RBS Invoice Finance (RBSIF) has appointed Piers Harmer and Jon Hughes to the London-based RBSIF corporate team. Both are experienced in the invoice finance and asset based lending industries and join the bank as business development directors. They are new to RBSIF with Harmer joining from Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance
HighWater, a boutique corporate governance services firm based in the Cayman Islands, has expanded with a New York-based principal. Matt Auriemma, who will be based in New York, joins as a principal of HighWater, providing independent director services to investment funds, mostly hedge funds and other alternative investment vehicles. “HighWater
Medical Marijuana has signed closing documentation for a USD2m line of credit with Lotus Capital, a Chicago based private equity firm. The line of credit will be used as a reserve fund for product expansion of the Dixie X line of Cannabidoil (CBD) based products as well as to support
MCG Capital has closed its investment in IDOC consisting of senior debt and equity. IDOC, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company, is comprised of an alliance of independent optometrists throughout the US, including practices representing more than 1,400 optometrist members. The IDOC investment is MCG’s first with The Riverside
Albion Ventures has invested GBP1.3m in partnership with Welsh based developer Dragon Hydro to fund the development of a single 300kW hydropower scheme on the Afon Cadair river in the county of Gwynedd in Wales. The site in Wales will benefit from the Feed-in-Tariff regime and is expecting to generate
The founders of OverstockAds.com, a portal of discounted advertising inventory, have formed Savveo, a new venture designed to transform the way local advertising is bought and sold. An evolution of the OverstockAds.com experience, the Savveo website, when open to the public later this year, will serve as an online marketplace
Arma Partners acted as the exclusive financial adviser to alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group on the sale of UC4 Software to EQT for an enterprise value of EUR220m. UC4 is the world’s largest independent IT process automation software company. Founded in 1985, UC4 employs over 300 staff and serves
The secondary market, where investors historically went to trade their illiquid holdings in hedge funds, private equity and other alternative investments, is increasingly a source of liquidity in normal times and not just an escape hatch for investors in duress, according to a recent survey of more than 489 institutional

Private equity investor HgCapital has sold its operating UK onshore wind portfolio to Munich Re, represented by its asset management arm MEAG, for an undisclosed sum. The portfolio consists of three operating wind farms with a combined capacity of 102MW. The portfolio was held by HgCapital Renewable Power Partners, HgCapital’s
Los Angeles-based private equity firm Aurora Capital Group has acquired Market Track, a provider of promotional intelligence solutions in North America, from Monitor Clipper Partners, a Boston-based PE firm (MCP). Key leadership, including CEO Wayne Mincey and President Paul Salay, will remain in their respective roles. Terms of the transaction
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