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Perceva has made an offer and entered into exclusive negotiations with Fruit of the Loom for the acquisition of Vanity Fair Brands Europe, its European ladies’ lingerie business.
The project will now be presented in compliance with applicable laws to the employee representative bodies.
Vanity Fair Brands Europe designs and distributes the ladies' lingerie collections of four brands (Variance, Lou, Vanity Fair and BestForm) and a swimwear brand, Cherry Beach. Thanks to the complementarity of these strong and appealing brands, the group reaches a very large female audience. The group has a turnover of EUR 55 million and employs 300
MC-Seamax Management has held the successful close of its first private-equity fund, MC-Seamax Shipping Opportunities Fund, with commitments of USD300 million from institutional investors in North America, Asia and Europe.
The Fund is focused on investing in container shipping, providing creative outsourcing alternatives to vessel ownership by offering term leases on large, modern container vessels. MC-Seamax’s growing fleet is deployed in the main global trade lanes with the world’s top shipping lines and secured by multi-year charter contracts, generating stable earnings.
“We are very grateful to our investors for supporting MC-Seamax in our first fund,” says Cao Deambrosio and Ron
Over the last 12 months, the South African hedge fund industry has gone from strength to strength and there is growth in almost all areas. Preqin’s Hedge Fund Analyst online service shows that since June 2014, the number of South Africa-based funds has increased from 104 to 124, while the total assets managed by South Africa-based hedge funds has increased from just over ZAR41bn to around ZAR66bn. In addition to the promising growth statistics, there are other catalysts set to help the South African hedge fund industry on its journey to maturity.
In 2012, South Africa’s National Treasury and the
Hercules Technology Growth Capital has appointed Andrew Olson, Corporate Controller, as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Interim Principal Accounting Officer.
The appointment will run until 1 August, 2015, when Mark Harris, the Company’s newly appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) assumes the role as the company’s successor CFO. In conjunction with being named Interim CFO and Principal Accounting Officer, Olson has been promoted to Vice President of Finance and Senior Controller. Jessica Baron’s departure, effective 9 June, 2015, was previously disclosed in the Company’s Form 8-K filing dated 20 March, 2015, which announced her decision to resign from her position within
Berlin based eSports startup DOJO MADNESS has raised EUR2 million seed investment round to expand their technology and products.
DOJO MADNESS is a technology driven company founded by several eSports and gaming veterans including Jens Hilgers, founder and chairman of Turtle Entertainment/ESL. Harnessing the latest innovations in machine learning, the team has created a set of sophisticated tools that help gamers master their play. Seed investors of this round led by DN Capital are London Venture Partners, March Capital P artners, 500 Startups and The HIVE as well as several Angel Investors, including Kristian Segerstrale.
Recently DOJO MADNESS successfully
Equity crowdfunding OurCrowd has launched OurCrowd First, a specialised USD10 million global early stage fund focusing on seed and Pre-A startups.
With its OurCrowd First fund, OurCrowd will leverage its established infrastructure to bring equity crowdfunding to approximately 20+ seed-stage companies providing OurCrowd investors even earlier access to promising opportunities. With an investment minimum of USD50k participation for accredited investors, OurCrowd First is further democratising the world of seed stage investment funds, since most other funds require million dollar minimum investments.
“We are proud to be launching our entry into the funds market with the OurCrowd First seed fund," says
Private equity firm Permira is to simultaneously acquire Medora Snacks (Medora) and Ideal Snacks Holding Corporation (Ideal). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Medora manufactures branded better-for-you snacks, including PopCorners, PopCorners Whole Grain, Pop Crinkles, and popped bean chips. Ideal a contract manufacturer of better-for-you diversified popped snacks. Permira will combine Medora and Ideal under a single holding company called BFY Holdings I.
Based in New York State, Medora and Ideal have best-in-class proprietary popping technology as well as a differentiated and healthier product assortment with a particular strength in the club and grocery channels. Medora’s most well-known
Under AIFMD, alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) looking to market their funds within the EU, Switzerland, and EFTA countries need to obtain and maintain an “EU Passport”.
As such, the AIFMs are required to register themselves and their managed funds and submit ongoing reports in order to comply with the directives to their local regulators.
In light of the reporting challenges, SIX Financial Information is providing the AIFMD relevant fund managers and funds data via its flagship reference data feed, VDF. SIX’s securities data enables AIFMs to calculate the correct asset values for the registration and reports to the supervisory
Merz Pharma is planning to invest up to EUR25 million corporate venture capital in the Aesthetics market. Funding will be focused on early-stage start-up companies as well as research projects, specifically in the areas of anti-aging, skin rejuvenation and body-shaping.
These specific investments complement Merz’s own research and development in which the company has recently invested close to 15 percent of its fiscal year 2013/14 EUR994 million sales revenue. Merz has significantly expanded within the Aesthetics sector in recent years through the acquisitions of Ulthera, Neocutis, Anteis and BioForm Medical and is aiming for further enhancements in this attractive market
Actis has opened an office in Mexico City, its 12th office globally. This opening reinforces the Firm’s leading position in the energy sector in Latin America and allows Actis to capitalise on the many other opportunities in the region.
As the second largest economy in Latin America and currently undergoing extensive reform of its energy market, Mexico is a compelling market for investment in the power sector.
Actis has an established track record in Latin America, with investments in the energy, education, financial services and consumer industries. To date, it has invested over US$1.2bn across the region, representing
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