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SYZ Group has launched SYZ Capital, a private market investment and advisory specialist. As the fourth business arm of the group, it focuses on selecting attractive investment opportunities across private markets, offering tailor-made solutions through thematic funds and co-investment vehicles, as well as advisory services around financing solutions and capital structuring. SYZ Capital is a private markets investment and advisory specialist founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It focuses on investment opportunities in segments of private markets overlooked by traditional market participants because of size, complexity or varying investment horizons.   Based in Zurich, Switzerland, and co-managed by Marc Syz and
Private equity firm TA Associates is to invest, alongside GI Partners, in Netsmart Technologies (Netsmart) a healthcare software company delivering management process solutions and electronic medical records to the health and human services (HHS) and post-acute end markets. TA Associates and GI Partners, a current shareholder in Netsmart, will acquire the stake in Netsmart held by Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX). The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.   Founded in 1968, Netsmart provides software and services to the
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has closed an investment of GBP3.6 million into Dymag Group, the British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive wheels. Established in 1974, the company is a pioneer in carbon wheel technology and expects a record 2019, with the investment fuelling its global growth plans.   Puma Private Equity advises Puma Investments on discretionary funding to SMEs across all sectors, and partners with SME management teams to accelerate growth and help businesses achieve their potential. So far this year, funds managed by Puma Investments have invested GBP25 million into seven
Italmatch Chemicals, a global speciality chemical group focussed on the production and marketing of performance additives for water & process treatment, oil & gas, industrial lubricants and plastics, is to acquire BWA Water Additives, a global provider of sustainable water management solutions for the oil & gas, industrial water treatment and desalination industries. This combination of two highly complementary companies allows the development of strategic, commercial and industrial synergies, consistent with the aim of expanding and broadening Italmatch Chemicals’ current production and marketing capabilities for water management chemicals. BWA Water Additives, having more than 40 years’ experience in the marketing
EQT has held the final closing of its second European direct lending fund, EQT Mid-Market Credit II (the fund) with commitments equivalent to EUR2.3 billion of available capital, including anticipated leverage. Since the launch in 2008, the EQT Credit platform has raised over EUR6 billion and invested over EUR5.1 billion in over 170 companies.   The fund will continue EQT Credit’s strategy of providing financing solutions to European mid-market companies, with a focus on high-quality performing businesses with defensive characteristics. Over 30 per cent of the Fund has already been committed in 12 investments, including recent financings for Medifox, Dukes
Vesta, a new online marketplace for buying and selling rental property, has opened its latest equity crowdfunding round to new investors through leading European platform Seedrs. Vesta is led by an impressive team including Chairman Bob Wigley, also Chairman of UK Finance, and CEO Russell Gould, who previously held senior roles in several successful scaled digital businesses.   The GBP750,000 fundraise will allow Vesta to further build and raise awareness of its unique online marketplace, which allows landlords to buy and sell residential investment property with tenants in place. This approach eliminates void periods (and removes uncertainty such as estimating
Timothe Fuchs, Fuchs Asset Management
Two investment management platform firms have formed a partnership to offer a one-stop hosting solution to their international client base of hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds. Laven Partners will provide UK Appointed Representative and AIFM solutions as well as its unique and world-leading compliance technology monitoring solutions. Fuchs Asset Management meanhwile, an established management company in Luxembourg covering UCITS AIFMD and MIFID solutions, will provide an umbrella to suit every client’s needs. Laven Partners has offices in London and New York. Fuchs Asset Management has offices in Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland.   The partnership will give Laven’s
Metropolitan Partners Group Management (Metropolitan), a direct-lending firm that provide senior-secured, short-term capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the US, has raised USD172 million, including co-investment rights, for its fifth and largest direct lending – Metropolitan Partners Fund V. Fund V invests in US non-sponsored companies in the lower middle market with revenues under USD100 million that have not yet received institutional investor capital, are going through a period of growth and require additional capital in order to achieve scale.   “We are pleased to welcome new investors to Fund V and are thankful for the opportunity to continue
A consortium of growth-oriented private equity investors led by CX Partners Fund 2 Limited has acquired a significant equity ownership in Veeda Clinical Research Private Limited. The investors will make additional investments in the company over a period of time to fund the growth requirements of the company.   The Board of Directors of the company will be reconstituted to have representatives from the incoming investors. Apurva Shah and Binoy Gardi, the promoters, will continue on the Board of the company and lead the management team.   Veeda is the largest independent Clinical Research Organisation in India established in 2004
OnliFunds, a global venture fund, has launched its first investment fund focussed on blockchain companies within Protect Pharmaceutical’s OnliChain Ecosystem. PRTT has announced that the fund launch will be this week. The fund will be led by its joint venture partners AES, Inc and OnliFunds LLC headquartered in Utah. AES/OnliFunds will be a USD250 million fund, which would make it one of the region’s largest funds of its kind, and is supported by ViolaLux, a 5 billion asset-backed Luxembourg-based fund.   Erick Mosteller will lead the fund for AES/OnliFund LLC. Mosteller has spent the last five years working very closely

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