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Sverica Capital Management’s Sverica Fund IV has acquired a majority stake in RMS Healthcare Management, a provider of management services to Med First Immediate Care and Family Practice.
The transaction marks Sverica’s second investment made from Fund IV. Cadiz Capital also participated in the transaction.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Med First provides primary care, urgent care and occupational medicine services via 13 clinic locations across rural North Carolina and South Carolina. The company addresses the unmet healthcare needs of rural populations through a hybrid primary care and urgent care model. Med First is a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
PNC Bank has appointed William Brown as senior vice president with the senior secured lending team in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Based in Baltimore, Bowen will be responsible for business development with private equity firms and middle-market companies, originating asset-based and cash flow loans.
With 30 years of banking and finance experience, Bowen most recently served as senior vice president with BB&T Commercial Finance responsible for originating asset-based loans for mid-size companies throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
PNC Bank, National Association, is a member of The PNC Financial Services Group. PNC is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions
DW Healthcare Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has appointed Gabriel Becher, former portfolio manager with Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), as a principal in the firm’s investment team.
Becher brings 12 years of merger and acquisition experience. Previously at AIMCo, he was responsible for sourcing, executing and managing direct private equity investments with a focus on the business services and financial services sectors.
Becher has also co-founded WagJag, an online "local offer" business that offers flash sales on a wide variety of products and services.
During his tenure, he was active in all aspects of the business,
Vestar Capital Partners, in partnership with management, has acquired Mobile Technologies Inc (MTI), a provider of mobile device security and display technologies, from Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company (HKW).
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Founded nearly 40 years ago, MTI operates in three business segments: Retail Merchandising (solutions that display, power, and secure mobile devices within the retail environment); ArmorActive (engineered solutions that empower tablets and smartphones for enterprise mobility and connectivity applications); and Global Services (installation, preventive maintenance, on-demand break-fix, and contact centre services to support businesses’ retail and enterprise mobile device deployments worldwide).
M&A advisory firm AdMedia Partners has acted as financial adviser to One North, a digital media agency, in its investment partnership with Chicago-based private equity firm Svoboda Capital Partners.
With 90-plus team members and more than 100 digital marketing programmes launched in the last four years, One North’s growth has been propelled by its Relationship Cycle approach, which helps services businesses design and implement brand-building experiences with their clients and key audiences.
In the past three months, One North has launched digital initiatives for four of the top 25 US law firms, as well as some of the largest
Private equity firm Gemspring Capital has appointed Thomas Zanios as a managing director.
Prior to joining Gemspring, Zanios was a principal at Odyssey Investment Partners. During his nine years at Odyssey, he was involved in all aspects of the investment process including origination, due diligence, transaction structuring, financing, and working closely with management to execute key value creation initiatives for each investment.
Zanios served on the boards of Safway Group Holdings and One Call Care Management during his tenure at Odyssey.
He began his career in the healthcare investment banking group of Banc of America Securities before joining
OST Energy, an independent engineering consultancy, has teamed with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and solar energy company Lightsource Renewable Energy to bring Europe’s largest floating photovoltaic (PV) solar project to completion.
A 6.3 Megawatt peak (MWp) array floating on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir west of London, is now providing a source of clean energy to water utilities company, Thames Water. It is the first floating solar project to secure European bank financing.
Thames Water will buy all energy generated by the project as part of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Lightsource.
Throughout the early stages
Copenhagen Infrastructure II, a fund under Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has teamed up with Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) to acquire the Kent biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant project.
The parties have signed a contract for the GBP160 million project located in Kent in southern England. The Kent power plant will have a capacity of 27.8 MW, corresponding to the power consumption of 50,000 households, and will mainly be using locally sourced wood. The plant will be constructed by BWSC and is expected to be in operation in the summer of 2018.
BWSC will provide the
Light Street Capital Management has appointed Bill Nolan as head of business development, responsible for developing and expanding Light Street's business presence and relationships with investors.
Nolan brings to the role nearly 30 years of industry experience. Previously, he was head of marketing and investor relations at Passport Capital from 2008 to 2015, and held a similar role at Crosslink Capital from 1999 to 2007.
"All of us at Light Street are excited to have someone with Bill's experience and business development success on our team," says Glen Kacher, president and portfolio manager. "We are confident Bill will help
Strong exit environments in both Europe and Asia helped private equity and venture capital funds in emerging markets and developed markets outside the US outperform public markets in those regions in 2015, according to global investment adviser Cambridge Associates.
Emerging market PE and VC returns beat non-US developed market PE and VC returns, in part because of a weakening euro, which brought down non-US developed market returns when measured in US dollars.
The Cambridge Associates Global ex US Developed Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index returned 2.0 per cent in USD terms in Q4, bringing the return for
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