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Doug Barrowman & Baroness Michelle Mone OBE have joined forces to launch EQUI, a new cryptocurrency-powered investment platform which is aiming to open up venture capital to a wider audience, providing access to vetted, early-stage high-growth tech companies.
Businesses on the platform have been hand-selected by a team of established venture capitalists, led by Doug Barrowman with his 30 plus years’ experience in identifying good investments that deliver outstanding returns.
EQUI will champion high-tech innovators and entrepreneurs, providing a new route to investment. More than this, businesses brought on to the EQUI platform will benefit from the guidance of
GCM Grosvenor has completed the final close of its Secondary Opportunities Fund II (GSF II) with USD700 million in committed capital. GSF II, which held its first close in May of 2017, reached its hard cap.
Fund investors include public and Taft-Hartley pension plans, financial institutions, healthcare systems and endowments, in the US, Europe and Asia.
GSF II will acquire interests in private funds through secondary market transactions, with a focus on transactions of less than USD50 million average deal size. GSF II will target funds oriented toward small and middle market buyout, special situation, growth equity, infrastructure and real
Schiff Hardin has appointed Mauricio Beugelmans as a partner in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Financial Markets and Products Practice Groups in San Francisco.
Beugelmans (pictured), advises financial institutions including brokerage firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, and investment advisers on critical regulatory and compliance issues. He also represents clients in securities and commercial litigation and arbitration.
“We are pleased to welcome Mauricio to the firm,” says Antony S Burt, co-leader of Schiff Hardin’s Litigation Practice Group. “Mauricio adds significant firepower to our San Francisco office to handle a broad range of complex commercial disputes.”
Having
Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in Gold Medal Services (Gold Medal) by selling the company to Kinderhook Industries (Kinderhook).
Kinderhook, a New York-based private investment firm that manages over USD2 billion of committed capital, has invested in partnership with BioHiTech Global, a developer of disruptive waste management technologies.
Gold Medal, headquartered in Deptford, New Jersey, is a waste and recycling company servicing Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Gold Medal offers a complete range of integrated services to thousands of customers in the region. The company serves residential, institutional, commercial and industrial locations. Gold Medal offers collection, recycling, disposal
Cathay Capital North American-Sino Fund (Cathay Capital) has led the recapitalisation of Innovative Office Products (Innovative), a North American designer and manufacturer of office and workspace ergonomic and related products including monitor arms, sit-stand workstations, multi-monitor mounts and desk stands, point-of-sale (POS) mounts and healthcare and specialty Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) mounting solutions.
Cathay has partnered with management, Norwest Mezzanine Partners (Norwest) and ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity (ORIX) in this investment.
Based in Easton, Pennsylvania, Innovative began as a family-owned operation in 1986 and has grown into a global company over the past 30 plus years. The Company designs,
Ropes & Gray has advised Groupe Rocher, one of France’s largest privately-held businesses with over 17,000 employees, in a definitive agreement to acquire Arbonne International, whose holding company is Natural Products Group (NPG).
Arbonne is a leader in direct selling of botanically based beauty, personal care and nutrition products.
The acquisition will include NPG’s company Nature’s Gate, a personal care brand. The transaction was announced on 2 February 2018.
Arbonne International, headquartered in Irvine, California, offers a wide range of vegan skincare, bath and body and nutrition and makeup products sold in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia,
The recent rise in corporate profits and financial metrics won’t be enough to offset the significant credit risk of high leverage levels among global corporates. That’s according to a report that S&P Global Ratings has just released, titled ‘Global Corporate Leverage Trends 2018.’
“When debt is this steep and default rates are low, something’s gotta give,” says S&P Global Ratings analyst Terry Chan. “Such leverage implies sensitivity to both higher funding costs and reduced access to financing. A material repricing in bond markets or faster-than-expected normalisation in money market rates could impact credit profiles, triggering the next default cycle.”
The
Brookfield Asset Management’s Public Securities Group has completed the acquisitions of Center Coast Capital Holdings (CCC), an energy infrastructure-focused, Houston-based SEC-registered investment adviser with approximately USD4 billion in assets under management, and certain assets of Liberty Street Advisors (Liberty Street) and its affiliates, HRC Fund Associates, and HRC Portfolio Solutions, (collectively, HRC).
HRC served as the third-party marketing and servicing agent of CCC products to financial advisors and wealth managers at major wirehouses, independent registered investment advisers and independent broker-dealers. The acquisitions were previously announced on 10 October, 2017.
“These acquisitions mark an important step in the growth of
Carey Olsen has established a presence in Bermuda through managing partner and experienced Bermudian attorney Michael Hanson (pictured).
ContentKing, a fast-growing startup providing an extensive SEO auditing, reporting and insights solution to digital marketing professionals worldwide, received EUR350,000 in seed capital at a EUR3.5 million valuation in late 2017.
Vincent van Scherpenseel, CEO at ContentKing, says: “This investment is a fantastic validation of our vision, idea and execution. I am incredibly proud of what our team has been able to accomplish so far. The additional capital will be applied to further support the growth of our team and marketing activities.”
With a team of 16 people spread across the Netherlands and Czech Republic, they’re making their vision
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