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Juan D Reyes III has rejoined Seyfarth Shaw in New York as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate department and Public-Private Partnership (P3) practice.
Reyes returns to Seyfarth from government service, where he was the Acting Administrator and Chief Counsel for the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
During his tenure as Acting Administrator, Reyes oversaw the agency’s staff of 950 and its USD3 billion budget. As the principal legal advisor to the FRA on all US passenger and freight rail matters, including safety regulations, legislation, research, and development, Reyes managed a legal department of
ContentSquare, a fully-automated SaaS digital experience insights platform, has raised over GBP45 million (USD60 million) in a Series C funding round led by Eurazeo.
This new capital will help ContentSquare increase research and development, focussed on AI and predictive analytics, and also to continue to expand its business across EMEA and America. All the previous investors in the company, including Highland Europe, also participated in the round.
“Now more than ever, enterprises understand that improving the digital customer experience is a matter of great importance,” says Jonathan Cherki, Founder and CEO of ContentSquare. “With this new funding we are
ADM Capital’s food-focussed Cibus Fund has closed at more than USD320 million, following its designation as the first Guernsey Green Fund.
Subscriptions for the Guernsey fund, launched in 2017, stood at USD208 million at the end of September 2018. By the time it closed a month later, after registering as a Guernsey Green Fund in mid-October, it stood at USD322 million.
“Clearly there were a number of contributing factors, but I do think an important factor in bringing in those later funds, getting investors who were thinking about it to actually commit, was the Guernsey Green Fund designation,” says
Cairngorm Capital Partners has supported MJ Wilson Group’s acquisition of Support Instrumentation Limited (SIL). MJ Wilson says the deal will accelerate its strategic ambitions for growth and strengthen its position within the process and instrumentation market.
Established in 1992, SIL is a process instrumentation company, with expertise in bespoke instrumentation implementation. Headquartered in Edenbridge, Kent, SIL provides a comprehensive single-source instrumentation solution from design, product selection and project management, to automation and process control. It operates across a number of sectors, including chemicals, food and beverage, power generation and aggregates. An authorised Siemens technology partner, the company is highly regarded
Investment manager Downing has sold Osprey Green Power Limited, the fifth exit by its funds from a series of seven hydro investments based in Scotland and managed by Gilkes Energy Limited.
Downing has worked closely with Gilkes Energy, a specialist hydro developer, since September 2013, investing some GBP20 million of EIS equity across seven projects. These seven projects are now fully operational, all having been built on time and to budget.
Downing has exited five of these projects to GHI Holdings Limited – a company which owns and operates a portfolio of operational hydro projects. Gilkes Energy will continue
Private equity firm Key Capital Partners (KCP) enjoyed a successful end to 2018 following the exit of three portfolio companies in the last quarter of the year, generating a combined return of three times the initial investment, and with a total value of over GBP50 million.
In October, the firm sold its interest in glass processor MI Glass, based in Smethwick in the West Midlands, to the management team in a multi-million pound deal backed by Clydesdale Bank. The following month saw Oldbury school meals business Alliance in Partnership acquired by French catering company Sodexo. In December, Siamo Group, an
Munich Private Equity Partners (MPEP) has started fundraising for its third annual fund of funds program for institutional investors.
In MPEP Fund III, the private equity specialist will continue investing in mid-market buyout funds in Europe and North America.
“With our annual programs, we have a clear focus on established companies in the lower-mid and mid-market. In this segment of the market we see the greatest potential for private equity managers to generate significant value with the portfolio companies applying their industry know-how and operational expertise,” says Christopher Bär, Managing Director of MPEP. “The quality of the manager
In 2017, investors allocated almost USD120 billion into private debt funds, on the back of approximately USD100 billion being raised in 2015 and 2016. To better understand the context into which investors are deploying such large amounts of capital, SEI and Preqin conducted a survey of private debt fund managers in mid-2018.
Maples and Calder and MaplesFS which together comprise Maples Fiduciary and Maples Fund Services, have consolidated their offerings under a single brand, now called the Maples Group.
This composite of collective services includes an international law firm, advising on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg and global fund administration and fiduciary services.
The rebranding initiative, which includes a new corporate logo and website, highlights the strength of the Maples Group as a comprehensive solution for legal, fiduciary, fund, entity formation and management services, as well as regulatory and compliance services.
Rand Capital Corporation (RAND) has entered into a stock purchase agreement to sell approximately 8.3 million shares of common stock to East Asset Management (EAM) for USD25 million in cash and assets.
The purchase price of USD3.00 per share represents a 33 per cent premium over the 24 January, 2019 closing price of USD2.26 per share. The sale and issuance of common stock pursuant to this stock purchase agreement is subject to shareholder approval and receipt of required regulatory approval from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
Erland (Erkie) Kailbourne, Chairman of the Board of Rand Capital, says: “We
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