Managers
Sverica Capital Management’s Sverica Fund IV has acquired a majority stake in RMS Healthcare Management, a provider of management services to Med First Immediate Care and Family Practice.
The transaction marks Sverica’s second investment made from Fund IV. Cadiz Capital also participated in the transaction.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Med First provides primary care, urgent care and occupational medicine services via 13 clinic locations across rural North Carolina and South Carolina. The company addresses the unmet healthcare needs of rural populations through a hybrid primary care and urgent care model. Med First is a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
Vestar Capital Partners, in partnership with management, has acquired Mobile Technologies Inc (MTI), a provider of mobile device security and display technologies, from Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company (HKW).
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Founded nearly 40 years ago, MTI operates in three business segments: Retail Merchandising (solutions that display, power, and secure mobile devices within the retail environment); ArmorActive (engineered solutions that empower tablets and smartphones for enterprise mobility and connectivity applications); and Global Services (installation, preventive maintenance, on-demand break-fix, and contact centre services to support businesses’ retail and enterprise mobile device deployments worldwide).
OST Energy, an independent engineering consultancy, has teamed with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and solar energy company Lightsource Renewable Energy to bring Europe’s largest floating photovoltaic (PV) solar project to completion.
A 6.3 Megawatt peak (MWp) array floating on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir west of London, is now providing a source of clean energy to water utilities company, Thames Water. It is the first floating solar project to secure European bank financing.
Thames Water will buy all energy generated by the project as part of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Lightsource.
Throughout the early stages
Strong exit environments in both Europe and Asia helped private equity and venture capital funds in emerging markets and developed markets outside the US outperform public markets in those regions in 2015, according to global investment adviser Cambridge Associates.
Emerging market PE and VC returns beat non-US developed market PE and VC returns, in part because of a weakening euro, which brought down non-US developed market returns when measured in US dollars.
The Cambridge Associates Global ex US Developed Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index returned 2.0 per cent in USD terms in Q4, bringing the return for
One of the biggest issues with risk when it comes to investing is that investors will invariably think about it in binary terms; what is the level of risk? Is it too high or too low? Of greater import, however, is understanding the composition of risk.
Given where the funds industry is today, as end investors’ return expectations increase they become increasingly limited in the type of risk that they can take. This has the unintended consequence of decreasing the efficiency of the overall portfolio as it becomes more and more concentrated in one type of risk.
The job of
Apex Fund Services has closed a USD40 million credit facility with global credit investment firm Highbridge Principal Strategies.
Peter Hughes (pictured), founder and chief executive officer, Apex Fund Services, says: “The completion of this investment further strengthens Apex’s ability to continue its expansion on a global scale. I am delighted that a well established investment firm recognises an opportunity in the business and has confidence investing in our brand and supporting us in our future development. This investment helps further solidify the Apex group’s position as one of the world’s leading independent fund administrator as we continue to increase our
Sunshine Heart has acquired the Aquadex product line from an indirect subsidiary of Baxter International, a specialist in the hospital products and dialysis markets.
The Aquadex system is indicated for temporary (up to eight hours) ultrafiltration treatment of patients with fluid overload who have failed diuretic therapy, and extended (longer than eight hours) ultrafiltration treatment of patients with fluid overload who have failed diuretic therapy and require hospitalisation.
"Aquadex is an important strategic investment, which allows Sunshine Heart to strengthen our presence in the heart failure market," says John Erb, Sunshine's chairman and CEO. "We believe Aquadex is a
Investcorp is selling Crisps Topco Limited (Tyrrells) to Amplify Snack Brands for an enterprise value of GBP300 million.
Founded at Tyrrells Court Farm, Herefordshire in 2002, Tyrrells is a manufacturer of hand-cooked potato and vegetable crisps, popcorn and other savoury snacks.
Tyrrells has built on the brand strength of its core product offering to diversify into other premium snack categories, including popcorn, tortilla chips and vegetable crisps.
Investcorp acquired Tyrrells in August 2013 for GBP100 million and has overseen a transformation of the company in which sales and EBITDA more than doubled and employee numbers grew by over
The Scottish Loan Fund (SLF) and Maven have exited their investment in Cumbernauld-based Spaceright Europe, a manufacturer and supplier of furniture, presentation products, toys and activity equipment for the education sector.
Spaceright’s range of products is used in nurseries, schools and universities throughout the UK.
Since its original investment in May 2014, SLF has provided GBP2.2 million of funding to the business, initially backing the acquisition of Educational Technology as well as supporting product development for the enlarged business. In 2015, SLF further supported Spaceright in the acquisition of Millhouse Manufacturing Design, a designer and manufacturer of a complementary
The expanded StepStone Infrastructure and Real Assets Group (SIRA) is now fully integrated into private markets asset management and advisory firm StepStone Group and is actively conducting business for the company’s clients.
In May, StepStone announced that KPMG’s infrastructure and real assets investment advisory team would join StepStone. SIRA’s more than 20 professionals, led by James O’Leary, former head of the KPMG team and Colonial First State’s infrastructure and real assets platform, operate out of Sydney, Perth, Toronto, London, La Jolla and New York.
Monte Brem, chief executive officer of StepStone, says: “We are pleased at how quickly and
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