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JW Childs Associates, an operationally-focused private equity firm, has acquired Ascent Medical Group, through a newly formed platform company, Siromed. Ascent Medical Group, LLC, a physician group practice based in Florida, is the first entity acquired by Siromed.
Ascent, founded in 2011 by Dr Steven Milstein, provides anesthesia care in Boynton Beach, Florida across a wide spectrum of subspecialty areas including general surgery, orthopaedic, obstetric and endovascular. Since 2011, the Company has been the sole provider of anaesthesia services to Bethesda Hospital East and West. Ascent employs 14 physicians and 20 CRNAs.
Siromed will target investments in a broad array
Gide has advised a consortium of investors including Ardian Infrastructure, Debiopharm Investment and Aloem on the sale of Aloe Energy to Sonnedix.
Aloe Energy is a successful solar developer and operator with 67MW under operation as well as a pipeline of projects under development and construction in France.
Sonnedix Power Holdings Limited (together with its subsidiaries, Sonnedix) is an independent solar power producer that develops, builds, owns and operates solar power plants globally. The transaction brings Sonnedix’s solar capacity in construction and operation above 600MW, with an overall portfolio over 1.2GW globally. Sonnedix ranks as France’s fourth largest solar
Hedgeweek Q&A with Mark Coriaty, Chief Strategy Officer, Eze Castle Integration
HW: Talk about the advancement and evolution of cloud services in recent years and how we’ve ended up where we are.
MC: If you step back and look at the landscape over the last four or five years, we have seen a lot of changes both on the technology front, as well as within the financial markets. Whether the result of fund raising challenges or increasing regulatory demands, the landscape for alternative fund managers has changed significantly.
We’ve therefore had to adapt to the market and this includes three
Eleanor West, partner at McDermott Will & Emery in London, comments on the UK general election result…
Today’s election results have shaken the business community to its core. Mid-M&A market had been showing signs of recovery in the recent months and the UK political landscape looked to be stable enough to inspire investor’s confidence again. Over the last quarter we witnessed an increased volume in transactions and this had certainly led us to believe that recovery was on the way.
Unfortunately, the results have made only one thing clear – the only thing we can be certain of is continuing
FundRock Management Company has appointed Enda Fahy (pictured), to head up the Illiquid Alternatives function at its Luxembourg Headquarters.
FundRock, one of the largest independent UCITS and AIFM investment management companies in Europe, has recently opened its Irish branch and has announced its intention to acquire a UK-based ACD. FundRock, as part of its five-year strategy, is also developing its current AIFM business to cover illiquid assets.
Over the 15 year course of his career to date, Fahy has acquired extensive experience in the Real Estate and Private Equity industries. Prior to relocating to Luxembourg, he was based in
Noerr has advised the Hogg Robinson Group on the acquisition of the digital travel innovator eWings.com. Sellers are the founder of eWings.com and other venture capital investors.
Berlin-based eWings.com provides a fast and easy-to-use software solution for booking and managing flights for frequent flyers and business customers. The acquisition provides Hogg Robinson with a developed solution as well as with a new technology which is highly complementary to their proprietary technology and will fit perfectly with Hogg Robinson’s platform.
Hogg Robinson Group plc is a leading global B2B services company specialising in travel, payments and expense management. The company
Albion Ventures, an independent investment manager with a long-term record of partnering ambitious business, has rebranded as Albion Capital.
The rebrand reflects the evolution of the Group, encompassing the growth of its venture capital, renewable energy, care home and IP commercialisation businesses, and the successful integration of OLIM Investment Managers, the value-oriented equity specialists acquired in September 2016.
Albion Capital combines decades of investment experience from the Albion Ventures and OLIM teams providing an offering with expertise across the full spectrum of UK equity investing, from early stage start-ups all the way through to FTSE100 companies.
The integration
Increasingly, the search for alpha is pushing asset managers into the furthest corners of financial markets. New asset classes, new instruments and new geographies are conspiring to place huge pressure on pre-existing operating models as managers struggle to cope with the volume of investment data. Whereas previously the front office operated independently from the middle and back office, all three are converging to handle the data management task.
This, in short, is leading to a new investment management operating model; one that is more integrated, front to back. And is, in turn, being supported by service providers. Fund administrators, who
InMotion, Jaguar Land Rover’s mobility services business, has made a USD25 million (GBP19 million) investment in Lyft, the fastest-growing rideshare company in the US.
This investment will support Lyft’s expansion and technology plans. It will also provide Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures with the opportunity to develop and test its mobility services, including autonomous vehicles, and to supply Lyft drivers with a fleet of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles.
Sebastian Peck, InMotion Managing Director, says: “We are excited to collaborate with a leading platform like Lyft not only on developing premium mobility solutions but also devising innovative solutions to the
Solteq has acquired inPulse Works Oy. The acquisition will enable Solteq to offer services that meet the varying needs of electricity, district heating and water companies.
The acquisition will also strengthen Solteq’s current BI and analytics expertise and open new opportunities in the sector-independent BI and analytics market. inPulse Works Oy’s products and services digitalise customer engagement and business processes. The company offers its clients digital services related to the customer interface, invoicing and customer data systems, electricity sales management systems, and BI and analytics solutions.
The acquisition is in line with the strategy revision that Solteq announced in
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