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MOD Pizza, a fast casual artisan pizza restaurant operator, has closed a USD40 million funding round led by PWP Growth Equity, a private equity fund managed by Perella Weinberg Partners.  This brings the total equity raised by MOD to more than USD70 million. “MOD has always focused on building for the long-term, and this infusion of capital will allow us to invest significantly in strengthening our business as we accelerate the opening of company-owned stores across the country,” says Scott Svenson, co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MOD. “The PWP Growth Equity team brings an enormous amount of value to
Five Arrows Principal Investments (FAPI) has completed the first closing of Five Arrows Principal Investments II, its second European lower mid-market private equity fund, with total commitments exceeding EUR493 million.   Including subscriptions from Rothschild employees which are currently in progress, FAPI II's capital commitments stand at EUR508 million. This represents more than 70 percent of the Fund's target size of EUR700 million, after only a few months of marketing.   The placement has generated strong traction from a diversified investor base comprising institutions, major family offices and high net worth individuals from around the world. The overwhelming majority of
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Colombian private equity fund manager Tribeca Management Company, “Tribeca”, has fully exited its investment in Operador del Terminal de Carga Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado, “OTCA”.  OTCA was the exclusive operator of Bogota CargoCity, the air cargo terminal at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota. The investment in OTCA returned US$56.5 million, resulting in an IRR of 22.9% for the project. Tribeca originally invested in OTCA in 2010 via FCP TCED (Infrastructure) – Fund II The air cargo terminal at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota is the largest facility in Latin America. In 2014, it processed over 400,000 tons of
Pioneer Corporation and KKR have completed a share purchase agreement for Pioneer DJ, under which KKR and Pioneer now own 85.05% and 14.95%, respectively, of PDJ Holdings Co.  Pioneer DJ develops and markets equipment for DJs, including CD players, mixers, controllers, headphones and speakers. It has a leading presence in the DJ equipment market with the top global market share, strong brand image, reputation for technological differentiation as well as high profitability and is the favoured brand of a broad range of top professional and amateur DJs worldwide. Pioneer and KKR will jointly leverage their respective business resources, brand power
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Professional testing services provider PSI Services has partnered with Waud Capital Partners (WCP), a middle-market private equity firm. PSI provides various solutions through its multiple business channels including talent assessments (of job-seeking candidates as well as employee development programs), licensure testing and license management services (for government regulatory agencies) and certification credentialing services (for professional associations). PSI offers clients various solutions to measure, assess and identify the skills, abilities, traits and identities of individuals seeking jobs, licensure or certification credentials. Stephen Tapp, PSI’s Chief Executive Officer, says: "Based on the excellent growth and diversity of PSI's business portfolio, combined with
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Law firm Noerr has advised the Swiss Evatec AG on the purchase of the Advanced Technologies Segment of the Oerlikon Group regarding the German aspects of the transaction. Evatec AG’s activities include the production of plants for the manufacture of LEDs, lasers, power chips and high-performance optical, opto­electronic and semiconductor components as well as the worldwide distribution of these. In its Advanced Technologies Segment, the Oerlikon Group has developed also thin film production procedures for semiconductors and nanotechnology. By purchasing the Advanced Technologies Segment from Oerlikon, Evatec AG intends to further expand its semiconductor and nanotechnology business segment. This acquisition
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD27 million senior credit facility to provide growth capital to The Sandbox Group (Sandbox). Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, The Sandbox Group, has embarked upon building an international agency group to meet an identified gap in its industry. Sandbox is an integrated marketing communications agency specialising in the healthcare, agriculture, and financial services industries.
Shark Punch has finalised a USD1.2 million seed funding round led by Supercell investor London Venture Partners (LVP) and DN Capital.  In addition, the company is launching its new game discovery platform: Playfield.io.   Playfield is a social discovery and community platform for games. Playfield helps players find games they care about, and allows developers to connect directly with their gamer communities.  ”We started the company initially to develop a new game called The Masterplan, but after many discussions with other game developers, we realized that discovery is a massive problem for both developers and players. The question is rarely
Cordiant, a leading emerging market private debt fund manager, has raised USD350 million at the final close of its latest debt fund, the Cordiant Emerging Loan Fund IV (CELF IV). The fund’s primary focus will be on senior, secured loans issued to emerging market private sector borrowers, with an emphasis on diversification across countries and sectors.   Investors in the fund include insurance companies, pension funds and other provident funds.   CELF IV will allow institutional investors to take advantage of the growing imbalance in the emerging markets between the escalating demand for bank style funding and the shrinking balance
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BIL Manage Invest (BMI) has selected Linedata Front Office Platform to manage the firm’s complete front-to-back asset management workflow across their full suite of investment funds. With an increased emphasis on risk management in the industry, AIFM Directive and UCITS regulation continue to impose controls and transparency with the end goal of protecting the financial world against systemic risk. While many management companies seek comprehensive risk management around all aspects of their front-to-back activities, they also look to increase efficiencies, and provide added-value to their clients while keeping costs at an acceptable level. This is particularly true with funds under

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