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Private equity firm LCatterton has sold its remaining stake in Nature’s Variety to Agrolimen, joint venture partner for the investment. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
LCatterton invested in Nature’s Variety in 2008; and Agrolimen became a JV partner in 2014. Working together alongside Nature’s Variety Chief Executive Officer Reed Howlett, L Catterton and Agrolimen have developed a comprehensive brand positioning and go-to-market strategy for the brand.
Since LCatterton’s investment, Nature’s Variety has implemented a number of initiatives that have driven the business to quadruple in size and transformed Nature’s Variety into the leading raw and raw-inspired pet
Infoteria Corporation’s CEO, Yoichiro “Pina” Hirano has joined the board of advisors of Fenox Venture Capital (Fenox).
Hirano founded Infoteria Corporation and took it public in 2007 at Tokyo Stock Exchange. He also recently became the Chairman of the Blockchain Collaborative Consortium (BCCC), Japan’s first blockchain industry organisation.
Fenox is a USA Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm with more than 65 portfolio companies and seven offices across North America, Europe and Asia. Aside from investing into startups around the globe, Fenox has been providing large Japanese corporations access to the hottest startups around the world, creating business development opportunities for
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has sold Vision Solutions, a provider of high availability, disaster recovery, and migration software and services, to Clearlake Capital Group.
The exit represents the culmination of a successful 10-year partnership between Thoma Bravo and Vision Solutions. The transaction is expected to close in Q2, subject to normal closing conditions and approvals. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“We’ve worked closely with the Vision Solutions executive team to identify the operational efficiencies and transformative acquisitions that would establish the company as the premier provider of data protection solutions for modern data centres,” says Scott Crabill, a managing
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has appointed Brian Miner as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in the Firm's Washington, DC office.
Miner has significant experience in a wide range of transactional matters, focusing on cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions and divestitures involving public and private companies in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, energy and manufacturing. His private equity practice focuses on acquisitions and dispositions, majority and minority investments, joint ventures and co-investment transactions. Miner also counsels corporations on corporate governance issues and takeover preparedness.
"We are pleased that Brian
Clearlake Capital Group is to acquire Vision Solutions, a global data protection, high availability and cloud migration software provider with a proven track record of technological innovation on the IBM Power Systems, Windows, and Linux platforms – from private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Vision Solutions is a leading provider of software solutions designed to protect data, minimise downtime and maximise resources for the modern data centre as enterprises migrate to the cloud. Vision’s software offerings facilitate near-zero downtime migration of data, applications, and systems using real-time
Kayon Partners, founded by Stephen Garrow, David Vogel and Timothy Mitrovich, has partnered with LeoGroup as sub-advisor to the LeoGroup Private Investment Access (PIA).
The arrival of Kayon Partners coincides with LeoGroup's expansion of its capabilities to service ultra-affluent individuals within LeoGroup's Multi-Family Office (MFO) platform. Their focus will be on private investments, special venture situations, and overseeing and expanding the LeoGroup PIA platform.
Kayon Partners is already seeking and beginning to invest in companies and technologies across various industries disrupting their markets through innovation.
"I'm very pleased that Stephen, David and Timothy have joined our team. We are very
Alternative investment manager Franklin Square Capital Partners” (Franklin Square) business development company (BDC) direct lending platform committed over USD370 million to private deals in the first quarter of 2016.
This marks the 14th consecutive quarter the platform has provided more than USD250 million in direct commitments.
New directly originated deals during the quarter were made in support of eight existing portfolio companies headquartered in five different US states.
"Despite credit market volatility this quarter, the flexibility of our funds' structure allowed us to seek out the best risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders by investing where we saw the most compelling
StepStone Group is to add an established team of infrastructure investment specialists who have been advising leading global investment institutions for more than 10 years.
The infrastructure and real assets team that established KPMG’s institutional investment advisory business in 2011 will be joining StepStone. This will increase StepStone’s infrastructure and real assets team to over 20 investment professionals globally, operating out of La Jolla, London, New York, Perth, Sydney, and Toronto.
In addition, James O’Leary, head of the KPMG team, will become the Head of StepStone Infrastructure & Real Assets. Prior to KPMG, O’Leary was Head of Colonial First State
The Riverside Company has promoted Patrick Schaich to Principal, Origination. Schaich leads origination efforts for the firm in the DACH region.
Schaich joined Riverside in 2013 and works out of the Munich office. Prior to joining Riverside, he was Vice President, Investment Banking at Berenberg Bank. Prior to that, he served as Associate, Investment Banking at Kepler Cheuvreux and Consultant, Transaction Advisory Services at Ernst & Young.
“Patrick has delivered a number of superb opportunities for Riverside,” says Lars Eriksson, Managing Director and Head of European Origination. “He’s been a tremendous asset as we strive to find the best deals
Ogier has provided Jersey law advice on the acquisition by Luxembourg-based satellite operator and provider SES SA of a controlling stake in satellite operator O3b.
SES SA will pay USD 20 million to increase its fully diluted ownership of O3b from 49.1 per cent to 50.5 per cent, bringing its aggregate equity investment in O3b to date to USD 323 million (EUR 257 million). On completion, SES will consolidate O3b’s net debt, which is currently USD 1.2 billion. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.
A registered Jersey company, O3b, described as a “unique, game changing global solution”, operates a
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