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Constellation Brands has acquired Dallas-based brewer Four Corners Brewing Co producer of a range of premium products including Local Buzz Honey-Rye Golden Ale and El Chingón IPA.
Four Corners, which will join Constellation’s Craft & Specialty Beer Group, was founded in 2012 by longtime friends George Esquivel, Greg Leftwich and Steve Porcari. The founders and their team will all remain involved with Four Corners following the acquisition.
“We like to say that Four Corners Brewing is our collective beer journey, and partnering with Constellation continues that journey by opening amazing possibilities of where our brand and company can go,”
Investment vehicles managed by Colony Capital have their entire stake in DATA4 to AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets, acting on behalf of AXA France.
DATA4 is a European specialist in dedicated and colocation data centres that offers services to Cloud providers, digital service companies and large and medium-sized firms. DATA4 finances, designs, builds and operates its own data centres, in order to offer its customers hosting solutions that are flexible, scalable, high-performing and secured. The company currently operates 15 data centres in Paris, Milan and Luxembourg.
Founded in 2006 by Colony Capital, DATA4 was one of the first
Bridges Fund Management (Bridges), a specialist sustainable and impact investor, has completed a second fundraise for Bridges Evergreen Holdings (Evergreen), its permanent capital vehicle, hitting its GBP50 million target three months ahead of schedule.
Evergreen is a new kind of investment vehicle, designed specifically to be a long-term partner for ambitious mission-led organisations. By providing a permanent source of capital, as well as hands-on strategic and operational support, Evergreen supports the growth of these organisations and enables them to increase their impact over a longer time-frame – helping to tackle entrenched social challenges at scale. It launched in December 2016,
Brevet Capital Management (Brevet), an investment management firm focused on creating customised, value-adding financing solutions, has appointed Vikram Sodhi as Chief Financial Officer.
Sodhi joins Brevet from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he was a Partner in the Banking and Capital Markets Assurance practice providing assurance and advisory services. In his 24 years at PwC, he served financial institutions across banking, capital markets, and alternative asset management. Sodhi received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and is a NYS licensed CPA.
Alcentra Limited (Alcentra), an alternative fixed income specialist for BNY Mellon Investment Management (IM), has appointed Sarah Madore, Maria Garcia Diego and Joanna Layton to new roles within its European Direct Lending team.
Sarah Madore and Maria Garcia Diego join as Associates. In addition to the two external appointments, Joanna Layton was hired internally and promoted to Head of European Direct Lending Portfolio Monitoring. Consisting of 12 nationalities, the now 22-strong-person team has an average of nine years’ experience within the European Direct Lending space.
In their roles as Associates, Madore and Garcia Diego will provide additional resource and
The partners of Ironwood Capital have successfully completed a USD400 million capital raise for Ironwood Mezzanine Fund IV LP and its affiliated funds (IMF IV), with commitments from over 40 domestic insurance companies, banks and pension funds.
This new fund will enable Ironwood to continue investing both subordinated debt and equity in buyouts, growth investments, full and partial recapitalisations, generational transitions and other transactions in support of business owners and sponsors.
“This was the largest raise in our history and it came together through the combined efforts of our ad hoc internal fund raising team and the support of
Noerr has advised the Schwarz Group on the takeover of the Tönsmeier group of companies. The Schwarz Group, Europe’s largest retail company, is implementing the purchase through its affiliate GreenCycle, located in Neckarsulm, Germany.
GreenCycle is taking over the fifth largest player on the German waste disposal market. Tönsmeier is based in Porta Westfalica, Germany, and is also active on the Polish and Dutch markets. It achieved sales of around €500 million with a workforce of more than 3,000 last year. GreenCycle organises the collection and recycling of all recyclable materials for the Schwarz Group generated in the stores and
MediaMath, a specialist in programmatic advertising, has secured USD225 million in new financing, in a funding round led by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight).
The funding provides MediaMath with strategic growth capital to accelerate the expansion of its Demand Side Platform (DSP) and Data Management Platform (DMP). The funding, which will be delivered in two tranches to pursue both organic and inorganic growth initiatives, brings MediaMath’s total capital invested to over USD500 million.
“The marketing industry has reached a tipping point, with more than half of consumer time now spent on digitally connected devices, yet the challenges associated with connecting marketers
Private equity firm TA Associates is to invest in Compusoft, a provider of computer-aided design (CAD) software to the kitchen and bathroom retail industries. The investment is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Compusoft’s main products, Winner Design and Innoplus, provide design and sales support to kitchen and bathroom retailers, respectively. The user-friendly CAD systems include proprietary databases of graphic elements, pricing information and language translations from more than 2,800 digital manufacturer catalogues. They also feature fully-integrated graphics displayed in real‐time 3D. Additional Compusoft products allow individuals to
Unicorn Capital Partners (Unicorn), a venture capital fund-of-funds manager focused on China and other key technology markets in Asia, has closed Unicorn Partners Fund II at its hard cap of USD250 million.
In line with its two predecessor funds, the Fund will partner with venture capital managers who invest in the areas of technology, media and entertainment (TME), and healthcare throughout China.
Unicorn received strong support from its existing investor base while also adding a number of new investors including leading endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and successful technology entrepreneurs.
“We are pleased to announce the
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