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Ultroid Technologies has retained Armor Capital Management to provide M&A advisory services on all aspects of acquisitions, sales/divestitures, private equity transactions and finance raising, as Ultroid looks to expand its operations in the US and global markets.
The company’s flagship product is the Ultroid Hemorrhoid Management System, a non-invasive, low cost treatment Hemorrhoidal Disease (HD). Physicians perform the painless, 15 minute procedures in their office, without anesthesia, and experience exceptional patient outcomes.
Inflexion Private Equity is to carve out GfK’s animal and crop health business, a provider of agricultural data and market information, from the Frankfurt-listed global market research organisation.
GfK’s animal and crop health business delivers innovative, data driven market information to the agriculture and animal health markets, providing detailed insights into their customers’ key growth requirements. The business, led by its Global Director Stephen Hearn, has grown rapidly since inception and delivered sales of USD40 million in 2014. Employing around 220 people in 18 countries, GfK’s animal and crop health business serves a wide range of long standing, blue chip,
Fossil Group is to acquire Misfit, a specialist in wearable technology and connected devices. The acquisition will enable Fossil Group to expand its addressable market, offering consumers both traditional timepieces and fashionable connected accessories.
Misfit brings to Fossil Group a scalable cloud and app platform, a world-class software and hardware engineering team, a native wearable technology brand and a pipeline of innovative products.
"We have a significant opportunity to add technology and connectivity across our platform of watches and accessories," says Kosta Kartsotis, chief executive officer of Fossil Group. "With the acquisition of Misfit, Fossil Group will be uniquely
White Star Capital, a transatlantic Venture Capital fund with offices in London, New York and Montreal, has closed its first institutional fund with USD70 million in Limited Partner commitments.
White Star Capital will deploy between USD500,000 and USD5 million in initial investments into companies in North America and Western Europe.
This first institutional fund is primarily backed by sovereign and institutional funds supported by entrepreneurs and family offices from over 18 markets.
White Star was co-founded by Eric Martineau-Fortin, an experienced technology M&A banker, and Christian Hernandez Gallardo, a former Facebook executive. Jean-François Marcoux, the co-founder of gaming
NexusCrowd has launched a new real estate redevelopment project on its online investment platform, after partnering with Downing Street Realty Partners, a Toronto-based real estate investment manager and merchant bank.
Downing Street is the lead investor for the CAD12 million project, which includes three industrial properties in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The partnership will allow NexusCrowd to post exclusive investment opportunities that Downing Street is leading onto the NexusCrowd platform. NexusCrowd is the first investment platform in Canada to provide accredited investors with exclusive access to co-invest alongside institutional investors in deals that have reached at least 50
Some 80 per cent of limited partners (LPs) have seen their co-investments outperforming private equity funds, with 46 per cent seeing their co-investments outperform by a margin of over 5 per cent, according to a survey by Preqin.
This level of performance is the biggest draw for investors, with two-thirds of LPs citing better returns as the biggest benefit of co-investing alongside GPs.
Co-investment opportunities from fund managers (GPs) are also becoming more common, with 87 per cent of them either currently offering, or considering offering, co-investment rights to their investors. Furthermore, 30 per cent of managers included co-investment
Funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management are to acquire RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus.
RegionalCare is the owner and operator of eight market-leading, non-urban hospitals located in Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Iowa, Montana, Ohio, and Texas.
The transaction, which is conditioned on customary regulatory reviews and approvals, is expected to close by the end of 2015. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
“Healthcare is one of the largest and most dynamic sectors of the economy,” says Matthew Nord, a partner at Apollo. “We are excited to partner with Marty Rash and the RegionalCare
Infrastucture fundraising hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2015 according to Inframation Group’s 3Q15 Infrastructure Fundraising review.
The two largest unlisted infrastructure funds ever raised, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, kicked off fundraising of USD15 billion and USD10 billion respectively. GIP’s fund is due to be launched formally in Q4 2015, with a target IRR of around 15 per cent.
Stonepeak return to the market in Q3 with the launch of Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II, which has a fundraising target of USD 2.5 billion, while Goldman Sachs held the second close of its third
Elevar Equity has held the final close of Elevar Equity III (EE III) at USD74 million. EE III is focused on commercial investments in early stage companies providing financial services, education, housing and healthcare to low-income communities primarily in India and Latin America. With the new fund, Elevar manages over USD165 million in committed capital.
EE III's investors include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Oblate International Pastoral Investment Trust, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Omidyar Network, Prudential Financial, Inc., the Rockefeller Foundation, Blue Haven Initiative, Treehouse Investments and multiple family offices, private foundations and a university endowment.
"We are pleased to
Amicus Finance is to launch a new commercial finance business dedicated to serving the small business and professional services communities.
Amicus Commercial Finance will be led by two highly experienced and proven market specialists, John Wilde and David Hogg, who built SME Invoice Finance Limited (SMEIF) from start-up in 2000 to a national firm employing 80 staff, serving a 600-strong customer base and generating annual revenues of GBP12 million at the time of its sale to Metro Bank PLC in July 2013.
Amicus Commercial Finance will provide a revolving working capital facility powered by a proprietary funding platform, which
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