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Portfolio Advisors, a private markets-focused investment firm, has held the closing of PA Direct Credit Opportunities Fund II (PADCOF II) with total commitments of USD740 million, reaching the top end of its target fundraising range.
The fund received support from existing and new investors, which included pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals both in the US and abroad.
To date, PADCOF II has invested over 30 per cent of its capital in 10 companies.
Consistent with Portfolio Advisors’ direct credit investment team’s prior experience, PADCOF II partners with top-tier private equity
AUA Private Equity Partners has selected its 2017 Class of AUAccelerate, the firm’s accelerator programme formed in March 2016 in partnership with the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which advises and mentors emerging minority or woman-owned businesses in the US.
This year’s class, the programme’s second, will include Nut Burgers, Chapin Coffee, and del Carmen Foods.
AUA Private Equity will leverage its resources, expertise, executives, and network of advisers to provide advisory services and technical expertise tailored to the needs of each company.
AUA Private Equity, which invests in the Hispanic market as a targeted strategy, sees a
Alternative asset advisory firm Campbell Lutyens has appointed Gordon Bajnai in a part time executive role as chairman of the firm’s global advisory board.
Bajnai will assist the firm in managing senior level relationships, providing advice to the firm’s clients and counterparties as well as supporting and advising on the development of the group.
Prior to his appointment in early 2009 as Prime Minister of Hungary to lead the country through a major economic crisis he had been an investment banker with Creditanstalt, chief executive of one of Hungary’s largest private equity holding companies, head of the National Development
Dallas-based alternative investment firm Highland Capital Management has appointed Damon Krytzer as managing director, supporting business development across the firm's institutional platform.
The addition of Krytzer (pictured)is part of Highland's ongoing commitment to reshape its institutional platform to meet the needs of investors in today's increasingly complex investment environment.
Highland is focusing on institutional product strategy that draws on the firm's core competencies in fundamental credit research. In addition, the firm is looking to develop other areas of its institutional business including private equity and real estate.
Krytzer will report to Brad Eden, who joined Highland in 2016 as
NorthEdge Capital has sold energy technology provider Utiligroup to Energy Services Group (ESG), a provider of technology solutions to the retail energy and utility industries, for an undisclosed sum.
Founded in 1997, the Chorley-headquartered company is a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to the utilities and energy industries and has been the pioneer in delivering Energy2.0, the emergence of the independent energy market and the analogue to digital smart meter revolution.
Utiligroup will join ESG, an Accel-KKR portfolio company, to support the company’s global growth strategy, providing a footprint in the European market. ESG has recently expanded its presence
Post Holdings, a consumer packaged goods holding company, is to acquire Weetabix from Shanghai-based state owned enterprise Bright Food Group and an investment fund advised by Barings Private Equity Asia, in a deal worth GBP1.4 billion.
Baker McKenzie acted for Post Holdings. The Baker McKenzie team is led by London corporate partner Charles Whitefoord, supported by senior associate James Adams and associate Anna Scott together with partners Bill Batchelor (Brussels) and Regine Corrado (Chicago) and associate Daniel De Deo (Washington DC).
The Baker McKenzie team worked alongside Lewis Rice (Tom Zook and Alfred Ludwig) who advised Post on the US
Carey Olsen's corporate team in Guernsey has been the first to establish a Guernsey Private Investment Fund (PIF) since the new class was introduced.
Partner Christopher Anderson (pictured) led the Carey Olsen team advising specialist private investment firm Cairngorm Capital Partners on the GBP107.5 million final closing of its second fund, Cairngorm Capital II.
Cairngorm II is the first Guernsey fund to be established as a PIF since the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) licensed and registered PIFs class was introduced on 16 November 2016.
The team, including senior associate John Scanlan and associate Colin Calvert, advised on
Waleed El-Amir has joined Evercore’s investment banking business as a senior adviser for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.
Evercore expects to open a new office in Dubai early in the second quarter of 2017.
El-Amir has over 20 years of experience in international finance, having held senior leadership positions in North America, Europe and the Middle East across corporate banking, investment banking and treasury and has been involved in helping raise over USD200 billion in the equity and debt capital markets for his clients.
Most recently, El-Amir was head of group finance at UniCredit, where he was
Investment company Fortino Capital has appointed Filip Van Innis as investment manager.
Van Innis will focus both on sourcing and realising deals and on following up on and supporting the portfolio.
Van Innis worked for five years at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), from associate up to project leader. His focus there was primarily on corporate development, telecom and financial services.
During a secondment period of one year with BNP Paribas Fortis, Van Innis worked on innovative opportunities in retail banking.
Duco Sickinghe, managing partner at Fortino Capital, says: “With Filip joining our team, we have even
Travers Smith has advised long-standing client Patron Capital, the pan-European real estate private equity fund, on the sale of neuro disability care provider The Badby Group to Elysium Healthcare, a mental healthcare provider backed by BC Partners.
The Badby Group, led by healthcare specialists Tim Street and Daniel Kay of Patron Capital, has four facilities across the country and has grown from 68 beds to 316 beds over a five-year period.
Tim Street, senior adviser at Patron Capital, says: "Patron has a proven track record for investing in award-winning healthcare businesses that create and deliver quality outcomes, and this
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