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NES Financial’s private equity fund administration business has expanded its New York City operations with the hire of Justin Flanagan as Managing Director.
With over 20 years of experience in the financial sector, Flanagan joins NES Financial from Markit, where he was recently head of Midwest sales and account management for five years. Prior to that, he held multiple roles at Thomson Reuters and began his career in fixed income trading before moving into software sales at Marvin Software.
NES Financial provides an independent, comprehensive, and compliant institutional-quality fund administration solution for managers of private equity funds, enabling them to
LogicMonitor, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivered end-to-end IT infrastructure monitoring platform, has secures a USD130 million investment from Providence Strategic Growth (PSG), the growth equity affiliate of private equity firm Providence Equity Partners.
The investment will be used to continue LogicMonitor’s global market expansion as the leading modern IT infrastructure performance monitoring solution that will displace legacy and premise-based monitoring systems in complex and agile environments.
LogicMonitor is disrupting the IT infrastructure space with its extensive on-premise, cloud, and hybrid datacenter monitoring capabilities, all in its one SaaS platform. Its extensive monitoring capabilities enable its customers to prevent performance degradation and
The Seattle office of global law firm K&L Gates has appointed Christopher J (CJ) Voss as a partner in the corporate/M&A practice. Voss joins K&L Gates from Stoel Rives LLP, where he practiced for more than 20 years.
Previously an attorney/advisor with the Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce at the US Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, and an associate at Linklaters in Brussels, Belgium, Voss counsels senior management and boards of directors of public and private companies on mergers, acquisitions, financings, and other strategic transactions. He also advises entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies on business formation
Energy Access Ventures (EAV) has announced a USD2 million investment as part of a USD7.5 million round in PEG – an off-grid solar pay-as-you-go (PAYG) company operating in Ghana.
The partnership with PEG is EAV’s second investment and represents the start of its investment activity in West Africa. After a Series A-1 round of USD3,2M closed in September 2015, EAV led a USD4.3 million Series A-2 round, joined by Blue Haven Initiative. Existing investors Engie Rassembleurs d’Energie and Investisseurs & Partenaires also participated in the round. The funding will be used to expand operations in Ghana, build out the management
Product development firm Cambridge Consultants, part of the Altran group, is to acquire Synapse.
The acquisition will allow for the combined firms to create one of the world’s largest product development companies with significant presence on both coasts of the US. This acquisition, combined with Cambridge Consultants, will grow the Innovative Product Development activity revenues of Altran by 50 per cent by the end of 2016 (on a proforma basis), and fits within Altran’s ‘2020 Ignition’ strategic plan under which Cambridge Consultants is aiming to double its scale and enhance its geographic reach in the US and Asia.
From its
BlackRock Real Assets has entered into an agreement to purchase GE Energy Financial Services’ 50 per cent interest in the Grandview wind project (Grandview).
Grandview is now jointly owned by BlackRock and E.ON Climate and Renewables North America (EC&RNA), a subsidiary of E.ON SE, one of the world’s largest renewable power providers.
Grandview has been operating since December, 2014 and is located on 45,000 acres in Carson County, Texas in the ERCOT regional transmission origination system. The 211 MW wind project will supply electricity to the region under a long-term offtake agreement with an investment grade counterparty and utilises proven,
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MSI Holding AB (AddSecure), a portfolio company of GMT Communications Partners and Viking Venture AS, on its sale to ABRY Partners.
Headquartered in Stockholm, AddSecure is the Nordic market leader providing secure mission-critical M2M communications for security and other applications across a wide range of verticals including healthcare, public safety, transportation and utilities. The company manages a highly secure communications platform enabling the automated control and remote monitoring and management of sensors and other devices deployed in the field. Employing 120 people in Scandinavia, AddSecure has more than 100,000 business clients.
Law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has advised 3i Infrastructure on the successful completion of a capital raise with gross proceeds of GBP385 million.
3i Infrastructure plc is a FTSE 250 infrastructure investment company. Capital raised will be used to fund the completion of the company's investments in Wireless Infrastructure Group and TCR and invest in further new investments during the rest of the financial year.
The offering, with an original target size of GBP350 million, was significantly oversubscribed and the final size has been set so as to ensure that the Company continues to maintain an efficient balance sheet while at
Leading international law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has advised long standing client Intertrust N.V. on its GBP435 million acquisition of Elian Group.
Netherlands-based global trust and corporate services provider, Intertrust NV, has 37 offices in 26 jurisdictions in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Fiduciary services company Elian, which has its headquarters in Jersey, comprises 15 offices around the world.
Mourant Ozannes Partner, Simon Felton, says: "This is a positive step for Intertrust and Elian which will allow for significant growth and diversification in key jurisdictions, creating a truly global leader in their industry. Our international team of specialists worked together
British Business Bank Investments, the commercial arm of the British Business Bank, has appointed Catherine Lewis La Torre as Chief Executive Officer, effective from 1 September 2016.
Lewis La Torre joins British Business Bank Investments from Cardano, where she is Head of Private Equity and responsible for managing a portfolio of private capital fund investments with over GBP1 billion of client commitments. This appointment follows the announcement that Peter Wilson was stepping down as CEO in March 2016.
Lewis La Torre has over thirty years’ experience in the private equity industry focused on investing in the European mid-market. Before
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