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Carey Olsen has promoted corporate lawyers Michelle Falcucci (Bermuda) and Nick Ghazi (Jersey) to senior associate.Falcucci has been a member of the corporate team at Carey Olsen Bermuda since June 2019. She advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate and commercial law, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity. Falcucci also has experience in the field of investment funds, including the formation and ongoing maintenance of private equity, real estate and hedge funds.
Ghazi has been a member of the Jersey corporate team since 2017. His practice focuses on restructuring and debt finance,
Isarel-based private equity investor Catalyst Fund has appointed Lisya Bahar-Manoah (37) as partner. Catalyst invests in Israeli technology companies in growth stages. Catalyst Private Equity firm was established in 1999 by Edouard Cukierman, Yair Shamir and Boaz Harel. With over USD300 million under management, the fund supports the long-term growth of medium-sized Israeli companies, with innovation in global markets. Focus sectors for the Fund’s investments include telecom, advanced manufacturing, IT, medical equipment, and life sciences/pharma. Some of the prominent portfolio companies include: Mobileye, Tufin Technologies, Taboola, Arbe Robotics, Eloxx, SatixFy, XJet and more.
During the past 14 years, Bahar-Manoah has gained
Enterprise IT managed services organisation DSP and Leeds-based Explorer UK, an Oracle consultancy, development and support provider, have been brought together to form one of the largest independent Oracle partners in the UK. DSP is backed by Leeds headquartered YFM Equity Partners (YFM) which invested GBP5.3 million in the business in 2018 to fund its GBP10 million MBO led by Simon Goodenough, making it the sixth investment from YFM’s Buyout Fund I. Since the 2018 management buyout, DSP has doubled turnover and profitability, and grown its contract base by 300 per cent. The deal, which included working capital provided by Santander
Technology consulting firm Invenio Business Solutions has completed a rebranding process following its March 2019 investment from BGF. Since the investment last year, the company has expanded its workforce by 35 per cent.Invenio’s new brand identity has been developed to reflect and support its stated goal of becoming one of the best technology consulting companies in the world in each of its specialist domains. The firm worked closely with a UK-based brand agency, Studio North, to position and express both its customer-facing and internally facing brands.
At the heart of Invenio’s brand mission is establishing the firm as one
Volante Technologies, a provider of payments and financial messaging solutions in the cloud, has raised USD35 million USD in growth equity financing led by Wavecrest Growth Partners with strategic participation from BNY Mellon, Citi Ventures, PostePay and Visa Inc.The capital raise represents the company’s first outside investment after nearly two decades of strong organic growth and profitability. Volante will direct the capital towards accelerating its cloud expansion globally and its reach into new geographies, market segments, and industry verticals.
“We are thrilled to lead the first institutional investment in Volante and partner with its stellar team,” says Vaibhav Nalwaya, Co-Founder
Dany Garcia, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and RedBird Capital Partners have been selected as the winning bidder for substantially all of the assets of Alpha Entertainment, the parent company of the XFL American football league. The XFL assets will be sold to Garcia, Johnson and RedBird for approximately USD15 million, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the asset purchase agreement. The transaction is subject to bankruptcy court approval at a hearing on 7 August, assuming that closing conditions are satisfied, is expected to close on or shortly after 21 August. The sale auction previously scheduled for today will not
AlbionVC managed UCL Technology Fund, in collaboration with UCL Business, has held the first close of Fund 2, with a GBP100 million target.
KKR has agreed to acquire a majority stake in MasterD, a vocational training company in Spain.
Luis Gomez, MasterDs’s founder, and management team will reinvest alongside KKR. The investment in MasterD is the second in Europe by the KKR Global Impact fund, following its investment in UK recycling and responsible waste management company Viridor.
The investment in MasterD also follows KKR’s investment in Burning Glass last year, a labor market analytics provider which analyses supply and demand in the job market to inform hiring patterns.
KKR’s Global Impact strategy focuses on generating risk-adjusted returns by investing in companies that contribute
Private equity firms Advent International (Advent) and Cinven have completed the acquisition of thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Technology business (thyssenkrupp Elevator) from thyssenkrupp AG.thyssenkrupp Elevator is a specialist provider of elevators, escalators, and other passenger transportation solutions to customers in more than 100 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Germany, the Group has operations in more than 1,000 locations. The Group generated revenues of cEUR8.0 billion in the financial year 2018/19.
Following strong performance in recent years and reflecting the global nature of the business, the Group has continued to trade well despite the COVID-19 period, showing significant resilience in the face of uncertain
Private equity fund manager capital D has announced a partial exit from its investment in Invincible Brands.Henkel, one of the world’s leading FMCG companies, has acquired a 75 per cent majority stake in a business of Invincible Brands, comprising the three D2C brands Hello Body, Banana Beauty and Mermaid+Me. capital D will continue to play an active role in the business alongside Henkel and the founders of the business, Bjoern Keune and Gennadi Tschernow.
The brands, Hello Body, Banana Beauty and Mermaid+Me, which are mostly sold in Europe, offer premium beauty care products and they also address the growing
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