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Pritzker Group Private Capital has appointed Ryan Roberts as investment partner and co-head of the group’s services team, which focuses on investing in and operating companies in various industries within the services sector.
Roberts joins the investing and operating teams at Pritzker Group with more than 15 years of significant leadership and investment experience.
Roberts’ experience includes investing in tech-enabled platforms which will allow the firm to further leverage Pritzker Group’s technology base, including from sister teams at Pritzker Group Venture Capital.
Most recently Roberts was a director on the technology, media and telecom services team for Madison
The VT UK Infrastructure Income Fund (UKIIF), which is advised by GCO Advisory – a subsidiary of Gravis Capital Partners – has raised over GBP120 million of assets in the 12 months since its launch.
The fund has returned over 11 per cent to investors including three full and one part-period dividend payments totalling 4.5940p in respect of the C GBP income share class.
The fund is expected to achieve its target of 5 per cent distributions from the next dividend payment to be announced at the end of March.
Through its investments in 27 infrastructure securities, the
Shore Capital Partners has completed a growth investment in Argentum Medical and certain assets of Cura Surgical.
Founded in 2001 and located in Geneva, Illinois, Argentum manufactures and sells wound care products across a wide number of clinical applications, including the Silverlon brand, its proprietary range of silver-based antimicrobial products.
The core platform technology in Silverlon is a designed silver-plated nylon matrix that provides the powerful antimicrobial properties of silver ions in the dressing without staining the skin and without increasing bioburden. Silverlon dressings are used today by surgeons and other healthcare professionals around the world on surgical wounds,
The private equity team at Foresight Private Equity invested over GBP17 million into nine companies across the UK during the last quarter of 2016.
The Foresight Regional Investment Fund, targeting companies in the North West of England, North Wales and South Yorkshire, supported by Foresight’s new Manchester office, has already deployed one third of funds within its first 12 months and has a strong pipeline of investment opportunities under consideration.
The Foresight Nottingham Fund has now made investments into 12 companies and is over 50 per cent deployed. Portfolio company TheIdleMan.com announced a further investment from Channel 4 in
Kartesia, a provider of financing solutions for small and mid-sized European companies, has provided EUR10 million financing to GT Motive, a software provider for the European automotive insurance market.
The company was born out of an alliance between the European company GT Motive and America's Mitchell International.
The new company formed from this alliance is seeking to revolutionise the European market with its communication platforms and claims management systems.
Jaime Prieto, managing partner at Kartesia, says: “We are pleased to support GT Motive and its management team in expanding across Europe. The investment made over the last few
UpWest Labs, Singulariteam and OurCrowd Funds were the most active venture capital funds in Israel during 2016, according to a report from IVC Research Center, in cooperation with Israeli law firm APM & Co.
All three completed eight first investments in 2016, and while considered early stage, low-placement, small funds, their new portfolio strategies in 2016 were varied.
UpWest Labs, a micro VC with approximately USD9 million under management, performed six first investments in seed rounds, in addition to two A rounds.
Singulariteam, managing a total of USD152 million in three funds, evenly split its eight first investments
M&A deals in Central-Eastern Europe peaked in value in 2016 at EUR86.7 billion, a 62 per cent increase compared to 2015 and the highest result since 2013.
This is according to the Emerging Europe M&A report 2016/2017, published by CMS in cooperation with EMIS.
With 1,985 transactions, the CEE region experienced a 7 per cent decline in the volume of announced deals, but their median value increased by EUR2 million to EUR11.2 million.
Helen Rodwell (pictured), partner, CEE corporate practice, CMS, says: “Dealmakers acted cautiously as global economic growth remained weak, amid uncertainty about election and referendum results. Confidence
SVL Business Solutions is to acquire a 25 per cent equity interest in Liquid Voice, a developer of enterprise call recording and contact centre solutions.
Peter Gough, sales and marketing director of SVL Business Solutions, says: “This investment is the latest development in a long-term strategy to diversify our business, and consolidate our position as the UK's leading provider of contact centre and public safety control room solutions. Liquid Voice provides a range of latest generation solutions that perfectly complements our current portfolio of high end products and services. It will enable us to significantly expand our customer base across a wide
Alternative investment advisory firm AlphaCore Capital has doubled its assets under administration to approximately USD205 million following the acquisition of a San Diego-based registered investment adviser and the addition of five new team members.
The firm's expansion will double assets under advisement, with approximately USD205 million as of year-end, after launching less than 24 months ago.
The firm has used alternative investments as the central theme in well-balanced portfolios. The recent expansion will increase the firm's capacity to serve the increasing number of investors and advisers who are turning to alternative investments as a core part of their investment
Moore Management has assisted Bank Saint Petersburg (BSPB) with the launch of its first private equity fund structure, BSPB Capital VPF.
One of the largest Russian regional banks, BSPB has key operations in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Moscow and Kaliningrad and is one of the top 20 Russian banks.
The fund will focus on private equity investments aimed at high growth technology companies across Russia and the wider globe. The fund is the first investment structure launched by BSPB and plans to raise between USD30 million and USD70 million, with the investor base consisting primarily of BSPB’s own capital
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