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Verdane Capital IX has invested over EUR5 million in Vaadin, a developer of open source web application development tools.
The investment is made partly by buying secondary shares from another shareholder and partly as a directed new issue.
"We are very pleased to team up with Verdane and further strengthen our position in the growing US and European markets," says CEO Joonas Lehtinen. "Vaadin is known for its tools that simplify the development of business grade web apps and with the new investment we are able to expand the tools to new and even larger markets."
"We consider
Proficio, a provider of managed detection and response (MDR) services, has raised USD12 million in a round of funding led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
The funding comes out of the firm’s Kayne Partners Fund group, which backs high-growth technology enabled businesses.
Proficio will use this investment to expand its global geographical presence in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, and introduce new cybersecurity platforms and services.
Founded in 2010, Proficio specialises in the managed security service provider (MSSP) and managed detection and response (MDR) spaces. The company has established a strong customer base in key markets, such
The board of trustees of the Blackstone/GSO Long-Short Credit Income Fund (BGX) has approved a change in the fund’s investment guidelines.
The change will increase the fund’s ability to invest in long investments while maintaining the limit of the fund’s short investments as a percentage of net assets.
The new investment guidelines will not specifically limit the fund’s long investments. The fund’s short positions, either directly or through the use of derivatives, will continue to be limited to up to 30 per cent of the fund’s net assets.
These guidelines will replace the fund’s previous guidelines, which limited
Following an expansion into the Benelux earlier this year, the Neil Woodford-backed equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has funded its first Dutch campaign and signed agreements with local innovators KPMG Hub for Entrepreneurs (KHUBE) and EYnovation in Luxembourg.
Seedrs is now an official member of KHUBE, a one-stop-shop for entrepreneurship launched by KPMG Luxembourg where the focus is on educating and supporting the Benelux startup ecosystem through a joint events programme in Luxembourg.
The relationship with Ernst & Young’s EYnovation programme in Luxembourg supports and facilitates Seedrs’ activities across the Benelux region. Key aspects of the partnership include collaborating at
Unigestion has appointed four investment experts to its private equity team, as it looks to strengthen its European team with a particular focus on secondary and direct investment activities.
Pieter-Jan Frederix was appointed investment director within the private equity team in December 2015. Frederix joined from the Antenna Group where he was responsible for direct investments and has extensive experience through previous roles at KPMG Corporate Finance, Bear Stearns and private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
In May 2016, Unigestion also appointed Andreas Georgiades as an investment manager. He jouned from Nomura International where he focused on M&A.
LGT Capital Partners has raised in excess of USD2.5 billion for Crown Global Secondaries IV (CGS IV), its fourth dedicated secondary fund.
The fund is expected to be oversubscribed and hold its final closing at the hard cap of USD 2.8 billion in the coming months.
Tycho Sneyers, managing partner at LGT Capital Partners, says: “The CGS IV investor base so far consists of 89 institutions, including pension funds, endowments, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and financial institutions in Europe, the US, Canada, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Our platform benefits from a large
KKR has closed two direct lending transactions which will provide financing for Roompot, an operator of holiday parks, and Exterion Media, an outdoor advertising company in the UK and Europe.
The two transactions will deliver over USD275 million in financing and add to the track record of KKR’s European direct lending platform which provides funding for medium-sized companies across Europe in need of customized funding solutions beyond traditional bank lending.
Since 2014, the platform has deployed more than USD1 billion across companies in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal and the Benelux and sectors including industrials, consumer, retail and
Align Capital Partners (ACP), in partnership with management, has completed an investment in Alliance Source Testing (AST), a provider of source emissions (or stack) testing services to industrial facilities in the US.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
AST provides source testing solutions for utility, aluminium, midstream energy, specialty chemical and other types of industrial facilities for permitting and compliance in accordance with mandates from local, state and federal regulatory bodies. The company services customers’ facilities on a repeated basis, with the frequency determined by regulations for each industry.
“We are excited to partner with AST’s
Policymakers must remove the barriers to investment faced by private infrastructure funds in order to help achieve the EUR2 trillion of vital European infrastructure investment needed by 2020, according to a report by Invest Europe.
The trade association’s Investing in Infrastructure briefing is published to coincide with the launch of Invest Week, a series of events spearheaded by Invest Europe which focuses on the European investment and growth agenda.
With an ageing population placing demands on healthcare, a global and rapidly digitising economy requiring more complex supply chains, and environmental and social sustainability necessitating new energy and transport systems,
GLAS, an independent provider of finance administration services, has appointed Xavier Poussardin as head of capital markets business development (EMEA).
Poussardin will be responsible for expanding GLAS’ services beyond direct lending and entering new geographies.
His appointment supports GLAS’ continued growth in the industry. As banks face increased challenges to provide agency and trustee services due to compliance and regulatory requirements, demand for independent firms has increased.
Poussardin was previously vice president at Deutsche Bank where he spent the last seven years in the global transaction banking team. Before this, he worked at Bank of New York as
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