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GALA Kerzen, a manufacturer of candles, headquartered in Germany, is expanding through the acquisition of a majority stake in Ramesh Flowers, an Indian manufacturer and exporter of potpourri, air fresheners, incense sticks, candles and decorative products.
The deal represents the first purchase for the Bavarian candle manufacturer since its acquisition by funds managed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) in 2016. The acquisition of Ramesh Flowers will expand GALA Kerzen’s range of high-end scented and decorative products and enable the company to move into new markets outside Europe. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed and completion remains subject to
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has added to its banking and finance team with the appointment of Michael Evans as counsel in the Jersey office.
Evans (pictured), brings with him more than 10 years’ experience working on a variety of finance transactions and has acted for a wide range of international institutions and borrowers on complex multi-jurisdictional bilateral and syndicated facilities. He has a particular interest in leveraged and acquisition finance, Islamic finance and restructuring and insolvency.
Evans qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2007, having trained in the London and Dubai offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus
Global fund administrator Mainstream Fund Services is expanding its organisation to handle the growing practice for closed-end funds; private equity, venture capital, and real estate – with the appointment of Jay Maher as CEO of Private Equity.
For the past two decades, Maher (pictured), who will be based in the US, has been a developed a best in breed service focusing on technology and automated workflow processes.
“Mainstream is the perfect fit for our experienced team to execute delivery of our service model to the Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Real Estate industries. Mainstream has a global reach while
Augentius, a global service provider to private equity and real estate funds, has appointed James Watts to the role of Chief Operating Officer.
The appointment follows another successful year of 19 per cent growth for the firm as the industry remains resilient to political and regulatory challenges.
As Chief Operating Officer, Watts (pictured) will be responsible for Augentius’ Global Operations throughout its’ offices across three continents.
Watts says: “The growth of Augentius has been quite amazing. In just over 10 years the small UK/Guernsey centric business I joined, has become a major global player, with offices and clients across the world.
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to private equity in Europe, has appointed Mark Symons as Senior Manager in the firm’s Guernsey Office.
Symons has joined Ipes as part of the Senior Management Team in Guernsey and brings considerable client service experience. He will focus on leading and managing a number of key client relationships across the Ipes Group. He will also play a key role in delivering our growth strategy by communicating and strengthening relationships with the Guernsey business community. In addition, Mark will be responsible for the New Business team.
Prior to joining Ipes, Symons worked at Kleinwort
Dianomi, a content marketing platform used by financial advertisers and tier one publishers, has received a GBP6.3 million capital investment from BGF.
Dianomi’s proprietary technology platform matches premium sponsored content with relevant and engaged audiences across tier one business publications such as Reuters, MarketWatch and MSN.
The platform provides a brand-safe monetisation solution for publishers’ editorial content and data-driven distribution for advertisers, improving both return on investment and transparency.
The company’s turnover has more than trebled in the past two years, driven by the trend towards ‘content in context’ and online brand protection. Amid growing concerns over clickbait
Baum Capital Partners (BCP), a private investment firm that provides equity capital and strategic resources in support of dynamic companies in the lower middle market, has selected PEF Services to provide operational and fund administration services.
Working in close partnership with entrepreneurs and managers, BCP invests in technology-enabled and service-based businesses with exceptional prospects for growth. Baum Capital Partners (www.baumpartners.com) focuses on opportunities in which a financial partner is being sought to solve a corporate or ownership need, including investments to support growth, facilitate ownership transitions or enable management-backed recapitalisations.
“BCP elected to outsource fund administration to allow us to
Global investment in financial technology (fintech) ventures reached another all-time high in 2017, buoyed by a surge in funding for startups in the United States, United Kingdom and India, according to Accenture analysis of data from CB Insights.
Fintech financing rose 18 percent in 2017, to USD27.4 billion, with the value of deals in the US jumping 31 percent, to USD11.3 billion. Deal values almost quadrupled in the UK, to USD3.4 billion, and soared nearly five-fold in India, to USD2.4 billion. The number of fintech deals also rose sharply, from just over 1,800 in 2016 to nearly 2,700 in 2017, underscoring continued
L Squared Capital Partners has completed a growth investment in United Scope, resulting in a majority recapitalisation of the business.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is L Squared’s seventh platform investment in the last three years, have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Irvine, CA, United Scope goes to market primarily under the brand AmScope, which is the leading provider of microscopes and related accessories sold mostly online to a diverse range of end markets including the education sector, life sciences and other scientific research fields, as well as various industrial inspection applications. The Company’s unique modularised design strategy
Ramón van Heusden has seen a lot of changes in real estate investing over the last 14 years he has worked in Luxembourg. Over that time, van Heusden has held three different roles, each one of which has involved working with international real estate and private equity funds.
“What I’ve seen over the last couple of years, in particular, is an exponential growth in clients moving to large single platforms with a lot of connectivity to other systems, moving away from holding and managing data in multiple systems and specific silos,” says van Heusden (pictured), now Head of Client Services
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