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Monarch Private Capital (MPC), an investor in tax credit projects, has appointed William Huger III as Managing Director of Monarch Private Capital Advisors.
In this new role, Huger will assist in the development of strategic investment initiatives for corporate investors who can benefit from tax equity programs that positively impact communities.
Huger has over 30 years of experience building and managing asset management firms that structure, manage and market alternative investment strategies suitable for institutions, family offices and private clients globally. He has an extensive background in establishing the business and investment practices needed to successfully offer marketable and
Law firm Dentons has appointed Nieves Briz as Barcelona Managing Partner and a new partner in the Corporate and M&A department.
She joins with a team of two lawyers from JAUSAS, senior associate Natalia Ontiveros and junior associate Wenbo Zhou.
With more than 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and commercial law, Ms. Briz joins from JAUSAS where she was a partner in the commercial law and compliance departments and was responsible for the China Desk for five years. Previously, she was a partner at EY Abogados, where in 2000, she became the first woman and the
Arlington Capital Partners has sold Zemax Software Holdings, a provider of optical and illumination design software, to EQT Mid Market US GP. The Company will continue to be led by current CEO Mark Nicholson.
Founded in 1990, Zemax enables its customers to more efficiently and accurately design optical components through its physics-based optimisation and design software. Zemax helps companies achieve a qualified design more efficiently by streamlining the workflow and communication between optical and mechanical engineers.
Zemax Virtual Prototyping tools include OpticStudio, the industry-leading optical design software, and LensMechanix, a unique application that allows mechanical engineers to package optical
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Peak has extended its funding by a further GBP1.5 million to meet market demand and accelerate its R&D roadmap, taking the total raised by the company to GBP5 million (USD7 million).
Peak’s investment funding to date has enabled the company to expand its operations, taking headcount from 10 to 60 in the last two years, with plans in place to increase this to 100 staff in the next 12 months. Recognised in the top 25 fastest growing tech companies in the North, Peak has successfully grown subscription revenues by over 300 per cent year-on-year.
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TourRadar has secured USD50 million in a Series C funding round led by TCV with participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures, Endeit Capital, Hoxton Ventures and Speedinvest.
TCV is one of the largest providers of capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry and has backed industry-leading companies including Airbnb, Expedia, HomeAway, Netflix, SiteMinder, Spotify, Vice, and Zillow.
In connection with the funding, Erik Blachford, a venture partner at TCV, has joined TourRadar’s supervisory board. Blachford was previously President and CEO of IAC Travel, managing all of IAC’s travel assets including Expedia, Hotels.com, and Hotwire.
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and Phoenix Group (Phoenix) have established a private markets fund financing strategy which is tailored to Phoenix’s financial objectives as an insurer.
It will initially be funded with GBP500 million of capital as it enters the market, which will be transferred from liquidity funds and short duration funds, in a strategy that seeks to generate increased returns from illiquidity premia, whilst assuming the least amount of credit risk.
The strategy focuses on providing investment grade, short duration loans to private markets funds in the earlier years of their life. Given the security on offer
European Buy & Build activity reached its highest level on record in 2017, with a total disclosed deal value of GBP7.8 billion, according to Silverfleet Capital’s European Buy & Build Monitor.
The most active region for add-ons was the UK & Ireland, despite the uncertainty caused by Brexit.
The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European- headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified a provisional total of 619 add-ons in 2017, a 7.8 per cent increase on the 574 add-ons recorded in 2016.
The average disclosed value of add-ons in 2017 was GBP87
Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Irina Hemmers as a Partner. She will lead the TMT team, building on Inflexion’s long history of successful investments in the sector including On the Beach, FDM and Reward Gateway.
Hemmers started her career at McKinsey & Company before joining Apax Partners as a Partner in the media team where she spent 13 years responsible for digital investments globally. More recently, Irina was a Partner and Head of Principal Investing at Eight Roads, the proprietary investing arm of Fidelity International.
Inflexion has also promoted Malcolm Coffin and Josh Kaufman to Partner with immediate effect.
Kramer Laboratories (Kramer), a marketer of over-the-counter (OTC) foot care and specialty cough products, has acquired Nizoral, an anti-dandruff shampoo brand sold in North America and Latin America, from Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies).
Kramer is a portfolio company of Avista Capital Partners (Avista), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, and Dana Holdings, a consumer healthcare-focused private investment group.
Rick Kornhauser, Chief Executive Officer of Kramer, says: “We are delighted to add Nizoral, an iconic OTC brand, to the Kramer portfolio. With over a 25 year history, Nizoral is one of the
Kawa Capital Management, Inc. today announced the funding of a USD11.25 million loan to ExcelCredit SAS, an established provider of pension and salary advances to Colombian civilians and employees of certain Colombian federal agencies.
The funding of this loan was accomplished primarily on Kawa’s online investor platform, which allows accredited investors to invest in institutional quality deals. The loan was funded pursuant to loan participations sold by a special purpose vehicle owned by Kawa Capital Management, Inc.
The loan is secured by a pool of roughly 2,600 loan advances made to existing ExcelCredit borrowers, and will broaden the company’s
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