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Arrowroot Capital Management has held the closing of its third fund, Arrowroot Capital III with over USD177 million in limited partner and general partner commitments.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its fundraising cap. The firm has already completed a number of investments throughout 2017 and expects to close additional opportunities prior to the end of the year.
Founder & Managing Partner, Matthew Safaii, says: “We are pleased to have brought in an impressive core of leading endowments, foundations, consultants, pensions, alternative asset managers, and other institutions who we look forward to working with in the months and
Aster has raised an additional EUR240 million bringing its total funds under management to EUR500 million. A specialist in digital transformation and industries of the future, the investment company provides support to growing companies in the sectors of energy, mobility and industry.
Building from a Business Hub, a true acceleration platform serving entrepreneurs, Aster provides them with support to jump-start their development projects and benefit from corporate investor networks.
A EUR240 million capital increase is to be invested primarily in Europe and the United States. The EUR240 million in capital raised in the first closing by several industrial players
Medigold Health, a provider of occupational health and corporate wellbeing services, has received a GBP9.5 million investment from the Business Growth Fund (BGF) to support its ambitious growth plans.
The Northampton-based business has used some of the funds to make two strategic acquisitions, buying IMASS, an occupational health provider with a focus in the South West of England and on public sector customers, and Hampton Knight, a specialist provider of alcohol and drug screening services throughout the UK.
Founded 20 years ago by Dr Mike Goldsmith, and now under the leadership of his son Alex Goldsmith, Medigold Health provides
Five Capital, a subsidiary of CDC International Capital based in Dubai and Riyadh, has entered into exclusive negotiations with Diwanee, a subsidiary of Webedia Group, French specialist in theme-based online publishing, for a merger between Diwanee and Uturn Entertainment, a Saudi digital content provider.
Further discussions between the parties will take place in the coming weeks with a view to concluding a final agreement. This transaction, if agreed, will be subject to board approval from each concerned party and would be undertaken in full compliance with current local and international laws and regulations.
Based in Jeddah, the company Uturn
Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has strengthened its team in the Midlands with the promotion to partner of Arvindar Singh-Sall, who is based in the firm’s Birmingham office.
FRP Advisory Midlands team now comprises 31 staff, including six partners and five directors spread across offices in Birmingham and Leicester covering the West Midlands and East Midlands.
Singh-Sall has extensive experience in business and corporate restructuring and re-financing across a broad range of sectors, and has become a key advisor to corporate stakeholders, providing advisory and insolvency services to companies at times of financial distress and critical change to their
The Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor, a predictor of future mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements, forecasts that the number of worldwide announced M&A deals in Q1 2018 will increase by around 2 per cent compared to Q1 2017.
The dealmaking environment is being supported by a combination of a gradual pickup in global economic growth, subdued inflation in advanced and emerging economies, buoyant asset markets and historically low interest rates.
There are risks, however. “The risks to the scenario of steadily increasing M&A activity are twofold: political and financial,” says Philip Whitchelo (pictured), VP of Strategy & Product Marketing at
Private equity lawyer Fraser Dawson has been elected partner at Gibson Dunn, effective 1 January 2018.
Dawson, who is based in the firm’s Dubai Office, has experience in acting on a broad range of M&A and other corporate transactions including MBOs, JVs, secondary buy-outs, co-investments, consortium arrangements, restructurings, convertible loan issues and trade sales.
During his career, in both Europe and the Middle East, he has represented leading private equity institutions, well-known multinationals and ‘best-in-class’ regional corporates in highly publicised and market-leading transactions. He graduated in 2002 from the University of Edinburgh.
Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) has raised EUR5.2 billion for Senior Debt Partners III (SDP3), the largest pooled direct lending fund in Europe so far in 2017.
The SDP3 transaction took from January to September 2017 to structure, document and close. The fund was oversubscribed and catered for a wide-range of investors, including a large number of pension fund and insurers.
Investors were global, located in a large number of jurisdictions such as Israel, Korea, Australia, the US and Europe. Consequently, the structure had to be flexible enough to cater for a wide-range of international regulatory and tax requirements. There
Idinvest Partners has appointed Charles Daulon du Laurens as Partner and Global Head of Investor Relations and Marketing.
Daulon du Larens will be in charge capital raising, investor relations and marketing functions on a global basis, managing teams based in Europe and Asia.
He joins from AXA IM-Real Assets, where he was Global Head of Client Capital Group and a member of the Executive Committee. In that role he had the global responsibility for the company’s third-party capital raising, client relationship management and client servicing, heading a team of 15 professionals across the US, Europe and Asia.
Prior
Pure Harvest Smart Farms (Pure Harvest), a tech-enabled arid climate agribusiness based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has secured seed investment of USD4.5 million in a financing round that was significantly oversubscribed.
This follows an earlier USD1.1 million pre-seed round led by Abu Dhabi-based Shorooq Investments.
Venture financing was provided by a leading federal government-backed fund, the Company’s technology partners, and a consortium of Angel investors from around the world, all of whom were strongly aligned with the Company’s mission – to offer a true & tangible food security solution to the region by deploying advanced
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