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The Unión Martín Group, a company backed by Alantra Private Equity, has completed the acquisition of a significant stake in the Mauritanian fishing company Societé Mauritanienne pour la Pêche Industrielle (SMPI), which has three freezer vessels and a fishing capacity of circa 700 tonnes per year.
As a fundamental part of the agreement, its Mauritanian partner, Mohamed Lemine Laroussi, maintains a significant stake and continues managing the company.
Unión Martín already had exclusive agreements for the supply of raw material captured by SMPI, so this acquisition will allow it to obtain the margin generated by the ship-owner at sourcing.
Private equity firm TA Associates has appointed Charles Ha as a Vice President in its Boston office as a member of the North America Technology Group.
“We are pleased to welcome Charles to TA Associates,” says Brian J Conway, Chairman and Managing Partner at TA Associates. “We believe that Charles’ previous experience in both private equity and consulting provides a strong foundation to support our efforts in sourcing and analysing new investment opportunities in technology companies with high quality, profitable business models. We look forward to his involvement in further growing TA’s technology portfolio and partnering with the management teams
Private equity firm Edison Partners has promoted Jennifer Lee to Principal with immediate effect. Lee, a senior member of the firm’s Fintech investment team and investment lead, continues to support portfolio companies in their growth. She will also now help in developing industry themes and overseeing pipeline development.
As Vice President, Lee led investments earlier this year in Fund That Flip, a real estate investment and funding platform, and Bipsync, a research management platform for asset managers. Lee is a board member of both Fund That Flip and Bipsync. She also worked on Edison Partner’s $62 millon lead investment in
HIG Capital (HIG) has made a number of organisational changes the firm says are designed to position the firm for continued growth and better manage the increasing scale and scope of its business.
The senior leadership team has been expanded with the promotion of Rick Rosen and Brian Schwartz to the newly created title of co-Presidents. Rosen and Schwartz, who have been at the firm since 1998 and 1994, and currently manage the HIG US Middle Market fund and the HIG Advantage fund, respectively, will work closely with Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, founders and co-CEOs of HIG, who will
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Venture capital firm Harlem Capital has closed its inaugural fund Harlem Capital Partners Venture Fund I, LP at USD40.3 million (Fund I). The fund was oversubscribed from its target of USD25.0 million and above its initial cap of USD40.0 million.
Established in December 2015, the firm was founded in a Harlem living room as an angel syndicate by Managing Partners Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, who worked together at ICV Partners, alongside Venture Partner Brandon Bryant. The co-founders initially met through the Management Leadership for Tomorrow program in 2011. John Henry joined Harlem Capital in early 2017 as a Venture
Monomoy Capital Partners, a private investment firm with USD1.6 billion in committed capital in a family of investment funds, has completed the acquisition of Sportech, a supplier of cab components for utility task vehicles (UTVs”. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Sportech was founded by Chris Carlson in 1994 and is headquartered in Elk River, Minnesota. Sportech designs, manufactures and assembles cab components and systems for the powersports, golf and turf, industrial, and agricultural end markets. Sportech’s design and engineering capabilities allow the company to provide complex components and assemblies to the largest original equipment manufacturers of UTVs
Zenobē Energy, an independent UK-based owner and operator of battery storage, has secured a non-recourse GBP25 million debt facility from Santander Corporate & Commercial, to support the continued growth of the company.
This follows the successful GBP35 million of equity raised from JERA Co Inc and TEPCO Power Grid Inc earlier this year.
Zenobē is a specialist in battery storage, with 73MW of operational grid-scale battery capacity. The company focusses on the innovative use of storage, investing in bespoke software to optimise the monitoring, utilisation and dispatch of its batteries. It was the first battery owner to develop software to enter
Private equity firm Black Dragon Capital (BDC) has acquired Maginus, an e-commerce software and technology solutions developer for retailers and distributors.
BDC plans to combine Maginus and Digital Goodie, another portfolio company, as part of a strategy to carve a leadership position in the large and growing Order Management System (OMS) sector serving the grocery and general product retail industries.
“The combined Maginus and Digital Goodie company will have a one-of-a-kind cloud-based Order Management System platform to handle the complete product portfolio of retailers. The enhanced scale and expanded product suite will position the company to capture a greater share
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