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Castanea Partners has made an investment in Simms Fishing Products, headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.
Founded in 1980 and acquired in 1993 by KC Walsh, its current owner and President, Simms offers a comprehensive line of high-performance fishing apparel, footwear, and gear. Its premium fishing waders are produced domestically at Simms’ manufacturing facility in Bozeman. The company’s products, used by over 6,000 Simms-sponsored fishing professionals globally, are distributed through specialty retail stores both domestically and internationally, and directly to consumers through www.simmsfishing.com.
“Simms is singularly focused on delivering the most technically sound products to ensure that anglers of all types
Axereal Group, has raised EUR150 million to finance its growth projects including the development of the firm’s malting and food processing businesses.
To raise these funds, two financial investors, Temasek and Unigrains, and minority shareholder Tereos subscribed to a capital increase of the group’s malting subsidiary.
This growth primarily concerns the Group’s malting business unit. Axereal subsidiary Boortmalt’s strategy is to support its brewer and distiller customers as they grow, by increasing its production capacities, boosting volumes exported from Antwerp and becoming directly involved in producing barley and malts in fast-growing geographies such as Africa and Asia.
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HIG WhiteHorse, the credit affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has closed the HIG WhiteHorse Direct Lending Fund and HIG WhiteHorse Loan Fund.
The Fund closed with aggregate capital commitments of approximately USD1.1 billion, exceeding its target, and will now continue HIG’s nvestment strategy of investing in tailored senior secured financing solutions to non-sponsor and sponsor owned companies in the US.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, Co-CEOs of HIG, says: “We are delighted with the success of HIG WhiteHorse. The strong response from our investors to this offering reflects their confidence in the capability of our team and our differentiated
Dr Gunther Thumann has been formally appointed Chairman of Jersey Finance.
Dr Gunther Thumann graduated summa cum laude with a PhD in economics and statistics from the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and, between 1978 and 1994, was an Economist in the German civil service and subsequently Senior Economist for the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.
After joining Salomon Brothers in London as Managing Director, in the late 1990s he founded a consultancy specialising in central banks. In 2007 Dr Thumann was appointed Partner, CEO and Chairman of the board of Brevan Howard Capital Management in Jersey (Channel Islands)
Nordea and AlpInvest have launched a new co-investment fund programme starting with a new EUR200 million fund – NPE Direct.
It is anticipated that the size of the programme may expand to up to EUR400 million. The fund will source co-investment deals from both the Nordea and AlpInvest private equity platforms. The fund sponsors are Nordea Life & Pensions, Nordea Asset Management’s private equity programme and other institutional investors.
“I’m very pleased to announce our new co-investment fund programme that we have established to further support and strengthen the private equity relationships we have developed over the last two
Unigestion has successfully completed the final close of Unigestion Direct Opportunities 2015 (UDO 2015). The fund closed at EUR255 million, comfortably in excess of its original EUR200 million target.
The final close of UDO 2015 was achieved by attracting strong investor support from both new and existing clients including insurers, pension funds, banks and family offices across the UK, mainland Europe and Asia.
Unigestion has already completed four transactions for the fund and continues to operate its successful investment strategy of focusing on small and mid-sized private companies globally. The firm targets investments in companies where growth is driven
Independent investment bank Zeus Capital has supported two major IPOs in consecutive days on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
Global Yachting Group (GYG) was admitted to the market this morning, with asset management firm Tatton Asset Management scheduled to join AIM tomorrow. Zeus Capital acted as nominated adviser (NOMAD) and sole broker on both transactions.
GYG is a global, market-leading painting, supply and maintenance company, operating exclusively with superyacht owners and suppliers for boats in excess of 40m in length.
The business, headquartered in Palma, Mallorca, employs 472 people within its operations throughout the United
Pan-European private equity firm IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund is to acquire a minority stake in Third Bridge, a primary research provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Third Bridge provides its clients with insights into companies and markets through access to industry experts and market research. Serving a client base of over 300 customers, including private equity funds, consulting firms, hedge funds and corporates, Third Bridge has a global footprint, with six offices covering America, Asia and Europe. Since inception in 2007, the Company has doubled its turnover every two years, and
The Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) has launched a new Global Infrastructure Fund which is expected to have total committed capital in excess of GBP1.5 billion following its final close in September 2017.
The Fund, which has launched with committed capital of GBP688 million, brings together the infrastructure assets of LPP’s two shareholder pension schemes, the Lancashire County Pension Fund (LCPF) and the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA), under the management of Local Pensions Partnership Investments Ltd (LPP I), the FCA-authorised Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) of LPP.
The Fund will seek to gain cost-effective, diversified exposure to global infrastructure
Boyd Group Income Fund has, through a subsidiary company, closed the acquisition of the assets and business of Assured Automotive Inc. and related entities which was previously announced on 29 May, 2017.
The total consideration for the transaction is approximately USD193.6 million, subject to closing and post-closing adjustments, and was funded through USD146.1 million in cash and USD47.5 million in Boyd Group Income Fund units priced at USD88.31 per unit. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to the Fund’s earnings and distributable cash.
“The addition of Assured significantly increases our number of collision repair centres, and also
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