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European private equity firm Vitruvian Partners has acquired a majority stake in Voxbone SA, a cloud-based provider of international voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services delivering communications solutions for enterprises worldwide.
With Vitruvian’s backing, Brussels-headquartered Voxbone will look to drive its next phase of growth as it further strengthens its position as a unique player in the rapidly growing cloud communications market. The Company is the global market leader in providing geographical, mobile and toll-free numbers (Direct Inward Dialling or “DID”) and associated network capacity for enterprise customers routing and enabling the receipt of calls, messages and data communications over
Law firm Trowers & Hamlins advised international private equity firm C&C Alpha Group on the sale of Alpha Hospitals to Cygnet Health Care, one of the UK largest independent providers of mental health and social care pathways.
Alpha Hospitals operates three low to medium secure mental health facilities located in Bury, Woking and Sheffield. Since its initial investment in 2002, C&C Alpha Group has grown Alpha Hospitals substantially, developing highly specialised services and facilities that support men, women and adolescents with mental health conditions and learning disabilities.
The purchase will grow Cygnet Health Care's existing footprint from 17 mental
Private equity firm HIG Capital has recapitalised United States Medical Supply (US MED), a direct-to-consumer mail-order medical supply business, focused on patients with chronic conditions, in partnership with management.
Headquartered in Miami, FL, US MED provides medical supplies to patients suffering from chronic conditions, including diabetes, sleep/respiratory disorders, and urological conditions who need such supplies daily. US MED is among the largest and most efficient direct-to-consumer providers of medical supplies in the nation, with a best-in-class IT, compliance, and operating platform. The Company provides a compelling value proposition to all healthcare constituents, including patients, payers, physicians, and manufacturers. US MED
A wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of Seagate Technology is to acquire Dot Hill in an all-cash transaction valued at USD9.75 per share, or a total of approximately USD694 million on a fully-diluted equity value basis.
As Dot Hill has approximately USD49 million in cash on its balance sheet as of June 30, 2015, the transaction reflects an enterprise value of approximately USD645 million. The consideration represents a 50 per cent premium over the preceding three month stock price average.
Dot Hill’s external storage array-based systems and software products will complement and expand Seagate’s storage systems offerings and be offered as part
The real estate funds industry is alive and well from an asset raising perspective. In 2012, private RE funds closed with USD72 billion in committed institutional assets. By 2014, that number had increased by 45 per cent, according to leading alternative asset data provider, Preqin.
While this is encouraging, the reality is that for most RE managers, the playing field has become extremely competitive as more players enter the arena to compete for a share of the assets.
Institutional investors favour the big global names in real estate who are attracting the lion’s share of assets, in a similar fashion
With concerns regarding infrastructure asset pricing ranking highest among institutional investors surveyed by Preqin, this extract from Preqin Infrastructure Spotlight – August 2015 examines the rise in average infrastructure deal sizes by geography, industry and project stage.
Global average deal size
As an asset class, infrastructure has grown in prominence and significance in recent years, although infrastructure deal flow has fluctuated alongside this. The number of completed infrastructure deals grew rapidly from 733 in 2009 to 1,056 in 2013. However, in 2014 the number of deals tailed off: only 883 deals were completed, with a further 325 completed this year so far.
SpotHero has closed a USD20 million Series B round led by Insight Venture Partners.
SpotHero’s existing investors – Battery Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Chicago Ventures, Draper Associates, OCA Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and 500 Startups – also participated in the round along with Monkfish Equity, an investment group started by the founders of trivago.
With this latest funding, SpotHero has raised USD27 million in total capital. The company will use the investment to accelerate marketing efforts, explore strategic relationships and hire 25 new positions in Chicago, New York City and San Francisco.
SpotHero’s on-demand parking service provides a
Preqin’s Real Estate Online provides comprehensive profiles for the 49 institutional investors based in Boston that actively invest in the real estate asset class, collectively representing over USD1.1 trillion in assets under management. The largest proportion of institutional investors are foundations, representing a quarter of investors located in the city. Boston has a strong private wealth industry; a fifth of real estate investors based in Boston are wealth managers and a further 14 per cent are family offices.
Read the full factsheet here, which contains charts, tables and analysis of the private real estate investor universe in Boston.
Private equity firm TA Associates has added investment staff with Amara Suebsaeng, Alex Melamud and Max Cancre rejoining the firm as Vice Presidents in Boston, Menlo Park and London, respectively, while John DiCola has joined the firm as a Vice President in Boston.
“We are pleased to welcome John to TA Associates and are excited to have Amara, Alex and Max return to the firm,” says Brian J Conway (pictured), Chairman and a Managing Director at TA Associates. “These four individuals bring a depth of knowledge within a number of TA’s focus industries. We look forward to them joining our
After reaching a record high of USD56.4B spent in 2014, the US is on track to smash that record and break USD70 billion in Venture Capital (VC) spending by the end of 2015, according to a new report from KPMG and CB Insights.
Venture Pulse Q2 '15, the first in a global quarterly VC report series, reveals that with USD36.9 billion already invested in the first half of the year, the final total money spent by VCs in 2015 could mark a five-year high for the US
According to the report, the US has collectively seen more than USD15B
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