Managers
GoldenTree Asset Management (GoldenTree) has closed on USD1.7 billion in commitments for GoldenTree Distressed Fund III. The fund employs a private equity draw down structure and will focus on primarily global distressed opportunities in mid-cap and large-cap corporates.
GoldenTree has extensive experience in distressed investments with over USD26 billion of distressed investments made since the inception of the firm in 2000. GoldenTree Distressed Fund III follows the closing of GoldenTree Distressed Fund I in 2010 and Distressed Fund II in 2014, which collectively raised USD1.7 billion. Both funds since inception have consistently performed in the top quartile of their peer group.
Palatine Private Equity is targeting the GBP100 million investment mark in Midlands businesses, having pumped GBP55 million into the region over the last three years.
The firm opened its Midlands office in December 2015, and has since moved to a new office in Somerset House on Temple Street.
Palatine’s Midlands team has made four investments and an exit since the office launch, generating over GBP8.5 million in fees for the local corporate finance community. Westleigh Partnerships was backed with a GBP21 million investment and was exited less than 21 months later when the company was acquired by a Plc
HIG WhiteHorse, a credit affiliate of HIG Capital, a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with over EUR26 billion of equity capital under management, has provided a growth capital solution to Risparmio Casa, a leading Italian drugstore chain based in Pomezia, Italy.
Established over 30 years ago by the Battistelli family, the company has exhibited strong growth and industry-leading performance with 2018 revenues in excess of EUR350 million. Risparmio Casa operates over 100 locations with an average area of more than 2,500 sq m, resulting in a dominant presence in Northern and Central Italy and Sardinia. Its leadership
SEEK Group is to invest GBP50 million to become a joint, 50 per cent owner of The Open University’s FutureLearn social learning platform, in a deal thought to be the largest ever private-sector EdTech investment in Europe.
The Open University launched FutureLearn, which is based in London, in December 2012 with a dozen UK university partners to test opportunities offered by digital learning and massive open online courses (known as MOOCs). Rapid growth means that FutureLearn now has over nine million learners.
The platform offers short online courses right through to postgraduate diplomas and certificates and fully online degrees,
ARQIS has advised the investors of the Cologne-based ice cream start-up NOMOO, a brand of NRDS, on its first financing round.
A group of three venture capital investors – Quest Solutions, Siltho Research, and AM1 Ventures – participated in the investment. Details of the financing round have not been disclosed.
NOMOO sells the first taste-intensive ice cream that is 100 per cent vegetable. After a 600 per cent growth of the brand in 2018, a further increase is planned for 2019. So far, the start-up has been strongly represented in NRW in particular. NRDS intends to use the fresh
Luxcara, an asset manager in the renewable energy sector, has increased its Scandinavian portfolio with the acquisition of one of Europe’s largest single onshore wind projects with an expected total capacity of 750 MW.
The project is part of Markbygden 1101 in Northern Sweden, a cluster that was declared by the Swedish government as exceptional in scale.
Project Önusberget has been developed by Svevind. The German-Swedish company develops, sells and operates onshore wind power projects and will continue to support the realisation of the project until connection to the grid in 2021.
“We are thrilled to invest in one of
Mosaic Smart Data, a real-time capital markets data analytics company, has completed an USD9 million investment round to support its rapid product development and global expansion.
The round was co-led by CommerzVentures and Octopus Ventures and includes JP Morgan – an existing investor and client.
Daily trading activity in the capital markets generates vast quantities of raw transaction and pricing data. Institutions are increasingly looking to extract the value from this, largely untapped, data asset. Annual spending on data analytics and market data has now grown to over USD30.5 billion a year. Being able to refine this raw data
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to merge Anvil International (Anvil), a global designer, manufacturer and provider of products that connect and support piping systems, with Smith-Cooper International (Smith-Cooper), a global designer and provider of branded, high-quality pipes, valves, and fittings.
The realisation represents the second exit from OEP’s USD1.65 billion Fund VI. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Anvil, headquartered in Exeter, N.H., manufactures branded fittings, seismic bracing, struts, pipe shields and valves for US and global businesses across the industrial, mechanical, fire protection, mining and energy industries. The Company’s complete
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP5 million investment into Steamforged Games (Steamforged), a developer and retailer of tabletop games.
Steamforged was founded in 2014 by Rich Loxam and Mat Hart, both games enthusiasts who dedicated their free time to create ‘Guild Ball’, a sports-based miniature game which went on to achieve critical acclaim. Since then, the team has developed a portfolio of games based on both original and licensed IP.
Their early success led to winning licences to develop games for several renowned video games titles and in doing so, the Company has succeeded in carving out a
Burlington Capital is launching a new venture in its aqueous ozone business by merging CleanCore Technologies and O-Z Tech Water.
This new company, CleanCore Solutions, will be a much more diverse and innovative provider of environmentally safe, chemical-free cleaning technology.
“Burlington Capital, as the majority owner of CleanCore Solutions, is committed to creating industry-leading, sustainable solutions that are important to our clients throughout the United States and Canada,” says Pamela Finn, President of Business Development for Burlington Capital.
Gary Holst, President of CleanCore Solutions, adds: “CleanCore Solutions combines the innovation of both companies that will provide value to our customers
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