Managers
Miami-based private equity firm Trivest Partners has appointed Greg Baty as a Partner. Most recently, Greg was a Principal at Hamilton Lane, a global private equity management firm with approximately USD240 billion in total assets under management and supervision, where he managed the firm’s South Florida office.
Over the past decade, Trivest has asserted its position as the partner of choice for Founder/Family owned businesses across North America. With that recognition, the Firm continues to see an ever increasing number of investment opportunities from business brokers, lawyers, accountants and others. A natural evolution of the Firm’s development and expansion will be
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has completed fundraising for Thoma Bravo Discover Fund (Discover), which will focus on lower middle market software investments, with USD1.074 billion of commitments, reaching its hard cap.
Thoma Bravo will invest Discover with a continued emphasis on its successful investment strategy in the software and technology enabled services sectors. The fund provides an investment vehicle for opportunities requiring less equity capital than the larger opportunities that are the focus of Thoma Bravo’s flagship funds.
Thoma Bravo’s most recent flagship fund, Fund XI, closed at USD3.66 billion and began investing in 2014. In 2015, Fund
Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) has closed its third fund at USD303 million, surpassing its USD200 million target. Like its predecessors, Ecosystem Investment Partners III LP will invest in land-based environmental offset markets.
EIP’s investment strategy remains focused on the Land-Based Environmental Offset (LEO) markets established to offset or “mitigate” unavoidable, permitted impacts to wetlands, streams and other important natural resources throughout the United States. In order to capitalise on the LEO markets, EIP acquires, entitles, restores, sustainably manages and ultimately divests properties that generate revenues through the sale of wetland, stream, endangered species and other environmental credits to entities seeking
DNS Capital has acquired IMI Holding Corp, the parent company of Industrial Magnetics, (IMI), Prater Industries, and Sterling Controls, from Chattanooga-based private equity firm, River Associates Investments.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. DNS Capital is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker and Michael Pucker.
Headquartered in Boyne City, Michigan, IMI is a leading provider of highly engineered solutions for magnetic separation and material handling, particle processing and process automation applications. The company’s products are used to handle, separate, lift and process a diverse array of materials across a
A great number of the world's more than 13,000 alternative investment funds suffer from "Fund Manager's Disease," which significantly prevents those funds from increasing assets under management (AUM).
That’s according to Ole Rollag, managing principal of Murano Systems who, in his keynote presentation at the Amsterdam Investor Forum hosted by ABN Amro Bank, said that and on an industry-wide basis, the ‘disease’ serves to limit the adoption of alternative asset classes by institutional investors.
At a by-invitation-only session for global fund managers held at ABN AMRO Bank's headquarters in The Netherlands, Rollag noted that: "Because a fund's Chief Investment
Lawyers from Carey Olsen's Guernsey funds team have advised Creandum on the establishment of their latest venture capital fund, Creandum IV, which was oversubscribed and held a first and final closing at EUR180 million.
Private Equity Administrators Limited, Creandum's long term administrator, has again been appointed to provide administration services to the new fund.
Venture capital firm Creandum has 12 years' experience with over 50 start-ups, mostly focusing on the Nordic region. Creandum IV represents their largest early stage fund and was backed by a diverse global investor base from the Nordic region, Europe, the Middle East and North
Gide has advised Dalian Canglong Optoelectronic Technology Co on its acquisition of 70 per cent of the equity interests in French high-tech company Almae Technologies SAS.
Canglong Optoelectronic is part of the FiberHome Technologies Group, a major Chinese state-owned enterprise specialising in the manufacturing of optical fibre and cable products for the information technology and telecommunications industries. Its investment aims to boost the research, development and manufacturing of Almae Technologies’ photonic products in both France and China.
Gide acted as lead counsel to Canglong Optoelectronic on all the PRC and French legal aspects of the transaction, including assistance in
EnTouch Controls has raised USD8 million in Series C financing led by Egis Capital Partners. Also participating were new investors Traverse Venture Partners, Aster Capital and Calvert Investments along with existing investors SJF Ventures and Trailblazer Capital.
Richardson, Texas-based EnTouch provides facility asset and energy management intelligence and the financing will allow the firm to expand its sales and marketing team and capitalize on its leadership position in the Commercial Internet of Things (IoT) market.
The financing comes on the heels of a record year for the company as it tripled orders, expanded its footprint of connected facilities to
African Alpha Investment Partners (AIIP) has invested an undisclosed amount into SERS Ltd, an Africa focused equipment financing company based in Mauritius. The transaction was a refinancing of a facility raised and arranged by AAIP in October 2014, extending maturities and reducing the company's cost of borrowing.
The new facility also provided additional growth capital to allow SERS to finance further asset acquisition for its equipment financing clients, including those who have provided essential services to agencies active in the Ebola-affected countries of West Africa.
Rupert Boyd of AAIP, says: "We are delighted to be able to support such
Augentius, a specialist service provider to private equity and real estate funds, has expanded its client revenue by more than 30 per cent in 2015. This has enabled the firm to maintain its track record of achieving at least 20 per cent growth every year.
Augentius now has USD90.5bn assets under administration, spread across 373 funds for 145 clients. It is a truly global operation, with 12 domiciles, and its funds’ investors located in 101 countries.
Ian Kelly, Augentius CEO, says: “More business has transferred to Augentius from other administrators in 2015 than ever before, and that’s a testament
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