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Sertec Group Holdings, a manufacturer of stampings and welded assemblies, has secured a GBP20 million funding package from BGF (Business Growth Fund) and Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking to support the management team’s continuing expansion plans for the 54 year old business.
The Coleshill headquartered manufacturer is a key supplier partner to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) among others, producing over three million parts per week from aluminium and steel across its five operating sites in Birmingham. The business has enjoyed significant growth over the last eight years with sales rising from GBP40 million in 2008 to close to GBP200 million today.
BDC Capital has launched IT Venture Fund II, a new CAD150 million venture capital fund for the Canadian information technology (IT) sector.
This second fund brings the amount under management by the BDC Capital IT Venture Fund group to CAD300 million, all of which is helping to build and support a new generation of global Canadian IT market leaders.
"The fund focuses on direct mid-stage investments (also known as Series A and B financing) in more mature startups that have a product in market and are already generating revenues from customers," says Robert Simon, Managing Partner of the BDC
Shamrock Capital Advisors has held final the final closing of Shamrock Capital Growth Fund IV, a USD700 million fund focused on providing buyout and growth capital investments in companies within the media, entertainment and communications industries.
This marks the fourth such fund raised and managed by Shamrock focusing on these industries. Shamrock targets companies benefitting from growth trends in these sectors, seeking USD20 million to USD100 million of equity capital in both control and non-control transactions.
Fund IV’s limited partners comprise a diverse mix of existing and new investors from leading pension funds, endowments and foundations, family offices, and
Lawyers from Carey Olsen's Guernsey corporate team have advised Falcon Acquisitions Limited on its admission to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority (by way of a standard listing) and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange for listed securities.
Falcon Acquisitions is a special purpose acquisition vehicle and will target businesses for acquisition in the mobile, online television and broadcasting sectors with a focus on 'over-the-top' content. This involves delivering media content, such as audio and video, either over the open internet without a multiple system operator or via an internet-enabled device such as
Lightstone Ventures has closed a USUSD50 million fund, Lightstone Singapore, focused on investing in Singapore-based life sciences technologies and companies.
Lightstone has partnered with Limited Partners Temasek, an investment company based in Singapore, and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, to create Lightstone Singapore, LP with the goal of sourcing, funding, and building Singapore-based life sciences companies.
"The Singapore Government has invested a tremendous amount of resources into the local life sciences ecosystem over the past decade," says LSV General Partner and Team Leader Mike Carusi. "The investment from Temasek and EDBI into the fund
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
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