particular focus on disputes arising out of complex financial
Doug Smith has joined Insight’s corporate insurance consultancy business. Smith has held previous senior positions as chairman of Marsh’s private equity practice and latterly as non-executive deputy chairman of Willis’ M&A practice. Smith will team up again with former Corporate Risk plc colleague Colin Paterson, the managing director and
ISIS Equity Partners has sold Kafevend to Eden Springs in a deal advised by Clearwater Corporate Finance. Formed in 1992, Kafevend is one of the fastest growing workplace vending suppliers in the UK. The business supplies hot drinks, coffee vending machines, water and snack vending machines to SMEs and corporates
Cox Enterprises has acquired Providence Equity's 25 per cent equity interest in AutoTrader Group. Cox now holds a 98 per cent stake in AutoTrader Group, with the remainder being held by current and former employees. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "With more than 32
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