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By Matt Mulry, Dillon Eustace – Cayman has seen a healthy increase in private equity funds year on year over the past decade. The popularity of Cayman private equity funds has been fuelled by both the evolution of hedge fund managers’ businesses into the private equity fund space and by the increased use of private equity funds to pursue distressed asset investments.
The Cayman exempted limited partnership (ELP) structure is the most commonly used entity for Cayman private equity funds and is internationally recognised as a flexible, tax-neutral, low-cost fund vehicle. ELPs do not have their own legal personality and their
Omnes Capital had made its first investment in a Portuguese start-up by participating in a EUR4 million financing round for 360imprimir alongside local venture capital firm Pathena.
The funds raised will mainly be used to accelerate the start-up’s international expansion and to further enrich the product offering.
360imprimir is a one-stop-shop of marketing goods and services (leaflets, cards, large format, etc.) for companies based in Spain and Portugal, as well as in Brazil and Mexico.
360imprimir was founded in Lisbon in 2013 by six young entrepreneurs and primarily targets micro-businesses with less than 10 employees.
360imprimir offers
Tikehau Capital, a pan-European listed alternative asset management and investment firm, has appointed Peter Cirenza as head of its London operations, effective 24 April 2017.
Cirenza will be responsible for helping develop the firm’s private asset strategies – private debt, real estate and private equity.
He will be running the London operations alongside chairman Lord Peter Levene.
Cirenza has been a member of Tikehau Capital’s advisory board since 2005. In this role, he has been supporting the company’s leadership team providing his insight as an outside expert in principal investing, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions.
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Clayton Euro Risk, a provider of risk analysis on mortgage and asset finance, has appointed Maurice Wijmans (pictured)to the newly-created role of senior manager – business development for the Netherlands.
Based in The Hague and working across the country, Wijmans takes up his role with immediate effect, reporting to Clayton Euro Risk’s strategic delivery director Simon Collingridge.
His primary focus will be to build relationships across a range of markets including commercial real estate, consumer, shipping and corporate finance in the Netherlands to ensure that Clayton’s services deliver value and fully meet the needs of its clients.
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Cairngorm Capital has appointed Amit Thaper as investment director, extending the firm’s capacity for new investments.
Thaper joins from HIG Capital, a global private equity investment firm, where he was a vice president in the Boston office. Thaper was involved in acquiring and advising value-orientated, lower middle-market companies with high-return outlooks.
Prior to HIG Capital, Thaper worked as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company, both in Boston and London. At Bain, he advised clients across a range of industries including healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, as well as conducting due diligence studies for private equity and hedge funds.
BGF has provided GBP5 million of long-term funding for Renegade, a London headquartered business which is developing a major whiskey project on Ireland’s south-eastern coast.
The funding will be used for continued development and production of single malt whiskey at Renegade’s Waterford distillery in Ireland.
Renegade’s founders – Mark Reynier, Sir John Mactaggart and John Adams – are veterans of the drinks industry having previously acquired the disused Bruichladdich Distillery on Islay off the West Coast of Scotland in 2002. They rebuilt the distillery and brand, before selling the business to Remy Cointreau in 2012 for GBP58 million.
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Maven Capital Partners has completed the GBP6 million management buy-out of ProspectSoft to support the roll-out of the new cloud-based SaaS software – Prospect365.
ProspectSoft provides customer relationship management (CRM) and e-commerce software for the business-to-business (B2B) market.
Its technology can be fully integrated with clients’ existing accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages including systems such as Access Dimension, Exchequer, Pegasus and Sage.
The business will use the funding from Maven to help roll out its new Cloud-based SaaS software application Prospect365. The product was officially launched in December 2016 following several years of development and will
Align Capital Partners’ platform company Alliance Source Testing (AST) has acquired the stack testing operations of Golden Specialty, a provider of source emission (or stack) testing services to industrial facilities in the western US.
Partnering with AST will allow the combined company to deepen customer relationships through greater proximity to existing and newly served customer facilities.
Together, AST and Golden have a strong national footprint of nine offices across Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Iowa, with attractive geographic density in key regions and the technical expertise to serve a diverse range of end markets.
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Serra Ventures, a Champaign, Illinois-based venture capital firm, has appointed John Giuliani as a venture partner.
Giuliani has over 30 years of experience helping and growing successful businesses. He took the helm of Dotomi and built the company until it was sold for USD295 million.
Subsequently, as CEO of Conversant, Giuliani led the company to significant growth and a USD2.3 billion exit to Alliance Data in December 2014.
“I am very pleased to welcome John as a venture partner to our team,” says Tim Hoerr, managing partner and CEO of Serra Ventures. “John has great expertise in a variety of business domains
Law firm Howard Kennedy has advised Lynx Equity on its acquisition of specialist label printer Label Express.
The acquisition completed on 12 April and is Lynx Equity’s second UK investment.
Lynx Equity is a Canadian-based private equity firm with a diverse portfolio of companies across North America. It invests in small and medium sized businesses, typically valued between USD1 million and USD10 million, where owners wish to retire. Its first investment in the UK was the acquisition earlier in 2017 of specialist bathroom and kitchen storage company SignalHome. Further UK acquisitions are expected.
Label Express has for the past 30
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