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Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has entered into final exclusive negotiations with Advent International to acquire Corialis (Core Innovative Aluminium Integrated Solutions).
Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Belgium, Corialis is a European supplier of aluminium profile systems for windows, doors, sliding elements, roof systems and conservatories.
The group has global reach with significant operations in Belgium, France, the UK and Poland.
The terms of the transaction, which requires workers’ council information and consultation and is subject to the approval of relevant market authorities, have not been disclosed.
Marlin Equity Partners’ portfolio company QualiTest Group, a software testing and quality assurance specialist, has appointed Sanjay Jawa as group chief financial officer (CFO).
Jawa brings over 25 years of financial management expertise to the executive team, with extensive experience in senior, financial and operational roles for international growth firms, with a particular focus since 2000 in private equity backed businesses. This includes building finance and infrastructure teams, raising debt and equity capital, and growing both organically and through the acquisition and integration of numerous businesses around the world.
His industry experience has focused on technology, media, telecom, financial
Two investment teams from Allianz Investment Management (AIM), part of Allianz Group, are to join AllianzGI’s expanding global private debt platform.
Alongside Sound Harbor Partners, the US private credit manager AllianzGI announced it was acquiring last week, these new teams will form the core of a broad private debt platform within the firm’s alternatives segment.
From 1 January 2017, Allianz’s Munich-based corporate loans team, headed by Thomas Schneider, and the Westport-based US private placement team, headed by Charles Dudley, will join AllianzGI’s global investment platform.
On joining AllianzGI, the two teams will continue to manage money for Allianz
Scottish Equity Partners-backed Exco InTouch, a provider of patient engagement, data capture and digital health solutions for the clinical research and healthcare industry, has been acquired by ERT, a provider of patient data collection solutions for use in clinical drug development.
The combined organisation will provide the biopharmaceutical industry with electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA), patient engagement and digital health supporting the entire clinical development to commercialisation spectrum.
Jan Rutherford, a partner at SEP and non-executive director of Exco InTouch, says: “Exco InTouch has been widely recognised as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK, quadrupling its turnover over the last three years and increasing its staff to over
ClearlySo has launched ClearlySo ATLAS, an impact assessment solution for private equity and venture capital investors.
Octopus Ventures, a London based venture capital firm, is the first customer to go-live and is in the process of rolling out the solution across its portfolio.
ClearlySo ATLAS helps private equity and venture capital investors assess the social and environmental impact of their investments and provides practical suggestions for action. Research increasingly shows that there is a positive correlation between impact and financial return, and lack of awareness about negative impact is a risk.
The methodology ClearlySo ATLAS uses to assess
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has appointed Fazle Husain as a partner and head of US healthcare.
Husain will be based in CVC’s New York office and will join the firm in January.
Husain joins CVC from the private equity firm Metalmark Capital where he was head of healthcare investing, having joined in 2007.
Prior to joining Metalmark, Husain was a managing director at Morgan Stanley in the private equity business, where he spent 18 years.
He has a successful track record of investing in healthcare companies for over 25 years, including investments in the healthcare
New Water Capital Partners, a Boca Raton-based private equity investment firm focused on lower-middle market companies in transition, has promoted Andrew Ravenna to vice president.
Since joining New Water Capital as a senior associate, Ravenna has been instrumental to the growth of the fund and a key factor to the firm’s success since closing the fund.
Prior to joining New Water Capital in 2015, Ravenna worked for Milestone Partners, Arsenal Capital Partners and Barclay’s Capital.
KKR has held the final closing of KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Fund (NGT), a USD711 million fund dedicated to growth equity investment opportunities in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) space in North America, Europe and Israel.
The fund is focused on generating strong returns for investors by investing in high-growth companies.
Beyond access to financial capital, KKR offers partner companies access to KKR’s operational expertise, network, industry expertise, global reach and insights from its more than 100 current portfolio companies worldwide, which translates into over USD7 billion in IT spend and over USD10 billion in marketing spend
Eaton Partners, a placement agents and advisory firm for private fund sponsors, has formed a distinct team that will work with and raise capital for unique private credit strategies globally.
Targeted strategies include asset-backed and direct corporate lending, distressed debt, real estate credit, and other specialty credit.
The team will primarily focus on representing credit managers located in the US, Europe and Asia.
“Recent regulatory hurdles have led to a secular retrenchment from banks in the commercial lending arena, and as a result, we’ve seen that opportunities for private credit managers are greater than ever,” says Jeff Davis
PIMCO has formed a joint venture with Solar Capital Partners as the firm continues to develop and expand its private credit platform.
Solar Capital Partners is an investor in private corporate credit with a 10-year track record of making private loans to corporate borrowers. The firm also has a network of relationships with middle market borrowers and private equity sponsors.
PIMCO is an alternatives manager with more than USD27 billion in alternative assets with a significant presence in private corporate credit across a range of strategies.
The joint venture is the result of collaboration between PIMCO and Solar Capital
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