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Growth equity and venture capital firm North Bridge has promoted Won Park to Principal and made two new additions to the firm’s growth equity investment team – Chris Cavanagh as Principal and Brendan Gibney as Vice President.
“We are very pleased to recognise the outstanding contributions of Won with his well-deserved promotion,” says Roshen Menon, General Partner of North Bridge Growth Equity. “We are confident that he [Won Park] will continue to serve our investors and help drive our portfolio companies forward in the years to come.”
“In addition, we are delighted to welcome Chris and Brendan to the
Olof Faxander has joined the advisor to the Nordic Capital Funds as Operating Partner and will co-head the Operations team alongside Lars Terney, Partner, NC Advisory A/S.
Faxander has substantial industrial experience, most recently as CEO of a large listed Swedish company, Sandvik. His experience and skills will enable him to play a key role in supporting Nordic Capital’s portfolio companies to build strong and internationally competitive positions. Faxander’s primary objectives will be to support an accelerated value creation in existing portfolio companies, assist in evaluating new investment opportunities, and support the on-boarding of new portfolio companies that typically enter an
Private equity firm Livingbridge has completed a minority investment in procurement specialist Efficio.
Founded 15 years ago, Efficio works with clients across the world to help them achieve breakthrough results in their procurement functions. With revenues of over £30m, the firm achieves sustainable results for its clients by helping them to identify, deliver and sustain benefits in procurement. Efficio currently has around 250 employees based in offices in Europe and North America as well as its London headquarters.
The company has evolved significantly over the last two years, to offer a much broader spectrum of services than traditional procurement
Ardian portfolio company Italmatch Chemicals Group is to acquire Solvay’s desalination and phosphonates and phosphonic acid-based water additives business.
The transaction, which is consistent with Italmatch Chemicals Group’s growth strategy, is designed to strengthens the company’s position as a global supplier of water management additives, traded under the Dequest brand name.
The acquisition covers all products, trademarks, patents and client portfolio from the division of the Belgian chemicals group, which boasts a 30-year experience in phosphonate-based technology as well as other chemistries. It comes one year after Italmatch’s takeover of Naples-based GRS Chemical Technologies, a centre of excellence for
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian has promoted five associates to the partnership, effective 1 January, 2016, bringing the total number of partners to 65.
“We are delighted to welcome these five, very talented colleagues as new partners,” says Robert V Gunderson, Jr, Chairman of the firm. “We’ve achieved strong growth in each of our offices and these new partners will help us maintain the responsiveness and quality of service that our clients, which include a significant majority of the most prominent venture capital firms in the world as well as many of the fastest-growing global technology and life
EmployerDirect Healthcare announced the closing of its Series C investment round with Dallas-based Dundon Capital Partners. Under the terms of the investment, Dundon Capital Partners has acquired a majority ownership position in the business.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The funding supports the growth of the company’s core product, SurgeryPlus, a valuable supplemental benefit to employees of large employers with self-insured medical plan benefits. Currently, SurgeryPlus is available to over 275,000 members nationwide1 and affords them access to best-in-class procedures across EmployerDirect’s Surgeons of Excellence national network. Employees benefit from a zero out-of-pocket option, while
Daytime hotel booking platform, Dayuse.com has closed a EUR15 million Series A investment round, in what is the largest European startup series A investment round of 2015.
The Paris-based company, which enables people to book a hotel room for a few hours during the daytime, has taken investment from renowned venture capital firms Idinvest Partners and Partech Ventures, with contributions from the startup's historical angel investors Paul Dubrule (Co-founder, Accor Group), Cédric Barbier (Founder, Lesjeudis.com) and Charles Petruccelli (Former President, American Express Travel).
The capital raised will fund three major initiatives: hire new talents, sustain the exponential growth in countries
Alvarez Arrieta & Diaz-Silveira, a Miami-based corporate boutique law firm specialising in international and domestic M&A, finance and real estate, has promoted Brian Canida to counsel and head of the firm's Venture Capital group.
"We are thrilled to have Brian lead our growing Venture Capital practice during such an exciting time for the tech industry here in Miami," said Albert Diaz-Silveira, one of the firm's founders. "Brian's broad exposure to venture capital transactions – both here in South Florida and in the key startup hubs domestically and abroad – has allowed the firm to stay current with market terms and
International investment bank Altium has completed 54 consumer deals worth in excess of GBP8.5 billion over the last five years.
The firm has enjoyed a buoyant 2015, completing 13 deals in the sector, including two of its largest-ever transactions. In May, Altium advised the Singh Family Trust on the GBP1.9 billion sale of UK retail business New Look to South African private equity house Brait and in June, Altium advised on the purchase of European cosmetics giant Douglas Holding by CVC Capital Partners.
With disposable income and consumer spending on the rise since the recession, Altium has maintained a
The number of Jersey-registered alternative fund managers marketing into Europe through national private placement regimes (NPPRs) under the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) rose significantly again over the final six months of 2015.
That’s according to new figures from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) which show that as at December 2015, 104 alternative fund managers (AIFMs) had been authorised in Jersey to market into Europe through NPPRs, up 24 per cent compared to June last year. Over the same period, the number of Jersey alternative funds (AIFs) being marketed into Europe through NPPR authorisation stood at 230,
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