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Ares Management has appointed Jason Duko and Kapil Singh as Partners and Portfolio Managers in the Ares Credit Group, focussing on liquid credit strategies.
These new appointments reflect Ares’ continued commitment to enhance its market leadership in below investment grade credit.
“We are pleased to welcome Jason and Kapil to our liquid credit team. They are experienced portfolio managers with proven track records and our firm has known them personally and professionally for many years. They share Ares’ fundamental bottoms-up approach to credit and risk management, but also bring fresh, top-down perspectives on portfolio construction, which they have developed
Bertelsmann is to acquire the US online education provider OnCourse Learning from the private equity company CIP Capital, for an amount in the mid-nine-digit euro range.
The transaction further strengthens Bertelsmann’s presence in the US. Alongside the acquisitions of the Random House book group in 1998, the online education provider Relias in 2014, and the takeover of a 75 per cent majority stake in Penguin Random House in 2017, this purchase is one of Bertelsmann’s largest transactions in the American market. The acquisition of OnCourse Learning has not been completed yet, pending approval by the US antitrust authorities, and is
Brazos Private Equity Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm, has sold BlackHawk Industrial Distribution, an independent value-added industrial distributor of cutting tools, abrasives, and MRO products, to Snow Phipps Group.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, BlackHawk was founded by Brazos Partners in 2010 in conjunction with Bill Scheller, former CEO and President of ORS Nasco, and has grown through 14 strategic acquisitions to one of the top 30 North American industrial distributors. The Company has a national footprint that includes locations across North America and offers a portfolio of over
Graycliff Partners has made an investment in Graybill Processing (Graybill), a food by-product recycling company based in Pennsylvania, partnering with Dallas-based private equity company NCK Capital, to provide subordinated debt and equity financing to the company.
Graybill has recycled food by-products in Pennsylvania for over 20 years. The Company collects food manufacturing by-products such as packaged candy, raw candy inputs and bakery goods and processes it into quality, high-energy animal feed for hogs, dairy cattle and beef cattle.
“Graybill has carved a unique niche in the animal feed market, providing value to both its suppliers by handling challenging food
HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Matthew Kretzman as a Managing Director based in New York, with responsibility for capital markets and execution across the North American private equity portfolio.
Kretzman has more than ten years of capital markets experience. Prior to joining HIG, he spent over six years at KKR where he was most recently a Director in the Credit & Markets division, responsible for private debt and capital markets origination and execution for financial sponsors and other firm clients. Prior to KKR, Matthew spent five years at Credit Suisse where he focused on Leveraged Finance and Equity Capital Markets.
SHS Gesellschaft fuer Beteiligungsmanagement, MBG Baden-Württemberg and VC Fonds BW announced that SHS has sold its shareholding in Emerging Implant Technologies (EIT), a manufacturer of 3D-printed titanium interbody implants for spinal fusion surgery, to Johnson & Johnson Medical.
SHS became EIT’s lead investor in September 2016 and has supported the company’s growth strategy ever since. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
“SHS’s objective was to support EIT on their path to increased growth. This includes the development of the company’s innovative product portfolio as well as entering new countries. We’re delighted to have had such a successful
Private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has partnered with management to acquire Seattle-based LifeSpan Biosciences (LSBio), a founder-led developer and distributer of antibodies and related reagents primarily to the academic and pharmaceutical research markets via its e-commerce platform.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
LSBio, originally founded as an immunohistochemistry (IHC) services provider in 1995, has evolved to offer a broad range of antibodies, kits, proteins and other biological reagents. The Company’s offerings include proprietary, value-added and third-party products. Researchers have long relied upon LSBio’s expertise to fulfil their molecular pathology needs. As part of
Fondo Agroalimentare Italiano I (FAI I) has acquired a stake in Agrimola, a European leader in the manufacturing, processing and marketing of chestnuts and transformed fruits, alongside Luca Sassi, the company’s CEO and majority shareholder.
Founded in 1978, Agrimola leads the European fresh chestnut market. It’s the ideal partner for large Italian and European supermarket chains and supplies a wide range of high quality fresh, frozen or aseptic, mainly organic fruits, to a broad base of more than 50 international distributor clients for use in marmalades, desserts, ice creams and dairy. The Group handles about 40,000 tons of fruits, half
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) has expanded its presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, hiring Martina Schliemann as a Principal and Head of Business Development for that region.
Schliemann’s last role was country manager for Germany and Austria at Muzinich & Co, Ltd. She was previously a Managing Director and Co-Head of Pensions and Insurance clients at Deutsche Asset Management. Martina will be based locally in the German market.
“As in other regions around the world, the private markets landscape throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland continues to evolve, and we believe investors are increasingly looking to work with partners like
Talis Capital (Talis), a London-based venture capital firm focussed on technology companies, has made an investment of USD2.5million into Learning People, the UK’s leading online training company, and SkillsFox, its B2B arm serving corporate training and development needs.
The investment comes at a time when the corporate e-learning market is worth USD12 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11 per cent until 2020, with companies’ demanding specialist skill sets such as cyber-crime prevention for current and potential employees.
The Talis investment will be used to fuel the companies’ geographical expansion, developing an engaging, user-centric platform
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