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BlackRock Long Term Private Capital will become the new majority shareholder in Creed, the Paris-based multi-century old luxury fragrance company.
Creed executive Javier Ferrán will become chairman of the company’s board of directors and join as an investor. Ferrán, who has experience with niche luxury brands and in working with European family-owned businesses, assumes his responsibilities following the transaction.
He will work closely with founder Olivier Creed, who will continue as the master perfumer of the fragrance house. The partnership with Ferrán and the Creed family, including Creed’s son Erwin, is BlackRock LTPC’s first investment in Europe. Michel Dyens &
With private equity set to further blossom over the next decade and continue its AUM expansion, it will become incumbent upon industry leaders to explore new ways to deliver growth in their firms’ portfolios.
Kartesia, the European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has completed ts fifth investment from the Kartesia Senior Opportunities I fund (KSO I), with the financing of PlanetHome Group.PlanetHome is a real estate and financial brokerage company in Germany and Austria. The company follows a unique B2B partnership strategy with leading financial institutions in the region and combines high quality real estate and financing brokerage services under one roof.
The company was founded over 30 years ago as part of HypoVereinsbank (now UniCredit Group) and was carved out in 2015 by a group of investors
Paris-based Apax Partners has added to its team with two new appointments. Joséphine Loréal will work in investor relations, while Raphaël Bazin has been appointed as director at Apax Partners Development, the investment team dedicated to Apax Partners’ investments in companies with a value of EUR10-100 million.
Loréal (above, left), who will be in charge of third party distribution clients, will report to Guillaume Cousseran. She began her career in 2003 at Natixis Asset Management in the external distribution team, in charge of partner relations. Three years later she joined the sales team at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, responsible for
SHE Software, a global health and safety software company headquartered in Scotland, has completed a GBP7 million Series B investment led by Frog Capital from its new growth equity fund with existing investors Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCTs) Funds at Mercia Fund Management Limited also participating.The investment further validates SHE Software’s strong market position and will accelerate the growth of international operations, building on the momentum achieved over the last two years in North America. The company plans to increase headcount, expanding its talent pool by 60, including 15 new jobs announced earlier this year following funding from Scottish Enterprise.
Balance Point Capital (Balance Point), a provider of capital to lower middle market companies, has promoted Nathan Elliott to Managing Director, Adam Sauerteig to Senior Vice President, Grant Groher to Vice President and Dan Freshman to Senior Associate.“We are very pleased to promote these outstanding professionals, each of whom has added meaningful value within our firm and our portfolio,” says Seth Alvord, Managing Partner of Balance Point. “We look forward to their continued contributions in the years to come.”
Partner Justin Kaplan adds: “These individuals have played key roles in advancing our investment strategy of providing flexible capital solutions to
QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage, disruptive financial services companies, has closed its significantly oversubscribed sixth fund (Fund VI), with capital commitments of USD350 million. Fund VI will allow QED to continue to invest in early and growth-stage fintech companies primarily in North America, South America, and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2007, QED Investors has invested in more than 120 companies and has more than USD1.6 billion under management. Notable investments include Nubank, SoFi, Credit Karma, Klarna, GreenSky, Avant, Flywire, Remitly, QuintoAndar, Creditas, ClearScore, and Konfio.
“When Frank Rotman and I founded QED 12
Private equity firm Corsair Capital (Corsair) has held the final close of its fifth fund, Corsair V, with USD1.0 billion of limited partner commitments, and an additional USD264 million of co-investment capital that has been invested to date. Corsair V met its target of USD1.0 billion thanks to strong interest from new and existing limited partners. Corsair’s previous fund, Corsair IV, had USD863 million of committed capital.
Corsair V will seek to build on the firm’s expertise and strategy of identifying growing businesses that combine financial services complexity with transformational technology in areas including payments, software, consumer financial product distribution and
Faegre Drinker has appointed Gregory R Hall as a partner in the firm’s Corporate group based in Denver. Hall comes to the firm from DLA Piper’s Phoenix office.For more than 28 years, Hall has represented clients in securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring transactions, and other corporate and business matters. He advises clients on domestic and cross-border deals; capital markets transactions, including public and private offerings of equity and debt securities; tender offers and exchange offers; domestic and international joint ventures; venture capital and private equity transactions; bank financings; and debt restructurings.
“We are pleased to welcome Greg to Faegre
HIG Growth Partners (HIG), a dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has completed the sale of its portfolio company, Centerfield Media Holdings (Centerfield), a technology driven end-to-end digital marketing and sales conversion business, to Platinum Equity.Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Playa Vista, California, Centerfield develops intelligent digital advertising technology focused on real time biddable media which enables targeting and acquisition of high performing, high lifetime value customers for its clients across numerous industries. The Company’s sophisticated marketing technology platform leverages Big Data and optimizes each part of the customer acquisition process from initial view through offline sale
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