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Growth private equity firm Keensight Capital has held a first close of EUR200 million for its new fund Keensight IV.
With this fund, the fourth vehicle to be managed by the investment team, Keensight Capital will continue to execute the same strategy it has pursued with success throughout the years.
Keensight Capital supports entrepreneurs in their growth projects by investing amounts ranging from EUR10 million to EUR30 million, with or without leverage, in minority or majority shareholding positions.
The Rothschild Group has invested in the fund, along with various European institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurance companies
PS Sà rl, which is majority-owned by the funds managed by private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners, has sold its investment in PS TopCo GmbH to an undisclosed investor.
PS TopCo is a parent of Prospitalia. Over the term of its investment in PS Sà rl, Palamon has generated a return of 3.0x on capital invested.
Prospitalia is a group purchasing organisation (GPO) in Germany, providing procurement services to more than 900 hospitals and healthcare facilities across the country to help lower the cost of goods purchased. The company currently reports a pooled purchasing volume of EUR1.2 billion.
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Law firm Morgan Lewis has advised London-based Blue Water Energy (BWE), an energy focused private equity firm, on its investment in Dubai-based Unique Maritime Group (UMG).
BWE was founded in 2011 and closed its Fund I in 2013 with USD861 million in commitments.
Fund I’s investment strategy is focused exclusively on the energy industry with core sub-sector focus areas including oilfield services, manufacturing, storage and logistics, and reserve development.
UMG is an integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution provider, with local presence in the Middle East, US, UK, South Africa, Nigeria, India and Singapore. It employs over 500
Private equity firm Lariat Partners has held the final closing on Lariat Partners Fund I at USD118 million.
The firm has closed three of an anticipated five Fund I platform companies since November 2013, including its most recent deal in March: the USD100 million acquisition of Newpark Environmental Services through a newly formed entity called ecoserv.
With its uncommon “hybrid” fund approach (only five anticipated platform investments instead of the typical 10 to 12 platforms), Lariat Partners is able to acquire considerably larger deals than its fund size would indicate. Lariat is targeting platform investments with EBITDA of USD2
Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity firm, has appointed Shami Nissan as a director in the responsible investment team.
Nissan is based in the London office and takes up her post with immediate effect.
Nissan joins Actis with over 13 years’ experience in responsible investment, primarily serving the private equity and financial services sectors. Her most recent post was as a member of PwC’s sustainability and climate change team.
Prior to this, Nissan led the London business of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, providing sustainability research and analytics to institutional investors and asset managers. Nissan has also worked with
Zoyi Capital has invested in Taiwan Farm Industry (TFI), a processed meat producer in Taiwan.
TFI has a strong presence in both the retail and wholesale Taiwanese markets and has developed long-term relationships with a group of distributors that exclusively sell TFI’s meat products to wholesale customers.
Zoyi Capital, which has a long term relationship with honorary chairman Chris Chang, has identified a growth strategy for TFI, supported by planned new production expansion to address current unmet demand due to capacity limitation.
“New capital will be used to build a new factory which will double TFI’s current capacity,
Beamz Interactive has raised USD1 million of private funding from selected accredited investors at a price of USD0.05 per unit.
Each unit consists of one share of restricted common stock and one three-year warrant with an exercise price of USD0.05.
The offering was led by management, who invested USD400,000 of the total financing amount. The net proceeds of the financing will be used primarily for sales and marketing purposes.
"We are very pleased with the completion of this financing," says Charlie Mollo, chief executive officer of Beamz Interactive. "It allows us to focus on key sales and marketing initiatives to
Elliptic, the digital asset services company, has completed a USD2m funding round led by venture capital firm Octopus Investments.
This funding comes just six months after the launch of Elliptic Vault, the world’s first insured Bitcoin storage service.
The seed-funding round, which sees Octopus invest alongside a number of experienced angel investors, is the first major venture capital investment in a Bitcoin company in the UK.
Launched in January 2014, Elliptic will offer a suite of enterprise services that bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets. Their first such product, Elliptic Vault, was the world’s first insured Bitcoin storage service.
Union Group, a major investor in real assets in emerging Latin American countries, has completed a capital increase with Dundee Corporation, a Canadian asset manager with a track record in resources investments.
The sale takes Dundee’s stake in the company to 40 per cent and proceeds will be immediately deployed in expanding Union's presence in Latin America, across its high-growth portfolio of assets and businesses.
The acquisition by Dundee increases its exposure to Union’s extensive network of rapidly expanding portfolio businesses, valued in excess of USD1 billion, which are focused across resources, commodities and infrastructure, currently primarily in Uruguay,
Cisco has made an investment in Georgian Partners Growth Fund II, the newest fund from Georgian Partners, a growth equity firm investing in expansion-stage software companies.
"We are very pleased to have Cisco investing our second fund," says Simon Chong, co-founder and managing director of Georgian Partners. "To have a global leader like Cisco join the fund as an investor demonstrates the validity of our Applied Analytics investment thesis."
"By investing in innovative companies we gain valuable insight into the Canadian start up and entrepreneurial community," says Cisco Canada president Nitin Kawale. "Georgian Partners is at the forefront of
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