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Post Capital Partners has partnered with Smith Transportation Services’ existing management team – Steve Smith, Bill Nichols, Jeff Maser and Christine Postlmayr – to purchase the company with its affiliates, including Smith-Cargo and Cargo-West.
Sam Woodward, a Post Capital Executive Partner and transportation industry veteran also participated with the buying group.
Founded in 2001, Smith Transportation is a national full-service third-party logistics & asset-light transportation services provider, with a leading presence in the Florida market. The Company’s comprehensive brokerage servicing offering spans nationwide, across multiple modes of transportation, including Load-to-Ride (LTR), Less-than-Truckload (LTL), truckload and rail/intermodal brokerage. Additionally, Smith
Idinvest Partners has completed three new private debt financings in Technicis, Burger King France and r2p. The latest transactions bring Idinvest’s total direct lending investments amount to EUR330 million so far this year in 15 companies across continental Europe.
Eric Gallerne, co-head of Private Debt at Idinvest Partners, says: “At Idinvest Partners, we look for dynamic companies with high-growth potential to support into international leaders in their fields. These latest transactions and our investment pipeline demonstrate our continued conviction in the strength of the European market. Over the past decade, we’ve continued to develop our private debt activities to provide
Bedell Cristin Guernsey has acted again as lead adviser to EV Private Equity, an independent growth equity firm focussing on new technologies in the oil and gas sector, on the launch of its latest Guernsey fund, EV Private Equity V Plus LP, a Guernsey private investment fund (PIF).
Bedell Cristin worked closely with the PIF’s Norwegian counsel, Alex Lund of Advokatfirmaet CLP DA and Aztec Financial Services (Guernsey) Limited, the PIF’s administrator. The PIF was structured as a closed-ended limited partnership to make investments in oil and gas services companies which deploy technologies to enable oil and gas exploration and production
Great Rock Capital, an asset-focused commercial finance company specialising in middle market lending, has closed a USD10 million credit facility to a leading skilled nursing and assisted living provider that operates 64 facilities in the Southwest USA.
Great Rock Capital’s investment – USD10 million of a USD20 million credit facility – marks the firm’s first underwriting in the healthcare industry.
“We are pleased to partner with an experienced healthcare lender on this transaction,” says Stuart Armstrong, CEO of Great Rock Capital. “This investment is Great Rock Capital’s first opportunity to provide growth capital to a customer in the healthcare industry, an industry we are targeting to
BioMed Partners has invested in Tolremo therapeutics as part of USD9.3 million Series A financing round.
Tolremo therapeutics was founded in March 2017 as a Spin-off from ETH Zürich. Tolremo’s proprietary platform has the potential to change cancer therapy by targeting resistance-causing molecular mechanisms up-front, thereby addressing drug resistance proactively before it develops.
Tolremo therapeutics has also further strengthened its Board of Directors with the oncology, medical and industry experts Dr. Erich Greiner, Prof. em. Thomas Cerny, and Dr Andreas Wallnöfer. Dr Wallnöfer, General Partner BioMedPartners will represent BioMed on the board.
Blue Ocean Maritime Income, a closed-ended company which intends to operate as an investment trust, is to launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The IPO will be by way of a placing and offer for subscription targeting the issue of 250 million ordinary shares at an issue price of USD1.00 per Ordinary Share.
A prospectus in connection with the IPO has been published.
The objective of the Company will be to generate long-term, sustainable shareholder returns, predominantly in the form of income distributions, from direct lending and similar financing opportunities to vessel
Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Agilitas has made two senior appointments, with Anne-Claire de Pompignan joining as Head of Investor Relations, and Antoine Rouland joining as an Investment Director.
De Pompignan joins Agilitas from Lyceum Capital where she focussed on Investor Relations and Capital Markets. Prior to that, she was an Investment Director at European Capital, investing private debt in pan-European mid-market buyouts and an analyst in the Leveraged Finance team of Lehman Brothers. De Pompignan is a native French speaker and holds a post graduate degree from University Paris-IX Dauphine.
Rouland joins from Ciclad, a French private equity
Bregal Partners, a private equity investment firm focused on the middle market, has appointed Katey Kalvelage as Director of Ecommerce. Kalvelage will focus on leading digital growth across the portfolio companies in the consumer, food, and specialty retail space.
Kalvelage has over 12 years of experience in the digital space including managing the ecommerce business at retail brands such as Burberry, La Perla, Bottega Veneta, Elie Tahari, and Sandro Maje Claudie Pierlot (SMCP). Most recently, she served as a senior digital consultant to leading companies in a variety of industries such as cosmetics, jewellery, auto parts, memorabilia and home furnishings. In these
Monroe Capital has appointed Stewart Hanlon as Managing Director in its San Francisco office. He will co-lead the firm’s technology vertical alongside Mark Solovy.
“We are very excited to add Stewart to the Monroe Capital originations team,” says Tom Aronson, Managing Director & Head of Originations of Monroe Capital. “Stewart has an accomplished career of over seven years providing financing solutions to middle-market companies and brings with him many great relationships and a wide range of experience across the technology industry.”
“He will help us continue to grow our robust direct origination platform that we have built throughout the
NorthEdge Capital has promoted Ray Stenton as Joint Managing Partner as part of several key promotions at the firm, which has continued to grow funds under management during 2018.
Stenton has played the leading role for all of NorthEdge’s new investment activity, investing over GBP380 million in 28 companies since the final close of NorthEdge Capital Fund I in March 2013. He will work alongside Grant Berry in running the firm on a day-to-day basis.
Keven Parker, who joined NorthEdge in Spring 2018, has been promoted to Partner and Head of Portfolio. Keven brings a wealth of experience from
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