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Pan-European mid-market investor Aurelius has hired Freya Macken as an associate in its UK team.
Macken will be based in Aurelius’ London office, working as part of the investment team to source and execute investments in companies that would benefit from the financial and operational support that Aurelius provides.
Macken’s appointment is Aurelius’ fifth UK hire of 2016, following that of Daniel Simon to the London-based investment team earlier this year, as well as the appointments of Simon Brott and Gavin Duke to Aurelius’ UK operational taskforce and Dipika Sodha to the UK finance team.
Aurelius has announced
The Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies (ERES) franchise has held the final closing of ERES III at its hard cap of EUR300 million.
This is the highest amount ever raised by the ERES franchise.
Its 2011 vintage, ERES II, raised EUR217 million.
Limited partners include high net worth individuals as well as financial institutions both in France and internationally, especially Asia.
ERES will continue its strategy of investing as a minority shareholder in support of majority partners in private mid-cap companies, with an enterprise value between EUR100 million and EUR2 billion.
The fund can be invested
Nordic Capital Fund VIII-owned Lindorff and Intrum Justitia are to combine to create a leading provider of credit management services (CMS).
The combination is expected to provide material benefits for all stakeholders and create significant shareholder value through annual cost synergies estimated at SEK0.8 billion (EUR80 million) and significant further revenue synergies.
Based on Intrum Justitia’s closing share price at Nasdaq Stockholm as of 11 November 2016, the transaction values Lindorff at an enterprise value of SEK40.5 billion (EUR 4.1 billion).
Nordic Capital Fund VIII will become the largest indirect shareholder controlling approximately 45.5 per cent of the
Finnish Industry Investment (FII) and EOC Capital have led a EUR3.6 million investment round in Midaxo.
Both have invested EUR1.5 million with existing investors adding an additional EUR950 000.
Additionally, Finnvera and a group of business angels have invested in the company.
Midaxo’s cloud software helps acquirers succeed in mergers and acquisitions by driving an efficient end-to-end process from target identification and due diligence to integration. With Midaxo’s software, acquirers systematise and simplify their M&A activity and minimise risks in deals that are often strategic, complicated, and time-critical. Enabling efficiency, Midaxo’s cloud software also helps acquirers reach synergy
MJ Hudson has expanded it's alternative investments offering with the acquisition of investment advisory firm Allenbridge and outsourced fund management provider Tower Gate Capital.
Established as an alternative investments law firm in 2010, MJ Hudson has grown rapidly and expanded its service offering within alternatives. Including the new acquisitions, MJ Hudson now provides advice and a fully integrated operating infrastructure to more than 300 asset managers, managing in excess of GBP200 billion. It also supports the activities of more than 100 institutional investors, together investing in excess of GBP500 billion.
Chief executive Matthew Hudson (pictured), says: “Our goal is
Certain Fortress Investment Group managed funds and accounts have acquired a limited partner interest in Red Rocks Energy Partners to own and develop oil and gas assets in over 7,200 acres in the SCOOP play in Grady, McClain and Garvin Counties, Oklahoma.
Over the last five years, funds within Fortress’ credit business have invested over USD1.5 billion in both debt and equity across the power, renewables, midstream and upstream energy sectors, focused on opportunistic asset level investments.
The transaction is the second significant equity investment in exploration and production since the commodity price downturn, following Fortress Credit’s USD350 million
Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, based in Luxembourg, has selected PFS‐PAXUS for the administration of its funds services.
Carlo Reding (pictured), partner of Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, says: “After a thorough evaluation process we identified that PFS‐PAXUS was going to be a great fit for our business. The breadth of functionality available within the system is very extensive and will put us in an ideal position to administer almost any fund structure that we might be presented with.”
Incorporated in 2009, Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services is regulated by the CSSF and provides services such as transfer agent,
ReferWell, creator of an online platform for medical generalist-to-specialist patient referrals, has complete a private equity financing round led by Manhattan-based Health Catalyst Capital Management (HCCM).
The growth capital will be used to ramp up sales activity and to expand the feature set of the ReferWell platform.
The company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform is already servicing thousands of medical offices in New York City to send and receive referrals. The ReferWell platform enables administrative staff in primary care physicians' offices to immediately schedule patients with specialist-care providers that participate in the patient's insurance, perform the needed procedure, and are available
Antares Capital is serving as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner of senior secured credit facilities to support the acquisition of Advanced Instruments by Windjammer Capital Investors.
Founded in 1955 and headquartered in Norwood, MA, Advanced Instruments specialises in laboratory instrumentation.
“We are pleased to have Antares lead the financing for our investment in Advanced Instruments,” says Daniel Lee, vice president for Windjammer Capital. “They worked quickly and diligently through approvals and made a sizeable commitment to support the transaction.”
“Advanced Instruments is a long standing market leader and an innovator of high quality laboratory equipment,”
LeapFrog Investments, a private equity investor in emerging markets, has made a partial exit from IFMR Capital, a provider of capital market access to financial institutions that serve low-income consumers.
The exit is part of a wider deal in which Eight Roads Ventures, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International, will be investing up to USD25 million in the company.
LeapFrog will continue as the largest independent shareholder, actively adding value to IFMR Capital’s business. LeapFrog’s profit-with-purpose partnership with IFMR Capital so far has seen the business increase its reach across India to over 29 million underserved people, a
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