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UK mid-market private equity invester LDC has promoted Dan Smith to investment director, following a year of successful investments and exits.
Since joining LDC in August 2015, Smith has been involved in a number of the region’s most notable transactions. This has included supporting the firm’s GBP31.8 million investment in NBS, the commercial arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in addition to the management buyouts of Skipton-headquartered Sigmat and Knaresborough-based Pelsis, the leading European manufacturer of branded pest control products.
Smith also played an important role in LDC’s reinvestment in cycling parts and accessories distributor ZyroFisher,
OFS Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: OFS) and Ironwood Capital have a made a debt investment to support a recapitalisation of Performance Team, a Los Angeles-based third-party logistics and distribution provider, offering consolidation, warehousing, distribution and transportation services across the US.
“OFS Capital has a long history of partnering with owners and management teams of family-owned companies to help them grow their businesses. We are excited to partner with Performance Team, a second-generation family-owned and operated company, to enable the buy-out of an existing equity owner and be a part of the Company’s continued growth and success,” says OFS Capital Senior Managing Director
Pamlico Capital is to make a strategic investment in Personify, a provider of technology solutions for non-profit organisations.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“This marks a new chapter for Personify, and the next step in creating a leading Constituent Management and Engagement (CME) Platform,” says Eric Thurston, President and CEO of Personify. “Our vision is to help associations, charities and health and wellness organizations manage their members, fundraisers, donors and constituents by continuing to innovate and develop market-leading solutions for our clients. This partnership with Pamlico gives us the opportunity to accelerate our plans to create
Calculus Capital, an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist, has invested GBP2 million in software company CloudTrade.
CloudTrade’s technology – which has been patented in Europe, the US and Australia – enables companies to automatically process electronic documents such as invoices and sales orders received by email.
The software extracts information from a human-readable, machine-generated document, such as a PDF, validates it and then converts it into a data file that is fed directly into the company’s accounting system, without human intervention.
This automation enables companies to make significant savings on administrative costs and
KKR is to acquire active lifestyle and hospitality company Bay Club from York Capital Management and minority investors, including JMA Ventures and Roxborough Group. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1977, Bay Club operates a collection of active lifestyle campuses, welcoming more than 50,000 members throughout California. The clubs are designed with innovative amenities to support the company’s focus on Fitness, Sports, Family and Hospitality.
Over the past several years, Bay Club has assembled an experienced management team – a blend of fitness, hospitality, technology, and finance veterans – and has grouped properties into
The number of alternative fund managers choosing to future-proof their EU-focused funds through Jersey continued to grow in the first six months of 2018, according to the latest figures from Jersey’s financial regulator.
Data from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) for the period ending 30 June 2018 shows that the number of Jersey-registered managers opting to market into EU Member States through national private placement regimes (NPPR) under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) rose 8 per cent between January and June 2018, and 23 per cent year-on-year to stand at 161.
Meanwhile, the total number of
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has appointed former NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems executive Micah Kroeze to its management team.
Kroeze (pictured), joins the New York team as VP, Product Management where he will be responsible for driving new business growth and supporting the firm’s product development.
Kroeze brings nearly a decade of industry experience to Options from NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems, where he oversaw the growth of the firm’s market data and hosted services product lines. Kroeze was instrumental in the expansion of the firm’s infrastructure,
F2i, on behalf of its Third Fund, has signed an agreement with private equity firm Terra Firma to acquire RTR, a company that owns 134 photovoltaic energy production sites in Italy, with an overall installed capacity of 334 MW.
“Thanks to the overall scale of production reached with this acquisition, F2i becomes Europe’s third largest producer of electrical power from solar energy. The noteworthy operating and financial efficiencies of scale achieved will also make it one of the continent’s most efficient operators,” says Renato Ravanelli, CEO of F2i .
In fact by the end of 2018, F2i plans to confer
Bridge Farm Group has been given the green light to commence construction of a 75-acre production facility following a GBP18 million cash injection from HSBC and private equity investor NorthEdge Capital.
Bridge Farm Group, which includes the Neame Lea and Zyon brands within its portfolio, specialises in the growing and production of ornamental plants, flowers and herbs for retailers throughout the UK. The company has a workforce of over 500 employees at peak times across five locations around Spalding, Lincolnshire.
The company’s brands have been recognised by the industry, with Neame Lea most recently winning Overall UK Grower of
Skip Hashimoto, managing director of Ogier Global in Tokyo, has been appointed to the executive committee of AIMA Japan.
Hashimoto (pictured), says: “It is a privilege to join the Executive Board of AIMA Japan and have the opportunity to work closely with leaders in the Japanese alternative investment fund industry.
“AIMA is widely respected in Japan and works closely with the Tokyo Metropolitan government as well as the Ministry of Finance and other government and regulatory bodies to further enhance and develop a closer relationship between the investment funds industry.”
Chaired by Ed Rogers of Rogers Investment Advisors,
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