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Five Arrows Secondary Opportunities (FASO), the European small and mid-cap secondary business of Rothschild Merchant Banking, has completed the fundraising of Five Arrows Secondary Opportunities IV (FASO IV) at EUR451 million after only a few months of fundraising.
A significant majority of limited partner commitments originated from existing investors in Five Arrows Secondary Opportunities III (FASO III). In addition, the fund attracted strong interest from new investors comprising top tier institutions and family offices around the globe.
FASO’s investment team is comprised of 13 professionals and is run by Mireille Klitting, managing partner. FASO IV will continue to focus
Capshare, an equity management platform, has closed an investment from Standish Management, a provider of private equity fund administration services in the US.
The investment formalises a strategic partnership with Standish.
“Standish is one of the most respected names in the investment fund business and we are thrilled to partner with them. With their deep and diverse roster of over 600 funds managed, they are a perfect fit for us as we continue to build momentum and scale the investor side of our business,” says Capshare CEO Jeron Paul.
Founded in 2014, Capshare gives entrepreneurs and investors the
Cowen Group has appointed Craig E Zaph as head of debt capital markets in the company’s investment banking team.
Zaph is based in New York and reports to Kevin Raidy, head of investment banking.
“Craig Zaph rounds out a series of important investment banking hires in recent months and brings momentum to Cowen’s debt capital markets (DCM) practice,” says Raidy. “Providing clients with a full range of innovative debt financing solutions has been a cornerstone of our capital markets franchise. Craig’s leadership will further this effort. Craig has a significant amount of experience in originating and structuring debt products,
Private equity firm Thomas H Lee Partners (THL) is making a significant investment in System One, a provider of workforce solutions and integrated services.
The investment proceeds will be used to purchase the interests of middle market private equity firm MidOcean Partners, System One’s current investment partner, which invested in the company in December 2012. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, System One is one of the largest professional staffing firms in the US with over 6,000 employees serving the diversified engineering, clinical/scientific, IT, and legal markets. System One offers a full
StarOfService, a Europeean marketplace for local services, has raised USD10 million in Series A investment.
It follows two previous seed funding rounds worth USD2 million in total and will accelerate the French start-up’s expansion plans.
StarOfService, launched in 2013, sees more than two million requests going through its site from customers looking to find local support services to meet specific needs – anything from wedding photographers, plumbers, language teachers and DJs, to Pokémon Go ‘masters’ for hire. The platform generates over EUR800 million in business volume to the service professionals listed on its site – and is growing at
Catapult Ventures, manager of the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, has completed two seed investments in sensor technology developer Kanichi Research and anti-microbial materials developer Virustatic.
The GM&C Life Sciences Fund makes initial investments of GBP50,000 to GBP3 million into life science companies based in Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington.
Seed investments of between GBP50,000 and GBP100,000 are made into start-up and early stage opportunities specifically to enable companies to prove an aspect of their technology and/or business proposition.
Based in Warrington, Kanichi Research was founded by Professor Craig Banks, currently the associate dean for research, Faculty of Science
Dundee Venture Capital, an Omaha-based seed-stage investment firm, has raised USD20 million for its Fund III, which will back start-ups in the broader Midwest US.
The capital will be deployed into seed and early-stage investments targeting e-commerce, B2B SaaS and consumer-network focused start-ups. Dundee Venture Capital has made over 30 investments in start-ups to date, with a goal of actively transforming the business landscape of the Midwest through entrepreneurship.
With a target capital raise of USD30 million, Fund III will be 65 per cent larger than Dundee’s previous fund. The current fund focuses on consumer and B2B investments and
21 Centrale Partners has promoted Fabrice Voituron and Antoine Vigneron to partner.
Gérard Pluvinet, founding managing partner of 21 Centrale Partners, says: “We are eager to offer fulfilling careers, allowing the best of our teams to fully express their talent. Fabrice and Antoine have gained much experience at
Voituron joined 21 in 2012 as principal. He is involved in following 21’s participations in Skill&You, DGF and Impact.
Prior to joining 21, he spent 11 years at Omnes Capital as a principal in LBO and development covering investments and exits, fundraising and transversal topics for the management company.
MUFG Investor Services has appointed Kate Stallard as executive director, business development – EMEA.
She will be responsible for driving forward MUFG Investor Services’ asset servicing solutions by developing strategic relationships with private equity, real estate and infrastructure firms.
Stallard will support new and existing clients with a series of solutions including fund administration, asset financing, custody, depositary, trustee, FX, banking and jurisdictional regulatory services.
Formerly the founder of financial services consultancy IRIS Partners, Stallard brings 20 years of senior investment services experience to her new role.
Prior to founding IRIS Partners, she was head of private
NewAlpha Asset Management, a specialist in management company incubation and private equity, has appointed Vladimir de Maack (pictured) as international investor relationship manager based in Paris.
De Maack has 13 years of experience in asset management, acquired within the Societe Generale Group.
As head of sales development at Lyxor AM in Luxembourg and Belgium since 2011, de Maack developed the Lyxor AM offer regarding alternative management and solutions dedicated to institutional clients. He implemented several solutions to optimise own accounts within the regulatory frameworks of Basel III and Solvency II.
De Maack started his career in 2003 and
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