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ORIX Corporation USA (ORIX USA) is to acquire NXT Capital, a provider of structured financing to the US middle market.
“The acquisition of NXT Capital is one step forward in expanding our product set within our third-party asset management platform and achieving continued growth through strategic relationships,” says Hideto Nishitani, ORIX USA Chairman, President and CEO. “The addition of NXT Capital will accelerate our position as a hybrid middle-market lender and asset manager, allowing ORIX USA to expand our participation into larger, more strategic investments and strengthen our competitive advantage as a top-tier provider of capital to middle-market companies and
Nexxus Iberia’s Nexxus Iberia Private Equity Fund I (FCR) has completed its first investment in Fuertes Gimeno Comunicaciones (FGC).
Founded in 1998, FGC is a Spanish engineering company that provides a wide range of services to telecom carriers and equipment vendors for the deployment, maintenance, upgrade and optimisation of mobile and fixed networks. Such services include consultancy, outsourcing of qualified personnel, site location management, first line maintenance of network, and engineering projects. FGC main clients are in Spain, Germany, UK, Mexico and other Latin American countries (LatAm).
Nexxus Iberia believes that FGC is in a great position to profit
LDC, the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investor, has made a GBP10 million investment in Yorkshire property agency Linley & Simpson to support its expansion.
Founded by Will Linley and Nick Simpson 20 years ago, Linley & Simpson is a market-leading residential lettings and sales agency based in Horsforth, Leeds. It employs 180 people across 11 regional branches, manages a portfolio of more than 5,800 properties and generates a turnover of more than GBP9 million.
The deal sees LDC back the existing management team with a GBP10 million investment to drive its acquisition strategy as well as support technology
Green Arrow Capital SGR, on behalf of Private Equity Fund 3 has executed the first add-on for its portfolio company TFM Automotive & Industry SpA, acquiring the 100 per cent of Spiral Ingranaggi Srl.
The company, specialising in the production of small and medium-sized gears, both cylindrical and conical, with straight, helical and spiral toothing used for adaptors, machinery and transmissions, represents the perfect fit for TFM Group, one of the main European producers active in manufacturing high precision machined components for the Automotive, Cycle and Oil & Gas sectors.
Spiral, founded in 1994 by the engineer Massimo Ronconi
Crown Capital Partners has launched Crown Capital Power, a new fund that will provide investors with attractive, utility-like income through the direct ownership of Integrated Energy Platforms (IEPs) that provide electricity under long-term contracts to mid to large-scale electricity users, such as manufacturers, hotels, and condominiums.
IEPs are on-site generators that provide more reliable and less expensive electricity than comparable service from a public utility.
“Over the past 10 years, commercial electricity users, especially in Ontario, have experienced substantial price increases and prices are expected to continue rising,” says Chris Johnson, President and CEO of Crown. “Because electricity
Private capital adviser Campbell Lutyens has added to its senior team in the US with the appointments of Mike Bolner and Yokasta Segura-Baez as Principals.
Campbell Lutyens’ US-based team has grown to 30 people across three offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Bolner has more than 20 years of placement agent experience and has led over 70 fundraisings across a broad range of alternative investment strategies. He joins Campbell Lutyens from Probitas Partners where he led the project management team in New York. He previously held senior roles at JP Morgan Funds Group and Citi Alternative Investments.
Third Seven Group, an investment bank (Third Seven Capital) and registered investment advisory firm (Third Seven Advisors), has acquired a stake in boutique investment management consultancy UDIS Capital Partners (UDIS).
UDIS specialises in introducing foreign and domestic capital, managing cross-border transactions and providing foreign currency solutions.
Third Seven currently offers direct investment opportunities to pre-IPO companies and access to The Growth Center, a proprietary solution that includes business consulting and unique technology to aid in any stage of an advisor’s business life cycle created by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. This partnership with UDIS furthers Third Seven’s goal to arm their clients
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has partnered with the existing management team to acquire Revolution Dancewear (Revolution), a global supplier of dance recital costumes, competition costumes, footwear, and dancewear.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Geoffrey S Rehnert, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Audax Group, says: “Revolution is a recognised leader in the dance costume and dancewear market. We look forward to supporting CEO Joe Sclafani and the entire Revolution team to continue growing the business organically and through acquisitions.”
Revolution Dancewear, headquartered in Niles, IL, is a leading, globally recognised, costume and apparel platform that is known for
Stone Coast Fund Services, Basiz Fund Services and North Street Global are the latest firms to join the North American Fund Administration Association (NAFAA), a group for the alternative investment fund administration industry.
“The alternative fund administration industry is transforming and administrators recognize that NAFAA presents an opportunity to collaborate to address how these changes might affect their business strategies,” says founding director, Chris Meader (pictured). “We are thrilled that Stone Coast, North Street Global and Basiz have decided to join to help strengthen the efforts of the association to advance the alternative fund administration industry.”
Stone Coast Fund
Swedish cybersecurity startup Baffin Bay Networks has closed a USD6.4 million Series A round led by the EQT Ventures fund (EQT Ventures). The capital will be used for further international expansion, taking the company closer to creating a world-beating cyber security platform.
Baffin Bay Networks was founded in 2017 by cyber security experts who believe no organisation should be defenceless against advanced cyber security threats. The company offers an easy to use and accurate cloud-first threat protection platform that helps companies and service providers protect their key assets and services. Unlike other offerings, the platform has been developed with sophisticated
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