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WhiteHorse Capital (WhiteHorse), the direct lending affiliate of HIG Capital, has appointed Jason Hicks as Principal.
Hicks will be based in WhiteHorse’s New York office and will be responsible for originating and executing middle market debt financings for private equity sponsored transactions.
Jason has over 20 years of experience in leveraged finance, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity across a broad range of sectors including aerospace and defence, business services, consumer/retail, energy, general industrials, healthcare, media, technology, telecom, and transportation & logistics. Previously, Jason was a Managing Director at MC Credit Partners where he spent 7 years as an origination
- 10/08/2020
Infinedi Partners (Infinedi), a private equity firm focused on long-term partnerships with founder-owned businesses, has completed its second investment – Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA).
CEA is the fourth largest provider of study abroad educational programs for US university students in foreign countries. In 2019, the company provided study abroad and internship abroad programs for over 4,800 students in 22 cities across 14 countries, representing more than 300 sending universities.
Brian Boubek, Founder and CEO of CEA, says: “Our Partnership with Infinedi will allow CEA to fully support our U.S. university partners during this time of disruption in international education. We
- 10/08/2020
Siguler Guff, a multi-strategy private equity investment firm with over USD14 billion of assets under management, has added Ray Miller and Prashant Rai to its credit investment platform.
Miller and Rai will work closely with the broader Siguler Guff credit team under the leadership of Michael Apfel, who joined the Firm as a Managing Director and Head of Credit in December 2019. Siguler Guff’s credit-related strategies include special situations, distressed, and other niche credit strategies.
Siguler Guff’s credit platform has raised over $7 billion of committed capital, and has been investing in opportunistic credit-related strategies for approximately 20 years, realizing
- 10/08/2020
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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,
- 10/08/2020
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,
- 10/08/2020
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Chris Satchell as an Operating Principal focused on technology and digital initiatives at the Firm’s portfolio companies. Satchell has more than 25-years’ experience in global technology strategy, product development, and business transformation across a wide range of leading businesses, including Comcast, IGT, Microsoft, Nike, and Zume.
Most recently as Chief Technology Officer at Zume, Inc, he led Technology, Product, Design, and IT. Prior to Zume, Satchell served as Chief Product Officer at Comcast, where he was responsible for the design, product and consumer engineering across a consumer facing product portfolio of USD55 billion in annual
- 10/08/2020
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
- 10/08/2020
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
- 10/08/2020
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:
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Eurazeo received A+ in each of the four assessment categories relating to its professions within the UN PRI’s most recent survey.
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