Managers
Spring Ventures, a private equity investor specialising in management buyouts of UK companies with strong growth potential, has backed a group of commercial lending professionals to buy invoice financing provider, IGF Invoice Finance Limited (IGF), from Greater London Enterprise( GLE).
Spring Ventures will initially invest GBP9 million to fund the acquisition (buy-in management buyout) and provide growth capital. It will commit a further GBP11 million of follow on capital over the next three years and will take a majority stake.
The management buyout team includes John Onslow, John Nelson and Jon Hughes who collectively have 60 years experience
Shanda Group is to purchase Trian’s 9.9 per cent holding in Legg Mason. Shanda Group is a Singapore-based global investing holding company with a long-term investment horizon across public market equity, fixed income and commodities, private equity and real estate.
It is focused on value investment opportunities in the financial services, technology and healthcare services sectors.
Joseph As Sullivan, Chairman and CEO of Legg Mason, says: "We are pleased to welcome Shanda as a long-term strategic shareholder. We look forward to benefiting from their expertise in important areas of growth for us. We want to express our appreciation for Trian
Semios, a provider of real-time agricultural information and precision pest management tools, has closed an USD8 million financing with private equity individuals from the Agtech community, with assistance from Haywood Securities.
Founded in 2010, Semios has grown to be the largest worldwide network of sensors and control devices in specialty crops. The Semios internet-of-things (IoT) solution provides real-time insights into risks associated with weather, pests, disease, frost and irrigation on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis.
Combining remote access to real-time field conditions and acre-by-acre metered delivery of inputs is the cornerstone of precision agriculture. Semios enables improved deployment of pheromones, frost
Portfolio Advisors has held the final closing of its globally diversified private equity fund-of-funds, Portfolio Advisors Private Equity Fund VIII (PAPEF VIII) with total commitments of USD1.22 billion.
Limited partners include private and public pension plans, university endowments, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals. Approximately 70 per cent of the total limited partner commitments to the Fund came from investors who had previously invested in one or more PA-sponsored funds.
"We are very pleased and grateful for the continued trust and support of our investors," says Brian Murphy, Managing Member of Portfolio Advisors, LLC.
Livingstone’s Business Services team has advised Panther Logistics, the UK’s largest independent two-man next day home delivery provider, on a GBP17m management buy-out backed by LDC.
Headquartered in Northampton, Panther specialises in providing two-man and one-man assisted home delivery services, supplying household furniture, white goods and other high value items including bedroom, bathroom, fitness, garden and office products. Panther offers UK-wide coverage via a network of eight strategically located regional hubs, a fleet of 300 fully-liveried vehicles and a market leading proprietary IT platform.The company is the partner of choice for a growing number of major online and multi-channel retailers
LeverPoint Management has partnered with Hamilton Lane, a global private markets asset management firm, and the New York Credit SBIC Fund (the Fund).
The Fund, in collaboration with company management, is providing a debt and equity investment in LeverPoint that will serve as a catalyst for continued growth and enhanced client services.
Based in Clifton Park, NY, LeverPoint offers full service accounting, tax and back office support to the alternative investment sector, allowing fund managers to devote their time to core business functions such as investing and managing funds. LeverPoint's dedicated team of experts works as a seamless extension of
AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity investor in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has closed its first fund – AE Industrials Partners Fund I – with USD680 million in equity commitments.
The fund is one of the largest dedicated to investments in aerospace and related industry segments, including highly technical manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management, MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) and industrial service-based businesses.
The fund significantly exceeded its USD600 million target, with commitments from a diverse group of institutional investors – public and private pension plans, endowments, and alternative asset managers – and high net
SAS has launched the SAS FinTech Incubator programme, which will give UK FinTech organisations free access to big data technology assets and industry expertise to achieve their innovation goals, and can slash the time to develop solutions by up to 50 per cent.
FinTech is becoming the fastest growing area of innovation in global financial services. Using technologies such as big data analytics and machine learning to solve a broad array of business problems, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) estimates the FinTech sector will be worth £300 billion by 2020.
However, investors are increasingly concerned about risk due to
A division of Z Capital Partners, the private equity management arm of Z Capital Group, is to acquire the “original Rock ‘n Roll Mexican” restaurant brand Pink Taco.
Z Capital Partners, the largest shareholder of Real Mex Restaurants (Real Mex), plans to leverage the Real Mex expertise across restaurant operations, marketing and branding to expand the Pink Taco brand, including the addition of new locations, and provide a strong platform for growth. Real Mex is the largest full-service, casual dining Mexican restaurant chain operator in the United States, with more than 100 company-owned and operated restaurants, as well as 13
Altarius Asset Management (Altarius) and Portcullis Asset Management Limited (Portcullis), both licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), have formed a strategic alliance to deliver a full suite of evolutionary AIFM services to alternative investment funds regardless of their AUM.
This evolutionary strategic alliance allows early stage managers to seamlessly adopt a full scope AIFM from a “de-minimis”. Many mangers who have experienced their AUM increase faster than expected have found the step from de-minimis to a full-scope AIFM to be disruptive, affect performance, distract from core activities and ultimately slow subscriptions at a critical growth point for the
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