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Private equity firm TA Associates has made a minority investment in Retriever Medical/Dental Payments (Retriever), a provider of payment technology and merchant services to healthcare providers. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1993 by Frank Shiner, Retriever is one of the largest payments companies focused exclusively on the healthcare provider market, serving 15,000 physician practices, dental practices, veterinary clinics and hospitals throughout the US. Through its proprietary software, Practice Management BRIDGE, Retriever enables its clients to integrate payment processing workflow and data with the healthcare provider’s existing practice management or ERP system. Retriever also provides tools
Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona), along with Ascent Venture Partners (Ascent), has committed USD100 million to Nova Sciences Holdings (Nova), a new platform formed to acquire metering, monitoring, measurement and control instrumentation businesses.
Nova is led by highly experienced CEO Jim Barbookles and a senior management team that has worked together for fourteen years, during which time they have successfully executed several prior sector consolidations in the industrial instrumentation industry.
Barbookles will be Chairman of the Nova board, which will also include Pamplona Partner Justin Perreault and Ascent General Partner Walter Dick.
Barbookles says: “Over the last fourteen years, the Nova team
Haynes and Boone CDG, has significantly expanded its London office with the addition of three partners, who will bolster the firm’s finance, shipping, and energy practices.
Emma Russell and Zoë Connor join the firm as London partners in the Finance Group, where they will represent banks, investment funds and other clients on a range of finance transactions, including arranging capital commitment/subscription financings and other fund financings. Their focus will be on a collaborative, team approach and an emphasis on partner-led deals, which they hope will be welcomed by the market.
Andreas Silcher rejoins the firm following time as general
CVC Credit Partners, an alternative investment manager focused on sub-investment grade debt markets in the US and Europe, has priced its CVC Cordatus Loan Fund VIII at EUR415.6 million via Goldman Sachs.
The CLO received strong investor demand across 33 investors, including five new investors to CVC Credit Partners’ European platform, with the tightest AAA, A and BBB pricing for a European CLO since the financial crisis.
The transaction was structured as an originator transaction for risk retention, with the originator housed within the management entity, in line with CVC Credit Partners’ previous European CLOs. CVC Credit Partners Group
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) is to buy the shares currently held by a number of investors in Pension Insurance Corporation Group (PICG), the ultimate parent company of Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC). The investment is subject to customary regulatory approvals.
PIC is a specialist insurer and leading provider of bulk annuities to UK corporate pension schemes, which have over GBP2,100 billion of pension liabilities. PIC’s business is built on superior customer service, robust risk management and expertise in asset and liability management. This model brings long-term security to the pensions of its policyholders and delivers attractive risk adjusted returns to its
Bloom & Wild, a UK-based online flower company, has secured GBP3.75 million in a new round of funding with Burda Principal Investments, Hubert Burda Media’s investment unit, leading the round, and previous investors MMC Ventures and the company’s other angel investors also participating.
Founded in 2013, Bloom & Wild has redefined the flower delivery experience and is fast developing into the UK's leading alternative to traditional online flower companies. The company’s key objective is to make sending fresh, design-led flowers as simple as sending a text message and receiving them as effortless as receiving a letter. This is achieved by constantly developing and improving the
Arendt Regulatory & Consulting has selected Confluence’s Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting AIFMD Transparency Reporting to support their clients with AIFMD reporting challenges.
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The Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) is to rebrand as The International Stock Exchange (TISE) from early March. The Exchange, which is headquartered in Guernsey and opened an office in Jersey in 2015, will also launch a presence in the Isle of Man next month.
Jon Moulton, Chairman of the CISE, says: “The business has been developing very well over the last few years, with both an increased and more diversified flow of new listings but our longer term strategy for growth is based on continuing to expand our international footprint.
“We already have business coming to us from
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a EUR15 million “quasi equity” financing with Skeleton Technologies, a producer of ultracapacitors and ultracapacitor-based energy storage solutions built with graphene-type materials.
The EIB loan is guaranteed under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI).
The EFSI-backed financing will allow the company to finance the R&D for the further development of its products and systems.
Skeleton Technologies had previously raised EUR26.7 million of capital investments and the EIB quasi equity financing brings the total financing to EUR41.7 million.
The financing will allow Skeleton Technologies to better serve its customer base,
Mourant Ozannes BVI has advised MegaFon, a Russian telecommunications company, on its USD740 million acquisition of a controlling stake in Mail.Ru Group, the internet and social media group.
Mail.Ru was acquired from USM Holdings, MegaFon's controlling shareholder.
Cleary Gottlieb acted as onshore counsel to MegaFon.
MegaFon has acquired 11.5 million class A shares and 21.9 million ordinary shares representing approximately a 63.8 per cent voting stake in Mail.Ru from New Media and Technology Investment, New Media Technologies Capital Partners and Ardoe Finance (each a subsidiary of USM).
MegaFon paid USD640 million for the shares on completion and
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