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Alternative investment firm Värde Partners has held a final close of The Värde Dislocation Fund with more than USD1.6 billion of commitments. Raised entirely with no in-person meetings, 55 per cent of commitments to the fund come from new investors.
“The strong demand for this strategy from a diverse, global investor base underscores expectations for a deep credit cycle,” said president Jon Fox. “We took innovative steps to engage investors through virtual platforms and were able to exceed our target in just five months.”
The fund will invest in opportunities presented by the market dislocations and economic disruption following the pandemic.
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney has appointed Carlos Méndez-Peñate as a Partner and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Latin America and the Caribbean Practice Group in the firm’s New York office. Méndez-Peñate will devote significant time to lawyer recruiting, playing a key role in Dorsey’s plans to grow its presence in New York.
Méndez-Peñate has more than 40 years of experience in Latin America and the Caribbean and he provides clients with the sophisticated guidance needed to complete complex cross-border transactions. His practice focuses on M&A, capital markets, syndicated and secured lending, project finance, debt restructuring, and real estate transactions. He
Dyal Capital Partners (Dyal), a division of Neuberger Berman, has acquired a passive minority stake in TowerBrook Capital Partners (TowerBrook), a London and New York-based international investment firm. Dyal’s investment into TowerBrook’s management company will provide additional balance sheet capital, enabling TowerBrook to increase its commitment to its funds under management, strengthen the foundations of the firm and further pursue its successful investment strategy.
Dyal’s investment builds on the successful 2015 investment by Wafra Strategic Investors, which will remain a minority investor alongside Dyal. TowerBrook’s partnership with Dyal will have no impact on the day-to-day management or operations of TowerBrook,
Eventus WholeHealth (Eventus), a private equity-backed full-service, physician-led provider of interdisciplinary healthcare to individuals residing in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, has acquired Doctors Making Housecalls (DMHC), a home-based primary care provider that makes more than 160,000 house-calls to patients each year. The merged multi-specialty group practice will have a total of over 550 clinicians and employees providing integrated primary care, specialty care, and behavioural health services to more than 27,500 patients in long-term care facilities as well as those still living at home, and will be the largest healthcare provider to senior residents living in assisted living facilities in
Ironwood Capital has made a subordinated debt investment in Peltram Plumbing, a plumbing service provider based in Seattle, Washington, with a primary focus on the residential construction market. Peltram will use the proceeds from the Ironwood Capital investment to complete its acquisition of Precision Plumbing and Service, LLC, a plumbing services provider based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a primary focus in the commercial construction market. Peltram is a portfolio company of Crescendo Capital Partners.
“The combined entity will be a bi-coastal plumbing service provider in growing regional markets with end market diversification and complementary cultures. Post-closing integration includes purchasing synergies,
Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity investor, has invested in eCommerce platform provider Visualsoft.Founded in 1998 by CEO Dean Benson and headquartered in Teesside with offices in Newcastle, Manchester and Dubai, Visualsoft provides SMEs with an industry-leading end-to-end eCommerce solution, including initial site development and ongoing support, alongside wrap around digital marketing services. The offering is delivered under a unique shared success model, which empowers retailers by removing upfront build costs and ensuring complete alignment between Visualsoft and its clients as they grow. With over 280 staff led by a strong management team, and a secure platform developed and supported
Veteran impact investing firm North Sky Capital (North Sky) and development, technology, and operations partner Anaergia Services (Anaergia), have begun construction of a renewable natural gas facility at the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA), located in San Bernardino County, California.The Public Private Partnership (P3) involving VVWRA, Anaergia and North Sky demonstrates a replicable model to meet California organic waste recycling mandates and improve wastewater infrastructure resiliency: retrofitting anaerobic digestion infrastructure to convert organic waste and sludge into pipeline quality renewable natural gas.
The project will utilise Anaergia’s Omnivore high solids anaerobic digestion retrofit to triple capacity and increase
Dr Winson Ng, until recently the head of UBS Global Wealth Management’s private markets due diligence team, is joining the senior leadership team of Moonfare, a private equity investment platform, as Chief Investment Officer.
PKWARE, a global leader in automated data security, today announced it has acquired Dataguise, a company with technology for businesses to discover and protect personal data stored across diverse IT systems and environments. Combining Dataguise’s best-in-class ability to discover and protect data with PKWARE’s automated remediation capabilities provides enterprises with an unmatched, comprehensive solution to data security and privacy management.
Dataguise helps leading brands in industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail and government, seamlessly discover sensitive information across endpoints, servers, SaaS solutions and public, private or hybrid cloud environments. This is critical, as enterprise users, systems and data are increasingly
Private equity firm TELEO Capital Management (TELEO) has acquired Rand McNally, a specialist in transportation technology.Based in Chicago, IL, Rand McNally provides innovative, proprietary fleet management and route mileage optimisation software to carriers, shippers and third-party logistics providers, complemented by a full suite of driver technologies that integrate seamlessly with its fleet management platform. In addition to its leading technology, Rand McNally continues to produce and distribute printed atlases and other education-focused products.
“Rand McNally is a leader in the fleet management software market. Its cloud-based telematics platform helps fleets manage increasing regulatory compliance requirements and improves profitability through advanced
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