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Palamon Capital Partners has elected Alexandre (Ali) Rahmatollahi to the Partnership.
Rahmatollahi joins Palamon from Morgan Stanley where he spent nearly eight years in its Investment Banking division, most recently as an Executive Director with responsibility for Financial Sponsor coverage. Prior to that he was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in its General Strategy Consulting and Private Equity Practices. A Swiss-Persian national, Ali graduated from Boston University as a NCAA First Division All-American Athlete with a degree in Business Administration. He later received an MBA from Columbia University.
Louis Elson, Managing Partner of Palamon Capital Partners, says:
Mambu, the SaaS banking platform provider, has raised EUR8 million in the company’s latest funding round led by Acton Capital Partners and CommerzVentures with participation also coming from existing investors.
Mambu says it will use the funding to accelerate its expansion following three times year-on-year growth over the last 12 months.
“This latest funding round is a testament to our growing client base and increasing market needs for a cloud banking platform,” says Eugene Danilkis, CEO of Mambu. “We are building out the product and onboarding customers in multiple geographies and are excited that this new capital will allow
Israeli high-tech exits generated USD9.02 billion in proceeds in 2015, the highest total in the last three years, and 16 per cent above proceeds in 2014.
A hundred and four (104) exits were made in 2015, 10 per cent down from 2014 figures, while in line with the 10-year average of 100 deals. The average exit deal reached USD87 million in 2015, up from the USD62 million 10-year average.
The top three exits in 2015, each above USD500 million, jointly accounted for 30 per cent of the total exit proceeds. The USD1.25 billion acquisition of Fundtech by D+H, an international
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to Private Equity in Europe, has made two senior appointments to help support the continued growth of the business.
Andy Pitter has been appointed as Head of Ipes in Jersey, while Nigel Strachan, who was previously Managing Director of Ipes in Jersey, becomes Group Head of Business Development.
Pitter joins Ipes from Kleinwort Benson where he worked for more than 30 years, 20 of those as a Director. He has worked with a variety of private equity, real estate and debt fund clients.
Strachan will continue to be based in Jersey but
Dentons, the global law firm, has added Jennifer R Williams as a partner in the firm's Corporate group.
Williams joins as one of the leaders of a new program focused on providing a comprehensive package of legal services to private equity portfolio companies and similar companies. This new and unique service is designed to provide cost savings as well as risk management tools for clients at both the portfolio company and private equity firm levels. Although the service is primarily focused on private equity clients, it has applications in other businesses.
The new program will draw upon the talents of
International aircraft leasing company Avolon has completed its merger agreement with Bohai Leasing. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bohai, Avolon’s shares have now ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Avolon CEO, Dómhnal Slattery, says: “The completion of our acquisition by Bohai is an exciting step in the development of Avolon. We are delighted to be part of Bohai and the wider HNA Group who share our ambitious growth plans. With a fleet of over 500 aircraft, we are now the world’s fourth largest aircraft leasing firm.
“The Avolon management team remains committed to the business and
Omnes Capital and Parquest Capital are selling their stakes in Vivalto Santé to a group of investors led by CDC International Capital and including Mubadala, insurer MACSF and Daniel Caille, Vivalto Santé's chairman and founder.
Vivalto Santé's management, long-standing non-controlling shareholders BNP Paribas Développement, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and Unexo, and its practitioner-shareholders are retaining their interest in the company and taking part in this new funding round.
Vivalto Santé was created by Daniel Caille – supported from the outset by Omnes Capital and Parquest Capital – through the acquisition of Brittany-based group Cliniques Privées Associées (CPA) in 2009.
Nordic Capital Fund VIII has acquired Cint, a specialist in insights data collection technology, from a large shareholder group that includes Prime Ventures, Creandum, Cipio Partners, the founder, and a group of individual investors and employees..
Nordic Capital will aid Cint’s growth in an industry where consumers are becoming increasingly mobile and digital, and brand marketing spend is shifting to online.
Fredrik Näslund, Partner at NC Advisory AB, advisor to the Nordic Capital Funds, says: "Nordic Capital is impressed by the quality and efficiency of Cint’s technology, its strong value proposition to its customers and the quick adoption of
Livingstone’s Debt Advisory team has advised MML Capital Parthers-backed CLEAN on its acquisition of Stevens Hatherley Holdings Limited, trading as Paragon Laundry.
Debt facilities were provided by Permira Debt Managers and Santander Corporate Banking.
CLEAN’s clients range from independents to leading global branded businesses from the hotel, restaurant, catering, food manufacturing, engineering and pharmaceutical industries. With five laundry production facilities, CLEAN prides itself in offering a professional, quality and customer focused service to a demanding customer base.
Paragon is a shareholder of the Brilliant Laundry Group, and services many of UK hospitality and workwear clients across a large geographical
Source Intelligence (SI), a supply chain compliance solutions specialist, has received a USD17.5 million investment from Kayne Partners to fund ongoing growth of its network and to meet increased demand for its information platform.
Kayne Partners is the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, a Los Angeles-based alternative investment firm managing more than USD22 billion in assets. Piper Jaffray & Co acted as exclusive financial advisor and placement agent for Source Intelligence.
Source Intelligence's platform, which is used by many Fortune 500 customers globally, is designed to help companies meet increasingly strict regulations regarding conflict minerals,
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