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Ogier has selected SunGard’s Investran to support the its private equity administration needs. Investran’s integrated solution suite will help Ogier to meet reporting demands for the entire investment lifecycle by automating front-, middle- and back-office processes.
Ogier Fund Services selected Investran to help manage and process high-volume accounting and reporting needs for private equity managers and their investors. SunGard’s Investran will help Ogier’s clients benefit from greater operational efficiency and improved service capabilities.
Investran will help provide Ogier with the capability to take on even more funds with complex service demands. Investran will enable Ogier’s back-office operations teams to manage
In a move reflecting increasing investor confidence in Sabien Technology and its patented M2G boiler control, specialist investment manager Amati Global Investors has doubled its shareholding in the company to 17.4%.
The share purchase coincides with a recent Sabien ‘case study’ for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC – see Note 2)
The case study for DECC, demonstrates the appeal of Sabien’s technology offering to a wide cross section of both private and public companies and the growth Sabien is experiencing as a result
It is no coincidence that some of the highest ranking companies in the CRC
Stirling Square Capital Partners, a pan-European private equity firm focused on transformational cross-border transactions, has made a EUR40m growth capital investment into Portugal-based Omni Helicopters International.
Based in Lisbon, Omni is the helicopter services specialist that was recently de-merged from the broader aviation group Omni Aviação SGPS S.A.; it owns a fleet of medium- and heavy-lift helicopters servicing the oil & gas industry and emergency medical transportation services. The Company’s helicopter fleet is operated by its Brazilian affiliate Omni Taxi Aéreo, the country’s second largest oil & gas helicopter services operator with 40 aircraft under management.
Brazil has one of
Geneva headquartered investment management firm Index Ventures SA has appointed Jersey-based alternative asset fund administrator EFG Securities Services as Administrator to Index Ventures Growth II (IVGII), a Jersey domiciled Venture Capital Fund which has raised EUR 500m in commitments from investors and will be making late stage investments in technology and life science companies.
The fund, the largest of its type to be raised in the past five years, had its final closing in late summer and has since made two investments, including Dropbox, the innovative online storage provider.
IVGII is a Jersey Expert Fund and is the
Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to intergenia AG on the sale of a 51% stake in the firm to Oakley Capital Private Equity LP. Oakley Capital Private Equity LP is an unlisted UK and European mid-market private equity fund with the aim of providing investors with significant long term capital appreciation.
As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital Investments Limited (AIM: OCL) will be providing EUR10 million of senior financing, with the Fund providing an additional EUR30 million of equity financing to fund the acquisition. Management and the founders will retain a 49% stake in the business post-acquisition and
Mbeach Software has engaged Wakabayashi Fund, LLC, a Japan and New York consulting firm, to provide investor and public relations services, capital funding services, and to present the company to institutional investors. These services will augment the funding commitment of Southridge Partners II LP to extend the company an equity line of up to USD10 million per the agreement signed in August 2011.
"Wakabayashi Fund, LLC is very pleased to have been retained by Mbeach Software Inc. and share with the company’s experienced management team the full scope of our services in the financial markets," says Tadaharu Wakabayashi, President of
SEMAEB, CDC, Safidi (subsidiary of EDF), Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and Crédit Coopératif have teamed up to form EILAÑ, a company dedicated to investment projects in Brittany, France, with a focus on projects of renewable energy equipment manufacturing or infrastucture production, particularly wind and biomass.
EILAÑ focuses on technically matured middle-sized projects that require investments ranging between EUR3m and EUR10m.
With an initial capital of EUR3m, EILAÑ will use EUR4.7m in the next three years and intends to progressively increase its capital in order to support a dozen projects by 2016. The financial leveraging will lead to investments amounting to EUR100m
Franco-Chinese private equity investor Cathay Capital has made an equity investment in fine chemicals manufacturer Minafin.
Born out of the take-over, in 2005, of SEAC assets in Beuvry-la-Forêt by Frédéric Gauchet, Minafin group has grown rapidly through acquisitions and now boasts four manufacturing sites (Beuvry la Forêt and Dunkerque in France, Leuna in Germany, and Memphis in the USA).
With the advanced pharmaceutical ingredients (API) market going through a period of consolidation, the group is looking to pursue a further acquisition strategy to establish itself as a worldwide leader servicing major pharmaceutical companies.
Cathay’s involvement will help Minafin achieve its
Aligned Asset Managers, a portfolio company of private equity firm GTCR, has completed its investment in The Townsend Group.
Townsend, established in 1983, is the largest global specialty real estate advisory and investment firm, with over USD100 billion of total advised assets. Townsend allocates real estate capital on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis for over 85 leading institutional clients from offices in Cleveland, London, San Francisco, and Hong Kong.
Led by Terry Ahern and Kevin Lynch, Townsend has a focused real estate platform of 70 employees.
In the Townsend transaction, Aligned purchased a majority equity interest in Townsend. An expanded
Niagara LaSalle Corporation (Niagara LaSalle) has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by strategic buyer Optima Specialty Steel, Inc.
Pursuant to the merger agreement, Optima Specialty Steel will acquire 100% of Niagara LaSalle, a portfolio company of US private equity firm Kohlberg & Company. Harris Williams & Co is acting as the exclusive advisor to Niagara LaSalle.
The transaction is being led by Mike Hogan, Ned Valentine, John Arendale, Dave Kennedy and Doug Kinard from the firm’s Richmond office along with Jeremy Eberlein from the firm’s Cleveland office.
Niagara LaSalle is North America’s largest independent manufacturer of high
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