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Private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partner has completed fundraising for Lovell Minnick Equity Partners V LP (Fund V) at USD1.28 billion. Fund V, which was oversubscribed, exceeded its USD1 billion target and achieved its hard cap.
Lovell Minnick secured commitments to Fund V from a diverse group of investors including US and international public and private pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, asset managers and family offices.
“We are grateful for the strong support we received from existing investors, as well as confidence in our strategy from many new investors in the US and abroad,” says Steve Pierson,
RBC Capital Markets has made two new senior hires – Florent Cassabois joining as RBC as Head of Leveraged Finance based in France and David Brand as a Managing Director in the Central Funding Group based in London.
In his newly-created role, Cassabois will be based in Paris and report to Ed Dickinson, European Head of Leveraged Finance from a product perspective and Eric Meyer, Head of France from a country perspective. Cassabois joins from HSBC, where he was a Managing Director and the Co-Head of Leveraged and Acquisition Finance France, with responsibility for a team covering both investment grade
FPE Capital Managing Partner, David Barbour, speaks with PE Wire about the firm’s unique relationship with Stonehage Fleming, the opportunity set for UK growth capital investors and its focus on tech-enabled businesses in the lower mid-market…
PEW: Could you provide a bit of context regarding FPE Capital’s relationship with Stonehage Fleming?
DB: We spun out of Stonehage Fleming in 2016. The key was to own and grow our own business but also to ensure we could raise an institutional fund – which we did with our GBP101 million Fund II.
We invest in founder and entrepreneur-led businesses and it’s
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has sold RE Panels SA, parent company of EPCO and TECSEDO, to THI Investments.
As the European leader in panels for overhead doors, EPCO makes sandwich panels for residential, commercial and industrial sectional overhead doors. The company completed the add-on of Swiss manufacturer TECSEDO in 2018, cementing RE Panels’ leadership position in the European market.
During Riverside’s investment, consolidated sales and EBITDA doubled while its manufacturing, distribution and sales forces grew significantly.
“It’s been a pleasure working with the EPCO and Tecsedo teams,” says Riverside Managing Partner Karsten Langer. “Partnering with such
For the third year running, SS&C Intralinks and Private Equity Wire have partnered to produce an annual survey, the 2020 LP Survey: Insights into Alternative Investments.
The 2020 LP Survey: Insights into Alternative Investments analyses the past performance of funds across multiple asset classes and LPs and GPs opinions and feelings towards investing. This is a comprehensive and detailed survey with brand new research with the aim of guiding LPs and GPs through making more informed decisions in the coming year. This year, the survey canvassed the opinions of 181 LPs, of whom 40 per cent had more than USD 5
CDC has appointed Tony Morgan as its new Managing Director, Direct Equity. Morgan will lead a team over 100 impact investment professionals in CDC’s Direct Equity division and will report directly to Chief Executive Nick O’Donohoe.
Morgan has nearly 20 years’ experience as an equity investor. He has held senior roles at Permira, Alchemy Partners, CPPIB* and most recently, as a Managing Director of Onex. His investment experience brings huge value that will support CDC in its commitment to invest USD6 billion from 2018 – 2021 across Africa and Asia, as it works towards the UN Global Goals.
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PrimaryBid, an FCA-regulated online platform connecting publicly listed companies with everyday investors for discounted share issuances, thas closed a GBP7 million funding round, led by Pentech and Outward VC with participation from Hambro Perks and other new and existing investors.
The investment will enable the company to expand its sales and marketing efforts as well as accelerate IT product development.
Pentech invests in startups that are building category leading software and are capable of becoming global companies. With notable investments in other UK fintech companies, including Nutmeg (which recently closed a GBP45 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs),
MidOcean Partners, a premier New York-based alternative asset manager that specialises in private equity and alternative credit investments, has appointed Adrienne Dale as a portfolio manager for MidOcean Credit Partners collateralised loan obligation (CLO) strategies.
Dale will report to Jim Wiant, who oversees MidOcean’s existing CLO business, as the company looks to expand and scale the business further. With over USD4 billion in assets and nine existing CLO transactions, MidOcean’s CLO strategies are an integral aspect of the firm’s USD8-plus billion credit platform.
“Adrienne’s deep expertise and long tenure in the CLO business will be a valuable asset to
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has appointed Sean Ozbolt Managing Partner. Ozbolt will lead Riverside’s new initiative focused on value investing.
“We are thrilled to have Sean join our team of more than 300 Riversiders across the world,” says Riverside Co-CEO Stewart Kohl. “Sean’s depth of experience and reputation precede him, and we believe his strategic approach, cultural attributes and turnaround track record make him a perfect fit for the firm at this point in our development as well as the economic cycle.”
Ozbolt brings more than
Alternative investment firm EnTrust Global has appointed Matt Meissner as a Vice President focused on investment research in the firm’s private debt and real assets division.
Meissner, with more than 15 years’ experience in the aviation industry, joins EnTrust Global from Blue Moon Analytics, a cloud-based analytical platform he founded for aircraft lease pricing and maintenance forecasting. Prior to founding Blue Moon, Meissner served as a Vice President at CIT Aerospace, where he spearheaded the development of advanced financial models used to analyse investments throughout the commercial aircraft capital structure and was an integral part of structuring and managing a
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