Managers
Hamilton Lane Advisors has held the final closing of Hamilton Lane Private Equity Fund IX, a global and diversified private equity fund-of-funds.
Originally targeting USD400 million, the fund received strong interest from the institutional investor community, exceeding its target to close on USD516 million.
“We are thankful for the support of a diverse group of both new and existing Hamilton Lane investors from across the globe, including public pension funds, Taft-Hartley pension plans, endowments, foundations and other institutions,” says Jackie Rantanen, managing director and co-head of the product management group at Hamilton Lane. “Leveraging our global platform and resources,
IP Cleaning (IPC), a portfolio company of environmental investment-focused private equity firm Ambienta, is to acquire Vaclensa Ltd, an independent distributor of professional cleaning machines in the UK.
Vaclensa employs around 100 people including a network of engineers spread across the country providing high-value after-sales services to blue chip clients, and other innovative cleaning solutions. Vaclensa is the key distribution partner for IPC in the region, and IPC is the key supplier to the company.
With a business model based largely on recurring revenues and room for expanding its customer base in the UK, Vaclensa can further strengthen the
Teradata, a big data analytics company, has purchased Big Data Partnership, an EMEA-based services provider of big data solutions and training.
Big Data Partnership has deep expertise in disruptive technologies, including Apache Hadoop, and helps its clients discover how to become more data driven and data savvy through data science and the adoption of the latest big data technologies.
Big data analytics services represent a fast-growing market valued at USD40 billion in 2015. Internet-of-Things sensor data and information streams from consumer technologies are fuelling growth and spiking demand for multi-genre analytics, new data infrastructures and business models. Some companies experiment with big data analytics,
Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP) has held the final closing of its second fund with total committed assets of around EUR200 million, in excess of the initial target of EUR150 million.
The new fund, named Three Hills Decalia after the fundraising partnership with Geneva-based asset manager Decalia, has completed its fundraising less than two years after the final closing of the first fund, which is now fully invested. As a result, THCP holds circa EUR400 million of assets under management.
The strategy of THCP is currently based on providing subordinated private debt and senior equity solutions across European mid-market
Altitude Partners, a regional private equity fund, has completed a development capital investment into Moortec, a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) business supplying high accuracy ‘in-chip' monitoring circuits.
Founded in 2005, with offices in the Plymouth Science Park, Moortec has developed a core portfolio of IP for in-chip sensors. The three prime areas of Moortec's expertise revolve around process monitoring, voltage supply monitoring and temperature sensing. Combined, this is known as PVT monitoring.
With the continued increase in the performance requirements demanded by today's electronics and the ever greater miniaturisation of microprocessor design, Moortec's PVT monitoring IP is becoming increasingly
Clearwater International has been mandated by Papierfabrik Palm to support the company in developing and implementing a favourable mid-term financing structure.
Based on a tailor-made financing concept, Clearwater International coordinated a competitive process with several international banks and managed the structuring of a refinancing comprising a term loan and a revolving credit facility with a total volume of EUR450 million and a tenor of 4.5 years.
Family-owned Papierfabrik Palm, based in Aalen-Neukochen (Germany), is one of the leading companies in the European paper industry. The company is divided into the paper division with its five paper mills for the
Duet Private Equity and AMCON (Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria) are to establish an investment fund focused on Nigeria’s FMCG sector.
The fund will launch with an initial target size of USD400 million and AMCON will contribute six portfolio companies currently under its control. The fund will invest an additional USD200 million into these six companies.
The fund will focus on turnaround and distressed situations, where companies require additional capital and debt restructuring. The portfolio will consist exclusively of food and beverage companies with local brands. 


Ahmed Kuru, AMCON chief executive, says: "We are very excited about partnering
Compliance and regulatory firm Lawson Conner has added XIO Group to its stable of private equity clients.
XIO (UK) LLP will operate as an onshore investment adviser, helping to support XIO Groups global private equity funds.
The UK entity is responsible for identifying opportunities in Western Europe and North America.
The London office is led by Carsten Geyer, XIO Group’s head of Europe, and supported by the group’s financial service co-heads Marcel Normann and Volker Dammann.
“Over the past 12 months we have seen an ever increasing demand for our regulatory hosting solution from global private equity managers. With offices
Clearwater International has advised Union Square, a provider of information management software to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries, on its sale to Deltek.
Union Square, founded in 2000, has become the leading supplier of business and project information management software across the entire AEC supply chain. Headquartered in Nottingham, the business has experienced strong international growth in Australia and recently expanded operations into Europe and Canada. The business has recently been named as one of Britain’s most inspirational companies in The London Stock Exchange’s annual Inspire Britain report.
The acquisition by Deltek, the leading provider of software and
Evercore is to transfer the control of its Mexican private equity business Evercore Mexico Capital Partners (EMCP) to a new entity formed by the existing principals of the business.
Under the plan, the EMCP team, led by Alfredo Castellanos, has formed a new entity, Glisco Partners, which will assume all responsibility for management of the existing EMCP funds, which currently manage USD266 million of invested capital.
Dr Pedro Aspe, the chairman of Evercore Partners Mexico, will continue to serve on the investment committee for the EMCP funds.
As consideration for the transfer of ownership, Evercore will receive a
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