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Shore Capital Partners’ product platform IZI Medical Products has acquired the vertebroplasty family of products from Cook Medical.
The acquired products are commercially marketed under the Duro-Ject Osteo-Site, Osteo-Force and Vertefix brands, consisting of needles, injectors and cements.
These products are used in the growing market for treating vertebral compression fractures through a minimally invasive procedure.
“Cook has done an excellent job establishing these products as reliable, high-quality solutions for treating vertebral compression fractures and we have enjoyed working with them on this transaction,” says Greg Groenke, chief executive officer, IZI Medical. “We are excited to increase the
Neology is to acquire the tolling and automated license/number plate recognition business of 3M’s traffic safety and security division.
Neology is a subsidiary of SMARTRAC, a portfolio company managed by One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle-market private equity firm.
The transaction is expected to close by the third quarter of 2017, subject to customary closing conditions, regulatory approvals and consultation or information requirements with relevant works councils. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
The business’s tolling solutions include high-quality RFID readers and tags, automatic vehicle classification systems, lane controller and host software, and back office software
Regan Capital, a fixed income trading and registered investment firm, has selected and implemented Fund Studio as its portfolio management system.
Fund Studio, the flagship product of Objecutive, is a SaaS application that provides middle and back office functionality to the buy side community.
Regan Capital was founded by Skyler Weinand in August 2011 with USD2 million in capital, and has grown to close to USD400 million in assets under management. About 90 per cent of Regan Capital’s portfolio is invested in residential mortgages, both agencies and non-agencies, and the rest of the portfolio is in municipals, CMBS, equities
Fintech and payment solutions provider Tuxedo Money Solutions has been acquired by Erik Fällström and Andreas H Tuczka, of Aldridge EDC Specialty Finance Partners (AEDC).
Fällström, former co-founder of HOIST Finance, and Tuczka, former partner at Lone Star Europe, will support Tuxedo CEO John Sharman in delivering the company’s growth plans across Europe and beyond.
With extensive experience within financial services, the new investors will help to drive Tuxedo’s diversification and growth on four fronts: customised, white label card and payment programmes; PayTech platform solutions, centred around Tuxedo’s new Liveload technology; alternative banking services; and expansion into the consumer credit
Morrison & Foerster has appointed Rob Mailer as a partner in the firm’s corporate group in London.
Mailer, who focuses on fund formation and fund management, represents both fund sponsors and investors across a broad range of strategies, including growth, venture capital, infrastructure, buy-out and debt funds.
He regularly acts on carried interest schemes, structuring co-investments, spin outs and the establishment of new fund managers.
Mailer’s practice spans a wide range of sectors, including finance, technology, emerging markets and infrastructure. He has a particular interest in high-growth and scale-up businesses.
Paul Friedman, Morrison & Foerster’s managing partner
Kreditech has closed a EUR110 million investment from global online payment service provider PayU.
The investment is the largest ever equity investment in a German fintech company and builds on a 12-month pilot programme in Poland.
As part of the deal, Kreditech and PayU agreed a global partnership to deliver a joint proposition for point of sale finance. The agreement combines PayU’s international footprint with Kreditech’s technology to bring credit services to underbanked markets around the world.
Kreditech will expand its Lending as a Service (LaaS) offering and deliver its unique AI and machine-learning credit underwriting and loan
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
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