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Harrison Street, one of the leading investment management firms exclusively focused on alternative real assets, has held the final close of its third European alternative real estate fund, Harrison Street European Property Partners III, SLP RAIF (Fund III).
The fund raised over EUR800 million of equity, including co-investment vehicles, from over 25 institutional investors around the globe.
Fund III is approximately 75 per cent committed to date and includes a life sciences portfolio of over two million square feet, making Harrison Street one of the largest private real estate owners of life sciences assets in the UK. Additional Fund
The IMA Group (IMA), a leading technology-enabled provider of medical and psychological screening and evaluation services and clinical research site network and a portfolio company of Centre Parters, has made several important changes to its executive leadership team.
David C Pulver, MD, IMA’s Founder, has transitioned from his role as CEO to Executive Chairman; Mark I. Weinberger, PhD, MPH, who was previously IMA’s President, has become President & CEO; Erica Stirling, Esq has joined IMA as General Counsel; Michael Hirsch has joined IMA as Chief Information Officer; and Laura Norris has joined IMA as Vice President of Operations, Payer Services.
Carey Olsen and Oakbridge Funds have supported Lorton Entertainment (Lorton), a UK-based film financing, production, sales and distribution group, on the launch of the Lorton Media Fund – the company’s first ever fund structure, which will provide production and distribution financing towards future projects.
Founded in 2014 by Julian Bird and a consortium of private financiers, Lorton has successfully raised and invested third-party capital into the production and release of 17 independent films in the past five years, including documentaries Supersonic; As It Was; Maradona; and Bros: After The Screaming Stops.
The establishment of the Lorton Media Fund under the
APG and Ivanhoé Cambridge have invested in Taronga Ventures’ built environment technology Fund – RealTech Ventures I (RTVI), joining other leading global investors.
APG, the largest pension provider in the Netherlands with over EUR634 billion of assets under management, on behalf of its pension fund clients, has made its first investment into the built environment technology (Proptech) in the Asia Pacific.
With this strategic investment in RTVI, Ivanhoé Cambridge is pursuing the diversification of its portfolio in the Asia Pacific.
In addition to investment in the Fund, both groups will become partners in Taronga Ventures’ ESG Impact innovation programme, which
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has closed its third strategic add-on for SEAM Group with the acquisition of Electrical Engineering & Service (EESCO), a specialist in electrical power systems, commissioning, testing, evaluation, repairs and maintenance.
EESCO is accredited by the International Electrical Testing Association (NETA), a trade association dedicated to improving electrical testing standards in the United States and sharing those standards internationally.
This strategic add-on broadens SEAM Group’s specialised services for electrical distribution equipment, including switchgear, circuit breakers, protective relays, transformers, ground fault systems and surge protectors.
Hullabalook, a B2B software company behind a technology platform transforms the way retailers build ecommerce sites, has raised USD8.2 million in a funding round led by Nauta Capital.
Existing investors Conviction VC & Passion Capital also particpated in the round.
The capital investment will support Hullabalook’s continued growth in the UK and new markets in North America and Europe as retailers look to take advantage of the ongoing shift in consumer behaviour.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Bryan Kelly as a partner in the firm’s Tax Department, based in Los Angeles.
Kelly was previously a partner and Office Managing Director at Withers in Los Angeles. Today’s announcement brings the total number of partners in Willkie’s Los Angeles office to 17.
Kelly’s practice is focused on providing tax counsel to public and private companies and successful families with complex interests, including related tax considerations in cross-border matters. He also represents sponsors and investors in the formation and operation of private investment funds, working with private equity funds, as well as funds
Data science software company Devron has raised USD12 million in an oversubscribed Series A financing round, led by investment firm Tiger Global.
Existing investors FinTech Collective, Afore Capital, and Essence Venture Capital also participated in the round.
The company will use the funds to accelerate adoption of its innovative machine learning platform that enables businesses and governments to extract actionable insights from enterprise-wide, distributed data.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has added Medical Marketing Solutions Group (MMSG) to its Red Nucleus platform.
MMSG is a leading provider of strategic services, scientific and medical communications, and operational and event management services to global biopharmaceutical companies.
MMSG marks the sixth add-on Riverside has completed to Red Nucleus since its initial investment in December 2019. Red Nucleus has grown rapidly and earned a reputation as a leading provider of commercialisation, medical communications and learning & development services for top global biopharma clients.
Vitesse PSP (Vitesse), a global payment, liquidity and treasury management platform, has raised USD26 million in a Series B funding round led by Prime Ventures.
The Series B funding also includes investments from Octopus Ventures, which led the 2020 Series A funding round and is one of Europe’s largest and most active venture capital investors as well as Hannover Digital Investments, the corporate venture capital fund of HDI Group, one of Europe’s largest insurance companies.
Additional participants include existing angel investors and industry heavyweights such as Ron Kalifa, OBE, former Worldpay CEO and author of the Kalifa Review and Shane
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