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Hatteras Venture Partners has been selected by the State of North Carolina (NC) as the manager of the Venture Capital Multiplier Fund (VCMF), which has USD60 million in capital.
A portion of the VCMF has been committed to the latest Hatteras venture capital fund, Hatteras Venture Partners V (HVP V).
The remainder and significant majority of VCMF capital is allocated to co-investments in North Carolina Nexus companies.
For the purposes of the VCMF, NC Nexus companies are those that are headquartered in NC; have significant operations in NC; are commercialising intellectual property developed in NC; or as a
Boston-based growth equity firm Brook Venture Partners has promoted Brennan Mulcahey, Jonathan Green and Kyle Stanbro to partner.
They join partners and board members Fred Morris, Ned Williams and Walter Beinecke, and director of finance and operations Jenn Mosto, as members of the senior management team.
The firm has also promoted Ryan Wittman and Amit Nagdev to associate.
Morris says: “Brook has doubled its assets under management over the past five years while evolving its focus from earlier stage investments to control, growth equity investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies. These three upcoming partners and two associates
Global fiduciary and administration provider Estera has acquired Guernsey-based Morgan Sharpe Administration.
The deal was finalised on 27 February and is subject to regulatory approvals, following which the business will be rebranded under the Estera name.
Farah Ballands, CEO of Estera, says: “This is a great start to the new year following the success of our rebrand in 2016. The team at Morgan Sharpe is a perfect fit with the Estera group – they are committed to the high standards of service that our clients are accustomed to and we are pleased to welcome them. Under our ownership, Morgan
Bosham Capital Advisors (BCA) has completed its first deal on behalf of British Country Inns (BCI), which is selling its portfolio of 16 traditional pubs.
Liberation Group has bought two freehold pubs for an undisclosed sum. Both pubs are located in Somerset: the Lime Kiln Inn, Knole and Beambridge, Sampford Arundel.
The BCI group consists of four companies originally financed via the EIS by Smith & Williamson. Chairman of the companies Martin Sherwood is senior partner of Enterprise Investment Partners (EIP), a specialist small cap corporate finance boutique with particular focus on the tax-efficient market, which provides management and
Related Companies has made an investment in Ladder Capital, purchasing USD80 million of Ladder stock from certain pre-IPO shareholders of Ladder, including affiliates of TowerBrook Capital Partners and GI Partners.
In connection with the investment, Ladder has granted Related a right of first offer with respect to certain horizontal risk retention investments in which Ladder intends to retain an interest.
The investment was made by Related Real Estate Fund II, an opportunity fund, with equity commitments of over USD1 billion.
Justin Metz, managing principal of Related Fund Management, says: “Ladder’s strong and seasoned management team operates a disciplined
Cortland Capital Market Services, a Chicago-based global investment servicing company, and its wholly owned UK subsidiary, Cortland EMEA Limited, have launched a global asset-based lending (ABL) platform.
Cortland's ABL Servicing focuses on serving investment managers, commercial lenders and commercial finance companies throughout the US and Europe.
Cortland has appointed industry veteran Ellen Cook to lead ABL Servicing Operations.
"Asset-based lending is an area in which many of our existing and prospective customers would like to participate," says Joanna Anderson (pictured), head of Cortland's credit services group. "We have the systems, processes and expertise in place to provide clients a
Catapult has sold portfolio business Silver Lining Solutions, a Midlands-based provider of employee performance optimisation software, to US-based Genesys.
Silver Lining Solutions is a developer of employee optimisation solutions that help improve employee engagement and performance enterprise-wide, enabling organisations to sell more, serve customers better, increase operational effectiveness and reduce costs.
The company has offices in Asia Pacific and the US and employs more than 20 people.
“Silver Lining Solutions has been a valued Genesys OEM partner since 2009, so this acquisition is a logical step toward increasing our commitment to joint customers, while offering additional workforce optimisation
Almost a year ago to the day, the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes, took to the stage at SuperReturn International and gave us a fairly gloomy outlook on what 2016 had in store.
She talked about how a confluence of geopolitical insecurity, weak economic growth and rising populism risked becoming a snowball that would put the liberal world order at risk.
"I argued that time was running out for the pro-globalisation centre and that there was a very real possibility of events that, just a year before, would seem unthinkable," she reminisced.
"I said "imagine a Donald Trump
The mid-morning session on Monday's Energy & Natural Resources Summit at SuperReturn International in Berlin, delved into the question of energy investing – from the perspective of LPs. Where were the opportunities, and what were the challenges?
Renewable energy
Paul Manias, Managing Director at OMERS Strategic Investments, felt that the trend on renewable development would continue despite its challenges: "The fact is that the whole utility sector needs to figure out how to integrate renewables onto the grid," he said.
Maurice Gordon, Head of Private Equity at The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America said that, in spite of its challenges,
K&L Gates has appointed James CH Lee as a partner in the private equity practice in the firm’s New York office.
He joins K&L Gates from Goodwin Procter.
Lee has extensive experience advising private equity funds, venture capital funds, private investment firms, high-net-worth family offices, and their respective portfolio companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, alternate vehicle investment structure transactions, recapitalisations, reorganisations, divestitures, and debt and equity security investments.
He represents clients across a range of industries, such as healthcare, technology, industrial technology, manufacturing and distribution, financial services
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