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Harvest Partners SCF has made an investment in LAZ Karp Partners (LAZ Parking), a Connecticut-based national provider of parking management services. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
LAZ Parking is the third largest parking operator in the United States with operations in over 2,100 locations across 29 states and 265 cities. LAZ offers a vast array of parking services including facility management, billing, collections, maintenance, valet parking and shuttles. The Company works with commercial and residential property owners and managers, government and municipal entities, hotels, universities, hospitals, stadiums and arenas, airports and transit authorities, and retailers and restaurants
Guernsey’s financial services regulator approved 18 new investment funds during the second quarter of 2015, resulting in a total of 112 additions for the year ending 30 June 2015.
Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) also show that the net asset value of all funds under management and administration in Guernsey fell by GBP2.3 billion (-1 per cent) during the second quarter to GBP219.9 billion. The value of deposits held by banks in Guernsey increased by GBP0.2 billion (0.2 per cent) during the same period to reach GBP83.6 billion; representing a rise of GBP6.1 billion (8 per cent)
Drawing on data compiled for the recently-released 2015 Preqin Alternative Assets Performance Monitor, Preqin has created league tables of hedge funds that have most consistently delivered strong, stable performance. The league tables do not seek in any way to endorse these funds, but rather to illustrate those that have performed the most consistently over the period June 2010 – June 2015. Seven top-level strategies are represented – Equity, Macro, Event Driven, Credit, Relative Value, Multi-Strategy, and CTA – with all of the top 10 equity strategies funds scoring over 90 out of 100 across all metrics.
To identify the
Palatine Private Equity has exited Playnation, a UK supplier of amusement and entertainment machines, selling its stake to the NOVOMATIC Group, one of the largest integrated conglomerates of the international gaming industry.
The Runcorn-based business, which currently employs over 700 staff, owns and operates 20,000 amusement and entertainment machines across over 1,700 sites in the UK. The firm partners with high profile names in the leisure sector across holiday parks, motorway services, bowling centres and airports, with clients including Bourne Leisure, Park Resorts, Parkdean, Moto, Welcome Break and Roadchef.
The company was established in 2013, following a management
European growth private equity firm Keensight Capital is strengthening its team with the appointment of Jaana Grüter (pictured) as Associate.
Grüter brings seven years of experience in investment and M&A on a Pan-European level to her new role at Keensight Capita.l She began her career in 2008 within the M&A division of the Rothschild group, where she worked on multiple deals across numerous sectors and geographies out of the Paris office. In 2012, she moved to Five Arrows Principal Investments, a Western European mid-cap fund of the Rothschild group, where she focused on a series of investments within the Healthcare
Eaton Partners has served as the exclusive placement agent for Asian private equity firm ADV Partners (ADV) on its inaugural pan-Asia fund, ADV Opportunities Fund I, exceeding its target to reach USD545 million.
The fund is the fifth fundraising Eaton has closed this year in Asia, bringing the total amount raised for the region to more than USD3 billion. ADV was co-founded in 2013 by Brad Landes, Suresh Prabhala and Jianyi Zhu who worked together at Mount Kellett Capital and previously held senior management roles with the Asia principal investment platforms of JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. The firm is
Lancaster Pollard vice president Kevin Laidlaw (pictured) is joining the firm’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) group.
The transition of Laidlaw to the M&A group is an integral aspect of the firm’s national efforts to expand its sell-side and buy-side advisory services for seniors housing and care properties.
“We are thrilled to have Kevin as part of our team,” says Chad Elliott, managing director of Lancaster Pollard’s M&A group. “For over eight years, he has been an instrumental part of Lancaster Pollard’s success and has developed a keen understanding of the factors that drive valuation, such as key financial and
JTC has provided specialist administrative support to HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), a Guernsey-incorporated investment company, in its major move from listing on the Specialist Fund Market (SFM) to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Through its Guernsey and UK offices, JTC provided HVPE with a range of specialist company secretarial and administration services to facilitate the significant move, which now means that HVPE has achieved dual listings status by virtue of already being listed on the Euronext exchange in Amsterdam.
JTC has provided a comprehensive range of administration services to HVPE since its launch in
Media intelligence provider, iQ media, has secured USD9 million in Series B funding from leading growth equity firm, Edison Partners, to support continued rapid growth and product expansion.
Since releasing its flagship media intelligence platform in 2010, iQ media has grown from an organisation of 5 to 80+ media intelligence professionals. iQ media has also expanded its offering to include a first-to-market brand recognition and impact visualisation technology which captures and analyses 3,600 data points during each hour of television. As a result of these technology-driven product advancements, iQ media is uniquely positioned to break into evolving marketing technology landscape,
Private equity firm Inflexion is to sell Ideal Shopping Direct, a UK multi-channel home shopping retailer, to private equity funds managed by Blackstone (Blackstone).
Ideal Shopping Direct operates in two distinct and growing markets, TV shopping and the craft and hobbyist market, selling a variety of popular lifestyle products through well-established TV shopping channels ‘Ideal World’ and ‘Create & Craft’, as well as multiple internet sites.
Inflexion invested in Ideal Shopping Direct in 2011, successfully delisting the company from AIM in a take-private. We backed the incumbent management team who still lead this thriving company today.
Capitalising on the
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