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Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested GBP150,000 in cloud-based project management system, Collabor8Online (Collabor8) on behalf of NPIF – Maven Equity Finance (NPIF), part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
The funding will support the expansion of the senior management, including the appointment of a Chief Technology Officer, strengthen the sales team and invest in extensive product development. Collabor8 will also use the funds raised to commence a targeted contact marketing campaign to better penetrate its customer base in niche sectors, principally construction and associated professional services.
Collbor8 is a cloud-based project management software providing a fully managed file
Private equity and M&A lawyer Omari Sealy has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in Miami. He was previously a partner at DLA Piper.
“Omari is an extremely focused and driven attorney with private equity transaction experience that is hard to match,” says David Barkus, co-leader of the firm’s South Florida Corporate Practice. “Many of Omari’s transactions have been in healthcare, which is a particular strength of our firm. We are very pleased to welcome him to our team.”
Sealy represents private equity firms and corporations in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other general corporate matters, including control
Venture capital firm Grayhawk Capital has launched Grayhawk Venture Fund III, a new USD75 million fund focused on high growth technology companies.
The fund was launched in January, 2019, and recently had its first close. For nearly 20 years, the firm’s investment philosophy has been to find serial entrepreneurs and exceptional management teams that are transforming great ideas into game-changing innovations.
Collectively, the partners of Grayhawk Capital have made 91 total investments representing over USD525M of total assets under management. Some of their notable investments include AccountNow, Carefx, Coinstar, Efficient Networks, ESS, GolfNow, Lucid Software, MXLogic, QCSI and SOCi. Grayhawk
Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Jersey has advised Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners on the Jersey legal and regulatory aspects of Quinbrook Low Carbon Power Fund’s final closing, which raised a total of USD1.6 billion in primary and co-investment fund commitments.
Oak Group (Jersey) Limited (Oak) acted as Jersey administrator to the fund.
The fund focuses on investments in the ‘new build’ lower carbon and renewable energy sectors of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. The fund took advantage of the regulated ‘Jersey Eligible Investor Fund’ regime to target institutional investors, including those in the UK, US and
C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm focused on cyber security, data analytics and cloud computing, has anchored a USD17 million Series B financing round in Blue Cedar.
Daniel Freeman, Managing Partner at C5 Capital, will join Blue Cedar’s Board of Directors, bringing with him significant experience working with fast-growing cyber security software and services companies. Existing Blue Cedar investors, Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Generation Ventures, Grayhawk Capital and Sway Ventures, also participated.
Mobile security is increasingly a major concern for organisations, as data breaches can potentially cost them millions. While many of the world’s leading enterprises demonstrate increasing
This Private Equity Wire panel discussion, moderated by eFront, looked at PE allocation, portfolio construction, manager selection, fee negotiation, position monitoring and performance benchmarking, both from an LP and GP perspective…
PANELISTS:
David Arcauz: Managing Partner, Flexstone Partners
Cyril Demaria: Head of Private Markets, Wellershoff & Partners
Elias Korosis: Partner, Hermes GPE
Eric Malley, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, MG Capital
Moderator: Marija Djordjevic, Research Manager, eFront
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Last week was the biggest week for VCT fundraising this tax year with investors pouring GBP44.6m into VCTs. Over half of that (GBP24.5 million) was channeled into Octopus Titan, analysis from Wealth Club reveals.
The total for the tax year is now GBP527 million, just 9 per cent behind the GBP577 million raised in the same period in 2017/18.
Alex Davies, CEO and founder of Wealth Club, says: “Despite all the political uncertainty it’s looks like this is going to be another stellar year for VCTs, with investment so far just shy of the amount raised at the same point
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Andrew Stewart as Executive Director of Private Equity and Real Asset Sales in EMEA.
Stewart’s appointment is effective as of 4 March 2019 and he will report to Oliver Scully, Head of EMEA Sales.
Stewart will be responsible for driving the sales and growth of MUFG Investor Services’ asset servicing solutions to investors and managers across the private equity and real asset sectors in EMEA. He will also be responsible for promoting the uptake and usage of MUFG Investor Services’ suite of products including
Investment funds managed by TDR Capital, a UK based private equity investor, are to acquire 100 percent of NKD Group. TDR Capital and NKD’s current shareholder, OpCapita, have signed a sale & transfer agreement to that effect. The transaction is subject to the customary antitrust approval.
Established in 1962, NKD Group is among the leading ‘value retailers’ and local suppliers to the textiles retail trade in Central Europe. Textile discounter NKD offers a wide range of seasonal fashions, home textiles, and home accessories in its almost 1,800 stores. NKD employs some 8,000 people (6,350 of them in Germany) and generated
Standard Industrial Manufacturing Partners (Standard) has merged with DH Pump and Supply (DH Pump). A private equity fund managed by Hicks Equity Partners (HEP), the Dallas-based private equity arm of the Thomas O Hicks family office, initially invested in Standard alongside its former CEO, Jack Sitton, in July 2016.
Financial terms of this latest transaction have not ben disclosed.
Headquartered in Odessa, Texas with additional manufacturing in Granbury, Texas, Standard manufactures and distributes replacement parts for a wide range of pumps used in production and completion applications within the oil and gas industry. When a pump fails, Standard has
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