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BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) and Orion Partners have formed a strategic partnership that brings together an Asia-focused alternative investment firm specialising in real estate and private equity, and an asset management specialist.
Under the terms of the transaction, BNPP IP – through its alternative and incubation specialist BNP Paribas Capital Partners (BNPP CP) – will acquire a minority stake in a new partnership based in Hong Kong. Orion Partners will continue to operate under its existing leadership and remain independent in all its businesses and investment decisions.
Going forward, BNPP CP and Orion Partners plan to develop
Mergers and acquisitions firm Woodbridge International has appointed Andrew J Buchholtz as Head of Investment Banking.
Buchholtz will assume a leadership role in working with Woodbridge’s bankers in the US and internationally. The firm’s expansion over the past two years and growing number of assignments have created the need to add another professional to the firm’s senior management team. In addition to his position as Head of Investment Banking, Andrew is taking an ownership position in the firm and becoming a fifth partner.
Andrew J Buchholtz has served as a banker, consultant and operator in the media industry for
Stirling Square Capital Partners has held the final closing of its Third Fund at the hard cap of EUR600 million, significantly above target and representing a notable increase on its EUR375 million Second Fund.
Third Fund will maintain the focus of prior Stirling Square funds, building upon the proven strategy of investing across Europe in mid-market companies offering transformational value creation potential.
Existing Second Fund investors comprise over 60 per cent of the total Third Fund commitments, with the remainder raised from new investor relationships. Together, they represent a strong investor base of leading pension funds, fund of funds,
Photoweb, a subsidiary of Lavigne (Exacompta-Clairefontaine Group), has acquired 100 per cent of the capital of LALALAB. The deal brings together a specialist in online photo development and a European provider of photo printing mobile applications.
Second in the French market of online personalisation, Photoweb has been a part of Exacompta-Clairefontaine Group since 2014. Founded by Jeremy Charoy, Julien Faltot and Julien Philbert, three French entrepreneurs from Nancy, LALALAB is the number one photo print and photo gift application in Europe (by number of downloads and ratings). Their constant search for enhanced quality and improved service makes the partnership between
Pamplona Capital Management has made a strategic financial investment in Patientco, a payment technology company built specifically for healthcare.
With patient payments often constituting as much as one third of hospital revenues, more than 500 hospitals and physicians practices nationwide have already turned to Patientco to address this sector.
Pamplona’s investment in Patientco includes a commercial agreement to embed Patientco’s offerings into Pamplona’s MedAssets Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and Precyse business, which were both acquired by Pamplona in 2015 and are being merged in 1Q16. The combination of services and technologies across patient access, health information management (HIM), central
Octopus Investments (Octopus) has launched a GBP20 million joint fundraise for its two Alternative Investment Market (AIM) VCTs, with scope for the offer to be extended by an additional GBP10 million.
The offer comes at the end of a year that celebrates AIM’s twentieth anniversary and has seen AIM responsible for a GBP25 billion contribution to UK GDP and almost three quarters of a million jobs in Britain alone³. The latest offer gives investors the potential to access the growth of UK smaller companies whilst receiving a regular income through the funds’ dividend policies.
Octopus AIM VCT (AIM VCT)
United Wind, a premiere provider of distributed wind energy solutions, and
Forum Equity Partners is providing United Wind with USD200 million in project equity capital for distributed wind projects throughout the United States.
The financing will significantly expand United Wind’s unique and market leading WindLease program, which enables both residential and commercial property owners to lease distributed-scale wind turbines. United Wind’s popular program allows qualified customers to reduce energy costs by harvesting on-site wind energy through a fixed rate, 20-year maintenance-free lease without any initial out-of-pocket costs required from the customer.
“United Wind brings a unique and innovative
Shanghai-based QuanCheng has raised tens of millions of US Dollars in a Series B financing round led by Eight Roads along with participation from ClearVue Partners and Arbor Ventures.
Eight Roads, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International, has an 18-year track record of investing in the Asia-Pacific region, and was one of the first investors in Alibaba. Arbor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the intersection of financial technology, big data and digital commerce, with an affinity for end markets in Asia, while ClearVue Partners was the lead investor in QuanCheng’s Series A financing round.
Audax Private Equity has partnered with management to acquire Source Refrigeration & HVAC (Source) from Arsenal Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Source, headquartered in Anaheim, CA, is a leading independent provider of commercial refrigeration and HVAC services in North America, serving the nation’s top food retailers, convenience store chains, telecommunication providers, and industrial companies. Through its national network of technicians and service locations, Source provides mission-critical design, installation, environmental and energy optimisation, and maintenance services.
Geoffrey S Rehnert, Co-CEO of Audax Group, says: “Source is a recognized leader in the fragmented refrigeration services market.
Park Vale Capital has committed to invest GBP16 million in clean cold and power technology company Dearman, bringing total funds raised by the firm during 2015 to GBP19.5 million (excluding grant funding).
The funding will enable Dearman to establish initial UK-based manufacturing activity, and to boost international commercial deployment, while continuing to invest in R&D and demonstration of its core technology and subsequent applications.
Park Vale will work in partnership with Dearman, helping it to establish new markets for its technology, identify opportunities for growth and realise them.
Discussing the announcement, Katherine Priestley, Managing Director of Park Vale,
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