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Astarte Capital Partners is hoping that its new discretionary co-investment platform, the Astarte Special Opportunities Platform (ASOP), will help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ and encourage a greater alignment of interests with operating companies over the long term.
“The way we see ourselves is bringing global institutional capital to Europe to invest in real assets,” explains Dr Stavros Siokos, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Astarte Capital Partners, whose offices sit in South Kensington, London. “We are mainly looking at Europe. Anything west of Poland and anything from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.
“The reason we launched Astarte is because
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European private equity firm, is to sell CPL Holdings (Cartonplast), an operator of sustainable pools of returnable transport packaging materials (RTP), to German private equity investor Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and the DBAG-advised DBAG Fund VII.
Closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.
Stirling Square created the Company in 2013 with a simultaneous double buy-out of private equity-owned Cartonplast Group GmbH and family-owned Trading Cartonplast Iberica SA. Since then, Stirling Square has worked closely with management to achieve seamless integration, efficient and effective partnerships with clients, as well as organic and external
Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to make a strategic growth investment in the Gong Cha Group (Gong Cha), a provider of premium quality bubble and milk tea.
The founders of Gong Cha Korea will participate in the investment alongside TA. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in early October, have not been disclosed.
Gong Cha’s main offering, Taiwanese-style bubble tea, is sweet milk tea infused with pearl-shaped tapioca. The company also offers a variety of seasonal and specialty tea-based drinks. Utilising primarily a franchise model, Gong Cha reaches consumers through a variety of
Texas-based investment firm Satori Capital has completed a USD30 million investment in Cicero Capital Partners.
The investment is part of the Satori XL Partnership Program, which forms strategic acceleration partnerships with talented emerging investment managers that typically have at least a three-year track record and less than USD100 million of AUM.
Based in Columbia, Maryland, Cicero actively manages a portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other commercial real estate structured opportunities. The firm’s AUM as of 1 July, 2019, is approximately USD77 million.
Cicero’s portfolio managers have developed a comprehensive due diligence process over a combined 38 years of
Presight Capital has held the successful closing of its first fund, Presight Global Venture Opportunities Fund, with a volume of USD80 million.
Due to high demand, the original target volume of USD50 million was increased to USD80 million, and the fund, which was scheduled to close on 31 August, closed early on 31 July.
Presight Capital is the international venture arm of Apeiron Investment Group, the family office of German entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer. Angermayer founded Presight with Fabian Hansen early this year. Through Presight, this will be the first time Apeiron will be managing outside money.
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Private equity firm NexPhase Capital (NexPhase) has sold InsideRE Holdings (Inside Real Estate), a provider of cloud-based real estate software, to Lovell Minnick Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
One of the first technology providers in the industry to offer an end-to-end platform with all of the necessary tools to succeed in one place, Inside Real Estate has built, acquired and integrated software solutions that were previously missing in the market. Since partnering with the Company in 2016, NexPhase has worked closely with Ned Stringham, CEO of InsideRE, and the rest of its leadership team to bolster
Flossbach von Storch has launched its fourth private equity fund of funds, a regulated, closed-end fund Tectum Private Equity in Luxembourg together in conjunction with Universal-Investment, which manages the fund as an AIFM.
The Flossbach von Storch Private Equity Team aims to build on the success of its predecessor funds with a target capitalisation of EUR200 million.
Flossbach von Storch AG is one of the leading independent asset managers in Germany and currently manages assets of more than EUR42 billion. The company has been active in the private equity asset class since its foundation and since 2008, it has offered
Washington DC-based private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital) is to sell Ontario Systems (Ontario) to New Mountain Capital.
Ontario Systems is a provider of enterprise software that automates operations and accelerates revenue recovery for clients in the healthcare, accounts receivable management (ARM), and government markets. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Matt Altman, a Managing Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “Arlington’s investment in Ontario Systems continues our track record of successful partnership with founding management teams to drive transformational growth in healthcare software companies. The investments in technology and people that we have made over
Avenue Capital Group, a global investment firm, is to acquire Pollen Street Capital’s interest in the Irish development and bridging finance lending platform, Castlehaven Finance, for an amount in excess of EUR250 million.
The transaction will result in Pollen Street Capital, the independent alternative asset investment management company, exiting its investment in Castlehaven Finance, which it has held through its credit lending arms, P2P Global Investments PLC and Honeycomb Investment Trust PLC.
Castlehaven Finance was founded in response to the need for an alternative lender in the residential development market as the Irish housing market began to recover in 2014
European fund manager STAR Capital Partnership has acquired Windhoist Holdings (Windhoist), a leading wind turbine installation contractor for an undisclosed consideration.
Originally founded in Ireland in the 1950s with a focus on agricultural machinery, the family owned business grew quickly, and by 2005 was supplying mechanical and electrical engineering turnkey services to the emerging wind industry under the Windhoist brand, filling a gap in the UK market. With a historical focus on the on-shore wind market, more recently it successfully completed the portside construction of 84 offshore wind towers for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind project, the first to utilise
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