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Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) – along with existing investors and company management – has made a USD65 million strategic investment in SaaS property management platform Buildum.
SEP Managing Directors, Jason Babcoke and John Brennan, will join Buildium’s board of directors.
“Buildium has successfully made the transition from start up to established market leader, and its large and rapidly growing base of happy customers is a testament to the company’s customer-first philosophy,” says Jason Babcoke, managing director at SEP. “Founder-led teams with strong product backgrounds are attractive investments for us – especially since Buildium was founded in the practice
Wasserstein Partners has acquired Northstar Travel Group, a provider of business-to-business information, content, events, data, research, custom content and software dedicated to the global travel and meeting industries, from the Wicks Group of Companies.
Investing alongside Wasserstein Partners IV were its co-investors, Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board, John Hancock, and Storebrand Insurance.
Northstar is the owner of well-known brands including Travel Weekly, TravelAge West, Business Travel News, Successful Meetings, Meetings & Conventions, Travel Weekly China, Incentive, M&C China and Web in Travel. The company produces more than 50 face-to-face events in thirteen countries in retail travel, corporate travel, travel technology
Tikehau IM and Ares announced have arranged a major unitranche financing to support Apax Partners in the acquisition of Marlink, Airbus Group’s Commercial Satellite Communication business.
Marlink's maritime and land commercial satcom business is present in 14 countries across Europe, Asia, Middle-East and Americas, and has a distribution network of approximately 400 re-sellers worldwide. The company serves all maritime sectors globally and thousands of users operating in challenging environments in the mining, energy and humanitarian sectors that need highly reliable satcom mobile and fixed connectivity services.
The government satcom business is not part of this transaction and remains part of
Total worldwide entertainment and media revenues will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4 per cent in nominal terms over the coming five years, from USD1.72 trillion in 2015 to USD2.14 trillion in 2020, according to PwC's Global entertainment and media outlook 2016-2020.
This growth rate represents a slowdown from last year's 5.5 per cent growth in industry revenues, and will lag behind overall global economic growth during the five years. But a closer examination brings a different picture into focus. Entertainment and media is a dynamic, diverse industry with steady and sustainable growth. And while its
Ogier, working with Burness Paull, has advised Brown-Forman Corporation on matters of Jersey law in respect of its GBP281 million acquisition of the GlenDronach, BenRiach and Glenglassaugh Single Malt Scotch Whisky brands.
Brown-Forman Corporation is one of the largest American based manufacturers of wines and spirits and this acquisition enhances its growing portfolio of world famous brands which already includes Jack Daniels, Finlandia and Chambord.
The Ogier team was led by partner Steve Meiklejohn and included Katherine Neal and Ashley Quenault.
Nexxus Capital announces that on 7 June 2016 it reached an agreement to invest in Fondo de Transporte México (FTM), a holding company of leading subsidiaries in the logistics, cargo, personnel and student transportation sectors.
This investment will be made through Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund VI, and Nexxus Capital VI Trust (jointly Nexxus VI), once certain closing conditions are met, including the approval of Mexico’s Antitrust Authority (COFECE).
FTM is the leading transportation platform in the logistics, cargo, personnel and student transportation sectors that operates under several brands that include Egoba, MyM, and Lipu; among others. Through all
Deutsche Bank has been selected to provide fund administration services for Arroyo Energy Investors, a private equity firm focused on power generation and midstream assets in the Americas.
Arroyo Energy selected Deutsche Bank’s Fund Services team as their exclusive private equity fund administrator providing fund accounting, investor services and regulatory reporting across funds.
“We are proud to support Arroyo Energy with our award-winning fund administration platform,” says Ajay Singh, Head of Investor Services, Global Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank. “During the entire lifecycle of a fund, Deutsche Bank provides clients with access to a comprehensive range of solutions, value-add services
Cyrus Investment Management (CIM), the specialist engineering turnaround EIS investment adviser, has closed fundraising for the Cyrus Precision Engineering EIS Fund 2, having successfully raised GBP10.5 million in new funds.
This follows on the impressive results of CIM’s first fund, Cyrus Precision Engineering EIS 1, which within 12 months was fully invested in four precision engineering companies: FGP Systems Ltd, a tier 2 bespoke aerospace component manufacturer; City Engineering, a specialist in laser cutting and fabrication for the global energy industries; Rhino Doors, a strategic provider of security doors for the Ministry of Defence, the nuclear industry and Post Office
Celonis, a provider of a new category of big data analytics technology dubbed Process Mining, has secured a USD27.5 million Series A investment led by Accel and 83North (formerly Greylock IL).
Celonis will use the funds to accelerate the global adoption of its solution, which aims to help organisations of all sizes improve their operational efficiency by 20-30 per cent.
Over the years, the complex world of enterprise processes has become more and more difficult to navigate, and the efficiency of many companies’ key business processes has suffered as a result. Because of this, crucial process weak spots can
Bernhard Capital Partners Management (BCP), an energy services focused private equity firm, has closed its debut private equity fund, BCP Energy Services Fund.
Launched in 2014, BCP has raised over USD750 million in capital commitments to the Fund and managed co-investments from investors, including public and corporate pension funds, university endowments, family offices, strategic corporate investors, industry executives, as well as an investment by the BCP professionals.
BCP was founded in 2013 by James "Jim" Bernhard, the former Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Shaw Group Inc. Jeff Jenkins, the former COO of Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, and other
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