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Post Capital Partners has partnered with Smith Transportation Services’ existing management team – Steve Smith, Bill Nichols, Jeff Maser and Christine Postlmayr – to purchase the company with its affiliates, including Smith-Cargo and Cargo-West.
Sam Woodward, a Post Capital Executive Partner and transportation industry veteran also participated with the buying group.
Founded in 2001, Smith Transportation is a national full-service third-party logistics & asset-light transportation services provider, with a leading presence in the Florida market. The Company’s comprehensive brokerage servicing offering spans nationwide, across multiple modes of transportation, including Load-to-Ride (LTR), Less-than-Truckload (LTL), truckload and rail/intermodal brokerage. Additionally, Smith
Idinvest Partners has completed three new private debt financings in Technicis, Burger King France and r2p. The latest transactions bring Idinvest’s total direct lending investments amount to EUR330 million so far this year in 15 companies across continental Europe.
Eric Gallerne, co-head of Private Debt at Idinvest Partners, says: “At Idinvest Partners, we look for dynamic companies with high-growth potential to support into international leaders in their fields. These latest transactions and our investment pipeline demonstrate our continued conviction in the strength of the European market. Over the past decade, we’ve continued to develop our private debt activities to provide
Bedell Cristin Guernsey has acted again as lead adviser to EV Private Equity, an independent growth equity firm focussing on new technologies in the oil and gas sector, on the launch of its latest Guernsey fund, EV Private Equity V Plus LP, a Guernsey private investment fund (PIF).
Bedell Cristin worked closely with the PIF’s Norwegian counsel, Alex Lund of Advokatfirmaet CLP DA and Aztec Financial Services (Guernsey) Limited, the PIF’s administrator. The PIF was structured as a closed-ended limited partnership to make investments in oil and gas services companies which deploy technologies to enable oil and gas exploration and production
Great Rock Capital, an asset-focused commercial finance company specialising in middle market lending, has closed a USD10 million credit facility to a leading skilled nursing and assisted living provider that operates 64 facilities in the Southwest USA.
Great Rock Capital’s investment – USD10 million of a USD20 million credit facility – marks the firm’s first underwriting in the healthcare industry.
“We are pleased to partner with an experienced healthcare lender on this transaction,” says Stuart Armstrong, CEO of Great Rock Capital. “This investment is Great Rock Capital’s first opportunity to provide growth capital to a customer in the healthcare industry, an industry we are targeting to
BioMed Partners has invested in Tolremo therapeutics as part of USD9.3 million Series A financing round.
Tolremo therapeutics was founded in March 2017 as a Spin-off from ETH Zürich. Tolremo’s proprietary platform has the potential to change cancer therapy by targeting resistance-causing molecular mechanisms up-front, thereby addressing drug resistance proactively before it develops.
Tolremo therapeutics has also further strengthened its Board of Directors with the oncology, medical and industry experts Dr. Erich Greiner, Prof. em. Thomas Cerny, and Dr Andreas Wallnöfer. Dr Wallnöfer, General Partner BioMedPartners will represent BioMed on the board.
Blue Ocean Maritime Income, a closed-ended company which intends to operate as an investment trust, is to launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The IPO will be by way of a placing and offer for subscription targeting the issue of 250 million ordinary shares at an issue price of USD1.00 per Ordinary Share.
A prospectus in connection with the IPO has been published.
The objective of the Company will be to generate long-term, sustainable shareholder returns, predominantly in the form of income distributions, from direct lending and similar financing opportunities to vessel
Snyk, a company that helps organisations use open source code securely, has closed a USD22 million Series B investment round led by Accel, with participation from GV and existing investors Boldstart Ventures, Heavybit and others.
Open source software (OSS) is embraced by over 95 per cent of enterprises, which dramatically accelerates software development but also introduces substantial risk. Developers draw vast quantities of OSS components into their apps, unaware that many carry known vulnerabilities, or are outright malicious. In fact, 77 per cent of applications carry such known vulnerabilities, and only one in four OSS maintainers audit their code regularly.
Global fashion brand Michael Kors Holdings Limited is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Italian luxury fashion house Gianni Versace for a total enterprise value of EUR1.83 billion, or approximately USD2.12 billion.
Versace, long recognised as one of the world’s leading luxury fashion companies, is synonymous with Italian glamour and style.
John D Idol, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Michael Kors Holdings Limited, says: “The acquisition of Versace is an important milestone for our group. Versace was founded in 1978. For over 40 years, Versace has represented the epitome of Italian fashion luxury, a testament to
Private equity fund manager and central and eastern Europe specialist, ForeVest Capital Partners, has closed a general partner-led secondary transaction of a fund on which it advises, PineBridge New Europe Partners II, LP (NEP II).
In this transaction, a new investment fund, advised by ForeVest, has acquired portfolio companies from NEP II. The Strategic Equity team of EUR32.9 billion specialist asset manager Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) led the transaction from the buyer’s side and has become the largest investor in the new fund.
Forevest Capital Partners specialises in growth equity investing in Central Europe and partners with entrepreneurs in local
Despite a lot of bluff and bluster and gnashing of tweets, US President Donald Trump was unable to provoke a spike in OPEC oil supply at OPEC’s Algiers meeting over the weekend, says Richard Robinson, manager of the Ashburton Global Energy Fund…
OPEC’s power does not rest in the oil it produces, but rather in the oil it does not produce. Without spare capacity, OPEC is relatively impotent in relation to preventing rising prices.
Following four years of collapsing international capital spend, Trump’s removal of the world’s fifth largest oil producer, Iran, from the market – with sanctions to be
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