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A group of investors led by Lakewood Capital and including existing management has acquired Vacuum Systems International, Inc. through a newly formed entity, VSI International (VSI).
Founded in 1994, VSI is a unique value added provider of cost saving and sustainable equipment remanufacturing and fleet rotational programs utilised by large multi-location concerns. The Company manages commercial vacuum cleaners and steamers used in 72,000 facilities, and has the capability of servicing nearly every major brand of commercial vacuum cleaner in the world.
Diana Richards, founder of Vacuum Systems, says: "Partnering with Lakewood will provide our management and employees with the
Private equity firm Solis Capital Partners (Solis) has partnered with venture capital firm Innovate Partners to acquire an equity interest in Lindora, a provider of medically supervised weight loss and weight management programs.
Founded by Dr Marshall Stamper in 1971, Lindora has more than 40 years of success providing comprehensive and personalized medical weight loss and weight maintenance programs to clients across North America. Its success is accomplished through its online programs and clinic locations across California using a combination of medically guided diet, moderate exercise and coaching.
"Lindora has a longstanding track record of using its proven, medically supervised,
In an extract from the recently released 2015 Preqin Global Private Equity & Venture Capital Report, we analyze the results of Preqin’s latest survey of private equity and venture capital fund managers in order to gauge their concerns, views and plans for the year ahead.
Key Issues
Fundraising, valuations, performance, exits, and ongoing volatility and uncertainty in global markets were all highlighted by significant proportions of respondents as some of the biggest challenges facing the private equity and venture capital industry in the year ahead. However, significant variation exists between firms with differing strategies. Surveyed buyout firms felt that
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has been named as an Elite Services Provider (ESP) on 2015 CRN Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list.
This annual list distinguishes the top technology providers and consultants in North America whose leading approach to managed services enables their customers to improve operational efficiencies, elicit greater value from their IT investments and successfully leverage technology to achieve greater competitive advantage.
In today’s world of outsourced IT, the expertise of MSPs has become increasingly important to organisations. The plethora of choices in terms of consumption
SS&C Technologies Holdings has completed completion of Annex IV filing for over 50 Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) and 300 Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs).
SS&C GlobeOp filed with multiple Nationally Competent Authorities (NCAs) across Europe, including the key jurisdictions of Luxembourg, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
“We use extensive regulatory reporting expertise and infrastructure to help customers overcome the immense challenges of data aggregation, jurisdictional differences, complex calculations and short time periods,” says Michael Megaw, Managing Director, Regulatory Solutions Group. “This approach has given our clients the ability to meet their Annex IV deadlines without significant drain on internal
Private equity group ACE & Company has held the final closing of ACE Angel Partners with total equity commitments close to USD15 million.
The fund seeks to generate active returns by investing at an early stage in promising technology companies, targeting high growth markets. ACE Angel Partners invests in companies headed by visionary entrepreneurs with proven managerial skills, like Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble, a company that has sold over one million smartwatches to date. These are predominantly technology companies that solve a problem, address large markets, have the potential to disrupt traditional industries and respond to immediate market needs.
Actis has launched a pan-African renewable energy generation platform, Lekela Power in partnership with wind and solar developer Mainstream Renewable Power which will own 40% of the platform.
Lekela Power is the eighth such energy platform Actis has created, following a proven replicable strategy of aggregating energy assets into scalable regional platforms. This focused approach was most recently demonstrated in the development of Ostro Energy, a renewable energy platform which Actis launched in India last week. Actis’s other energy platforms include Globeleq Mesoamerica in Central America, Aela Energía in Chile, Atlantic Energias Renováveis in Brazil and Mexico’s Zuma Energía. This
Recent research by the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has highlighted growing discontent with the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) within the European Union (EU). Though the legislation set out to enhance oversight and standardise regulation across the EU, a significant majority of Europe-based investors feel they have been directly disadvantaged as a result, citing reduced international competitiveness as a key concern. In November 2014, Preqin conducted similar research, surveying 260 private equity and venture capital fund managers; 27% of respondents believed regulation to be the biggest challenge they face in 2015.
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Crescent Capital Group’s European Specialty Lending strategy has completed a unitranche financing to support the refinancing and recapitalisation of Interfloor Group Ltd.
Interfloor, majority-owned by Milestone Capital Partners LLP, also refinanced the mezzanine facility provided by Hutton Collins Partners LLP, which remains a minority shareholder.
This financing is consistent with Crescent’s longstanding commitment to providing access to capital for middle market companies in Europe as well as the US.
“We are pleased to have completed this unitranche refinancing with Milestone Capital in support of the continued growth of Interfloor,” says Christine Vanden Beukel, Managing Director and head of Crescent’s European
Commercial and regulatory pressures mean that now is the right time for private equity investors to expand their involvement in the shipping services and technology sector, according to Moore Stephens.
Dr Adam Kent of London-based consultant Maritime Strategies International (MSI) told the recent Moore Stephens Opportunities in Shipping Services seminar in London that private equity should be looking to invest in multi-faceted companies with a good reputation, pricing power and specialist products. “Opportunities are to be found,” he says. “It’s a question of timing.”
Meanwhile, Alison Jarabo of maritime efficiency specialist Fathom Shipping told private equity investors at the
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