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Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Luna Innovations Incorporated (LUNA) on its merger with Advanced Photonix, Inc (API).
The combined company will keep the Luna name and be headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, and will have a strong product foundation with Luna Innovations' ("Luna") core test & measurement products and Advanced Photonix's ("API") High Speed Optical Receiver (HSOR) and Optosolutions product lines. Stockholders from both companies approved the transaction on 8 May, 2015.
"The merger of API and Luna will result in a much larger, yet more cost efficient company. The combined new company will have the resources
CIT Group has served as Sole Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent in a USD90 million senior secured credit facility to support vXchnge Holdings’ (vXchnge) acquisition of eight datacenters.
vXchnge is a portfolio company of The Stephens Group, a private equity firm located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Financing was provided by CIT Bank, the U.S. commercial bank subsidiary of CIT.
“We are pleased to provide this acquisition financing to vXchnge to help position the company to meet the increasing demand for secure and scalable datacenters”
Based in Tampa, Florida, vXchnge is a provider of colocation services and was formed in 2013
Risk Capital Partners, the private equity firm chaired by Luke Johnson, has bought a majority stake in Zoggs, the global swimming products brand.
Zoggs sells over 2.5 million pairs of goggles across 50 countries throughout the world. Founded in Sydney, Australia in 1992 it has built on its success as an innovator in the goggles market to develop a full range of swimwear, swim equipment and learn to swim/water confidence products.
Zoggs established and developed a market leading position in the UK leisure centre channel, servicing the majority of UK leisure centres with ‘point of use’ sales. In recent
Private equity firm Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired a stake in Nutrisure Limited (Nutrisure), a supplier of superfoods both in the UK and internationally.
In the fast growing and increasingly popular world of organic superfoods, which includes spirulina, coconut oil and chia seeds, Nutrisure has seen a significant increase in demand for its products. This has helped it generate sales of GBP12.5million in the current financial year, and has also seen it included in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table.
Lonsdale’s funds will help the company continue its strong growth to date, with investment in the Naturya
eve – the new e-commerce venture launched to wake up the sleepy mattress industry – has closed a GBP600,000 seed funding round, with venture capital firm Octopus joining initial investors DN Capital and FJ Labs with a GBP225,000 investment.
The original round, which was announced in February, was reopened due to unprecedented interest from new parties. This comes as eve launches services in Germany, just three months after launching in the UK.
Today’s announcement follows significant growth figures from the business, which is disrupting the mattress industry by delivering premium quality mattresses direct to consumers at a fraction of high
Colombian private equity fund manager Tribeca led the recent sale of Bogota Beer Company (BBC), Colombia’s leading craft brewer and pub operator, to AmBev, a leading brewer in Latin America.
Tribeca originally took a 40% stake in Bogota Beer Company in 2013, providing financing for an aggressive growth strategy that included increasing the number of pubs from 13 to 27 in the first two years, as well as the construction of a 280,000-hectoliters-per-annum state-of-the-art production facility near Bogota (up 14 fold versus previous production facility).
During the same period, Bogota Beer Company expanded its geographical presence to Medellin, Cartagena, Barranquilla
KEPRO, in partnership with private equity fund Consonance Capital Partners, has acquired APS Healthcare from Universal American.
The combination will enhance KEPRO’s ability to provide a comprehensive and high quality set of service offerings through an integrated approach to medical management – an area that will continue to experience strong growth as a result of shifting reimbursement models and changing regulatory requirements. The company’s wide breadth of services will continue to include member centric care management solutions, physical and behavioural health utilisation management, employee assistance and absence management programs, as well as other offerings such as pre-admission screening and resident
Bowmark Capital has backed the management buy-out of Aston Scott Group, a regional commercial insurance broking business specialising in the mid-sized corporate, SME and motor trade sectors, for an undisclosed sum.
Aston Scott operates from 12 regional offices distributing insurance products on behalf of most of the leading UK insurers including AXA, Aviva, NIG, Allianz and RSA to around 33,000 customers. Founded in 1993, the company has grown through a successful buy-and-build strategy, having made 33 bolt-on acquisitions. It now has some 230 employees and focuses on providing complex policies which require a high level of service and deliver strong
From a performance perspective, Asia Pacific-focused hedge funds have really stood out from their global peers, not just over the last 12 months but over a two- three- and five-year period. For anyone who still needs reassuring that APAC hedge funds can deliver value, simply consider the following numbers, as detailed by Preqin in its March 2015 Hedge Fund Spotlight report.
Much of this performance is being driven by exposure to equity markets in what remain the key economic powerhouses of the region; namely India and China. Managers who are embedded in the region and well placed to understand the
Following its successful Series A funding in June 2014, Big Data Partnership has concluded its GBP3.1 million Series B financing round, led by Beringea, a private equity firm that previously invested GBP1.25m in the company.
The funds will used to expand Big Data Partnership's core capabilities in sales and marketing, engineering and data science, in order for the company to meet increasing demand from new enterprise clients. With the benefit of the additional investment round, the company will move to larger premises in the heart of London's Tech City to accommodate its expanding workforce.
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