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Private equity fund GCF has acquired 100 per cent ownership of Mktvari HPP project, a Georgian hydro power plant project, from JSC Caucasus Energy and Infrastructure (CEI).
The project’s total investment value is USD98m and its objective is to develop a hydro power plant with 53.3MW of total installed capacity.
An initial stage of construction work costing approximately USD22m has already been completed and GCF intends to commence the next phase immediately, with all works estimated to be finished by the end of 2017. This would include construction of the power house and reservoir, completion of tunnelling works, enlargement
Private investment firm Water Street Healthcare Partners has invested in Orgentec Diagnostika, a specialty diagnostics company headquartered in Mainz, Germany.
The investment expands Water Street's global presence in the growing specialty diagnostics sector, particularly in Europe and emerging markets.
Scott Garrett, former chairman and CEO of Beckman Coulter and senior operating partner with Water Street, will serve as chairman of Orgentec.
Water Street has committed equity to both acquire a majority position in Orgentec and invest in future acquisitions. Orgentec currently specialises in diagnostic assays for autoimmune and infectious diseases. It offers a portfolio of more than 300
Middle-market private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP) has completed the acquisition of SG Holdings I (SERVA) from Wexford Capital, an SEC registered investment advisor with over USD4 billion of assets under management.
Founded in 1991, SERVA is a designer and manufacturer of fracking equipment, coiled tubing equipment, and well intervention and workover equipment, all of which are integral to the development of high-growth unconventional crude oil and natural gas resources in North America and increasingly in China.
The company's products are sold primarily in the US and to an increasing degree in Asia.
SERVA manufactures and
Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners has made a strategic investment in Essen BioScience.
SFW is partnering in this investment with Essen’s co-founders, Kirk Schroeder and Brad Neagle, who serve as the current president and vice-president of operations and engineering respectively, and its management team.
With SFW’s support and resources, Essen plans on making significant investments to further expand its applications and assays, develop and introduce innovative new products, and continue to enhance its sales, service and support capabilities.
Essen BioScience, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a provider of critical analytical instrumentation, software, reagents and services used
Quarton Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to Victor Oolitic Stone Company, d/b/a Indiana Limestone, on its acquisition by Wynnchurch Capital.
Indiana Limestone is a North American quarrier and fabricator of dimensional limestone.
Headquartered in Oolitic, Indiana, it is one of the world's richest limestone deposits, owns and operates quarries covering over 4,000 acres and holds reserves well in excess of 100 years supply in its eight main quarries.
Wynnchurch Capital, headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois with offices in Detroit, Toronto, and an affiliate office in Montreal, was founded in 1999 and is a
Private investment firm Clearlake Capital Group is to acquire ConvergeOne, a provider of communications solutions and managed services to enterprises globally, from Genstar Capital.
Headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, ConvergeOne offers one source for multivendor solutions – from initial design and implementation through ongoing consulting, technical support, and managed services across the spectrum of IT, contact centre solutions, and unified communications.
ConvergeOne maintains relationships with global solution leaders, including Avaya, Cisco Systems, IBM, Interactive Intelligence and Microsoft.
It has more than 4,100 customers, including 46 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies, operating in virtually every industry, including the
Attensity, a provider of corporate insight solutions based on proprietary data contextualisation, has closed USD90 million in equity financing.
Financing was provided by an international private equity fund and financial advisor company.
The new capital secured will be used to accelerate product innovation, fuel market growth, and expand the sales, marketing and engineering teams to meet the growing need for engagement and analytics applications using patented natural language processing (NLP) technology.
"Attensity is already an established market leader in social media analytics used by global companies," says Howard Lau, CEO and chairman. "Now we are extending that lead
French start-up Bunkr has closed its first fundraising at EUR1 million with investments from Idinvest Partners, Daniel Marhely (Deezer co-founder) and Xavier NIEL.
The financing will allow Bunkr to improve the development of its product, which allows users to share presentations using Dropbox and Twitter, and accelerate its international growth.
One year after its launch, Bunkr has 50,000 users in 170 countries, mostly in Brazil, Eastern Asia and the US.
Private equity firm Northern Lights Capital Group, a provider of strategic capital and resources to boutique asset management firms, has made an investment in Buick Capital Partners.
Buick is an independent, London-based private placement firm, providing advisory and placement services to alternative investment managers with strategies ranging from liquid hedge funds to private equity and other longer-term special situations vehicles.
The new company will be re-named Northern Lights Alternative Advisors (NLAA) and will provide expanded distribution and strategic capabilities for Northern Lights in the UK and Europe. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Buick was founded
Worldpay Group has made an investment in Pazien, a start-up founded by industry veterans David Burrows and Jason Pavona, located in Boston, Massachusetts.
Pazien is creating products that simplify the payments ecosystem, which is becoming more complicated for businesses of all sizes around the globe to understand and manage.
From selecting the optimal payment ecosystem partners and products for their business to maximising the value of those solutions, the Pazien platform will ensure merchants efficiently and effectively leverage the payment ecosystem.
Floris de Kort, CEO of Worldpay’s eCommerce division, says: “Our vision is to be the world’s most
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