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Kayon Partners has teamed with The LeoGroup LLC as sub-advisor to the private equity fund LeoGroup Private Investment Access, LLC. LeoGroup is expanding its offerings to ultra-affluent individuals through its multi-family office platform.
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) bringing a broad range of investment management and managerial skills to LeoGroup.
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
Miravast LLC, a Delaware based LLC, specialising in life contingent assets, has been launched by former senior members of the AIG life settlements team in 2012 with financial backing.
In 2016, Miravast earned sufficient capital to support its ongoing business needs and executed a buyout of external equity interests. Following the transaction, the firm's management team now owns 100 per cent of the firm's equity and voting rights.
"As we look at our accomplishments over the past four years and plot the future of the company, we felt our clients and employees would be best served by senior
Preliminary figures released by SL Capital in the Q1 2016 Private Equity Barometer, published by unquote”, show that overall the year to Q1 2016 witnessed a shift towards larger deals, with total deal value increasing by 28.2 per cent, while volume slipped by 15.9 per cent.
As a result, average deal value increased by 52.4 per cent
The number of European private-equity-backed deals declined by 11.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2016, from the 394 transactions seen in the previous three months to 348 transactions. Combined deal value also declined, slipping by 54.2 per cent.
The aggregate
Beacon Rail Leasing (Beacon), a leading Pan-European rolling stock leasing company, is to acquire Ascendos Rail Leasing (Ascendos), a European locomotive and rolling stock leasing company.
The completion of the transaction is subject to customary conditions, including clearance with the German competition authorities. The transaction is expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2016.
Headquartered in Luxembourg, with additional offices in London and Munich, Ascendos’ current portfolio includes 35 locomotives and 100 freight wagons on lease in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, 35 passenger train units on lease in Germany, and 67 double decker coaches on lease
Philadelphia area-based ALTZ Investment Strategies (ALTZ) has launched an alternative investment platform aimed at providing accredited individual investors with access to private opportunities.
These investments, usually reserved for institutional investors, can be accessed through the ALTZ website, where users register as accredited or aspirational investors, open a brokerage account, browse and, if eligible, allocate funds toward featured private placements. Once ALTZ-registered investors have collectively raised the capital required to invest, their money is aggregated and allocated to the company offering the private placement.
“We wanted to provide individual investors the chance to not only view private placement opportunities, but to
TriLinc Global Impact Fund has approved a new Investment Manager, Eurofin Investments and its affiliate, EFA RET Management (together EFA Group), to act as a sub-advisor on term loan investment opportunities in Southeast Asia.
TriLinc is an impact investing fund that provides growth-stage loans and trade finance to established small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies where access to affordable capital is significantly limited. Impact Investing is defined as investing with the specific objective of achieving a competitive financial return as well as creating positive, measurable impact in communities across the globe.
TriLinc complements its global macroeconomic portfolio optimisation
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
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