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Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical stage cardiovascular company in Phase 2, has closed a USD17 million Series B financing.
The round was led by Domain Associates and included participation from all of Milestone's existing investors including Fonds de solidarité FTQ (FSTQ), Pappas Ventures, BDC Capital, GO Capital, and iNovia Capital. The funding will be used to complete Phase 2 clinical development of MSP-2017. In connection with this financing, Domain's Debra Liebert will join Milestone's board of directors.
"We are excited to have a premier life sciences investor such as Domain join Milestone," says Philippe Douville, Chief Executive Officer of Milestone.
JTC has been selected to administer Amedeo Air Four Plus, an aircraft acquisition and leasing investment company, as part of its recent successful Listing on the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Amedeo Air Four Plus plans to acquire initial aircraft assets of approximately USD1.1 billion, increasing by up to an additional USD600 million by year-end 2015, with the scope to acquire further assets in the future.
Nimrod Capital acted as the company’s Placing Agent and will be the long-term corporate and shareholder adviser. JTC provided company secretarial services and acted as administrator for the company during
Kirin Media Ventures, a Los Angeles-based film finance and management company, has launched its inaugural USD25 million investment fund. The fund, with strong backing from Chinese investors, will invest in Hollywood motion picture projects.
“We are excited to launch the fund with a focus on investing in independent films with commercial appeal and Studio distribution,” says Jeff Chao, Managing Partner, Kirin Media. “We want to recognize our strategic partner Leo Jianjun Zheng from the Shanghai AllBright Law Firm for helping us navigate the Chinese investment landscape. We also look forward to fulfilling our film financing strategy in Hollywood through our
Belgian-Dutch investment company Waterland Private Equity Investments (Waterland) is providing growth capital to the Intelligent Group, a Belgian developer and provider of hosting services.
Intelligent was founded in 1999 by Jonas Dhaenens under the Combell brand and has grown to become the most important provider of hosting services in Belgium in recent years, with a strong presence in the Netherlands. The company is primarily known for its strong hosting brands Combell and Unitt. Combell focuses on a diverse offering of hosting services ranging from domain names, e-mail and webhosting to managed hosting server applications and related products, both for SMEs
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired ATX Networks Corporation (ATX) a designer and developer of patented, radio frequency (RF) and digital video processing equipment used by cable operators and a growing number of private video networks, A/V integrators, and telecommunication companies.
Cable operators rely on the Company’s RF equipment to enable increased bandwidth to their subscribers, while ATX’s growing suite of non-RF products provides solutions for network operators to efficiently deliver video and data services to end users, including but not limited to transcoding and encoding, bulk video transition gateways, and content streaming products.
OMERS Private Equity (OPE), the private equity investment arm of the OMERS pension plan, is to acquire Environmental Resources Management (ERM) from Charterhouse Capital Partners for an enterprise value of USD1.7 billion.
The Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) will co-invest in the transaction.
Created in 1977, ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting and sustainability related services. ERM works with both private and public sector clients to deliver sustainable outcomes to complex environmental issues, from Board level down through the organisation.
ERM has more than 4,800 employees including 600 partners and operates from 163
Equity and bond markets experienced renewed tensions during the period under review. European markets saw higher selling pressure than US markets, which was a negative for Global Macro managers as they have sizeable long European equities positions in their portfolios.
IK Investment Partners (IK) has received a binding offer from International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE:IFF) (“IFF”), a leading global creator of flavours and fragrances for consumer products, for the sale of Lucas Meyer Cosmetics group of companies.
The transaction is structured as an exclusive binding offer in order to allow Unipex Group to consult with its French works council prior to entering into the final agreement. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015 and is subject to exclusivity protection. Under the terms of the offer IFF will pay approximately EUR283 million.
Under IK’s
During its fiscal year that will end on 30 June, 2015, BioAdvance’s life sciences portfolio companies attracted USD85 million of capital from private investments and other sources.
“It’s been another strong year for our portfolio companies” says Barbara Schilberg CEO of BioAdvance. “While several companies have raised significant amounts of venture capital others have received non-dilutive funding achieved product sales secured development contracts accessed the public markets or progressed products through collaborations with larger companies. This progress confirms that there are multiple paths to success for life sciences companies.”
Galleon Pharmaceuticals raised USD10 million in a Series B round supplemented
Returns offered by the private equity asset class are often a hot topic for discussion in the investment industry. With yields varying between fund types, sectors and managers, Jessica Duong (pictured) investigates the differences in performance of sector-specific buyout funds in this extract from Preqin Private Equity Spotlight – June 2015.
One of the main attractions of private equity for investors is the potential for outperformance over public equities over the longer term and the prospect of high yields. Offering insight into the sentiment of the LP community, Preqin’s latest global study of LPs revealed that 37 per cent of
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