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Antares Capital is serving as administrative agent and sole lead arranger on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of SmartBear Software (SmartBear) by Francisco Partners.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Somerville, MA, SmartBear is a global leader in software quality tools for teams. With over 22,000 customers, SmartBear is integral in helping software developers and testers create the highest quality software applications.
“Antares’ software knowledge and flexibility were key during this transaction,” says Brian Decker, principal at Francisco Partners. “We appreciate working with a team that understands our investment philosophy, and has a history of
Dave Famolari has been named managing director for Hearst Ventures. He will report to Scott English, Hearst Ventures senior managing director and head of US investments.
Famolari comes to Hearst from Verizon, where he served as a director of the ventures arm of the company since 2013. During his time at Verizon Ventures, Famolari oversaw investment portfolio expansion across industries, technologies and market sectors, including investments in Beamr, FanDuel, Playsight, PrecisionHawk, Skyward and Swiftmile.
“Dave brings a wealth of experience to the Hearst Ventures team,” says English. “As we continue to grow and diversify our investment portfolio, we’ll benefit
Research Affiliates has launched a new version of Asset Allocation Interactive, an online investor tool that provides investment information and expected return data across more than 130 assets.
The site features newly added alternative asset classes including real estate, hedge funds, and private equity. The site also includes 11 model portfolios – encompassing expected and historical returns and risk, tracking error, CAPE ratios, inflation expectations, yield curves, GDP growth rates, commodity term structures, and more.
Acknowledging the popularity of the tool outside the United States, results are now available in four additional major currencies: euro, British pound, Japanese yen,
European mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe has invested in Willerby, the UK’s leading manufacturer of static holiday homes.
Equistone has acquired a majority stake in the Company from Caird Capital. Financial terms of the investment are undisclosed, but CVC Credit’s European Private Debt Business provided a term debt facility to Equistone to support its investment in Willerby.
Founded in 1946, Willerby has established itself within the UK holiday home market as a brand associated with premium quality, technical innovation, and breadth of offering. From its two recently expanded production sites in Hull employing circa 900 people, Willerby
HIG Capital (HIG), a leading global private equity and alternative asset firm with over USD21 billion of equity capital under management, is pleased to announce that one of its affiliates led a strategic investment in Trace3, Inc.
Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Trace3 is a leading digital transformation and IT solutions provider to medium- and large-sized enterprise clients. Since its founding in 2002, the Company has established a regional market-leading position in the technology solutions provider space with significant expertise in areas such as Cloud, Security, Data Intelligence, DevOps, Data Center solutions, etc. Trace3 employs over 250 engineers with deep domain
Liberty Hall Capital Partners (Liberty Hall), a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defence industry, has acquired Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Ltd, an independent global designer, manufacturer and retreader of aircraft tires, in a transaction valued at USD135 million.
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres represents Liberty Hall’s first portfolio company focused on providing aftermarket products and services to the global aerospace and defence industry.
Dunlop is the brand of tire originally produced by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company beginning at the end of the 19th century, taking its name from founder John Boyd Dunlop.
Orrick has advised Michelin on its acquisition of NexTraq, a US provider of commercial fleet telematics, from Fleetcor Technologies in an all-cash transaction.
NexTraq provides solutions for driver safety, fuel management and enhancing fleet productivity. Since its inception in 2000, NexTraq has become a leading provider of GPS fleet management solutions for fleets of small commercial vehicles (classes three to five) ranging from two to 50 vehicles.
“Telematics and fleet management services are a rapidly growing category worldwide and an important area of Michelin Group’s overall business plans,” says Ralph Dimenna, chief operating officer for Michelin Americas Truck Tires,
Independent credit provider InPark Square Capital (Park Square) has gone live on IHS Markit’s order management and portfolio modelling system, thinkFolio.
The implementation delivers operational efficiencies for Park Square’s front and middle office functions, with thinkFolio seamlessly integrating with the firm’s other IHS Markit loan offerings, providing end-to-end connectivity and workflows.
Park Square is using thinkFolio for portfolio modelling and construction, cash management, compliance and automation of the trading and trade approval processes. thinkFolio facilitates straight-through-processing to WSO, IHS Markit’s loan portfolio software, providing a single platform for position management, full portfolio NAV and reporting.
Park Square has
Electra Private Equity has completed the appointment of G10 Capital, part of Lawson Conner Group, to serve as the Company’s AIFM, responsible for ensuring compliance with the AIFM Directive.
Electra joins a strong suite of private equity managers on the Lawson Conner platform including four additional global mandates thus far in 2017.
“The award of the Electra mandate is in line with our focus on private equity investment vehicles and our experience in the listed space. We are very excited for phase II of the Electra story and look forward to working towards this with the team throughout 2017”,
Edge Investments (Edge), a specialist investment house focused on the creative industries sector, has taken a stake in Antidote Productions.
Antidote is an independent, factual TV production company based in London, working with major UK and international broadcasters. The Company was founded by Laura Jones, BAFTA and RTS award-winning filmmaker, and factual TV expert, Leila Monks.
Antidote has fast built a reputation for creating critically acclaimed shows including: powerful documentary Professor Green: Suicide and Me (BBC 3), which was nominated for five awards (Broadcast Award, BAFTA Craft Award, Press Guild Award, Televisual BullDog Award, and Mind Media Awards) and
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