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Checkmarx has secured a USD84 million investment from New York-based venture capital and private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners.
The new round of capital will be primarily used to further accelerate growth through product innovation and global expansion.
Founded in 2006 by Israeli cyber security expert Maty Siman, Checkmarx provides comprehensive solutions for application security testing and application layer attack prevention. Its flagship product is its automated static code analysis – scanning for security deficiencies in source code early in the software development lifecycle where it is most cost effective to apply fixes. With offices in both Israel and
McKenna Long & Aldridge has added five new partners in the month of June – in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and Atlanta – including three lawyers who previously practiced at McKenna, ahead of its pending merger with law firm Dentons.
The five partners span several key practice areas – government contracts and compliance, litigation and complex tort litigation and corporate transactions and regulation.
Coming into the firm on the eve of the Dentons US merger are the following new partners:
• Mordecai Boone – who joins the Product Liability and Complex Tort practice, based in San Francisco;
• Kelvin
KKR Credit has launched a pan-European platform that aims to support banks in managing their exposures to non-core and under-performing assets by improving the performance and value of the businesses which underpin the exposure.
The platform is intended to provide long-term capital and operational expertise to businesses to help them stabilise and grow, creating value for all stakeholders. The platform will be structured so that the participating banks share in the upside of the recovery in performance of the businesses and the value of the related assets on the banks’ balance sheet.
There are EUR1.9 trillion of non-performing and non-core
Asset under custody for private funds at Millennium Trust Company, a provider of alternative asset custody solutions to institutions, advisors, and individuals, have surpassed USD5.6 billion as of 1 June, 2015.
This represents an increase of USD600 million within the last six months. The firm’s total assets under custody exceed USD13.5 billion.
“We have experienced strong growth in all areas of Millennium’s business,” says Scott McCartan, chief executive officer of Millennium Trust Company. “However, we continue to see substantial acceleration in growth from our Private Fund Custody (PFC) service. We launched this business in late 2010 to address the
TV production and distribution company Twofour Group has been acquired by ITV plc for an initial cash consideration of GBP55m.
Livingstone’s Media & Technology team advised the shareholders of Twofour Group, including mid-market private equity investor LDC and the company’s management team, on the transaction.
Twofour Group is a family of award winning companies striving to deliver world class TV production. Working for broadcasters around the world, the Twofour Group spans drama, comedy, factual, childrens’ and entertainment and produced over 1,200 hours of programming in 2014.
The group’s production labels, based in the UK and US, include Twofour, Twofour America,
Nordic Capital Funds VI and VII are to sell Brink Group BV (Brink), a manufacturer of towbars, to H2 Equity Partners Fund IV (H2). The new owners will continue to support the company’s growth and strategy.
Brink is one of the global market leaders in towing systems. Brink develops, manufactures and sells fixed, detachable and retractable towbar systems in all major Western European aftermarkets and internationally to all major car manufacturers. Brink has approximately 600 employees in seven countries and five manufacturing locations in the Netherlands, France, UK and South Africa.
“During Nordic Capital’s ownership Brink has continuously invested in
The performance of French private equity since inception, measured at the end of 2014, totalled an average 10.1 per cent IRR net of charges per year, up from 9.5 per cent at end 2013 on a like-for-like basis.
Over a 10-year horizon the average IRR increases to 11.3 per cent net (compared with 10.9 per cent like-for-like at end 2013).
That’s according to the latest annual report by the French private equity and venture association, AFIC (Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance) and EY.
These figures reflect the robust long-term profitability of this asset class and the stable performance.
Private equity firm Agilitas has acquired Danish environmental services company MH Gruppen. Agilitas is backing the management buy out of the business from Michael Henriksen Holding, supporting CEO Christian Rindbøl.
MH Gruppen is one of the leading waste management businesses in Denmark and is active across the value chain with particular emphasis on soil remediation and the collection, sorting, treatment, and recycling of waste. Through its subsidiary Norrecco, it is one of two large providers of soil recycling and remediation services in Copenhagen, and, through its City Container subsidiaries, provides collection, transportation and disposal services for municipal and commercial and
Fort Dearborn Company has acquired Core Label a label supplier to the beverage market. Moving forward, Core Label will become Core Label, a Fort Dearborn Company.
“The Core Label acquisition continues Fort Dearborn’s strategy to expand its product and service offerings to meet customers’ desires for a complete and innovative set of label options. We are excited to add the talented Core Label associates to the Fort Dearborn team,” says Chris Lane, Managing Director of KRG.
Fort Dearborn supplies a complete range of label solutions including cut & stack, pressure sensitive, roll-fed and full body shrink sleeve labels across multiple
Orangefield Group is to acquire USA2Europe, a corporate service provider providing Global Outsourcing services to North American Technology companies.
With this acquisition Orangefield has increased its global presence, including USA2Europe’s representatives, with 24 additional countries – reaching a total of 45 countries where client support is offered.
USA2Europe was founded in 2004 and currently supports more than 250 legal entities in 40 countries worldwide. The acquisition is to be effective on July 1st 2015.
Andy Hooper – CEO of USA2Europe, says: “My team and I are delighted to become part of Orangefield Group; we feel we are joining a like-minded
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