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Ogier has acted for Golden Star Resources in connection with its USD150,000,000 financing obtained from Royal Gold.
The USD150,000,000 financing consists of a USD20,000,000 term loan from Royal Gold, Inc. and a USD130,000,000 stream transaction with Royal Gold, Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary, RGLD Gold AG.
Golden Star Resources Ltd is an international gold mining and exploration company producing gold in Ghana, West Africa. The financing will facilitate the development of the company’s Wassa and Prestea underground mines located in Ghana.
Ogier worked with Fasken Martineau, Canadian counsel to Golden Star Resources. Managing associate James Heinicke, partner Bradley Kruger and associate
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD36 million unitranche credit facility to support the acquisition of Virtium by private equity sponsor, L Squared Capital Partners.
Founded in 1997 and based in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, Virtium is a leading provider of customised, ruggedised, and highly engineered industrial memory and embedded solid state drive products to the industrial market. In recent years, the company has experienced significant growth as a result of increasing demand for highly customised memory and storage products.
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has acquired iPipeline, a provider of cloud-based software solutions to the life insurance industry. Financial details have not been disclosed.
“iPipeline typifies what we look for in an investment opportunity,” says Holden Spaht, a managing partner at Thoma Bravo. “The Company is a market leader with a mission critical product offering and has a strong secular growth opportunity from the continued migration of life insurance applications from print to digital.”
Founded in 1995, iPipeline provide SaaS solutions that drive straight-through processing for the insurance and financial services industry. With more than 400 employees worldwide,
CIT Sponsor Finance has provided senior secured credit financing to Altamont Capital Partners (ACP) and Douglas Products, LLC (Douglas) to acquire the Vikane and ProFume businesses from Dow AgroSciences.
ACP is a San Francisco Bay area private equity firm focused on middle market businesses and partnering with leading management teams to help them reach their full potential. Douglas is a leading manufacturer and distributor of specialty chemical products for pest management, thermal fluids and sanitary sewer applications. Financing for CIT was provided by CIT Bank, the US commercial bank subsidiary of CIT. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
London is the second largest centre for hedge funds globally, behind New York City. Here, we take a detailed look at the hedge fund industry in London, including London-based investors’ plans for the next 12 months, the number of hedge fund launches each year, fund terms and conditions, the largest hedge fund managers and performance.
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Portcullis Asset Management Limited is launching as a Malta based Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) to assist alternative investment funds to comply with the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD).
Portcullis has appointed David Barry to the board and as its new CEO. Barry joins Portcullis from TMF Custom House Group where he was Head of Sales and Business Development and part of the Executive Committee. Barry has over fifteen years experience across the EU and US funds industry. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants.
As a regulated AIFM, Portcullis will assume responsibility for
Tintri, a producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualisation and cloud environments, has closed a USD125 million Series F round led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk.
Tintri’s existing investors – Insight Venture Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, Menlo Ventures and NEA – also participated in the round, bringing Tintri’s total capital raised to USD260 million. The company will use the funding to accelerate global adoption of VM-aware storage.
“We are honoured to be partnering with such an esteemed group of investors,” says Ken Klein (pictured), chairman and CEO for Tintri. “The storage industry is going through a dramatic transformation. Virtualisation and cloud
TICC Capital Corp’s investment adviser, TICC Management is to be acquired by Benefit Street Partners (BSP).
BSP intends to expand TICC's investment strategy to primarily focus on private debt investments. BSP is the credit investment arm of Providence Equity Partners, a leading global private equity firm. BSP and affiliates manage over USD10 billion in assets across a broad range of credit strategies including high yield, levered loans, private / opportunistic debt, liquid credit, structured credit and commercial real estate debt.
"We believe that the BSP relationship will allow the Company to realise value for our shareholders in new ways. With
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central Europe and Turkey, is to acquire Centrul Medical Unirea S.R.L. (“Regina Maria” or the “Company”). The transaction is subject to anti-trust clearance and is expected to close in Q4 2015.
With approximately 300,000 corporate subscribers, the Company is the leading premium integrated private healthcare services operator in Romania with a national presence through 22 polyclinics, 4 hospitals, 11 labs and 5 imaging facilities.
Matthew Strassberg (pictured), Senior Partner of Mid Europa who founded and leads Mid Europa's healthcare sector practice, says: “The acquisition of Regina Maria underscores the firm’s
EQT’s seventh fund for private equity investments focused primarily on Northern Europe, EQT VII, has been closed at the hard cap of EUR6.75 billion on 31 July, 2015.
Interest from both existing and prospective investors was strong and the fund was significantly oversubscribed. More than 70 per cent of the commitments to EQT VII were made by investors in prior EQT funds, confirming the strength of being an integrated alternative investment firm with a broad offering of investment strategies.
Despite the strong demand, EQT has remained committed to raising an appropriately sized fund to be deployed in line with EQT
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