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BakerHostetler has added partners Goodarz “Goody” Agahi and Ryan Gaglio and associates Pace McCaskill and Ron Birnkrant to the firm’s Costa Mesa office.
Agahi, McCaskill and Birnkrant join the firm’s business and corporate group and Gaglio joins the tax practice.
The team comes to BakerHostetler from Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth.
Agahi focuses his practice on complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, recapitalisations and financings. He has represented clients in matters in various industries, including, among others, apparel, technology, consumer products, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Agahi also acts as general outside counsel for clients,
Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co, has appointed Garrett Ryan as a partner and head of capital markets, effective immediately.
At Twin Brook, Ryan will be responsible for all capital markets related activities and will be based in Chicago.
“Garrett is an accomplished executive with extensive experience originating, structuring, and overseeing the execution of middle-market leveraged transactions,” say Trevor Clark and Chris Williams, co-heads of Twin Brook. “Given the overwhelming demand we have received from our private equity clients to agent and lead their transactions, we believe the timing is right
Venture capital fund Suir Valley Ventures, which was launched in partnership with Shard Capital Partners in February 2017, has made its first investment in Immersive VR Education (IVRE), a developer of virtual reality (VR) software and immersive experiences with a specific focus on education.
Suir, together with Kernel through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds and Enterprise Ireland, have invested a combined total of EUR1 million in IVRE.
A spin-out from WIT's research-based Telecoms Software and Systems Group (TSSG), IVRE’s platform provides virtual reality content that can be used in schools, colleges, universities, research centres and corporate
Italian security firm Axitea has received majority approval for a proposed deal with creditors on its EUR200 million total debt, aimed at ensuring the going concern of the business.
The deal, which subject to final court approval, will see the injection of EUR32 million of fresh finance into the business via a new vehicle, specifically created by private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners.
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners advised Axitea and Stirling Square Capital Partners on the legal profiles of the deal through a team composed of partners Riccardo Agostinelli and Sergio Fulco, and associates Riccardo Sgrò and
The California Alternative Investments Association (CalALTs), whose members include alternative asset managers, investors and service providers in California, has issued a white paper on best practices for hedge fund and private equity operations.
Operational due diligence has played a more pivotal role in the hedge funds and private equity firms as the alternative investment industry has developed over the past 10 years.
The white paper, which was developed by the CalALTS Best Practices Committee, seeks to outline crucial operational best practices for the industry.
Areas of focus include: general operational best practices including internal staffing; portfolio valuation best
Quantexa has closed a USD3.3 million Series A investment, led by Albion Ventures and HSBC with the new capital set to be used to further accelerate product development and international expansion.
Founded in 2016 by a team of world-class software, data and advanced analytics experts, Quantexa currently uses big data analytics to tackle complex financial crime and data challenges within the financial services, corporate and public sectors.
In its first year, the company has been awarded several significant enterprise mandates in its target sectors.
The investment will enable Quantexa to further accelerate the development of its Entity Resolution and Network
BioPharma Credit, a newly incorporated investment trust, has raised gross cash proceeds of USD373,265,200 from a successful placing, offer and PL subscription following a book-building process.
The company has also received an additional subscription of USD50,000,000. No further additional subscriptions are expected.
Further to the announcement released on 20 March 2017, the company has decided to satisfy in full the demand received pursuant to the tender offers and will issue 338,612,160 shares totalling USD338,612,160.
Gross issue proceeds therefore total USD761,877,360 and the company will issue 761,877,360 shares. This exceeds the company’s initial target of USD300 million.
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VARIV Capital, a Latin America venture capital firm, and Chilango Ventures, an investment firm with offices in San Francisco and Mexico City, have invested in MPOWER Financing.
The investment aims to help the fintech firm expand its presence in Latin America and attract a greater number of high-potential students to America’s best colleges and universities.
Latin American students already represent 25 percent of MPOWER’s outstanding loan portfolio, with Mexico representing the third-largest student population currently studying in the US through MPOWER’s financial support.
“We have worked diligently to attract sophisticated investors like VARIV Capital and Chilango Ventures who
The Riverside Company has promoted two investment professionals to partner.
Joe Manning works out of the firm’s Cleveland office and Steven Spiteri works in Riverside’s Melbourne, Australia office.
Manning first joined Riverside in 2006 and re-joined in 2011 after taking several years off to work at an international non-profit development firm and attend graduate school. Manning is the current lead on three platform investments, and has played a key role on a number of successful exited investments, including SaaS-based membership management software provider YourMembership and tankless water heater manufacturer Eemax. He also leads its software and IT specialisation efforts.
Pamplona Capital Management, together with the existing management team, has acquired a majority interest in Legacy.com, a provider of obituary-related products and services to newspapers, funeral homes, and more than 43 million monthly visitors across the globe.
It is Pamplona’s fourth investment from Pamplona TMT I, its USD1 billion, US-based private equity fund focused on growth equity and control investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors.
This investment follows more than a decade of double-digit growth at Legacy.com, driven by a surging e-commerce business, a flourishing top 40 internet web domain, and an expanding US and global presence.
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