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An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital has made an investment in VIP Cinema.
Headquartered in New Albany, MS, VIP is a designer and assembler of premium seating solutions for the global cinema industry.
Founded in 2008, VIP helped to pioneer the premium seating concept and is the largest manufacturer of luxury cinema seating in the world.
“We are very excited to partner with Steve Simons, Eddie Powell and the rest of the VIP Cinema team,” says Tenno Tsai, managing director at HIG. “VIP is the clear leader in a rapidly growing market and has a
Indos Financial, the UK independent depositary, has secured approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to extend its Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) depositary permissions to become a full depositary.
The move represents the first such authorisation of a non-bank entity in the UK since AIFMD was introduced in 2014.
The permissions build upon the firm's depositary-lite business servicing non-EU funds as well as its UK private equity, real estate and debt fund business. In less than three years this business has grown to comprise 70 funds across 56 managers and USD14 billion of assets.
The extended permissions will
Canadian investment manager The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) has launched a European hub in London.
PSP Investments' growing local team will focus on high-quality, long-term investments predominantly in the private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate asset classes.
The team will combine long-term capital with financially oriented insight from the firm’s partners and management teams to form strategic industry specialised investment platforms across Europe. In the last year alone, the team has made significant acquisitions, in line with its mandate to continue to increase PSP Investments' exposure in the European market.
"PSP Investments' vision
PineBridge Investments, a global multi-asset class asset manager, has launched the PineBridge European Secured Credit Fund, co-managed by portfolio managers Julie Bothamley and Evangeline Lim and global head of credit and fixed income Steven Oh.
The investment objective of the fund is to provide investors with income returns and capital preservation from a diversified portfolio of European sub-investment grade debt obligations issued by corporations in various industries and geographical regions.
The fund will seek to achieve these returns from investing in primarily senior secured obligations.
“Senior secured debt, particularly, bank loans, carry a higher recovery rate and rank
Law firm Bond Dickinson has advised longstanding client Piper, an investor in consumer brands, on its GBP10 million investment in Flat Iron, the London-based steak restaurant.
Piper's investment will provide Flat Iron with the funding needed to bolster the team so it can continue to deliver quality and value across its four restaurants in Soho, Tottenham Court Road, Covent Garden and Shoreditch.
The deal will also support the restaurant's growth ambitions to open more units in London to meet customer demand.
The Bond Dickinson team, led by corporate finance partner Simon Hewes and solicitor Sammy Hill, advised on
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm specialising in healthcare, has made an initial investment of EUR7 million in NIMGenetics, a genetic diagnostic laboratory based in Spain.
The company is operating in a fast-growing market and generated 34 per cent in revenue growth last year.
Apposite’s investment will enable NIMGenetics to further develop its service offering as well as support its international expansion, especially in Latin America.
NIMGenetics uses the latest genomic technologies to offer products and services in a number of medical areas including pre-natal testing, gynaecology, neurology, paediatrics, cardiology and oncology. The company was created in 2008 and
Independent fund research company Fitz Partners gives an insight into the calculations of funds’ performance fees and their choice of benchmarks in the latest edition of its Performance Fee Benchmarking Report and Database.
Hugues Gillibert (pictured), chief executive officer of Fitz Partners, says: “In light of growing discussions on how asset managers should be charging for ‘value’ and the alignment of investors and fund managers’ interests through the possible development of performance related fees, a deep understanding of performance fee structures is critical. Our latest Performance Fee Benchmarking report and database, offers the means to easily compare and analyse different performance
Morrison Street Capital’s Morrison Street Debt Opportunities Fund (MSDO) has reached its target with total equity commitments of USD200 million.
MSDO provides small-balance mezzanine capital, with investment balances generally ranging from USD2 million to USD10 million, to real estate market participants across a diversified set of property types in the top 100 MSAs nationwide.
MSDO’s investments are structured as either mezzanine debt, B-notes or preferred equity, tailored to meet the specific needs of each situation.
Morrison Street Capital formed MSDO to capitalise on the current opportunity in the debt capital markets, as well as to leverage its experience
SSA & Company has appointed Philippe Rose as managing director.
Rose, who brings over 25 years of experience in chemicals and management consulting, will grow and lead the firm's European private equity and industrials practice having formerly run Celerant's Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) private equity practice.
In that role, he covered the full M&A cycle, from due diligence to post-merger integration, across multiple sectors as well as working on the sell side in chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
"Increasingly, our clients ask for support of their global businesses," says Paul de Janosi, senior managing director at SSA. "Philippe
PenderFund Capital Management, the manager of the Pender suite of investment and alternative funds, has appointed Maria Pacella to its investment management team.
Pacella joins Pender as senior vice president of private equity.
She has 16 years of experience of investing in emerging growth companies, mostly in the areas of information technology and med-tech. This experience includes operational roles, M&A facilitation and board memberships. She has built an extensive technology network across North America, notably in Silicon Valley. She is an active member and a past President of CFA Society, Vancouver.
Pacella joins Pender to launch a private
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