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Redpoint Capital Group, an alternative credit manager focused on providing financing solutions to companies across an array of industries, has expanded its investment team with the appointment of Spring Hollis as a Portfolio Manager.
Hollis, together with Dan Adashek, will be responsible for managing Redpoint’s investments and structuring future transactions.
“We are thrilled to add Spring to the Redpoint team. Her experience on Wall Street investing in and financing multiple asset classes is exactly what we were looking for as we continue to grow our portfolio,” says Alex Dunev, Managing Partner of Redpoint. “The addition of Spring emphasises our
UK lower mid-market investor, Tenzing, has appointed John Messer and Mike Reynolds to its investment team.
Messer has joined Tenzing from Alchemy Partners. He began his career as a consultant at AT Kearney undertaking due diligence and merger integration projects before studying for an MBA at London Business School, interning at Goldman Sachs and Inflexion Private Equity, prior to joining Alchemy.
Mike Reynolds joins the Tenzing team from Rutland Partners, where he spent over five years gaining investment experience in the industrials, financial services and consumer sectors. Prior to this he worked in mid-market M&A advisory at Hawkpoint, now
PPB Capital Partners, a designer and administrator of alternative investment funds for the wealth management industry, has appointed Frank Burke as chief investment strategist.
Burke (pictured), will advise PPB Capital’s network of investment advisors on selecting best-of-class alternative investment products for its clients.
“We are pleased to welcome Frank to our growing team,” says Brendan Lake, chief executive officer of PPB Capital Partners. “Frank’s deep knowledge of alternative asset classes will provide our platform of private investments services increased breadth and depth. As one of the lead portfolio managers of Hatteras Funds, Frank brings a wealth of experience sourcing
Alternative Asset manager Ares Management closed approximately USD3.0 billion in investments commitments across 67 transactions during the third quarter of 2017.
Accruent/Genstar Capital – Ares served as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint book runner for a first lien term loan to support Accruent’s acquisition strategy and to refinance the company’s existing capital structure. Ares also served as administrative agent for a term loan and invested in the second lien term loan in connection with the transaction. Accruent is a leading provider of real estate and facilities management software serving customers across several industry verticals including retail, telecom, healthcare, higher education
Amundi Private Equity Funds (Amundi PEF), a key player in private equity, and Entrepreneur Venture, have acquired a minority stake in Greenoffice, a designer of innovative solutions for selective sorting, to support its international development.
Since its creation in 2004, Greenoffice has revolutionised selective sorting by designing innovative solutions that stand out by their attractive design, extreme simplicity of use and, more recently, integrated connectivity. The results are very convincing: sorting quality of close to 100% and productivity gains allowing businesses to lower their waste management costs by at least 25% and restaurants to significantly reduce waste. Driven by its
Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners has completed a majority investment in FullSpeed Automotive. Based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, FullSpeed Automotive is one of the nation’s largest independent franchisors of automotive quick lube centres.
President and Chief Executive Officer John B Adams and the existing management team will continue to lead the Company following CenterOak’s investment.
“We are pleased to partner with a strong and experienced management team that has demonstrated a proven ability to generate organic and acquisitive growth,” says Randall Fojtasek, Managing Partner of CenterOak. “FullSpeed Automotive represents an attractive opportunity to work with one of the
Tour Partner Group, a newly-formed formed holding company for Hotels & More, Irish Welcome Tours and Authentic Vacations, is to acquire Trans Nordic Tours, the largest local inbound tour operator to the Nordic countries by revenue.
Trans Nordic Tours, launched in 1995, is based in Denmark and successfully led by founders Yvonne and Pierre d’Hermilly. It provides in-market services for consumers travelling to popular destinations throughout Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Finland, the Baltics and Russia. Since inception, it has grown to 41 staff, speaking 17 different languages, and services a fast growing and geographically diverse client base.
The acquisition marks
NXT Capital has held the final closing on approximately USD415 million in equity capital, above its original USD350 million target, for NXT Capital Senior Loan Fund V. When coupled with targeted leverage, Fund V will have approximately USD1.2 billion of available capital to invest.
The Fund will invest in senior debt transactions directly originated and underwritten by NXT Capital’s Corporate Finance Group. The investment strategy is focused on senior secured loans, including straight senior, stretch senior and unitranche loans made primarily to private equity sponsored middle-market companies across a wide range of industries in the United States.
The Fund
Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, has closed a Series B round of financing led by Sequoia India, which brings the company’s total funding to USD21 million.
Smartkarma is disrupting the traditional model of investment research, which has long been dominated by investment banks. It is a model in a state of flux: banks are under pressure from regulators to improve pricing transparency and resolve inherent conflicts between their research and investment banking departments. Many investment banks are also downsizing research desks due to cost constraints, resulting in a decline in the depth and breadth of coverage of
ArchOver, the peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has facilitated over GBP50 million of lending with no losses or late payments.
The platform has always been available to both institutional and retail investors, with both groups lending under the same terms and conditions. ArchOver will continue to focus on developing its lending strategies to meet growing market demand, while maintaining its unrivalled combination of transparency, equality and security with investors selecting the companies they wish to lend to.
With GBP4 million in total shareholder and investment capital, this latest achievement demonstrates the strength of ArchOver’s business model as it matches
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