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Ignition Partners, an early stage business software venture capital firm, has appointed Bob Kelly as a managing partner in the firm’s Seattle office.
Kelly will be one of the firm’s four partners responsible for fund investments and overall firm strategy.
Kelly brings more than 20 years of experience with him from Microsoft where he held a variety of positions, most recently holding the position of corporate vice president for the cloud and enterprise business development and strategy team where he drove the merger and acquisition strategy and coordination of cross-division strategic planning.
During his tenure, Kelly played an
Private equity firm Cinven has agreed to sell SLV Group, a German-headquartered provider of residential and technical lighting, to Ardian for an undisclosed amount.
This represents the second successful realisation of an industrials business within the last month, following Cinven’s agreement to sell Italian-headquartered Avio Spazio to Space2 and Leonardo-Finmeccanica on 20 October 2016.
Cinven has a strong track record in Germany; current investments include CeramTec, HEG, JOST, Synlab and Viridium.
Cinven acquired SLV in May 2011 from its founder and HgCapital. Cinven’s industrials and German teams had identified SLV as an attractive opportunity in 2010, developing a close
Columbia China has reopened the 232-bed Shanghai Kaiyuan Orthopedic Hospital as an Orthopaedic Centre of Excellence.
Columbia China spent USD75 million (RMB500 million) to acquire and retrofit the Kaiyuan hospital in Shanghai’s Pudong District.
The reopening is part of Columbia China’s plans to expand in China through both acquisitions and greenfield projects and to provide China’s growing middle-class population with affordable, patient-centred care across a spectrum of healthcare and senior services.
“While we aggressively develop our own hospitals from the ground up, we are also always looking for opportunities to acquire hospitals and use our decades of
Global investment bank GCA Altium has made three senior promotions in its Manchester team.
Dominic Orsini and Adam Sivner become directors, while Mark Smith takes the role of assistant director.
Orsini has spent four years at GCA Altium, joining the company as an associate in September 2012. During his time at the firm, he has predominantly focused on the TMT sector, being involved in high profile transactions including Ascribe, Metronet, TotalMobile and Guestline.
Sivner joined GCA Altium as an analyst in 2008, and has built considerable expertise of the energy and industrials sectors. He has been at the
Maples and Calder has advised Western Digital on the Cayman Islands corporate and financing aspects of the acquisition of SanDisk by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Western Digital Technologies.
The deal completed on 12 May 2016 and valued SanDisk at a total equity value of approximately USD19 billion.
Under the terms of the transaction, each outstanding share of SanDisk's common stock was converted into the right to receive USD67.50 per share in cash and 0.2387 shares of Western Digital common stock.
Alasdair Robertson, global managing partner at Maples and Calder, says: "We are delighted to have assisted our long standing
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 11 attorneys as partners of the firm, effective 1 November, including Hong Kong-based Vincent Ip.
Ip joined Ropes & Gray in 2006 in the private investment funds group.
Ip represents institutional and other investors in connection with investments in private equity funds, hedge funds and separate accounts, as well as co-investment and secondary transactions.
He also has extensive experience advising fund sponsors on all aspects of their business, including the formation and ongoing representation of Asia-focused private investment funds.
His clients include AlpInvest Partners, Bain Capital, Canada Pension Plan
The Montreux Healthcare Fund now owns the ninth largest care group in the UK following the merger of two of its companies.
The ACH Group, which operated 25 residential services in England, last month merged with The Regard Partnership which provides learning disability, brain injury, and mental healthcare.
The Regard Partnership, headed by chief executive officer Sandie Foxall-Smith, provides care and support for more than 1,000 people making the company the fourth largest UK care group offering specialist learning disability and mental health care.
A Montreux investment vehicle acquired ACH Group in April 2014 for GBP40.5 million. Six
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has appointed Melanie Goward as investment director in the firm's London-based investment team.
Goward brings more than 15 years’ experience in investing in early-stage businesses, including the technology, life science and biotechnology sectors.
Goward will be responsible for handling new early-stage and technology private equity investments for Maven across the south and south-west of England and Wales.
She joins Maven from Finance Wales, where she worked as fund manager for the Wales Technology Seed Fund within the technology ventures team, providing funding to help a range of businesses commercialise and bring
Doctify, a technology platform that allows patients to search for specialist doctors and book appointments online, has closed a seven-figure Series A round led by global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners.
Founded in 2015, Doctify allows patients to search, compare reviews and prices, and book appointments with medical specialists across the UK.
The company focuses on the private healthcare market and currently puts patients in touch with doctors qualified in 47 different specialisms, including cardiology, oncology and paediatrics, as well as dentistry and dermatology.
Doctify chief executive officer Oliver Thomas says: “We are excited to announce our partnership
SS&C Technologies has acquired CRM solution provider Salentica.
Tequity acted as the exclusive adviser to Salentica, which will now become a platform partner to the firm's Black Diamond wealth platform.
The Salentica team brings expertise in providing integrated CRM solutions for both Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce CRM platforms. The company will operate as a business unit under SS&C and the acquisition will add 30 employees.
With more than 5,000 users and an average firm size of over USD3 billion in assets, Salentica's clients include registered investment advisers (RIAs), broker-dealers, family offices, institutional wealth managers, and trust companies.
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