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Medical Imaging Partnership (MIP), a diagnostic imaging provider, has completed the acquisition of the MRI business and the transfer of staff of Nuada Medical, based at 45 Queen Anne Street in London, for an undisclosed sum.
MIP has assumed the lease for 45 Queen Anne Street and plans to build on the established reputation of the imaging services established by Nuada at the facility, relying on the 3T MRI scanner installed at the site.
It will continue to serve a range of complex imaging needs, particularly in multiparametric prostate scanning, neurological, and musculoskeletal imaging, and plans to expand the
Alternative asset management firm Constitution Capital has added Steven Shekane and Jonathan Williams to its credit team.
“We are very pleased to have Steve and John joining our team,” says Daniel M Cahill, managing partner of Constitution Capital. “Our people and culture are what drive our success. Steve and John each bring a combination of experience, intellectual curiosity and a passion for the middle market. These quality attributes sit at the heart of our firm’s foundation and success.”
Shekane joins Constitution Capital as a managing director and brings over 16 years of industry experience, having most recently worked as
83North has closed an oversubscribed new venture capital fund at USD250 million.
The fourth raised in 11 years, 83North IV brings total capital under management to USD800 million.
The new fund will be deployed in the best consumer and enterprise technology companies led by aspiring European and Israeli entrepreneurs.
83North has a five-strong team of investing partners who have worked with the region’s most ambitious founders to create market-leading technology businesses. Laurel Bowden, Arnon Dinur, Gil Goren, Erez Ofer and Yoram Snir have backed more than 40 companies including Just Eat, Telit, Hybris (acquired by SAP), ScaleIO (acquired
International law firm Hogan Lovells is adding M&A partners Richard Climan, Keith Flaum and Jane Ross, and IP and technology transactions partner John Brockland to its global corporate team.
Climan and Flaum will join the global leadership teams within Hogan Lovells’ corporate practice.
Climan, Flaum, Ross and Brockland have worked together for nearly 20 years. Over that period, the team has handled some of the most significant transactions in the technology and life sciences sectors, having worked with companies such as Adobe, Ant Financial, Applied Materials, eBay, Facebook, Gilead Sciences, Intel, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Oracle, Qorvo and Synopsys.
The
The Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) has launched its new private equity (PE) structure, coinciding with its first full year of operation, having received its FCA accreditation in April 2016.
The new structure brings the GBP1.8 billion PE assets of its two shareholder funds, the London Pensions Fund Authority and Lancashire County Pension Fund under the management of LPP Investments (LPPI), a fully-owned subsidiary of LPP.
It also sets up LPPI to act as a full-fledged, FCA-authorised investment manager that can now be appointed directly by other funds to manage private equity investments.
LPP’s PE strategy seeks to achieve
Campbell Lutyens, a global alternative asset advisory firm focused on fund placement and secondary advisory, has expanded its secondary advisory practice with three new appointments.
Annabelle Judd has joined as a senior vice president in London, Bon-Jay Tseng as a vice president in New York and Ana Dicu as a senior associate in London.
These latest appointments take the global secondary advisory team to 27 and the total team at Campbell Lutyens to over 100.
Judd joins Campbell Lutyens after 10 years at Rothschild advising on M&A transactions most recently focusing on consumer products, retail & leisure sectors.
Solteq has acquired a majority share majority of Analyteq Oy, which provides a stock replenishment service based on demand forecasting and an analytics service based on supply chain management.
The company works in close cooperation with the software company Relex Solutions.
“In practice, the analytics service for stock replenishment enables, if so desired, outsourcing the replenishment ordering completely to us – this is an issue that has previously constituted a highly sensitive area of business. In addition, we have – among the first companies in Europe – enabled automating the ordering of fresh produce to stores by lowering product
Audax Private Equity has partnered with existing management to acquire Fastener Distribution Holdings (FDH) from Housatonic Partners.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
FDH, headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, is a distributor of aerospace fasteners and other c-class components to commercial and defence aircraft manufacturers, subcontractors, and component distributors through its Arlington International Aviation Products (AIAP) and Aircraft Fasteners International (AFI) divisions.
Geoffrey Rehnert, co-CEO of Audax, says: “FDH is a highly regarded leader in the fragmented aerospace c-class components distribution market. We are excited to partner with Scott Tucker, Bill Ganss, Rick Ferguson, and
Private equity firm Manadain Capital Partners’ MCP II fund has teamed with other qualified private investors to acquire La Fabbrica, an Italian manufacturer of high-end ceramic tiles and coatings.
The transaction, which will be carried out via the Italcer vehicle, marks the first stage of a project to create an Italian ceramics group which will benefit from production efficiencies, commercial synergies, and international development.
Graziano Verdi, who has extensive experience in the ceramics industry as CEO of Graniti Fiandre, which is now listed on the STAR segment of the Italian Stock Exchange, will be in charge of leading and
Private equity investment manager Foresight Group has completed a GBP3 million investment into Ollie Quinn, via Foresight VCT, to fund the rollout of additional stores throughout the UK and Canada.
Ollie Quinn is a branded retailer of prescription glasses, sunglasses and non-prescription polarised sunglasses based in the UK and Canada.
The group has experienced strong growth since inception in 2013, and now has 16 stores across two countries.
Foresight’s private equity team continues to be very active in the UK SME market. The team completed 12 investments during 2016 and Oliver Quinn is among five completed in the
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