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Leaders Fund has launched with a fund of USD100 million to invest in promising enterprise SaaS companies. Leaders Fund is led by an experienced team of operators who have founded or scaled multiple enterprise software companies, including Rypple, Workbrain, Ariba and Applied Predictive Technologies, achieving successful public and private exits.
The fund’s evergreen, flexible structure is designed to enable the team to partner creatively with other investors while ensuring deep alignment with portfolio companies on deal structure, growth strategy and long-term goals. Based in Toronto and Atlanta, Leaders Fund will make investments in high growth enterprise SaaS companies in those
IK VII Fund, advised by IK Investment Partners (IK), is to acquire TeleComputing AS from Ferd Capital. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Since 1997, TeleComputing has been at the forefront of IT operations and outsourcing for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Nordic region. As IT environments are becoming increasingly complex and critical to business management, TeleComputing has successfully built a leading position by making IT easy for its customers.
“TeleComputing has successfully positioned itself as a leading player in the Nordic SME segment with a core value proposition of reducing IT complexity for
JMP Group’s hedge fund and investment arm Harvest Capital Strategies has raised USD245 million for the Harvest Intrexon Enterprise Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to funding companies that utilise the inventions, discoveries and technologies of Intrexon Corporation, a specialist in synthetic biology.
The Harvest Intrexon Enterprise Fund will invest exclusively in entities that utilise Intrexon’s technology, with a particular focus on new companies, to spur the creation of biologically-based products across a number of sectors, which may include healthcare, food, agriculture, energy, environment, chemicals and consumer products. The fund has made two investments to date: Thrive Agrobiotics, Inc, a startup entity
Waterlogic is to acquire the water cooler division of PHS Group (PHS Waterlogic) for an undisclosed amount.
PHS Waterlogic is a long established water cooler business active in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands. The business exclusively distributes Waterlogic manufactured and branded point-of-use water (POU) coolers, and was originally acquired by PHS Group from Waterlogic in 2000. PHS Waterlogic adds a total of circa 90,000 POU water coolers on rental and service contracts to Waterlogic’s existing operations.
The UK business of PHS Waterlogic will be merged with Angel Springs, one of the leading UK bottled water and point-of-use businesses
Private equity firm TA Associates is to invest USD187,000,000 in StorageCraft Technology Corporation, an international provider of backup and recovery software.
Additional terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in late January, have not been disclosed. In connection with the investment, Matt Medeiros has joined StorageCraft as Chairman and CEO.
Primarily serving small to medium-sized businesses, StorageCraft provides backup, disaster recovery, system migration, virtualisation and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops on Windows and Linux platforms. The company’s integrated product suite is designed to reduce downtime, improve management and stability of systems and data, and
The corporate team from the Manchester office of national law-firm, Shoosmiths has advised private equity firm, NorthEdge on its investment into TKC, a Greater Manchester-based kitchen trade supplier.
The investment was used to back a management buyout of TKC and to secure a majority stake in the GBP19m-turnover business for NorthEdge.
This is the first deal where Shoosmiths has advised NorthEdge. The national law firm was appointed to provide a range of legal support to NorthEdge including advice around corporate M&A , private equity, banking, tax, employment and legal due diligence.
NorthEdge has backed the incumbent TKC management
Fifth Street Asset Management successfully agented and syndicated over USD3 billion in 22 deals across its platform in 2015, according to Thomson Reuters LPC League Tables.
This represents a company record and a 67% increase over the USD1.8 billion of deals agented and syndicated in 2014.
The Fifth Street platform stands among a limited number of middle market lenders who have the ability to hold loans up to USD250 million and underwrite and syndicate transactions up to USD500 million, providing a unique competitive advantage.
“In recent years, aligned with our goal to deliver fully underwritten solutions to our
Guernsey remains home to more non-UK entities listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) than any other jurisdiction globally, according to figures from the market authority.
LSE data shows that at the end of December 2015 there were 129 Guernsey-incorporated entities listed on the Main Market, AIM and the Specialist Fund Market (SFM) – an increase of seven over the past 12 months.
This is significantly more than the major economic powers of Russia (31), the United States (30), India (28), Australia (26), South Africa (7), Germany (5), China (4) and France (3). It was also well ahead of
Tikehau IM acted as co-arranger alongside BNP Paribas Principal Investments, to provide EUR35 million of PIK Note supporting the acquisition of Vivalto Santé by a consortium of financial investors including CDC International Capital, Mubadala, Arkea, MACSF, Socadif and BNP Paribas Développement together with Daniel Caille and health practitioners.
Founded in 2009 by Daniel Caille through the acquisition of small clinics, Vivalto Santé is a leading operator of private hospitals in France. The Group now operates 14 facilities providing acute care, including Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (“MSO”) and rehabilitation.
In a sector undergoing consolidation, Vivalto Santé will capture acquisition opportunities
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has acquired a majority shareholding in TestPlant, maker of the eggPlant range of software tools. Carlyle is investing in partnership with the existing management team.
The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with USD188 billion of assets under management. TestPlant was founded in 2008 by CEO George Mackintosh and Chairman Jon Richards, with support from Seraphim Capital, a London-based venture capital firm. With Carlyle’s investment, Seraphim makes a successful exit from the business.
Michael Wand, Managing Director at The Carlyle Group and Fund Head for Carlyle Europe Technology Partners, says: “TestPlant is
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