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Private investment firm Enhanced Capital and FocusPoint Private Capital Group (FocusPoint), a FINRA member focused on private capital raising, have formed Enhanced FocusPoint (EFP), a partnership to source, seed and launch a series of private investment funds.
EFP will identify talented management teams with investment strategies suitable for institutional investors allocating capital to private funds. This partnership will expand the reach and capabilities of each firm, providing experienced limited partners with new investment strategies.
Four sectors of focus have been identified for the platform: Equity, Credit/Income-Generating, Real Assets, and Special Opportunities. Enhanced and FocusPoint have a long history of backing
Swarm64 AS, a data acceleration company from Oslo and Berlin, has raised a total of up to EUR7.1 million from lead investors Alliance Venture, Target Partners and Investinor. The funds will be used for market entry, building out the team and to set up operations in the US market.
Swarm64 has been developing a hardware and software solution that scales databases in size and speed past their current limitations. Swarm64’s Scalable Data Accelerator (SDA) and its database extensions will contribute to the professionalisation of open source databases. The SDA resolves the known trade-off in databases between transaction heavy and analytics
Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners are to acquire Ascensus Inc. from JC Flowers & Co. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, following regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Ascensus, the nation’s largest independent service provider of retirement and college savings plans, was founded more than 30 years ago and has since expanded into new markets within the financial services industry to offer a comprehensive suite of defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plan solutions, benefits education, 529 college savings plan recordkeeping, and IRA and health savings
London-based investor Impax Asset Management,has completed a PLN181.5 million (EUR43 million) refinancing for the 42 MW Kisielice wind park in Poland.
The new facilities provided by a syndicate led by Raiffeisen Bank Polska with Raiffeisen Bank International, and Alior Bank were used to refinance loans and hedging provided by Caixa Bank for the original 18 MW wind farm that was acquired by Impax funds in March 2013. The new facilities were also used to refinance a 22 MW expansion of the project that was commissioned in late 2013 which was funded by Impax.
Impax was advised by Norton Rose,
Audax Private Equity completed its 500th acquisition on 21 September when portfolio company Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery (ADCS) acquired the assets of Dermatology of Northern Colorado, a dermatology practice in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Dermatology of Northern Colorado is ADCS’s 31st acquisition since Audax acquired the platform in October of 2011.
Geoffrey S Rehnert (pictured), Co-CEO of Audax Group, says: “I am proud of the team at Audax Private Equity for reaching this remarkable milestone. Buy & Build is the central theme of our investment strategy. The completion of deal number 500 is a testament to the hard work
Funds managed by The Private Equity Group of Ares Management and Harvest Partners have acquired Valet Waste from investment funds affiliated with New Mountain Capital, LLC. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Tampa, Valet Waste is a leading national provider of value-added amenity services to the multifamily housing industry. Valet Waste provides five nights-per-week doorstep waste and recycling collection for more than 400 management companies and owner groups servicing more than 665,000 units across 34 states. The company also offers complementary maintenance services to the multifamily housing industry including nightly maintenance, apartment cleaning, apartment turns and
European financial service private equity firm AnaCap’s third credit fund AnaCap Credit Opportunities III has completed the acquisition of EUR1.2 billion of non- performing loans (NPLs) from Italian lender UniCredit Group.
Under the terms of the agreement, the AnaCap fund will acquire 100 per cent of the portfolio.
The acquisition refers to the Trevi 3 portfolio, which comprises secured and unsecured bankruptcy and other enforcement claims against primarily SME borrowers. In October 2014, AnaCap funds acquired a similar portfolio of non- performing loans from UniCredit, totalling claims of EUR1.9 billion, which was the largest transaction of its kind in
KSL Capital Partners has completed the final closing of its latest travel and leisure focused private equity fund, KSL Capital Partners IV, with total commitments of USD2.677 billion, including the commitment of the General Partner.
Fund IV took less than a year to raise, with demand from both existing and new investors significantly surpassing the Fund’s original target amount of USD2.25 billion. Investors in KSL IV include a diverse group of state pension funds, corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and family offices.
“KSL IV garnered significant interest from our existing investor base and accepted
Kreditech, a leading consumer finance technology company, has raised EUR 82.5 million in Series C financing to fuel the company's growth. The round was led by JC Flowers & Co.
Peter Thiel and Amadeus Capital Partners (Amadeus) invested earlier this year in a bridge loan that has now fully converted into Series C equity. Existing shareholders Värde Partners, HPE Growth Capital and Blumberg Capital also participated in the round. The company is in advanced discussions for a final closing that could increase the Series C round to over EUR 100 million.
“We are excited to bring these world-class investors on board who
Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm, has held the official close of its fifth buyout fund with USD1.3 billion in committed capital.
The fund, Accel-KKR Capital Partners V, will continue Accel-KKR's long-term focused strategy of investing in lower-middle market and middle-market software and IT-enabled services companies.
Accel-KKR says the fund received strong support from its investors in prior funds, as well as attracted a number of new investors.
Tom Barnds (pictured), Managing Director of Accel-KKR, says: "We are heartened by the support we received from our existing investors, and are quite pleased to welcome a number of
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