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Alternative fund platform Kuber Ventures has warned financial advisors that the EIS market will face significant capacity constraints in 2017.
The firm writes that this will result in missed investment opportunities if investors do not bring forward their due diligence process. Kuber Ventures has identified that recent changes in legislation, specifically those removing the ability to invest in renewable energy production within an EIS investment structure, have reduced the market capacity of investible opportunities by an estimated GBP500 million for the year 2016/17. In previous years, the energy sector would account for approximately a third of the total GBP1.6 billion
Zedra, an independent provider of trust, corporate and fund services, has appointed Robert Burchett-Coates to the newly created role of director of business development and sales.
Burchett-Coates has over 15 years of multi-jurisdictional experience in the fund administration, investment management and corporate solutions markets.
Operating from the group’s London office, Burchett-Coates will have a worldwide brief to develop new business both from within Zedra’s existing large client base and from new partnerships, in particular in Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining Zedra, Burchett-Coates was a director at Deutsche Bank in London leading fund services sales in EMEA with
Houlihan Lokey has appointed Laurens van Asselt as a managing director, based in Amsterdam.
He will be responsible for supporting the firm’s power and utilities, environmental, and infrastructure coverage efforts in the Benelux region and across continental Europe.
Van Asselt (pictured) joins from Rabobank, where he was a managing director in the corporate finance advisory group, responsible for the utilities, infrastructure funds, construction, and real estate sectors. Prior to Rabobank, he was a director at NIBC and Kempen & Co covering M&A and merchant banking. He began his career in 1995 at JPMorgan.
“With more than two decades
Inspired, a schools organisation in Europe, Australia, Africa and Latin America backed by private equity firm Oakley Capital Investments (OCL), has acquired the International School of Europe Group (ISE), St Louis School and St John’s International School.
Oakley Capital Private Equity and Oakley Capital Private Equity II both hold indirect interests in Inspired via their key shareholdings in Educas.
The additions of ISE, St Louis and St John’s will expand Inspired’s global network to a total of 23 schools, providing an outstanding education to over 15,000 students. As part of Inspired’s family of international schools, students and staff at
NVM Private Equity has invested GBP4 million of development capital in Customs Connect and Customs Connect Europe, which minimises the customs duty paid by importers.
The funding will be used to support Customs Connect’s expanded service offering in the UK and its expansion plans across mainland Europe.
The business is well positioned to provide advice on the potential duty implications of Brexit to importers in the UK and manufacturers and processors who have import operations throughout Europe.
The management team includes the two founders, Neil Sheppard and James O’Neill, both experts in Tariff Classification and the EU’s Duty Suspensions
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Robert Goldstein as a partner in the firm’s corporate and transactional practice group in New York and head of the New York office’s private equity team.
Goldstein joins McDermott from another Am Law 100 firm, where he was chair of the private equity practice.
“McDermott’s global platform will be a great asset as I continue to expand and cultivate my longstanding client relationships in the private equity arena,” says Goldstein. “I expect my years of experience in middle market private equity to provide the perfect complement to McDermott’s existing client service
Lewis & Clark Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on Series A and B stage investments, has raised USD20 million of new capital to drive agriculture innovation.
Founded in 2015, Lewis & Clark Ventures has raised a family of venture capital funds to support the highest potential start-ups in the Midwest US.
The funds focus on sectors such as agricultural technology, enterprise software, healthcare technology and financial technology.
With a total of USD124 million raised to date, Lewis & Clark Ventures has invested in companies including OneSpace, Adarza Biosystems, and SpringBuk.
The new commitment augments the USD104
JZ Capital Partners, a London-listed fund that invests in US and European micro-cap companies and US real estate, has closed the sale of its minority stake in Winn Group.
The stake was sold to a major financial institution for EUR20.8 million (USD23 million) following the receipt of regulatory approval.
Founded in 2002, Winn is a Newcastle-based UK legal services firm specialising in personal injury cases.
The announcement marks the completion of the two-phase transaction to sell JZCP’s stake in six European investments held through EMC 2010 to the same financial institution, which was originally announced in February 2016.
Private equity firm Golden Gate Capital has acquired Tronair Parent from Levine Leichtman Capital Partners.
Tronair will remain headquartered in Holland, Ohio and will continue to be led by its current senior management team, including president and CEO Harley Kaplan.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1971, Tronair specialises in the design, manufacture, and sale of ground support equipment (GSE) for business, commercial and military aircraft.
Its GSE product lines – comprised of over 1,000 SKUs – are used by over 300 unique aircraft platforms. It serves aircraft OEMs such as Bombardier, Gulfstream,
Despite a backdrop of political and economic uncertainty surrounding the EU Referendum, small business lending hit an all-time high over the past 12 months, increasing by 29.8 per cent to GBP20.7 billion.
That’s according to the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) latest annual figures, which are based on business written by NACFB brokers between July 2015 and June 2016.
Over the past year, lending to SMEs has exceeded the pre-recession high of 2007. It’s also the seventh consecutive year that total lending to small businesses has grown.
However, while traditional forms of lending, such as commercial
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