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Nexxus has fully divested from Harmon Hall Holding, a portfolio company from Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund III.
Harmon Hall is an English language teaching institution in Mexico with more than 51 years of experience and 105 schools in operation, making it the largest school network nationwide. Of all Harmon Hall schools, 76 are owned and 29 are franchised.
The Company has been acquired by Talisis, a subsidiary from Grupo Topaz, a strategic investor with experience in the educational sector. 414 Capital and Ibis Capital advised the Company and its shareholders on the transaction.
O’Melveny has represented Wi-Fi technology specialist Quantenna Communications on its acquisition by ON Semiconductor Corporation (ON) in an all-cash transaction.
Founded in 2006, San Jose-based Quantenna is the global leader of high performance Wi-Fi solutions. The acquisition consideration represents an equity value of approximately USD1.07 billion and enterprise value of approximately USD936 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2019.
The O’Melveny team, which was led by partners Warren Lazarow and Andor Terner and counsel Noah Kornblith, included associates John Chong, Bhavreet Gill, Jessica Iwasaki, Carolyn White, Elaine Sun and AJ Talt. Also advising
Vortex Energy, a European renewable energy platform managed by the private equity arm of EFG Hermes, has completed the sale of a 49 per cent stake in its Pan-European operational wind power portfolio managed and co-owned by EDPR, to institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management.
The portfolio includes 56 operational wind farms with gross capacity of 998 MW spread across Spain, France, Portugal and Belgium. Vortex Energy was launched four years ago and has grown to become a prominent renewable energy-focused investment manager in Europe and the UK with an 822 MW solar and wind portfolio and combined
Scope Analysis, a specialist in the analysis and rating of asset management companies and certificate issuers, as well as mutual funds and alternative investment funds, has published an updated Asset Management Rating Methodology for Alternative Investments.
Asset managers and investors can comment on the new methodology until 23 April 2019. The final version of the new rating methodology will be published after the commenting phase.
With the adjustments to the rating methodology, there will be an even stronger focus on the concerns and needs of investors. For example, the skills and competencies in the areas of investor reporting and
Ufenau Capital Partners has held the final close of Ufenau VI German Asset Lights – plus parallel funds – at EUR560 million hard cap.
Ufenau Capital Partners is a small cap private equity firm investing in German-speaking Europe. It invests predominantly in succession situations of asset light businesses in the sectors business services, healthcare, education & lifestyle and financial services. Such profitable business models will be further augmented by both organic growth initiatives and a systematic buy and build approach which has led to strong investment results.
In the course of the past six years since its first institutional
Pulse Evolution Group, a developer of hyper-realistic digital humans for entertainment, mixed reality and artificial intelligence, has launched its Asia equity capital campaign with a USD1 million lead investment from Tsang’s Group of Hong Kong.
Tsang’s Group and its investors have acquired 88,636 shares of common shares of Pulse Evolution Group at a purchase price of USD11.28 per share. The Company has also granted Tsang’s Group and its investors warrants to acquire an additional 200,000 common shares, subject to exercise prices of between USD11.00 and USD13.50 per share, or USD11.31 on a weighted average basis, payable in cash at any time
Mid-market private equity firm Nautic Partners (Nautic) has completed the final closing of Nautic Partners IX (Nautic IX) at the fund’s hard cap of USD1.5 billion in limited partner commitments. The fund was oversubscribed due to strong support from both existing and new institutional investors.
“We are pleased by the level of support and confidence from our limited partners,” says Allan Petersen, Managing Director of Investor Relations at Nautic. “We believe the success of this fundraise is a strong endorsement of our history of delivering long-term results, as well as the strength of our team, our specialised sector expertise, and
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has been selected by Altor to provide administration and depositary services to Altor Fund V, a fund domiciled in Sweden and whose Manager is regulated as an AIFM by the Swedish Financial Services Authority.
Focused on investing in and developing mid-market companies in Europe, with a particular focus on the Nordic and German-speaking DACH regions, Fund V was substantially oversubscribed, reaching its hard cap target of EUR2.5 billion in a single closing.
Fund V will have a 15-year investment term. Investments will generally be made in private companies with revenues
Novalpina Capital has held the final closing of its first fund, Novalpina Capital Partners I SCSp, with total commitments in excess of its target of EUR1 billion.
Novalpina Capital is an independent European private equity firm that invests in middle market companies. The firm was founded by Stephen Peel, Stefan Kowski and Bastian Lueken in 2017. The founding partners bring more than 50 years of combined experience in private equity investing, having held senior positions in the European operations of firms including TPG, Centerbridge and Platinum Equity, and worked together for nearly a decade at TPG.
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Spanish lower mid-market firm GED Capital has reached a EUR100 million first close for its new private equity vehicle GED VI España. The fund, which was registered with the National Securities Commission (CNMV) earlier this month, has a target size of EUR175 million.
All of the LPs in GED’s latest fund invested in the predecessor vehicle, including insurance companies, mutual funds and family offices. GED VI España follows the same strategy than its predecessor, deploying equity tickets of between EUR15 million and EUR20 million in companies with EUR3 million to EUR7 million Ebitdas.
The fund expects to make between
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