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Equistone Partners Europe has completed the management buyout of WHP Telecoms, a provider of professional services to the mobile telecoms infrastructure sector, from Palatine Private Equity.
WHP is the leading provider of end-to-end services for the planning, design, acquisition, deployment, upgrade and maintenance of mobile network masts, antennae and base stations for all major UK mobile operators. Employing over 440 people and headquartered in Warrington, the business operates nationally with sites in Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham and Heathrow.
WHP has grown significantly since Palatine invested in 2015 with turnover increasing from GBP30m to almost GBP75 million forecast in the current
Century Bridge Capital’s Century Bridge China Real Estate Fund has successfully exited and repatriated the proceeds from its investment in Dalian, China.
The fund closed on its GBP24.5 million investment in the GBP87 million development in January 2015 in joint venture with regional developer, Dalian Guanxin Investment Corporation.
Located in Dalian in an established in-fill location in Dalian’s Economic Development and Technological Zone, at the core of the Jinzhou New District, the project benefited from being in one of the highest GDP districts in Liaoning province. The project is within a ten-minute walk of offices and industrial
Investors in the Assetz Capital platform are yet to be convinced by cryptocurrencies, with just 16 per cent seeing them as worthwhile investments.
The peer-to-peer lending platform canvassed the views of its investors in the Q1 Assetz Capital Investor Barometer. Some 43 per cent believe the entire market is on the brink of collapse, while 40 per cent feel cryptocurrencies are still too immature at present with significant risks attached. Only 14 per cent feel it is a worthwhile investment but only in moderation, with just 2 per cent thinking it is the future of investments.
This follows a
PreVeil has secured a Series A investment from Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in disruptive startups. This is the first outside investment in PreVeil; two of its founders, successful serial tech entrepreneurs Sanjeev Verma and Randy Battat, were the seed round investors.
PreVeil’s unique email and document services combine end-to-end encryption, with distributed trust that ensures no one administrator is a gateway for hackers, and finally, eliminates the need for passwords, a common security weak point in enterprises. Nobody outside of an enterprise, not even PreVeil, can read a business’ files – especially critical as the threat
LLR Partners has closed a USD30 million minority growth equity investment in Midigator, the provider of a fully-automated software platform to prevent, analyse and manage payment card chargebacks, thereby increasing merchant revenue and lowering costs.
Key features of the platform include automated chargeback prevention alerts, intelligent chargeback representments with industry leading win-rates and real-time data analytics and reporting.
“Merchants, small and large, are struggling to keep pace with the rapid growth of fraud and payment card chargebacks. Midigator’s fully-automated software platform is uniquely positioned to help processors, acquiring banks, ISOs and merchants prevent and manage chargebacks,” says Corey Baggett,
Alter Domus, a provider of Fund and Corporate Services to alternative investment managers, has completed the acquisition of Cortland Capital Market Services (Cortland) in the US.
Headquartered in Chicago and with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Austin, Indianapolis, and China, Cortland is a leading independent investment servicing company providing third-party fund administration and middle and back-office outsourcing to financial institutions, including alternative investment managers, real estate private equity firms and credit funds. It currently has over USD200 billion of assets under administration.
The firm was founded in 2008 by Doug Hart CEO, Russ Goldenberg, Tim Houghton and
Lithium Werks has acquired the original A123 Systems manufacturing plants located in Changzhou, China.
These plants were the first to introduce the revolutionary NanoPhosphate technology in the form of cylindrical cells that have been used globally in a wide array of applications, especially in the industrial market. As part of the transaction, Lithium Werks has taken over the customer relationships in China, Europe and the United States as well as the operations, staff and product designs associated with the Changzhou business. Lithium Werks is also the new owner of the POWER. SAFETY. LIFE. trademark that characterised A123’s product portfolio in its early
Cathay Capital Private Equity (Cathay), Total Energy Ventures (Total), and Hubei High Technology Investment Guiding Fund Management (Hubei), are to launch the Cathay Smart Energy Fund, an investment fund dedicated to the new energy sector in China.
The fund will focus its investments on emerging technologies and new business models of the Chinese energy sector, notably renewable energy, energy internet, energy storage, distributed energy, smart energy and low carbon activities. To launch this new vehicle – and Cathay Capital’s second RMB industry fund – Total and Hubei will respectively invest around RMB300 million (USD50 million). Ultimately, the fund targets a
Narrow Gauge Capital (NGC) has completed the acquisition of Class Appraisal, a provider of real estate asset valuation and appraisal management solutions to the US residential mortgage industry.
Class is one of the fastest-growing and most respected companies in the industry, offering its clients the highest levels of service and performance in the appraisal management process.
“Class Appraisal is a tremendous company that offers the absolute best service model that we have seen in the appraisal management business,” says Adam Doctoroff, partner at NGC. “Class has developed an incredible company culture, operational excellence, and a trusted partnership with industry-leading
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate and finance practice in the Cayman Islands have advised 99, the Brazilian ride-sharing application and Uber competitor, on its sale to China’s Didi Chuxing.
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