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Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) continues its growth in France with the creation of a Valuation and Modelling business line (Valuation Services).With the launch of this new business line, A&M France now has 85 employees as of 1 January, 2020, a number which has grown from a team of 30 in October 2018. A&M France offers seven areas of expertise to companies and private equity players:
• Transaction Advisory Group
• Private Equity Services
• Corporate Transformation Services
• Financial Industry Advisory Services
• Disputes & Investigations
• Restructuring & Turnaround
• Valuation Services
Over the
Novo Seeds’ portfolio company, NorthSea Therapeutics a Dutch biotech company developing novel and innovative strategies for the treatment of NASH (Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis) and other metabolic, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases, has successfully closed a USD40 million (EUR36 million) Series B financing round.The proceeds of this fundraising will be used by NST to drive the development of its pipeline of SEFA (Structural Engineered Fatty Acids) programs. The Company will develop two additional SEFAs within its clinical pipeline in addition to completing the Phase 2b with its lead candidate Icosabutate.
In addition to Novo Seeds, existing investors, Forbion, New Science Ventures (NSV)
Floreat has appointed Phil Griffiths as Managing Director within Floreat Aviation Capital Limited, its specialist aircraft leasing investment arm. Griffiths brings extensive experience in the aviation sector, having closed over USD10 billion in aircraft finance and leasing transactions since 2003. He joins from DAE Capital, where he headed the company’s corporate finance and capital markets team. Prior to this he held various senior roles at AWAS, PK AirFinance, Rolls-Royce Capital and Airbus.
Floreat, which specialises in investments in public and private equity, real estate and private debt, is an active investor in commercial aircraft-backed assets. The firm has been investing
Great Point Media (Great Point), a London-based media and investment group, has appointed Jamie Lowe as Head of Institutional Distribution. Lowe will oversee the structuring and launch of Great Point’s global institutional project finance fund which will look to invest in large-scale media projects and finance film and television programming globally. Lowe joined Great Point from The Ingenious Group where he was a board director and Head of Institutional distribution.
Lowe’s appointment comes after Great Point secured its first institutional investment in December 2019 with a USD100 million commitment from US-based institutional fund manager MC Credit Partners.
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Shoreline Equity Partners, a purpose-driven lower middle market private equity firm, has held the final close of its inaugural private equity fund, Shoreline Equity Partners Fund. Shoreline began fundraising in March, in conjunction with the Firm’s launch, with an initial target of USD250 million and was oversubscribed at its hard cap of USD300 million in commitments.
“We are very grateful to all of our limited partners for the resounding support and humbled by the overwhelming demand shown through the process,” says the Firm’s Co-Founder Mike Hand. “The entire Shoreline team is excited to work closely with our portfolio company management teams
Tax lawyer Nadine Gelli is to join the Paris office of law firm Kirkland Ellis as a partner.Gelli brings more than 20 years of experience in advising on all tax aspects of corporate transactions with a particular focus on leveraged buyouts, financing and restructuring projects. She also has experience in the field of employee share schemes and benefits.
“Nadine’s deep understanding of the French market coupled with her vast knowledge of local tax law will be a major asset to our growing Paris office,” says Jon A Ballis, Chairman of Kirkland’s Global Management Executive Committee. “Her addition boosts our ability
British MedTech business, OrganOx Ltd, has secured a GBP4.6 million investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses.The investment will fund commercial expansion of its first product, the metra, in the US, building on commercial traction in Europe, Canada and Australia.
OrganOx metra is the world’s first fully automated system for keeping a human donor liver functioning for up to 24 hours outside the body. The invention breaks with 40 years of traditional organ preservation in ice, doubling the time that donor organs can be preserved. The device mimics the environment of the human
Private equity firm Entrepreneurial Equity Partners’ (e2p) portfolio company, Daniele International, has completed a merger with Creminelli Fine Meats (Creminelli). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Creminelli is a producer and distributor of premium charcuterie and protein snacks, known for exceptional quality and recognised with 11 national food awards. Creminelli’s product lines include charcuterie snack trays, deli trays, artisan salami, artisan deli, and salami minis. Creminelli’s approach of using ultra-premium ingredients and small-batch production was inherited from generations of Master Artisan Cristiano Creminelli’s family and has been maintained through the company’s rapid growth. Creminelli’s clean-label inputs and use of humanely
Iptor, a specialist in distribution and supply chain management, planning and logistics software and services, has been acquired by Bregal Unternehmerkapital alongside investment from current CEO Jayne Archbold and Chief Marketing and Product Officer Christopher Catterfeld. Bregal Unternehmerkapital is a growth-focused investment firm whose principal focus is to invest behind sound business models and strong leadership teams.
Iptor has been transformed over the past three years under the leadership of Archbold and Catterfeld. The re-branding and re-positioning of the business from IBS to Iptor has delivered exceptional progress, with the product portfolio having been transformed through the successful launch of the
Platinum Equity has held the final close of its latest global buyout fund, Platinum Equity Capital Partners V, with USD10 billion in total capital commitments.“We are very grateful for the support of our investors worldwide who have entrusted us with their capital and helped extend our global investment reach,” says Tom Gores, founder, chairman and CEO of Platinum Equity.
“We have great momentum, with a well-oiled investment machine built on discipline, urgency and a relentless focus on execution, and fuelled by the capital resources to pursue complex transactions anywhere in the world,” says Gores.
The fund, which had a target
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