The European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association has elected George Anson of HarbourVest Partners as its chairman. Anson (pictured) is the first EVCA chairman to be an investor (limited partner). Anson succeeded Vincenzo Morelli of TPG Capital at the EVCA 30th Anniversary Symposium, held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Tully & Holland has acted as exclusive financial adviser to Cains Foods on its definitive sale agreement with TreeHouse Foods, an Oak Brook, Illinois food manufacturer. Cains, based in Ayer, Massachusetts, manufacturers shelf stable mayonnaise, dressings and sauces sold under the Cains, Naturally Delicious, and Olde Cape Cod brands, and
Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has received a USD100m minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs, representing a substantial investment in the growing field of cloud-based predictive analytics. The challenge for most large organisations today is not in collecting enormous quantities of data, but how to rapidly
Paris-based investment firm Tikehau Group is to become a 35 per cent shareholder in Duke Street and provide committed capital to accelerate the firm’s deal-by-deal model. In partnership with Tikehau, Duke Street will have the capacity to underwrite any new deals in its target range. Both firms are
Strand Equity Partners, a growth equity fund focused on consumer brands, has acquired a minority ownership stake in Bai, a 100 per cent natural beverage that is only five calories, infused with coffeefruit and flavoured with exotic fruit juices. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Ben
UltraSoC has closed a funding round of USD2.3m by securing further investment from Octopus Investments, bringing the total investment in the business to date to USD7.5m. The investment will help fund the expansion of the company as it takes its debug and optimisation silicon IP technology to market, licensing
XConnect, a specialist in Federation-based next generation interconnection and Registry services, has secured USD10m of equity funding from Young Associates, the London-based private investment firm headed by Lord Young of Graffham, and existing investor Crescent Group. This significant cash injection will enable XConnect to grow its portfolio of products and
Shareholders of Sprint Nextel have voted overwhelmingly to approve a bid by Japan’s SoftBank to acquire a controlling 78 per cent stake in the company for USD21.6bn. The telecom deal for America’s third largest wireless carrier is also the largest outbound investment ever by a Japanese company. The transaction is
Lyceum Capital has expanded its investment team with the appointments of Matthew Norrington and Thomas Alldred as the UK lower mid-market growth investor prepares to deploy its third fund. Norrington joins as an investment director from LDC where he spent over five years originating and executing buyouts with enterprise
Cayman directorship services company International Management Services (IMS) has added Cary Marr to its fund fiduciary team. Marr, who joins IMS from Meridian Fund Services, an independently-owned hedge fund and private equity fund administrator, is well versed in the governance and regulatory issues facing hedge funds and has been
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