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SharesPost, a liquidity provider to the late-stage, venture-backed asset class, has appointed Kelly Rodriques to its board of directors.
Rodriques has more than 25 years of financial services and technology experience and has been an investor in more than 20 venture-backed firms.
He was a founding investor of mFoundry, a provider of mobile banking which was acquired by Fidelity Information Systems in 2013.
Most recently, he served as CEO of Pensco, an alternative asset custodian.
"Kelly Rodriques has spent his professional career helping investors put capital to work in high-growth opportunities in alternative assets and private equity,"
Promethera Biosciences, a specialist in cell therapy and regenerative medicine company targeting liver diseases, has raised EUR10 million (USD11 million) in a Series C-extension financing.
All major existing shareholders including Vesalius Biocapital, SRIW, Fund+, MGI Global Fund (Mitsui & Co), Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and SMS Investments supported this round.
New investors joining the financing round were Mitsubishi UFJ Capital and Cell Innovation Partners (CIP) from Japan and LifeLiver from South Korea.
The proceeds will be used to expand Promethera’s product development focus to include larger liver disease indications such as acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), non-alcoholic steatohepatits (NASH)
Meilleurtaux.com, a French provider of mortgage solutions advice backed by Equistone Partners Europe, has acquired the insurance comparison website MerciHenri.com through its holding company Finizy.
MerciHenri.com (formerly LeComparateurAssurance.com) specialises in the comparison of health, housing, car and motorcycle insurance.
Christophe Triquet, founder of MerciHenri.com, will join the management of Meilleurtaux.com to lead its property, casualty and health insurance division.
Having negotiated EUR7.2 billion of new mortgages on behalf of its clients in 2015 and recorded 2.8 million unique visits on its website in September 2016, Meilleurtaux.com has grown to become the leading French comparator of loans, both online
WorldQuant Ventures, an angel investment firm focused on disruptive companies in technology, has invested in untapt, a digital hiring platform that uses machine intelligence to match tech talent and employers.
WorldQuant Ventures’ investment allows untapt to scale its recruitment platform to support all tech professionals and businesses in the US and launch its internal talent marketplace untaptX.
“Hiring qualified technology professionals is a challenge for most businesses,” says Steven Lau, managing director at WorldQuant Ventures. “We believe that untapt’s innovative platform will change the way employers identify and hire tech talent. We’re excited to announce our investment in untapt,
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as lead arrangers and bookrunners on the USD815 million term loan B refinancing of Suddenlink’s existing term loan facilities.
Suddenlink is the seventh largest US cable operator with approximately 1.5 million subscribers.
In June 2015, Paul Hastings advised JP Morgan and BNP Paribas in connection with the high yield bond and loan financing of Altice’s USD9.1 billion acquisition of Suddenlink.
In April 2016, Paul Hastings advised JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and RBC in connection with the USD1.5
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
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