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Omnes Capital, with support from GSO Capital and Bpifrance, has conducted the spin-off of the Geoxia Group’s brands in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region owned by LBO France – Maisons Clairlande, Les Demeures de la Côte d’Argent, Rouquié Constructions – via a primary LBO.
Omnes Capital, through its small cap funds (LCL Expansion 2 and LCL PME Expansion 2), took the opportunity to acquire a majority stake in the takeover holding company InCa (Innovation Construction pour l’Avenir) gathering the three brands, along with the management – Rémi Fromaget, CEO, and Lionel Husson, Managing Director.
InCa is one of the regional
Private Advisors has closed its oversubscribed seventh small company private equity fund (Fund VII) at its hard cap of USD350 million.
Fund VII focuses exclusively on the small company market in North America where Private Advisors has been a leading investor for more than 20 years. The Fund primarily invests in lower-middle market buyout, growth and distressed private equity funds (typically less than USD750 million in size), along with targeted equity co-investments and opportunistic secondary investments.
“We are grateful to our limited partners for their continued support as almost 70 per cent of the Fund came from existing investors.
Popular US shopping app Ibotta has secured new funding led by Silicon Valley-based GGV Capital. This round furthers Ibotta’s mission of providing its consumers a Life Rewarded for making everyday purchases online, in mobile apps and at retail stores.
With USD3.8 billion under management across eight funds, GGV has invested in leading consumer tech brands and marketplaces such as Alibaba, Boxed, Houzz, OfferUp, Peleton, Poshmark, Wish and more. The venture capital firm was founded in 2000 and invests across the US and China, the world’s two largest economies.
“Our firm looks well outside Silicon Valley and beyond borders for
Gefion Insurance, a Copenhagen-based specialty non-life insurer, has closed a private placement of Solvency II-compliant subordinated notes in an aggregate principal amount of EUR10 million with funds managed by Fermat Capital Management.
The net proceeds from the offering will be used to support Gefion’s attractive growth opportunities in the European specialty non-life insurance market, to refund the Company’s existing subordinated debt, and for general corporate purposes.
Tonny Anker-Svendsen, Gefion’s CEO, says: “We are excited to partner with Fermat, one of the highest-quality investors in the (re)insurance space, on this transaction. We believe their commitment validates the strength of our
The 2017 Preqin Private Capital Fund Terms Advisor finds that several private capital fund types are raising their average management fees among funds of more recent vintages.
Unlisted infrastructure funds have seen mean management fees rise marginally from lows of 1.38 per cent for 2014 vintage funds to 1.48 per cent for 2017 vintage funds and vehicles in market. Similarly, private equity buyout funds have seen their mean fees rise from 1.85 per cent for 2015 vintage funds to 1.94 per cent for 2017 vintage and raising funds. Across the same period, closed-end private real estate funds have seen average
Global fiduciary and administration services provider Estera has acquired Headstart, a specialist corporate and trust services business in Luxembourg.
The transaction paves the way for Estera’s expansion into Luxembourg, one of world’s most important jurisdictions for funds and corporate services, while also broadening the company’s offering in corporate, fund and trust services.
Headstart’s Managing Directors, Christophe Gaul and Manuel Mouget, will continue to lead the business. The company, whose clients include private equity and real estate firms, institutional clients, corporates and high net worth individuals, will rebrand to Estera in September 2017.
Farah Ballands (pictured), CEO of Estera,
IGF, the leading commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a total of GBP16.6m to SMEs across Scotland over the past year.
Since the opening of its Glasgow office in June 2016, IGF has grown from strength to strength in the region. Over the past 12 months, the business has financed 26 SMEs and last November allocated an additional GBP5m fund to support management buyout (MBO) activity across the country.
The finance delivered ranges from a GBP50,000 invoice finance facility to a GBP4.25 million asset based lending facility, funding assets including stock and property. The businesses that have benefitted
Duff & Phelps, a global valuation and corporate finance adviser, is pleased to announce that Christian Mouillon has joined the firm as a Global Senior Adviser.
Mouillon brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the firm as a former Global Vice Chairman at EY. He will focus on growth in the firm’s Valuation Practice internationally and representing Duff & Phelps in it’s ongoing dialogue with professional associations and other regulatory bodies.
Jacob Silverman, President at Duff & Phelps, says: “We are delighted that Christian has agreed to become a Global Senior Advisor, bringing significant expertise across sectors and geographies
By Matt Mulry, Dillon Eustace – Whether you’re looking to launch a private equity fund focused on venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, technology, energy, health care or art or a hedge fund focused on global macro, long/short equity, special situations, fixed-income or commodities the Cayman Islands is a great place to start.
There are many options available to the start up manager to establish a track record and build the scale required to attract capital from key institutional investors across the globe. The right first step will depend on the location of the manager, the nature of the initial investors,
International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised Dubai-based International Real Estate Partnership Holdings (IREP) on the purchase from administrators Mark Fry and Gary Shankland of Begbies Traynor (London) of the Asia-Pacific business of real estate consultancy and services company Cluttons.
This follows the acquisition by specialist turn-around investment firm RCapital of the wider Cluttons group.
The purchased group comprises 14 companies across south-east Asia and Australasia which provide services to both the residential and commercial property markets.
The WFW team was led by corporate Partner Daniel Saunders, assisted by Associate Andrea Bhamber and Trainee Fred
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