The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the former CEO of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and his close personal friend with scheming to defraud an investment firm into paying USD20 million in fees to the friend’s placement agent firms. The SEC alleges that former CalPERS CEO Federico
Voyage Care (Voyage), the UK specialist care provider for people with learning disabilities, brain injuries and other complex needs, has acquired Solor Care. Solor Care was previously owned by Barclays Ventures, Royal Bank of Scotland and Management. The acquisition makes Voyage the UK’s clear leader in the provision of learning
Health Safety and Engineering Consultants (HSEC), the engineering risk management consultancy, has undergone a GBP2.7m management buy-out backed by venture capitalist EV. Debt facilities were provided by The Co-operative Bank and included funding to support the company’s future growth. EV has secured a substantial minority stake in the business,
The Riverside Company has recruited Erick Bronner (pictured) to lead the firm’s Investor Relations department. Bronner brings 20 years of private equity fundraising and investment banking experience, most recently as a Founding Partner at Mercury Capital Advisors, a global private equity fundraising and investment advisory firm. Prior to Mercury, Bronner was a Managing Director in Merrill Lynch’s Private
AIRCOM International, a portfolio company of HIG Europe, the European arm of global private equity investment firm HIG Capital, announces the acquisition of Symena Software & Consulting GmbH (Symena). AIRCOM is the world’s largest independent provider of network planning management and optimisation tools and services to the mobile telecoms industry;
Mid-market private equity firm, CapVest Limited is selling United Coffee (Cafe2011 Holdings Limited trading as United Coffee) to UCC Holdings Limited. United Coffee is the largest independent coffee business in Europe with leading market positions in the UK, Netherlands, Switzerland and Spain and a growing presence in France and Scandinavia.
SynGen Inc, a Regenerative Medicine device company focused on the development of next generation stem cell harvesting systems, has completed a USD5 million Series A preferred stock financing with Bay City Capital. Under the terms of the transaction, BCC will appoint two representatives to SynGen’s board of directors. "We are
Sterling Infosystems, Inc, a company owned by management and private equity firm Calera Capital, has acquired BackCheck. BackCheck, a provider of background checking products and services, is the market leader in Canada and one of the largest providers in the United Kingdom. Sterling, already one of the largest background checking companies
The Federal Reserve Board has announced its approval of a statement clarifying that an entity covered by section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the so-called Volcker Rule, has the full two-year period provided by the statute to fully conform its activities and investments,
Aquila Capital, the Hamburg-based alternative investment company, is expanding its position in the agricultural investment space with the appointment of seven highly-experienced ‘farmers who speak finance’. The expanded team enables Aquila Capital to meet a growing demand for a globally diversified portfolio of agricultural investment solutions. Aquila Capital has
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