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Mergers and acquisitions firm Woodbridge International has appointed Andrew J Buchholtz as Head of Investment Banking.
Buchholtz will assume a leadership role in working with Woodbridge’s bankers in the US and internationally. The firm’s expansion over the past two years and growing number of assignments have created the need to add another professional to the firm’s senior management team. In addition to his position as Head of Investment Banking, Andrew is taking an ownership position in the firm and becoming a fifth partner.
Andrew J Buchholtz has served as a banker, consultant and operator in the media industry for
Private equity firm TA Associates has promoted nine investment staff members in the firm’s Boston, Hong Kong, London, Menlo Park and Mumbai offices, effective 1 January, 2016.
“We are pleased to recognise the many accomplishments of these individuals, who demonstrate the breadth of talent of our global investment staff,” says Brian J Conway, Chairman and a Managing Director at TA Associates. “The promotions are well-earned, as each of these professionals has made significant contributions to the firm, our investors and our portfolio companies during their careers with TA.”
William D Christ has been promoted to Managing Director from Director.
Stirling Square Capital Partners has held the final closing of its Third Fund at the hard cap of EUR600 million, significantly above target and representing a notable increase on its EUR375 million Second Fund.
Third Fund will maintain the focus of prior Stirling Square funds, building upon the proven strategy of investing across Europe in mid-market companies offering transformational value creation potential.
Existing Second Fund investors comprise over 60 per cent of the total Third Fund commitments, with the remainder raised from new investor relationships. Together, they represent a strong investor base of leading pension funds, fund of funds,
Photoweb, a subsidiary of Lavigne (Exacompta-Clairefontaine Group), has acquired 100 per cent of the capital of LALALAB. The deal brings together a specialist in online photo development and a European provider of photo printing mobile applications.
Second in the French market of online personalisation, Photoweb has been a part of Exacompta-Clairefontaine Group since 2014. Founded by Jeremy Charoy, Julien Faltot and Julien Philbert, three French entrepreneurs from Nancy, LALALAB is the number one photo print and photo gift application in Europe (by number of downloads and ratings). Their constant search for enhanced quality and improved service makes the partnership between
Pamplona Capital Management has made a strategic financial investment in Patientco, a payment technology company built specifically for healthcare.
With patient payments often constituting as much as one third of hospital revenues, more than 500 hospitals and physicians practices nationwide have already turned to Patientco to address this sector.
Pamplona’s investment in Patientco includes a commercial agreement to embed Patientco’s offerings into Pamplona’s MedAssets Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and Precyse business, which were both acquired by Pamplona in 2015 and are being merged in 1Q16. The combination of services and technologies across patient access, health information management (HIM), central
Octopus Investments (Octopus) has launched a GBP20 million joint fundraise for its two Alternative Investment Market (AIM) VCTs, with scope for the offer to be extended by an additional GBP10 million.
The offer comes at the end of a year that celebrates AIM’s twentieth anniversary and has seen AIM responsible for a GBP25 billion contribution to UK GDP and almost three quarters of a million jobs in Britain alone³. The latest offer gives investors the potential to access the growth of UK smaller companies whilst receiving a regular income through the funds’ dividend policies.
Octopus AIM VCT (AIM VCT)
Tax and private equity lawyer Olga Loy has rejoined Jenner & Block as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
Loy, who joins the firm's tax and private equity practices, brings more than 15 years of experience in representing private equity funds in structuring and negotiating M&A deals and handling fund formation matters.
Loy plans and structures other complex business transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations and venture capital investments. She also advises investment advisers, hedge funds, registered investment companies and broker-dealers across a broad range of investment management, securities and general corporate matters. In addition,
Harris Williams & Co has advised Baarsma Wine Group Business to Consumer (Baarsma B2C), a European eCommerce wine retailer, to Gilde Equity Management Benelux (GEM).
The transaction was led by Thierry Monjauze, Alex Murrill and Danielius Uznys of Harris Williams & Co.’s London office.
“We were delighted to work with the management of Baarsma B2C and AAC on the transaction. The management team and AAC have built the acknowledged pioneer and leader of eCommerce wine retail across all market segments in Europe,” says Monjauze. “The sale of Baarsma B2C is representative of Harris Williams & Co’s strong and growing
United Wind, a premiere provider of distributed wind energy solutions, and
Forum Equity Partners is providing United Wind with USD200 million in project equity capital for distributed wind projects throughout the United States.
The financing will significantly expand United Wind’s unique and market leading WindLease program, which enables both residential and commercial property owners to lease distributed-scale wind turbines. United Wind’s popular program allows qualified customers to reduce energy costs by harvesting on-site wind energy through a fixed rate, 20-year maintenance-free lease without any initial out-of-pocket costs required from the customer.
“United Wind brings a unique and innovative
Encore Consumer Capital has promoted Daniel Gross and Kisen Nathu to Director. The pair both joined Encore as Associates.
Gross joined Encore in 2008 and was instrumental in exited Encore investments PhillySwirl and Zuke's. He is a board director of current Encore investments Atlantic Aqua Farms, Full Sail Brewing Company, ThunderWorks and Van Law Food Products, Inc. His prior work experience includes LEK Consulting. He received his BA from Northwestern University and MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Nathu joined Encore in 2007 and played important roles throughout the life-cycle of exited Encore investments Aidells, FreshKO, Isopure
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