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Twelve Capital Group was the anchor investor in Adriatic Slovenica’s note offering, providing the company with Solvency II compliant capital for a ten year period.
On 24 May 2016, the company placed EUR50 million in notes, maturing in May 2026. Twelve Capital Group acted as anchor investor and was then joined by additional investors. These notes, which comply with the requirements of the Solvency II directive are listed on the Irish Stock Exchange (on the GEM – Global Exchange Market). The proceeds will be used for strengthening the capital adequacy of the issuer and for purchasing KD Funds, which is
Instana Inc has raised a USD6 million investment led by venture capital firm Target Partners with participation of Codecentric, a German IT consulting firm.
Instana is tackling the problem of monitoring and managing the increasingly complex big data and microservices architectures; humans can no longer monitor these systems by simply collecting data and building “dashboards”. Through auto-discovering the application’s technologies and topology, Instana is able to deliver unprecedented clarity into the health and performance of these modern architectures. The startup pairs its own ever increasing knowledge base with a machine learning approach to predict future performance degradation or downtime, identify
Jenner & Block has appointed corporate lawyer Kyle Gann as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Gann will be a member of the Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practices.
With a decade of corporate transactional experience representing both premier private equity groups and public companies in a broad range of matters, he will provide additional bench strength to the firm's growing Corporate Department.
Gann's practice includes counselling his clients on a variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, divestitures and general corporate matters. His experience crosses a wide array of asset classes,
An affiliate of Moorgate Capital Partners has partnered with management to acquire substantially all of the assets of ITC Service Group (ITC) from its founding shareholders.
ITC is a leading provider of planning, design, installation and maintenance services to the telecommunications and IT industries. Most recently, the company has been focused on designing, installing, maintaining and providing operational management services for fiber–to-the-home networks, an area that is expected to grow dramatically over the next several years as major industry participants deploy significant capital to build and upgrade networks. ITC currently employs approximately 700 people across the United States.
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Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) has closed the firm’s seventh private equity investment fund, Green Equity Investors VII (GEI VII), with committed capital of USD9.6 billion.
GEI VII exceeded its target and closed at its hard cap of USD9.1 billion in third-party investor commitments along with a USD500 million commitment from the Partners of the firm.
Founded in 1989 and based in Los Angeles, LGP’s philosophy is to invest in market-leading companies with defensible competitive positions, attractive growth prospects, and proven management teams. LGP’s investments have taken the form of traditional buyouts, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, growth capital investments, corporate carve-outs,
Institutional investors are increasing capital allocations to alternative strategies in a quest for strong returns in the low-interest-rate environment, according to a new study from BNY Mellon.
The report, Split Decisions: Institutional investment in alternative assets, produced by BNY Mellon in association with FT Remark, found that among the various alternative asset classes, private equity is most favoured by institutional clients, accounting for 37 per cent of their exposure, followed by infrastructure (25 per cent), real estate (24 per cent), and hedge funds (14 per cent).
According to the study nearly two-thirds of investor respondents said that alternatives had
Radius Equity, the provider of tax efficient private equity investments, has appointed Andrew Hodson as the firm’s new Head of Business Development, focussing on introducing investors to early stage businesses looking for growth funding.
Radius Equity says that Hodson has over 25 years of experience working within accountancy and financial services, having started his career at Coopers & Lybrand. He then worked as an investment manager at BZW, and as an analyst at investment bank UBS Warburg.
Following this, Hodson then moved into Private Banking, taking on roles within some of the world’s top private banks, including HSBC, Citi
Electra is to sell its holding in fiduciary services company, Elian, to global high-value trust and corporate services provider, Intertrust, in a GBP435 million deal.
Elian provides specialist services in: capital market solutions; private equity, real estate and fund administration; corporate services; private client solutions and employee benefit solutions from 15 offices across the globe. Headquartered in Jersey, Elian has over 600 professionals, all of who are specialists in their field, able to support or handle large, demanding or complex engagements and deliver high level of client service with a robust approach to increasingly complex regulation and compliance. The company
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has acquired a significant minority stake in B2S Group (B2S), a French player in the outsourcing of customer services management.
IK Funds will invest alongside Maxime Didier, founder and majority shareholder of the Group. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
B2S Group offers an extensive portfolio of customer experience services, including consulting, telesales, customer services, debt collection and technical assistance, to a large client base. The Group is well positioned to achieve additional growth, already operating 13 contact centres in France, Morocco and Madagascar. In 2015, B2S Group generated
As part of its diversification push, Euronews Group is launching Euronews Ventures, a programme to back innovative technology start-ups.
The purpose of this programme is to accelerate the development of the most promising start-ups by providing them with a complete array of media and marketing services: global communication levers, media coaching, events, networking through the international network of Euronews and Africanews, media for revenue or even media for equity.
Kiwi Plug, a start-up in the connected-device space, is the first player to join the programme and will receive support from Euronews Ventures right from the start of its global fundraising
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