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Mesirow Financial has advised Nuconic Packaging, a portfolio company of Carlin Capital Partners,, in connection with a strategic investment from Graham Partners.
Headquartered in Vernon, CA, Nuconic is a premier supplier of rigid PET plastic packaging solutions to commercial and industrial food processors. Nuconic offers versatile and dependable food packaging solutions for a wide range of end markets, including bakery goods, confectionary, snack food and produce, among others. The Company operates a first-class production facility that consistently receives an “A” rating from its BRC Global Standards, demonstrating its commitment to food safety in manufacturing.
Jason Farber, chairman of Nuconic, says:
BakerHostetler has announced the return of partner Frank C Miller to the firm’s Columbus, Ohio office. With nearly 20 years of experience split between private practice and serving as the lead transactional attorney for one of the country’s largest integrated healthcare systems, Miller brings a wealth of experience in the healthcare industry to the firm’s well-established transactional and healthcare industry teams.
Miller’s practice focuses on for-profit and nonprofit corporate governance, managed care contracting, mergers and acquisitions, and health care compliance matters. His comprehensive background includes serving for 10 years as the lead transactional counsel for one of the largest nonprofit
Although North America has historically dominated the venture and growth capital industry, and Asia has captured attention for its meteoric rise, Europe has seen growing activity in recent years, according to new data released by Preqin.
In 2008-2015, Europe-focused venture capital and growth fundraising failed to exceed EUR10 billion in any single year. However, 2016 and 2017 both saw capital totals exceed that level, reaching EUR15 billion and EUR12 billion respectively. The first seven months of 2018 have already seen funds targeting the region secure over EUR11 billion from investors, putting the year on course to set new records. Europe
London-listed service provider JTC has promoted alternative fund specialist James Tracey to Managing Director of its Guernsey office.
In his new role, Tracey (pictured) will be pivotal in leading the firm’s Guernsey office as it continues to grow its institutional and private client service range from the jurisdiction, whilst he will also assume additional cross-jurisdictional responsibilities as he takes a seat on JTC’s Institutional Client Services (ICS) Board.
With more than 15 years’ experience in international financial services, Tracey joined JTC in 2015 following the firm’s acquisition of Kleinwort Benson’s fund administration business and has worked in all areas of
Dutch private equity firm Ramphastos Investments’ founder and CEO, Marcel Boekhoorn, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Mazarine Energy following an agreement for the acquisition of an equity stake in the Dutch subsurface driven oil & gas Exploration & Production company by Ramphastos.
Boekhoorn, Founder and CEO of Ramphastos, will become non-executive board member alongside Chairman Marcel van Poecke (Managing Director for Carlyle International Energy Partners), Eric Faillenet (Director for Carlyle International Energy Partners) and Mazarine Energy founder and CEO Edward van Kersbergen.
The appointment follows the recent acquisition of an equity stake in Mazarine Energy by
Global technology, media and communications investment bank Drake Star Partners has appointed senior technology investment banker Kais Baker as a Partner in the firm’s Munich office.
Baker brings over 15 years of investment banking experience and specialises in Enterprise Software. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, having advised European Software businesses, such as Software AG, SAP or UNIT4, on transactions in Europe and in the US.
Ralf Philipp Hofmann, Managing Partner and Member of the Group’s Global Executive Committee says: “Kais Baker is a highly experienced technology investment banker with strong credentials in deal origination and execution, including notable
Impact First, a ‘profit with purpose’ fund launched by social impact investor SIS Ventures, has secured 50 per cent of target capital commitments within the first two months of launch.
SIS Ventures, the mission-led investment arm of responsible finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS), is in the process of securing investors to participate in a GBP5 million fund, which looks to back Scotland’s high impact enterprises.
The first close of the fund seeks to raise GBP1.5-2 million from UK-based private investors, with the capital target for deployment over 12-18 months.
Since launching two months ago, SIS Ventures has
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies in the lower mid-market, has sold WellSpring Pharma Services, a North American pharmaceutical contract manufacturing organisation. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
WellSpring Pharma Services provides outsourced manufacturing and contract development services to emerging-growth, mid-sized, and large pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients in the US and Canada. WellSpring has particular strength working with clients that need flexibility, customisation, personalised attention, and technical expertise. WellSpring is equipped to manufacture prescription drug products in virtually all non-sterile finished dosage forms and also provides primary and secondary packaging services. WellSpring
Law firm Paul Hastings is advising CIMC-TianDa Holdings Company (CIMC-TianDa), a subsidiary of China International Marine Containers, on the proposed acquisition, through its subsidiary Allied Best (China) Fire Safety Appliances Manufacturing, of a 60 per cent equity share in Shenyang Jietong Fire Truck Co, for RMB600 million (approximately USD88 million).
CIMC-TianDa is one of the leading manufacturers of fire engines, fire prevention and fighting equipment in the PRC. The principal business of Shenyang Jietong Fire Truck is the production of fire engines and aerial lifting fire trucks in the PRC, which complements CIMC-TianDa’s existing lines of business.
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CUSIP identifier requests for the broad category of US and Canadian corporate offerings, which includes both equity and debt, totalled 4,197 in July, down 16.6 per cent from June, according to CUSIP Global Services’ (CGS) latest CUSIP Issuance Trends Report.
On a year-over-year basis, corporate identifier request volume through July 2018 is 2.8 per cent higher than the same period in 2017. The monthly decline in corporate request volume was driven by a 19.2 per cent decrease in requests for corporate debt identifiers and an 11.1 per cent decrease in requests for corporate equity identifiers.
Municipal CUSIP requests also declined
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