AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity investor in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has closed its first fund – AE Industrials Partners Fund I – with USD680 million in equity commitments. The fund is one of the largest dedicated to investments in aerospace and related industry segments,
SAS has launched the SAS FinTech Incubator programme, which will give UK FinTech organisations free access to big data technology assets and industry expertise to achieve their innovation goals, and can slash the time to develop solutions by up to 50 per cent. FinTech is becoming the fastest growing area
A division of Z Capital Partners, the private equity management arm of Z Capital Group, is to acquire the “original Rock ‘n Roll Mexican” restaurant brand Pink Taco. Z Capital Partners, the largest shareholder of Real Mex Restaurants (Real Mex), plans to leverage the Real Mex expertise across restaurant operations,
Altarius Asset Management (Altarius) and Portcullis Asset Management Limited (Portcullis), both licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), have formed a strategic alliance to deliver a full suite of evolutionary AIFM services to alternative investment funds regardless of their AUM. This evolutionary strategic alliance allows early stage managers to
The Valence Group has advised Eurazeo on its acquisition of Novacap for an enterprise value of EUR654 million (USD746m1), plus up to a EUR30m (USD34m) earn-out. Following the acquisition, Eurazeo will become the majority shareholder of Novacap with 67 per cent of the equity capital, alongside Mérieux Développement (9 per
Innova Capital Partners and a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group have formed a joint venture to support the development of telecommunication assets throughout the Republic of Colombia. The joint venture will provide financing to Golden Comunicaciones, SAS (Golden), a Colombian mobile infrastructure designer and developer, for the construction of
Venture capital fund Accel has launched Accel London V, a USD500 million fund which will focus on investment opportunities in Europe and Israel. The UK has been and will remain a priority market for investment. Accel opened its London office in 2000 with the strategy to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs,
Milbank has advised Entertainment One (eOne) on its offering of GBP285 million 6.875 per cent senior secured notes due 2022 and a new GBP100 million revolving credit facility (the RCF) due 2020. The successful issuance of the Notes, despite difficult market conditions, particularly in sterling-denominated notes, and the RCF has
Forbion Capital Partners (Forbion), a dedicated life sciences venture capital firm, has held the final closing of its third main fund Forbion Capital Fund III (FCF III), raising a total of EUR183 million. FCF III has an investment strategy similar to its predecessor fund, FCF II, aiming to invest the
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, has set up its third fund with EUR150 million. “Robert Bosch Venture Capital successfully shapes the innovation leadership of Bosch through valuable connections to the start-up ecosystem”, says Dr Volkmar Denner, Chairman of the Board of
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