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Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support private equity sponsor Tower Arch Capital’s recapitalisation of Corbett Technology Solutions (CTSI) in partnership with its management team.
Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, CTSI is an integrator of high-impact communications solutions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
CTSI designs, installs, and maintains complex audio-visual, sound, safety, healthcare, and education communications technology solutions for clients across multiple end-markets, including corporate, government, healthcare, education, senior living, multi-family residential, and houses of worship.
KKR is to acquire Arle Capital Partners’ stake in Hilding Anders, subject to regulatory clearances.
Following the transaction, KKR will become the majority shareholder in Hilding Anders.
No financial have been disclosed and the transaction is subject to the customary regulatory approvals.
Founded in 1939, Hilding Anders is a bed manufacturer in Europe, Russia and Asia. The company has 9,500 employees at 23 sites across 19 countries, and sells products in 65 local markets, generating revenues of EUR917 million in 2015. KKR first supported Hilding Anders in 2013, when KKR Credit invested EUR350 million in the capital structure
Centaur’s newly-launched enhanced private equity service has won a major contract with a USD20 billion multi-strategy, multi-jurisdictional US headquartered private equity group.
The win came about after a detailed Request for Proposal (RFP) process, highlighting three principal requirements: service consistency that the client was not receiving from their previous administrators, stability within the service teams and administrator independence.
Centaur was selected as a result of its service, better contractual terms, independence and experience.
Eric Bertrand, founding partner of Centaur Fund Services, says: “We are delighted with this major private equity client win. With multiple fund structures across multiple
Meaningful conversations create value. With the proliferation of information sharing and communications platforms, ranging from Vine and Instagram to Snapchat, Dropbox, Pinterest and, of course, Twitter, individuals and businesses (think fashion houses, advertising agencies, media organisations) have many ways to connect and interact across the globe.
As the Internet of Things continues to evolve, more and more people are using mobile devices. There are nine billion connected devices today. That number is expected to rise to 30 billion by 2022. When Twitter burst on to the scene 10 years ago, it ushered in a unique way to communicate in short
Future French Champions – a partnership between CDC International Capital and Qatar Investment Authority – has made its fifth investment in Devialet, a Paris-based audio products start-up.
Founded in 2007, Devialet holds over 100 patents and employs 230 people.
Its products are stocked by high-end retailers including Colette, Harrods and Kadewe.
Devialet’s connected speaker Phantom has also been marketed at Apple Stores since December 2015.
In a joint statement, CDC IC and QIA say: “With this fifth investment, our partnership Future French Champions led by Marc Auberger, has demonstrated its success. We are proud to support Devialet, an
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.
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