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US law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP has added Business Law partner Martin Zivitz to its Indianapolis office.
Before joining Quarles & Brady, Zivitz was a partner at a national law firm and a vice president and general counsel for a medical management company.
Zivitz counsels publicly and privately held business clients on corporate matters such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, commercial transactions, private equity investments and other complex transactions. He represents businesses of all sizes and from multiple industries including healthcare, skilled nursing, education, technology, energy, manufacturing and distribution, and financial services. He holds a Juris
Olsam Group (Olsam), an ecommerce platform that acquires and scales e-commerce businesses, has hired Steven Wait as Director of eCommerce.
This new appointment comes following Olsam’s recent USD165 million fundraise and the acquisition of US based aggregator FlyWheel Commerce, as the business looks to continue to scale theitsir portfolio of brands.
Wait joins Olsam after almost five years at Mountain Warehouse where he was their Head of UK eCommerce, leading all commercial and operational activities on 16 eCommerce marketplaces across three continents as well as the company’s UK D2C channel.
Global alternative investment manager Oaktree is to acquire a majority stake in 17Capital, a provider of strategic finance for investors in private equity.
17Capital specialises in providing non-dilutive capital to high-quality private equity management companies, funds and institutional investors that are seeking to finance value creation and portfolio management initiatives. Oaktree specialises in alternative investments, including credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities.
The partnership will give 17Capital access to Oaktree’s deep global network and add to Oaktree’s extensive suite of private capital solutions. Following the closing of the transaction, 17Capital, which is headquartered in London, will continue
Golding Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading alternative investments managers, increased its institutional assets under management to a record EUR12 billion in 2021.
Golding received capital commitments of some EUR2 billion over the course of the year, at the same time as making investments of EUR1.5 billion – both figures being also new records in its more than 20-year company history.
In 2022 Golding is planning to increase its assets under management by at least a similar volume, despite the challenging market environment and higher geopolitical risks. Growth is being driven by further internationalisation and a broad range of alternative
Mission Hill Hospitality, a KSL Capital Partners portfolio company focused on transforming select service and extended stay hotel investing, has acquired the Killington Mountain Lodge, Tapestry Collection by Hilton,l ocated in central Vermont’s Green Mountains.
Terms of the deal are undisclosed.
This is the 15th property added to the Mission Hill Hospitality portfolio since the company was launched in March 2021.
GAM Investments has launched a low carbon infrastructure strategy in Australasia.
The investment strategy, managed by GAM’s Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) team, seeks to achieve medium to long-term capital appreciation predominantly through investing in private funds providing access to low carbon, energy transition infrastructure projects.
The infrastructure investment private funds market has over USD800 billion in assets under management globally, and this is projecting to grow to USD 1.9 trillion by 2026.
FOV Ventures, a new specialist VC firm to invest in early-stage founders at the forefront of the Metaverse, has he’d the first close of its target EUR25 million fund at EUR16.5 million.
The fund will invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across Europe, leveraging the industry expertise of its founding partners and its active ‘Edge Network’, a community of leaders in the field helping to scout new deals and support the fund’s portfolio.
The two Founding Partners of FOV Ventures – Dave Haynes and Petri Rajahalme – are industry veterans. Prior to launching FOV Ventures, the team has backed Metaverse
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a GBP2.5 million growth capital investment in Kognitiv Spark (KS) which is commercialising software that provides 3D data to support field service workers in remote locations.
The investment is funded by the Foresight Williams Technology Fund, a joint venture between Foresight and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE).
The growth capital will enable the company to expand into new industries and geographies via new sales and marketing teams in the US and UK and support the ongoing development of further products. The company hopes to work with the WAE
Cynergy Bank has provided a loan amount of GBP2.5m to Faith in Nature, a natural beauty products brand based in Manchester.
The loan will enable the company to develop new manufacturing and business premises, having outgrown its existing location. The development of the new site provides space for future sales growth and more jobs.
The loan was structured with a 12-month interest only period followed by repayment profile.
Faith in Nature started trading in 1974 in a cottage kitchen and initially made plant-based face creams and shampoos. It continues to sell shampoos, body washes and soap, offering an ethical and
International private equity firm Cinven has signed an agreement with Bayer AG (ETR: BAYN) to acquire its Environmental Science Professional business for a total enterprise value of USD2.6 billion (~EUR2.4 billion).
Bayer Environmental Science Professional (BESP) is a leading global provider of products and services to create healthier environments, to manage pests, and to eliminate vector-borne diseases, across a range of end-markets. BESP has an extensive product portfolio to manage pests (such as rodents, pest insects and invasive weeds) in a sustainable and responsible manner, including for the vegetation management, range and pasture, forestry and turf and ornamentals markets. In
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