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AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has received an irrevocable offer from an investor group for its entire stake in AXA Investment Managers Private Equity SA (AXA Private Equity).
The proposed transaction would be structured with a view to protecting AXA Private Equity’s investment expertise and performance-driven culture, and to ensuring that its clients continue to benefit from the service and performance they have had over the past several years.
The transaction would enable AXA to monetize its interest in AXA Private Equity, a business developed by the group since 1996, and would provide a strong foundation for the next
import•io has raised GBP600,000 (USD900,000) from Wellington Partners, Alta Vista founder Louis Monier, and long-time French technology investor Emmanuel Javal to help expand and develop its “big data” platform.
import•io turns the web into a database, releasing the vast potential of the data trapped within the web. It lets companies, developers and coders extract, connect and fuse disparate sources of data from the web to let them build and create powerful new data sets and applications.
“We believe that the Web is full of useful data, but the reality stands: the Web was designed for documents, not data. At
Following the signing of a share purchase agreement between Abénex Capital and RG Safety’s shareholders, Salvepar has confirmed that the transaction is to be closed at a price in line with the net asset value as at 31 December 2012 and at a significant premium to the net book value.
In addition, the proposed transaction will include a price supplement, which will be determined during the course of 2013.
Salvepar could receive an additional amount as a function of this supplement.
Closing is expected to take place in May.
NewWorld Environmental Infrastructure has invested in a six-project 11.6 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic electricity production project portfolio developed by Soltage.
The projects will be located in Connecticut and Massachusetts and will commence construction this month.
Soltage specialises in the development, design, ownership, finance and operation of solar power plants for large commercial customers. Since its founding, Soltage has developed 10 solar power generating projects representing more than 14 megawatts of distributed generating capacity. Soltage is backed by a group of investors, including independent energy company Tenaska, ranked by Forbes as the 35th largest privately held US company based on
Terra Venture Partners has held the first closing for its new fund at USD20m.
The fund’s primary investors include a US private equity fund, a Brazilian bank, European family offices, and additional strategic investors, many of which have invested in Terra’s first fund.
Terra is targeting USD50mn in total. On completion of fundraising for Fund II, Terra will manage a total of USD90m.
The capital raised for the second fund is expected to be invested in ventures not necessarily associated with the traditional cleantech industry, and which connect between internet, software and mobile technology, and have a
Paine & Partners, a private equity investment firm focused on investing in food and agribusiness, has made an investment in SGF Produce Holdings, the parent entity of Sunrise Growers~Frozsun Foods, which was an affiliated portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners.
Following the closing, Sunrise will no longer be an affiliated portfolio company of Sun Capital.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Sunrise is a frozen fruit processor and marketer. The company, headquartered in Placentia, California, was founded in 1977 and operates processing facilities in Oxnard and Santa Maria, California, which are strategically located in the
The US IPO market surged in the early part of 2013 and, in overall equity capital markets volume, the US exchanges continue to dominate the globe, driving the most deal activity.
According to Ernst & Young’s Global IPO update, 24 IPOs have gone effective in Q1, raising more than USD6.7bn in proceeds.
The Ernst & Young US IPO Pipeline Analysis indicates an additional nine IPOs, which are scheduled to price before quarter end, will raise USD1.8bn and will be on par with the 33 IPOs which raised USD8.7bn in Q4.
As the US housing market continues
Resilience Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower mid-market companies, has acquired a majority interest in Aerospace Products International (API), an aviation parts and equipment distribution and supply chain management firm, from First Aviation Services.
"Aerospace Products International is well-positioned to take advantage of the industry’s trend toward the outsourcing of after-market product distribution and other critical functions. We will make a significant investment of capital to execute on our strategy of enhancing API’s capabilities and competitiveness and build it into a truly great international company," says Steven H Rosen, co-chief executive of Resilience.
Iris Capital has led an expansion fundraising round for reBuy reCommerce.
The equity investment will allow reBuy to grow its re-commerce business (which gives a second life to goods through new distribution channels) of entertainment products ranging from mobile devices, Apple products, tablets and video consoles to books, video games, DVDs and CDs.
As investor, Iris Capital joins a group of German private and venture capital investors, among them Hasso Plattner Ventures, DuMont Venture, Mountain Cleantech and Klaus Wecken.
Created in 2004 and originally named trade-a-game, reBuy is today the leading player in the German re-commerce market
Leading M&A practitioners are the most bullish on deal activity since the collapse of the last buyout boom with 97 per cent of North American advisers forecasting an uptick from 2012.
The primary driver of this optimism, the strongest in the six years this survey has been conducted, is greater confidence among CEOs and in the board room (64 per cent), followed by optimism of a burgeoning economy (53 per cent) and the ready availability of inexpensive debt (45 per cent).
The 6th Annual Brunswick Group M&A Survey polled over 100 top advisers from North America, Greater China, and
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