Managers
UK-focused primary buyout specialist Kester Capital has closed its latest fund, Kester Capital II, at its hard cap of GBP90 million within a nine month fundraising period.
Kester Capital was advised on the fundraising, which was oversubscribed, by placement agent Elm Capital and Travers Smith, who provided legal advice. Investors in the fund include both new and existing UK, continental European and US institutional investors.
Kester’s second fund will invest in UK SMEs requiring institutional capital for the first time, with a focus on healthcare, business & financial services and TMT, as these sectors experience high growth at the moment,
Carey Olsen’s corporate team in Guernsey has advised Tembo Capital (Tembo) on the launch of its latest fund, Tembo Capital Mining Fund III (Tembo Fund III), which has a fundraising target of USD300 million.A Guernsey closed-ended investment scheme, Tembo Fund III will follow a similar investment strategy as Tembo’s first two funds and invest in high quality, undervalued assets owned by mid-tier and junior mining companies. These opportunities may include exploration ventures, near term production ventures, royalties, operating mines, infrastructure of metals and mining projects, and services associated with the metals and mining sector.
Working alongside onshore counsel Macfarlanes,
Independent Iberian management company GED Capital has invested, through its Conexo Ventures fund, in SimpleCloud, a leading company in the transformation of the animation, video game, advertising and special effects industries. This startup, founded in 2008, and backed by Inveready, Caixa Capital Risc y CDTI, offers a global platform based on the cloud for the management and creation of digital content focused on companies and also has one of the most powerful tools created for teleworking.
Conexo will use its proven international expansion formula to accelerate the growth of SimpleCloud in the US market, where Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating the
Lafayette Mittelstand Capital has take a 51 per cent stake in the newly formed Acquisition Company REAL General Contracting Holding GmbH jointly with the future CEO, Michael Betz who holds 49 per cent of the shares. REAL General Contracting GmbH Holding is the Acquisition Company that acquired all assets via an Asset Deal from insolvent REAL Innenausbau AG, a leading Interior Office and Shop Designer, from Insolvency Administrator Marcus Winkler with effective date as of July 1st, 2020. REAL’s design and production Team with approx. 80 FTE is based in Külsheim, Bavaria and services renowned blue-chip customers across a wide range
Astorg is to sell Surfaces Group (Surfaces) to TA Associates. Headquartered in Cenate Sotto, Italy, Surfaces Group is the world leading supplier of abrasive tools and consumables used in the manufacturing process of high-end materials.The Group’s products are used to smoothen, cut and polish high-end ceramic tiles, stone slabs, glass panes and metal objects. Surfaces’ primary industrial, commercial and R&D operations are spread across seven locations in Northern Italy. The company has also established subsidiaries in the United States, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Turkey, Russia and India and employs more than 500 people globally.
Pierluigi Dinelli, CEO of Surfaces Group, says:
Eurazeo received A+ in each of the four assessment categories relating to its professions within the UN PRI’s most recent survey.
By Natasha Head, business development manager, ManCo services & PERE, Maitland – The impact of Covid-19 on the global private equity market is uncertain. December 2019 concluded a very strong decade, a period of significant growth with overwhelming fundraising figures and outperformance of public markets. There was a bright path ahead: a time for real consolidation, focus on operating models, ESG and diversity, growth of the secondaries market and increase capital flow to new jurisdictions.
In4Trade has launched a new e-platform aiming to help owners of multiple companies such as private equity funds, family offices and investment funds to leverage their combined indirect purchasing spend. By bundling and consolidating their combined indirect purchasing volumes at lower overall cost and higher service levels, In4Trade offers benefits that individual portfolio companies cannot obtain on their own. In4Trade enables the bundling of indirect spend of companies belonging to a singular portfolio owner, as well as the aggregation of the indirect spend of other portfolio owners.
The In4Trade platform is free of charge, does not require software implementation and is
EyeSouth Partners (EyeSouth) has completed an affiliation with Retina Associates of Middle Georgia (RAMG). The affiliation represents EyeSouth’s eighth in the state of Georgia and eighteenth affiliation overall. EyeSouth is an eye care-focused management services organisation backed by Shore Capital Partners, committed to partnering with leading physicians to build a premier network of eye care services in the South. EyeSouth’s affiliate network consists of 18 practices with approximately 126 doctors providing medical and surgical eye care services at approximately 73 locations including 11 surgery centres throughout Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama.
Retina Associates of Middle Georgia is
Vivaris Capital, a private equity group focused on alternative asset investments, has entered into a strategic, broker-dealer partnership with Entoro Capital, a technology-enabled global investment bank and broker-dealer. Vivaris Capital is raising capital through its structured financial product called VICAN to launch United Cancer Centers, Inc. (UCC). Vivaris engaged Entoro for its diverse global investor base, technologically advanced investor portal that safely and securely streamlines the entire investment process and its track record of bringing highly vetted projects to investors globally, with maximum efficiency, end-to-end security, and seamless execution.
Entoro provides advice and services to a wide range of established and
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