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Dentons has appointed Giulio Andreani as a partner in the law firm’s tax practice in Italy.
He joins along with a team of five, including senior counsel Giuseppe Ferrara, senior associates Irene Avanzini, Giacomo D’Angelo and associates Erika Andreani and Valeria Andreani.
They will be based in Dentons’ Milan office.
In 2016, Andreani was named “Tax Litigation Lawyer of the Year” at both the TopLegal Awards and Legalcommunity Tax Awards. He is also recommended by Chambers & Partners as one of the leading tax lawyers in Italy.
Andreani is renowned for his experience in tax litigation,
French private equity firm Activa Capital has appointed Xavier Govare, former president of Labeyrie Fine Foods, as chairman of the company’s industrial committee.
He succeeds Philippe du Mesnil, former president of Ceva Santé Animale.
Du Mesnil will remain fully active on the industrial committee, of which he has been a productive member for more than 14 years.
The industrial committee is composed of 15 renowned industry experts who support the Activa Capital team in the study of investment opportunities and the monitoring of portfolio companies.
“Having had the pleasure of serving as president of Activa’s industrial
New York-based High Road Capital Partners has appointed Nicholas W Martino as partner and Eojin Lee as vice president.
“I’m pleased to welcome Nick and Eojin to the High Road team,” says Bob Fitzsimmons, managing partner of High Road Capital Partners. “I believe they will be tremendous assets to the firm. They join at an exciting time, as we recently marked our tenth anniversary and we continue to grow.”
Martino will serve as an operating partner and assist portfolio management teams with creating and implementing strategies designed to produce best-in-class performance and accelerate revenue growth. He serves on
Fundamental Advisors, an alternative asset manager focused on special situations in municipal market and public purpose assets, has held the final close of its third private equity fund, Fundamental Partners III, with USD993 million in capital commitments.
Fundamental exceeded its target for Fund III.
A majority of Fundamental’s existing investors committed to the fund, alongside a diverse group of new investors including state and corporate pensions, foundations, financial institutions, and ultra-high net worth platforms.
Consistent with prior funds, Fundamental will invest Fund III in municipal and public purpose assets that are critical to the community, including affordable
Social Native, a platform for branded content on demand, has closed a USD8 million seed round.
Social Native received extensive interest from investors in the wake of the company’s early success creating content for brands like Polaroid, Walgreens and General Motors.
In an oversubscribed round, Social Native attracted funds from a number of leading venture capital firms including SoftBank Capital.
The funding will enable Social Native to double down on its investment into the Content Optimisation Engine and further the company’s mission of using technology to reimagine the creative industry while investing in sales and marketing to
Dallas-based Preston Hollow Capital (PHC), an independent specialty finance company, has appointed Matthew Challis as executive director.
Challis brings an extensive public finance background to PHC, most recently as a Managing Director with RBC Capital Markets, and previously holding senior vice president roles with Jefferies’ Municipal Securities Group and Piper Jaffray’s Public Finance Group.
He joins the originations team at PHC, headed by managing director Ramiro Albarran.
“We’re excited and pleased to have Matt on board,” says Albarran. “Hiring a banker with his level of talent and capability in the public finance space is a win for PHC.
Nexxus Capital has completed its investment in Immuno Holding, (IMMUNOTEC), which, through its subsidiaries, is dedicated to the development and commercialisation of nutritional supplements through multi-level direct sales channels.
The investment was carried out by Nexus Capital Private Equity Fund VI and Nexxus Capital VI Trust in association with Mauricio Domenzain, who has industry experience in Mexico, the US and other countries as a former executive of a direct selling company.
Domenzain will assume the leadership of the team of executives and collaborators in Mexico, Canada and the US.
IMMUNOTEC’s products are commercialised through multi- level direct
Nautic Partners is to acquire, in partnership with the existing management team, Endries International and certain Endries related affiliates, from Ferguson Enterprises and its affiliates.
The transaction is expected to close within the next 45 days.
Endries is a distributor of fasteners and Class-C parts serving industrial Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide. From its headquarters in Brillion, WI and eight US and international distribution centres, Endries provides over 500,000 SKUs to its customer base. Endries operates primarily through a vendor managed inventory model, managing C-part categories for its customers across diverse industrial end markets. Endries partners with OEM customers
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Aavid Thermalloy to Boyd Corporation, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital Management.
Aavid, founded in 1964 and headquartered in Laconia, New Hampshire, provides a broad range of technologically advanced thermal management solutions for aerospace and defence, telecommunications, LED lighting, server, data centre, consumer electronics, transportation, and industrial applications to customers globally.
Since 2012, Aavid has completed seven acquisitions, expanding its geographic footprint and diversifying into new technologies and end markets.
Geoffrey Rehnert, co-chief executive officer of Audax, says: “The Aavid team has executed on its thesis of accelerating organic
Ambit has appointed Vikrant Narang as head – NBFC/structured finance.
The business has additionally brought in Sunil Gulati as an external senior adviser.
Sanjay Sakhuja, CEO, Ambit Investments, says: “Ambit’s NBFC business, along with co-investors, will focus on providing Structured Lending solutions to our clients. I am delighted to welcome Vikrant to lead this initiative, and to welcome Sunil, whose counsel will significantly enhance our risk underwriting capabilities.”
Narang joins Ambit from KKR’s NBFC business, where he has led several transactions over the past four years. He has extensive experience across structured finance, acquisition financing, syndicated loans
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