Deals
Capitala Group, a leading provider of financial solutions for lower and traditional middle-market companies, is pleased to announce the final closing of its fourth private equity fund, CapitalSouth SBIC Fund IV.
The fund exceeded its initial target thanks to strong support from existing investors and new commitments from other leading institutional investors including public and private pensions, fund of funds and family offices.
“We are excited to announce the final close of the Growth Fund,” says Joe Alala, Chairman and CEO. “We appreciate the interest expressed in the Fund by many long-standing relationships, as well new investors.”
The CapitalSouth Growth
Amplience has closed of a USD10.5 million Series B funding round led by Octopus Investments, with participation from existing stakeholders and investors including Northstar Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Applience will use the funds to support its continued growth in the North American and Northern European regions.
Since opening its first US office in 2013, Amplience has enjoyed significant expansion across the region, a complement to the company’s growth in Northern European markets. This development is supported largely by a stream of strong customer wins, expansion of existing accounts, and the development of its AmplienceOne Big Content Platform. The
Wheelhouse has expanded into private equity investing through the newly formed Wheelhouse Capital Partners, which is backed by Global Endowment Management (GEM).
Wheelhouse Capital Partners is looking to acquire lower middle market businesses in the USD10 million to USD30 million range in its two core sectors: healthcare and industrial services.
“After a great deal of preparation, we are proud to incorporate private equity investing into our already unique business model,” says Steve Simpson, Wheelhouse co-founder and managing partner. “This expansion is a natural evolution for our firm and we are pleased to add GEM as a partner.”
After working closely
Social media management platform Falcon Social has closed a fund raising round of USD16 million.
The Series B financing round was led by Prime Ventures and joined by existing Falcon Social investors Northcap and Target Partners, bringing the company’s total financing to date to USD25.33 million. The new financing will help support the company’s product development, innovation and continued global expansion.
Founded in 2010, Falcon Social set out to tackle the social media marketing needs for businesses, a market estimated to grow to USD9.8 billion by 2018 according to MarketsandMarkets. Today, Falcon Social helps over 400 world-renowned companies listen, engage,
BlueMountain Capital Management has entered into a consulting agreement with Harvard economics professor Jeremy C Stein, who was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from May 2012 to May 2014.
Professor Stein will advise BlueMountain on a range of issues, including implications of monetary and macroprudential policies, financial regulation and market evolution, and risk and capital management.
"We're very lucky to have the opportunity to work with Jeremy," says Andrew Feldstein, CEO of BlueMountain. "He has been widely recognised by leaders in government, academia and the private sector for his talent and impact.
Victory Park Capital Advisors (Victory Park Capital) has been retained by newly formed, UK investment company VPC Speciality Lending (VPC) to serve as investment manager.
VPC completed its initial public offering of ordinary shares on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 13 March.
As investment manager, Victory Park Capital will be charged with investing approximately USD300 million in opportunities within the specialty lending market primarily through online lending platforms.
“The significant growth in the specialty lending market through consumer and small business and direct lending electronic platforms and the success of the listing is a
P Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM) has submitted two resolutions on behalf of select clients who own 7,500,000 shares of Vivendi , to the company’s Management Board for inclusion on the agenda of the Company's Combined General Meeting to be held on 17 April, 2015.
PSAM's clients also own 3,189,281 additional shares of Vivendi. In aggregate, the shares have a market valuation of approximately EUR236,821,000 as of market-close on Friday, 20 March, 2015. PSAM has been a Vivendi shareholder since July 2012.
PSAM believes that Vivendi is significantly undervalued due to its excessive cash holdings, inadequate capital return policy and
Barbour ABI has been granted a contract extension by HM Government to continue to publish the Government Construction and National Infrastructure Pipelines through until August 2016.
Barbour ABI was originally awarded the contract in September 2012, following a formal competitive tender process, because of their proven data collection processes and their existing knowledge in researching and tracking construction projects.
Since 2011, the published Pipelines have expanded to include more data on projects and programmes across departments. The commitment to making the data more user friendly using mapping and timeline technology – as well as promoting the pipeline more widely across
An affiliate of private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to recapitalise Sterigenics, provider of contract sterilization, gamma technologies and medical isotopes, in partnership with private equity firm GTCR.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. GTCR purchased Sterigenics in 2011.
“With this new partnership between Warburg Pincus and GTCR, Sterigenics is extraordinarily well positioned to accelerate growth, invest additional capital to serve our customers and expand our global footprint,” says Michael Mulhern, CEO of Sterigenics International.
Sterigenics’ growth over the past several years has reinforced its global market-leading position in the contract sterilization services industry. In 2014, Sterigenics acquired
Lending Works, the first peer-to-peer lender to have insurance against borrower default risk, is introducing several new features aimed at the UK pensions market, as new pension rule changes come into effect in April 2015.
More than 52% of Lending Works’ lenders are aged 55 or older, indicating a growing inclination among later-life lenders to make peer-to-peer lending a common feature of their retirement finance plans.
From early April 2015, Lending Works will offer four brand new features that make peer-to-peer lending even more appealing to pensioners who take control of their pensions and look for simple, personal, high-interest
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