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The De Agostini Group and Activa Capital are finalising the acquisition by Activa Capital of a majority position in Atlas For Men, alongside the existing management team.
De Agostini is a family-owned private group active worldwide, with activities in several business areas: publishing, media, gaming and communication, as well as the historic activities in multi-channel publishing and selling. In 1999, the group developed a new business in distance selling, Atlas For Men, led by Marc Delamarre.
In recent years, Atlas For Men has become a European multi-channel leader in the distance selling of outdoor clothing for men, with a
Minella Capital Management (MCM) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in WE Donoghue & Co (WEDCO), a Massachusetts-based registered investment adviser specialising in tactical strategies with over USD1.6 billion in client assets.
Founded in 1986, WEDCO is a pioneer in delivering tactical allocation strategies designed in an effort to generate sustainable income while preserving capital in all market cycles.
WEDCO's strategies are offered via separately managed accounts as well as through the Power Dividend Index Fund and the Power Income Fund. The company's strategies primarily employ proprietary indices developed in conjunction with S-Networks Indexes and S&P Dow Jones
Perusa Partners Fund II has completed a majority investment in Senator GmbH & Co KGaA.
Senator, headquartered in Gross-Bieberau, had been owned by Merz-Pharma-Group since 1920.
In the previous financial year 2014/15 Senator generated nearly EUR50 million sales. The company currently employs around 350 people worldwide at the site in Gross-Bieberau, and at its foreign subsidiaries in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, China, and India.
Senator is one of the world’s leading suppliers of merchandising products and writing instruments. In addition to high quality ballpoint pens, the product range also includes mugs, writing cases, and accessories.
“Senator
Lendix has launched what it says is the first European Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) dedicated to lending to very small businesses and SMEs.
Lendix SME Loans fund II has received the agreement of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and is the first SME dedicated ELTIF authorised in Europe.
The new European regulation, which gave birth to the ELTIF format and which became applicable by the Member States on 9 December 2015, aims to promote long-term investment in the real economy and fits into the 2020 Capital Markets Union action plan.
"This new fund format, passportable everywhere
Alternative asset management firm Audax Group has held the final close of Audax Mezzanine Fund IV at its hard cap of USD1.2 billion of aggregate committed capital from a select group of institutional and high net worth limited partners.
Fund IV was oversubscribed and exceeded its fundraising target of USD1 billion.
Consistent with its predecessor mezzanine funds, Fund IV will continue Audax’ strategy of directly sourcing and investing in a diversified portfolio of junior debt securities, in addition to co-investments in equity securities, with a specific focus on direct lending to US middle market companies as part of private
IDG Capital Partners has held the final closing of IDG Capital Fund III with commitments totalling USD1 billion, in partnership with Breyer Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital investor.
The new fund will focus on investing in next-generation opportunities in technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), healthcare, energy, and consumer products, both in China as well as in global companies looking to enter the Chinese market.
Since IDG Capital entered China in 1993 as the country's first technology venture capital and private equity investment firm, it has invested in many companies that went on to become leaders in their respective
CG Commercial Finance (CGCF) has sold all of the outstanding stock of the company to funds managed by Atalaya Capital Management.
CGCF says transaction represents an important milestone in the firm’s long-term growth strategy establishing the capital resources to exponentially grow its originations platform; increase its funding capacity; and expand its third-party buy desk, referral, and syndication program.
“As CGCF and Atalaya have worked closely in the past funding large ticket, complex transactions, we are excited to be able to complete this transaction and join forces with the team at Atalaya. With the capitalisation provided by Atalaya, in addition
Agilitas, a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company Ionisos to Ardian, an independent private investment company, for an undisclosed consideration.
Agilitas invested in Ionisos, alongside management, in December 2014. During Agilitas’s ownership, Ionisos has boosted its sales and marketing efforts gaining strategic global European customers as well as growing sales to existing customers across a wider range of technologies and services.
Ionisos also invested in its sterilisation facilities, adding capacity and increasing efficiency, thereby improving the service rate to its wide customer base.
The management team has been strengthened by the addition of Laurent
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Winchester Electronics to Snow Phipps, a private equity firm based in New York, in conjunction with management and other investors.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in South Norwalk, Connecticut, Winchester is a provider of custom engineered interconnect solutions for high reliability applications in the military/aerospace, medical, semiconductor, oil and gas, and other diversified end markets.
Since Audax’ initial investment in 2006, Winchester has completed 13 acquisitions, diversifying the company’s customer and end-market exposure, shifting business mix toward higher growth and higher margin ruggedized applications, and broadening
Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor focused on property-backed investments, has closed its fifth fund raising EUR949 million (USD1.05 billion), including approximately EUR143 million (USD158 billion) of co-investment capital.
Greenhill & Co acted as the placement agent.
Patron Capital V exceeded its original target of EUR750 million (USD830 million), attracting investors from nine countries, with the majority of commitments coming from North America, followed by Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Investors included pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and asset managers.
Fund V will continue the same investment strategy as Patron’s previous funds, opportunistically targeting
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