Deals
PS Sà rl, which is majority-owned by the funds managed by private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners, has sold its investment in PS TopCo GmbH to an undisclosed investor.
PS TopCo is a parent of Prospitalia. Over the term of its investment in PS Sà rl, Palamon has generated a return of 3.0x on capital invested.
Prospitalia is a group purchasing organisation (GPO) in Germany, providing procurement services to more than 900 hospitals and healthcare facilities across the country to help lower the cost of goods purchased. The company currently reports a pooled purchasing volume of EUR1.2 billion.
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Law firm Morgan Lewis has advised London-based Blue Water Energy (BWE), an energy focused private equity firm, on its investment in Dubai-based Unique Maritime Group (UMG).
BWE was founded in 2011 and closed its Fund I in 2013 with USD861 million in commitments.
Fund I’s investment strategy is focused exclusively on the energy industry with core sub-sector focus areas including oilfield services, manufacturing, storage and logistics, and reserve development.
UMG is an integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution provider, with local presence in the Middle East, US, UK, South Africa, Nigeria, India and Singapore. It employs over 500
Private equity firm Lariat Partners has held the final closing on Lariat Partners Fund I at USD118 million.
The firm has closed three of an anticipated five Fund I platform companies since November 2013, including its most recent deal in March: the USD100 million acquisition of Newpark Environmental Services through a newly formed entity called ecoserv.
With its uncommon “hybrid” fund approach (only five anticipated platform investments instead of the typical 10 to 12 platforms), Lariat Partners is able to acquire considerably larger deals than its fund size would indicate. Lariat is targeting platform investments with EBITDA of USD2
Zoyi Capital has invested in Taiwan Farm Industry (TFI), a processed meat producer in Taiwan.
TFI has a strong presence in both the retail and wholesale Taiwanese markets and has developed long-term relationships with a group of distributors that exclusively sell TFI’s meat products to wholesale customers.
Zoyi Capital, which has a long term relationship with honorary chairman Chris Chang, has identified a growth strategy for TFI, supported by planned new production expansion to address current unmet demand due to capacity limitation.
“New capital will be used to build a new factory which will double TFI’s current capacity,
Beamz Interactive has raised USD1 million of private funding from selected accredited investors at a price of USD0.05 per unit.
Each unit consists of one share of restricted common stock and one three-year warrant with an exercise price of USD0.05.
The offering was led by management, who invested USD400,000 of the total financing amount. The net proceeds of the financing will be used primarily for sales and marketing purposes.
"We are very pleased with the completion of this financing," says Charlie Mollo, chief executive officer of Beamz Interactive. "It allows us to focus on key sales and marketing initiatives to
Elliptic, the digital asset services company, has completed a USD2m funding round led by venture capital firm Octopus Investments.
This funding comes just six months after the launch of Elliptic Vault, the world’s first insured Bitcoin storage service.
The seed-funding round, which sees Octopus invest alongside a number of experienced angel investors, is the first major venture capital investment in a Bitcoin company in the UK.
Launched in January 2014, Elliptic will offer a suite of enterprise services that bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets. Their first such product, Elliptic Vault, was the world’s first insured Bitcoin storage service.
Union Group, a major investor in real assets in emerging Latin American countries, has completed a capital increase with Dundee Corporation, a Canadian asset manager with a track record in resources investments.
The sale takes Dundee’s stake in the company to 40 per cent and proceeds will be immediately deployed in expanding Union's presence in Latin America, across its high-growth portfolio of assets and businesses.
The acquisition by Dundee increases its exposure to Union’s extensive network of rapidly expanding portfolio businesses, valued in excess of USD1 billion, which are focused across resources, commodities and infrastructure, currently primarily in Uruguay,
Cisco has made an investment in Georgian Partners Growth Fund II, the newest fund from Georgian Partners, a growth equity firm investing in expansion-stage software companies.
"We are very pleased to have Cisco investing our second fund," says Simon Chong, co-founder and managing director of Georgian Partners. "To have a global leader like Cisco join the fund as an investor demonstrates the validity of our Applied Analytics investment thesis."
"By investing in innovative companies we gain valuable insight into the Canadian start up and entrepreneurial community," says Cisco Canada president Nitin Kawale. "Georgian Partners is at the forefront of
Bridgepoint Development Capital (BDC) has acquired Phlexglobal, a provider of Trial Master File and electronic Trial Master File solutions and services to the life sciences sector.
Phlexglobal was previously backed by Inflexion.
BDC will support Phlexglobal’s plans to develop technologies, expand its client base across pharma, biotech and contract research organisations and extend its global footprint.
Alan Payne, partner at BDC, says: “With the increasing emergence of technology in the TMF market, the company is now well placed to replicate its eminence in the services market to become the eTMF provider of choice and the leading TMF services
Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), is launching an initiative to form a joint fund to invest in the equity capital of BRICS infrastructure projects.
Dimitrev made the announcement at the BRICS summit in Fortaleza. Representatives of leading financial institutions, BRICS sovereign wealth funds and RDIF’s international partners have given their support to the initiative.
Should the negotiations be successful, the joint fund will become operational by the next BRICS summit which is scheduled to take place in Ufa (Russia) in 2015.
Since its inception in 2011, the RDIF has raised in excess
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