Private equity firm HIG Capital has opened an office in Rio de Janeiro and appointed Fernando Marques Oliveira as a Managing Director to lead its Brazil and Latin America team. Prior to joining HIG, Marques Oliveira was Managing Director and head of the Latin America team at General Atlantic (GA),
Commercial law firm EMW has appointed Jodi Tierney (pictured) as its new Head of Asset Based Lending (ABL), as part of substantial plans to expand its London office. Tierney joins from Francis Wilks & Jones LLP where she was Partner, having previously been a Senior Associate at Hammonds. She will head
China surpassed the UK to become the second-largest recipient of venture capital equity financing in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource, which tracks venture-backed companies, Chinese firms received 332 venture capital equity financing deals in 2011, surpassing the UK’s 274. The US retained its lead with 3,209 deals. Each deal represents
General Atlantic LLC (GA) has appointed David Topper, a former Vice Chairman of JP Morgan and leader in its capital markets group, as a Special Advisor to the firm. Topper has nearly 30 years of capital markets and investment banking experience. He will be working closely with GA’s portfolio group
NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse have both agreed to a mutual termination of the business combination agreement originally signed by the companies on 15 February, 2011. The move comes following the recently announced decision by the European Commission to block the proposed merger of the two firms.
International law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is to add two partners to its London funds practice. Tim Pearce and Ian Meade will join the firm from Simmons & Simmons. Their arrival at Akin Gump will significantly expand the firm’s London practice which advises leading funds and
Lyceum Capital-backed M&C Energy Group (M&C), the global energy consultancy, has expanded its US footprint and strengthened its market position with the acquisition of fellow energy consultancy Coleman Hines, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The mid-market growth investor acquired M&C for £22 million in 2010 and, since then, has implemented a
Wellspring Capital Management has acquired ThermaSys Corporation, manufacturer of a wide range of heat exchangers and heat exchange equipment, from an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. Financial terms of the have not been disclosed. Founded in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama as Thermal Components, Inc, ThermaSys has one of the
Symphony Healthcare Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Symphony International Holdings, is to invest USD50 million to acquire a non-controlling minority shareholding in Integrated Healthcare Hastaneler Turkey Sdn Bhd (IHT). IHT is the controlling shareholder of Acibadem Saglik Yatirimlari Holding AS (ASYH) and is owned by Integrated Healthcare Holdings
Allied Oil & Gas Services, a cementing and acidizing business headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, has been acquired by Intervale Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in middle-market oilfield services companies. With locations in Kansas, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Allied provides cementing and acidizing services to customers in
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