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The Isle of Man Government Treasury is seeking private investment managers for the island’s proposed Enterprise Development Fund. The closing date for Expressions of Interest will be 12pm Thursday 3 September.
This GBP50 million Enterprise Development Fund has been proposed to support job creation in the Isle of Man and grow the economy.
Private investment managers are required for the management and investment (including lending) of funds on a discretionary basis with a total market value spread across all of the classes of up to GBP50million in locally based businesses.
Benson Hill Biosystems has secured an investment of USD7.3 million in its Series A round of financing. The funding will be used to further advance its PSKbase, a computational and systems biology-based platform that helps technology developers and breeders identify promising strategies to increase genetic gain in crop plants.
The capital will also support additional field trials and other product development activities for traits that increase crop productivity by improving photosynthesis.
The financing was led by Middleland Capital, an agriculture-focused venture capital firm, with co-investors Mercury Fund, Prelude Ventures, Prolog Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, Cultivation Capital, and TechAccel. Existing investors Missouri
Cordium, a provider of regulatory compliance consulting, software, accounting and tax services to the asset management and securities industry, has appointed Lusine Moshkounian (pictured) as Vice President.
Moshkounian has over 17 years of experience in compliance and has joined Cordium as Vice President of its compliance consulting division in San Francisco.
Moshkounian’s role will see her helping investment managers successfully implement and maintain a comprehensive compliance program unique to each firm’s size, structure, and client base. Her clients include managers of hedge funds, private equity/venture capital funds, and other private funds as well as traditional investment advisers providing
Waterland Private Equity has sold its stake in the Swiss nursing home operator SENIOcare to Swiss Prime Site AG, which is already active in the assisted living segment through its Tertianum group subsidiary.
The purchase price has not been disclosed.
Jörg Dreisow (pictured), Managing Partner of Waterland and responsible for the DACH region, says: "We have actively supported the successful business development of SENIOcare in the last three years and founded together with the company a strategic and financial basis for accelerated growth. The interest of a strategic investor with a complementary business model proves that SENIOcare is on
Three Hills Capital Partners has invested EUR35 million in Building Energy Group, an independent power producer focused on renewable energy sources, headquartered in Milan.
The investment will be made via a combination of debt & equity: a subscription to a EUR30 million bond, listed in the ExtraMOT of the Italian Stock Exchange, and an equity investment of EUR5 million in order to acquire a minority stake in the Group. This will support the company’s financial requirements in order to fund a pipeline of investment in the US, South Africa and East Europe.
Building Energy is a global independent renewable
An affiliate of KSL Capital Partners Credit Opportunities Fund has provided a first mortgage to finance the acquisition of the Ventana Inn & Spa by an affiliate of Geolo Capital II LP and Wanxiang America Real Estate Group.
The 59-room luxury resort overlooks the Pacific Ocean from its location directly off of Highway 1 in Big Sur, California. Amenities include a luxury spa, the Restaurant at Ventana with an outdoor deck overlooking the ocean, 8,745 square feet of meeting space, two outdoor swimming pools, Japanese hot baths, and a recently opened, 78-site campground located within a redwood grove.
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Noerr has advised the US investor Wellspring Capital on establishing a new packing group. As part of the takeover of the packing specialist Ampac Holdings, Wellspring has merged this enterprise with the portfolio company Prolamina Corporation.
Noerr advised Wellspring with a team led by the Frankfurt corporate law and M&A partner Dr Till Kosche on the German law aspects of the transaction. Already in 2012, Noerr had assisted Wellspring, which is one of the leading private equity investors in the mid-cap sector with more than three billion US dollars under management, in the takeover of ThermaSys Corporations.
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD19.25 million senior credit facility to support the recapitalisation and growth of an online travel company.
The company is a leading provider of online advertising and booking services for vacation rental properties located throughout the United States, Caribbean and Mexico. The company’s websites generate more than four million unique visitors annually.
This transaction is representative of Monroe Capital’s extensive capabilities in its technology vertical.
Tengram Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on exceptional, highly recognisable consumer brands, has appointed Robin Lamb (pictured) and Michael Zappala as Vice President and Associate, respectively.
Lamb has over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur, an operator in mid-sized companies, and most recently as a strategic advisor to private equity funds and corporations in the consumer and retail space. Prior to joining Tengram, Lamb was a Principal at Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm. At Bain, Lamb focused on consumer and retail brands, with an emphasis on food and beverage companies, department stores and mass
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central Europe and Turkey, with over EUR4 billion of funds advised or managed, is to acquire a 100 per cent shareholding in Customer Management Center (CMC).
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and is expected to be completed in Q4 2015.
Established in 2000, CMC is the largest independent outsourced call centre and customer management services provider in Turkey. The Company operates four call centres in Istanbul, Malatya and Şanlıurfa, and provides both inbound as well as outbound services to blue chip corporate customers operating in various industries.
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