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Hastings Equity Partners acquires Cactus Fuel

Hastings Equity Partners (Hastings), a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market energy services and equipment companies, has made its fifth Fund III platform investment in Cactus Fuel. Based in Midland, Texas, Cactus Fuel is a value-added distributor of fuel and lubricants to upstream and midstream customers

Digitech VC fund makes first seed investment

Digitech Venture Capital Fund (Digitech) has made its first venture capital investment in Texas startup SmartHome Hero. SmartHome Hero is a home resource management (HRM) platform that delivers streamlined warranty management and repair service for homeowners while providing a digital advertising platform for builders, smart home products and manufacturers. Consumers

Diamond Wipes International secures equity investment

Diamond Wipes International, a specialist in the contract manufacturing of private label disposable moist towels and sample packets has secures an equity investment from Nolan Capital, the family office of Peter Nolan, the former Managing Partner and current Senior Advisor to Leonard Green & Partners. "This investment by Nolan Capital

Silverfleet acquires Coventya from Equistone

Buy-to-build private equity firm Silverfleet Capital is to acquire a majority stake in Coventya from Equistone Partners Europe Limited for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is subject to competition clearances.  Coventya, a Paris-headquartered company with a strong international presence, develops, manufactures and supplies specialty chemicals used for surface treatment. Founded

Stem cell tech company, Axol Bioscience raises GBP1 million funding

Axol Bioscience has exceeded all expectations in its crowdfunding investment round. The game-changing stem cell tech company listed on SyndicateRoom seeking GBP600,000, but massive investor interest saw the campaign quickly reach a revised overfunding limit of GBP1 million, with a surplus of demand following the close.  Axol’s huge raise is

Jersey Funds Association Ben Robins

Jersey funds industry focused on innovation in uncertain global environment

Jersey’s funds industry will need to embrace FinTech, assert its long-standing expertise and focus on innovation in order to remain at the forefront of a constantly evolving global funds landscape, according to the chairman of the Jersey Funds Association (JFA). Speaking at this year’s annual JFA Dinner (18 March), Ben

Ropes & Gray counsels HongDao advisors on trio of investment transactions

Ropes & Gray advised HongDao Advisors (HongDao) on the successful closing of three of its recent investment transactions. Ropes & Gray acted as HongDao’s legal counsel on all three transactions. In February 2016, HongDao investment funds invested over USD 10 million in Lagou Information Limited and subscribed for newly issued

Black Diamond Capital Management to acquire Long Carbon Steel Mills from ArcelorMittal

Black Diamond Capital Management is to acquire ArcelorMittal's LaPlace, LA, Harriman, TN and Vinton, TX  steelmaking and finishing operations focused on the production and sale of long carbon steel products in North America. The LaPlace operations are primarily located outside of New Orleans with an additional rolling mill in Harriman,

Founders Fund closes USD1.3bn VC fund

Founders Fund has closed a USD1.3 billion sixth fund, bringing the firm’s total amount of capital under management to over USD3 billion. Founders Fund VI will be led by partners Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nolan, Luke Nosek, Brian Singerman, and Peter Thiel. Members of the team have

Salman Ahmed

The “Japanisation” of Europe

Emerging Market corporates have feasted on cheap US dollar debt over the last few years. According to a PwC report (Global Economy Watch – May 2015, "Will dollar denominated debt become an emerging economy epidemic?") since the US Federal Reserve introduced the first round of quantitative easing in 2008, dollar

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