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Keensight Capital, a private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has replaced CAPZA as the majority stakeholder of Geodesial, a developer and distributor of CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) software for infrastructure.
With over 30 years of experience in the CAD / CAE business, Geodesial is specialised in the development and distribution of software solutions for infrastructure professionals.
Strong of approximately 80 employees and four offices in France, Hungary and Canada, the leading developer in France benefits from an overall market share of approximately 70 per cent. Since 2017 and the arrival of David Le
MJ Hudson, a London-headquartered asset management consultancy, has made three senior appointments.
Declan Canavan has been appointed Commercial Director and a Managing Director with responsibility for business development. Canavan joins from JP Morgan Asset Management where he was Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment strategies for the EMEA region. Canavan brings two decades of experience across a wide spectrum of alternative asset classes and investment disciplines.
Remarking on his appointment, Canavan says: “As sophisticated alternative investment platforms across private markets, real assets and hedge funds seek to grow their businesses, they are looking for partners with multi-disciplinary capability
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is to serve as Administrative Agent on a senior secured credit facility to support the recapitalisation of New Era Technology (New Era), a global IT solutions provider, by Sentinel Capital Partners (Sentinel).
Varagon is a lender to middle-market companies and private equity firms. The company invest across the capital structure and delivers financing solutions for private equity partners.
Sentinel specialises in buying and building businesses in the lower mid-market in the US and Canada in partnership with management. Sentinel targets aerospace and defence, business services, consumer, distribution, food and restaurants, franchising, healthcare and industrial business. They
Creoptix AG, a Switzerland-based company focused on next-generation bioanalytical instruments, has raised CHF8 million in the first closing of a Series C financing round.
The round was led by Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank and joined by Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) as well as existing private investors. Robert Schier of Swisscanto Invest has joined the board of director. With this financing round, the company has raised more than CHF 15 million since 2013. The proceeds enable Creoptix to strengthen its commercial operations in Europe as well as in the US and to expand its market presence.
Creoptix developed and markets
A major global study has found ESG adoption is rapidly gaining traction among sovereign investors and Central Banks. The Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study, which surveyed 139 individual sovereign investors and Central Bank reserve managers, showed nearly two thirds (60 per cent) of sovereigns now incorporate a top-down ESG policy – up from 46 per cent in 2017.
ESG is also increasingly a preoccupation of Central Banks, with 20 per cent now incorporating a policy, up from 11 per cent in 2017.
While equities have been the initial starting point for ESG implementation, this year’s study found of
Duet Group (Duet) has selected global single-source financial solutions provider, Apex Group Ltd. (Apex), to deliver full depositary and fund administration services for their liquid Africa strategies.
Duet is a global investment holding company, founded in 2002, and a controlling shareholder of multiple asset managers, including Duet Private Equity, Emerging Markets Investment Management, Duet Alternative Investments, Merit Capital, and the Group’s centralised service company Hill Street Limited. Since its inception, the firm has developed an established portfolio of products with liquid funds including Frontier Markets Equity, Multi-Strategy and Global Event Driven. The mandate is for Apex to provide full depositary
The Manchester and Tokyo teams of GCA have advised Japanese listed manufacturer Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI), a manufacturer and distributor of power transmission and control equipment, on the GBP100 million acquisition of Invertek Drives.
SHI’s current strategy aims to strengthen and expand its business by integrating new technologies in the areas of electric motors and frequency drives and achieving global growth in areas such as robotics and positioning, transportation and logistics and food and beverages. As part of this strategy, the EUR172 million acquisition of Lafert, an Italian motor manufacturer, in 2018 signalled SHI’s portfolio and global market reach business
Apex Service Partners (Apex), a platform of HVAC, plumbing and electrical services, has partnered with Southern Air Heating and Cooling (Southern Air), a residential HVAC services company.
Southern Air, headquartered in Ball, LA, with locations across Louisiana and Mississippi, will join Florida businesses Best Home Services and Frank Gay Services as a member of the Apex platform. Southern Air will continue to be operated independently by the founding Preuett family under its current brand names.
The partnership follows Apex’s plans to invest a minimum of USD100 million in equity capital HVAC, plumbing and electrical services companies across the US in
YAD Capital is be bringing its alternative credit portfolio to Fusion Foundation’s cryptofinance ecosystem.
Fusion is a non-profit organisation building the next generation infrastructure for decentralised global finance.
The borderless efficiency and fractionalisation of assets enabled by blockchain will broaden YAD’s reach to both underserved merchants in need of funding and to more investors globally.
YAD Capital was co-founded in 2017 by former Goldman Sachs Managing Director David Perez, and former private equity investor and Lehman Brothers investment banker Daniel Rubin.
Following the 2008 market crash, credit options for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) became severely restricted.
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has sold inexio, a provider of fibre-optic broadband networks in Germany, to EQT Infrastructure.
Co-shareholders Deutsche Beteiligungs AG and other minority investors are selling their stakes alongside Warburg Pincus.
Inexio was founded by David Zimmer in 2007 and has invested heavily in fibre-optic infrastructure in rural and small-town communities in Germany, predominantly in the South and South West. Today, the Company provides high-speed internet access to more than 110,000 customers and 6,000 businesses. Inexio’s unique and scalable network, consisting of more than 10,000 km of fibre-optic infrastructure, provides a strong platform for continued growth.
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