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Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) has closed its third fund at USD303 million, surpassing its USD200 million target. Like its predecessors, Ecosystem Investment Partners III LP will invest in land-based environmental offset markets.
EIP’s investment strategy remains focused on the Land-Based Environmental Offset (LEO) markets established to offset or “mitigate” unavoidable, permitted impacts to wetlands, streams and other important natural resources throughout the United States. In order to capitalise on the LEO markets, EIP acquires, entitles, restores, sustainably manages and ultimately divests properties that generate revenues through the sale of wetland, stream, endangered species and other environmental credits to entities seeking
DNS Capital has acquired IMI Holding Corp, the parent company of Industrial Magnetics, (IMI), Prater Industries, and Sterling Controls, from Chattanooga-based private equity firm, River Associates Investments.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. DNS Capital is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker and Michael Pucker.
Headquartered in Boyne City, Michigan, IMI is a leading provider of highly engineered solutions for magnetic separation and material handling, particle processing and process automation applications. The company’s products are used to handle, separate, lift and process a diverse array of materials across a
Addleshaw Goddard has advised long standing client ECI Partners (ECI), a growth-focused, mid-market UK private equity firm, on the sale of Citation to HgCapital, generating a multiple of 5.4x money for investors.
Since ECI's investment in December 2012 it has helped Citation, which provides HR, employment law, and health & safety solutions to 16,000 SMEs across the UK, grow its customer base from around 5,000 to 16,000 and its revenue from GBP20 million to over GBP40 million forecast in 2016. The Addleshaw Goddard team was led by private equity partner, Mike Hinchliffe, supported by corporate partner Richard Lee, tax partner
A great number of the world's more than 13,000 alternative investment funds suffer from "Fund Manager's Disease," which significantly prevents those funds from increasing assets under management (AUM).
That’s according to Ole Rollag, managing principal of Murano Systems who, in his keynote presentation at the Amsterdam Investor Forum hosted by ABN Amro Bank, said that and on an industry-wide basis, the ‘disease’ serves to limit the adoption of alternative asset classes by institutional investors.
At a by-invitation-only session for global fund managers held at ABN AMRO Bank's headquarters in The Netherlands, Rollag noted that: "Because a fund's Chief Investment
Lawyers from Carey Olsen's Guernsey funds team have advised Creandum on the establishment of their latest venture capital fund, Creandum IV, which was oversubscribed and held a first and final closing at EUR180 million.
Private Equity Administrators Limited, Creandum's long term administrator, has again been appointed to provide administration services to the new fund.
Venture capital firm Creandum has 12 years' experience with over 50 start-ups, mostly focusing on the Nordic region. Creandum IV represents their largest early stage fund and was backed by a diverse global investor base from the Nordic region, Europe, the Middle East and North
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an investment firm focused on private middle market debt and equity investments, has appointed Upacala Mapatuna as chief investment officer. Upacala will bring more than 20 years of financial industry experience and over 15 years of investing experience to VPC.
“We have known Upacala for many years and are thrilled that she has chosen to join VPC’s leadership team. She is well-respected in our industry with proven investment acumen that will position us for continued success,” said Richard Levy, CEO and founder of VPC. “Upacala will be able to contribute immediately and we view her joining us as a validation of our investment strategy.”
As chief investment officer, Upacala will sit on VPC’s investment and management committees
Gide has advised Dalian Canglong Optoelectronic Technology Co on its acquisition of 70 per cent of the equity interests in French high-tech company Almae Technologies SAS.
Canglong Optoelectronic is part of the FiberHome Technologies Group, a major Chinese state-owned enterprise specialising in the manufacturing of optical fibre and cable products for the information technology and telecommunications industries. Its investment aims to boost the research, development and manufacturing of Almae Technologies’ photonic products in both France and China.
Gide acted as lead counsel to Canglong Optoelectronic on all the PRC and French legal aspects of the transaction, including assistance in
Grpwth private equity firm General Atlantic has appointed Achim Berg, former Chief Executive Officer of arvato AG, as an Operating Partner effective 1 April, 2016. Berg. who will work closely with the firm’s portfolio companies both in Germany and globally, will be based in General Atlantic’s Munich office.
“We are thrilled to welcome Achim to the GA team as an operating partner,” says Bill Ford, Chief Executive Officer of General Atlantic. “As a leading executive within the technology and business services sectors, his deep expertise and decades of experience will make him a valuable asset to our portfolio companies and
EnTouch Controls has raised USD8 million in Series C financing led by Egis Capital Partners. Also participating were new investors Traverse Venture Partners, Aster Capital and Calvert Investments along with existing investors SJF Ventures and Trailblazer Capital.
Richardson, Texas-based EnTouch provides facility asset and energy management intelligence and the financing will allow the firm to expand its sales and marketing team and capitalize on its leadership position in the Commercial Internet of Things (IoT) market.
The financing comes on the heels of a record year for the company as it tripled orders, expanded its footprint of connected facilities to
African Alpha Investment Partners (AIIP) has invested an undisclosed amount into SERS Ltd, an Africa focused equipment financing company based in Mauritius. The transaction was a refinancing of a facility raised and arranged by AAIP in October 2014, extending maturities and reducing the company's cost of borrowing.
The new facility also provided additional growth capital to allow SERS to finance further asset acquisition for its equipment financing clients, including those who have provided essential services to agencies active in the Ebola-affected countries of West Africa.
Rupert Boyd of AAIP, says: "We are delighted to be able to support such
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