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An affiliate of Veritas Capital has acquired Emergency Communications Network (ECN), a provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) unified critical communications, from The Riverside Company. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1996, ECN provides its customers across the United States and Canada with easy-to-use, reliable and affordable software solutions which facilitate critical communication and collaboration with use cases that save lives, enhance revenue and reduce costs. ECN has over 2,200 customers, including leading organisations in the government, technology, healthcare, utility, aerospace, industrial, manufacturing and financial services sectors.
"ECN is an exceptional business with a
Actility, a provider of network solutions and managed information systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) market, has secured a USD25 million funding round led by Ginko Ventures.
Ginko Ventures leads a prestigious group of investors including tier-one telcos KPN, Orange, Swisscom and Foxconn, along with the existing investors Fonds Ecotechnologies managed by Bpifrance Investissement, Idinvest Partners, and Truffle Capital.
The investment will allow Actility to accelerate its go-to-market strategy for ThingPark, its open standard IoT network solution; funding its operational resources, building a high level of service and continuing to develop technology partnerships to foster a healthy ecosystem. It
Nekton Global, an energy merchant business chaired by Gerard Lopez, the financier behind Skype, has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Rise Capital AB, a specialist private equity business focussed on pursing infrastructure investments in Russia.
The infrastructure construction industry has experienced rapid early stage growth driven by substantial government backing creating extensive opportunities for international investor participation. Founded in 2013, Rise Capital has built up an extensive track record and expertise in the sector, working alongside some of Russia’s leading construction and engineering groups, as well as financial and banking institutions.
The partnership between Nekton Global and
Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical stage cardiovascular company in Phase 2, has closed a USD17 million Series B financing.
The round was led by Domain Associates and included participation from all of Milestone's existing investors including Fonds de solidarité FTQ (FSTQ), Pappas Ventures, BDC Capital, GO Capital, and iNovia Capital. The funding will be used to complete Phase 2 clinical development of MSP-2017. In connection with this financing, Domain's Debra Liebert will join Milestone's board of directors.
"We are excited to have a premier life sciences investor such as Domain join Milestone," says Philippe Douville, Chief Executive Officer of Milestone.
JTC has been selected to administer Amedeo Air Four Plus, an aircraft acquisition and leasing investment company, as part of its recent successful Listing on the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Amedeo Air Four Plus plans to acquire initial aircraft assets of approximately USD1.1 billion, increasing by up to an additional USD600 million by year-end 2015, with the scope to acquire further assets in the future.
Nimrod Capital acted as the company’s Placing Agent and will be the long-term corporate and shareholder adviser. JTC provided company secretarial services and acted as administrator for the company during
Kirin Media Ventures, a Los Angeles-based film finance and management company, has launched its inaugural USD25 million investment fund. The fund, with strong backing from Chinese investors, will invest in Hollywood motion picture projects.
“We are excited to launch the fund with a focus on investing in independent films with commercial appeal and Studio distribution,” says Jeff Chao, Managing Partner, Kirin Media. “We want to recognize our strategic partner Leo Jianjun Zheng from the Shanghai AllBright Law Firm for helping us navigate the Chinese investment landscape. We also look forward to fulfilling our film financing strategy in Hollywood through our
Belgian-Dutch investment company Waterland Private Equity Investments (Waterland) is providing growth capital to the Intelligent Group, a Belgian developer and provider of hosting services.
Intelligent was founded in 1999 by Jonas Dhaenens under the Combell brand and has grown to become the most important provider of hosting services in Belgium in recent years, with a strong presence in the Netherlands. The company is primarily known for its strong hosting brands Combell and Unitt. Combell focuses on a diverse offering of hosting services ranging from domain names, e-mail and webhosting to managed hosting server applications and related products, both for SMEs
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired ATX Networks Corporation (ATX) a designer and developer of patented, radio frequency (RF) and digital video processing equipment used by cable operators and a growing number of private video networks, A/V integrators, and telecommunication companies.
Cable operators rely on the Company’s RF equipment to enable increased bandwidth to their subscribers, while ATX’s growing suite of non-RF products provides solutions for network operators to efficiently deliver video and data services to end users, including but not limited to transcoding and encoding, bulk video transition gateways, and content streaming products.
OMERS Private Equity (OPE), the private equity investment arm of the OMERS pension plan, is to acquire Environmental Resources Management (ERM) from Charterhouse Capital Partners for an enterprise value of USD1.7 billion.
The Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) will co-invest in the transaction.
Created in 1977, ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting and sustainability related services. ERM works with both private and public sector clients to deliver sustainable outcomes to complex environmental issues, from Board level down through the organisation.
ERM has more than 4,800 employees including 600 partners and operates from 163
Equity and bond markets experienced renewed tensions during the period under review. European markets saw higher selling pressure than US markets, which was a negative for Global Macro managers as they have sizeable long European equities positions in their portfolios.
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