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ShoreGroup has secured a growth equity investment from private equity firm Francisco Partners. The funding, expected to close within 60 days, will support the next phase of ShoreGroup’s growth in partnership with the company’s current leadership team.
“Francisco Partners has an extensive track record of investing in and growing technology companies and brings particular expertise in communications and infrastructure hardware and software as well as technology-enabled services,” says Robert Veghte Kennedy, ShoreGroup’s President and CEO. “Our mission is to help IT leaders address the continuous pressure to deliver mission-critical services while reducing costs. We believe this new partnership with Francisco
afb, a financial services company providing consumer and SME financial products, has signed a USD20m investment deal with GEMCORP, an investment management firm with an emerging markets focus.
afb CEO Karl Westvig, says: “I am extremely pleased that afb has secured this new investment at an important time for the firm. The strategic investment by GEMCORP will help accelerate our growth strategy into sub-Saharan Africa.”
afb currently operates in Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania, and plans to expand into a number of other African countries by 2020, with innovative products and solutions designed to suit the needs of each
Hunt Companies, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, has completed an investment in Amber Infrastructure Group Holdings Limited.
Hunt has acquired a fifty per cent (50%) ownership of the Company with an ability to appoint a majority of directors at the Amber holding company.
The Amber team has sourced, developed and financed more than 125 social infrastructure, transportation, renewable energy and urban redevelopment projects across the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia with a total value exceeding GBP12 billion. The majority of Amber’s projects are public-private partnerships (PPP). Amber also provides management services on more than 80 infrastructure projects in eight countries. The
Price Res, a portfolio company of Nexxus IV Trust (Nexxus IV) and Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund V, LP (Nexxus V), has acquired www.lostiquetesmasbaratos.com (LTMB), an international retailer of tourism services, based in Colombia.
LTMB operates mainly in Colombia, the United States and Mexico, and has a recognised brand with potential for expansion throughout Latin America. The business model of LTMB is executed by a management team with extensive operational and local market knowledge in the travel industry, and is complementary to Price Travel’s, thus benefiting from corporate and operational synergies.
NextStage has unveiled a new logo and a new name with the management company is now called NextStage AM.
With this new name, the Partners at NextStage AM assert the ambition of the management company, one of the leading investors in middle-market companies and champion in their market, to move towards a new stage in its development in Europe, while reaffirming their strategic choices as long-term investors, as well as their vision and values.
With this new identity NextStage AM, which has accompanied more than 100 entrepreneurs over 13 years, solidifies its position as an entrepreneur-investor serving other entrepreneurs at
In this extract from the 2015 Preqin Investor Network Global Alternatives Report, we draw upon the latest data and investor interviews to explore the importance of alternative assets in an investor’s portfolio.
Private Equity
The limited partner universe has expanded and diversified in line with the growth of the private equity asset class. More investors are attracted to the asset class as a result of its consistent outperformance of public markets and the diversification it brings to investment portfolios. Examining average investor allocations to private equity over time by investor type provides insight into how different groups perceive the
Silverfleet Capital partners has closed its second buyout fund, Silverfleet Capital Partners II, at EUR850 million, some EUR150 million ahead of it’s initial target.
Fundraising, which was advised by Proskauer, began in the second half of 2014 attracted commitments from a range of investor types across various geographies, including insurance groups (42%), pension funds (29%), fund-of-funds groups (15%), sovereign wealth funds (9%) and family offices. Silverfleet II will focus its investments on mid-market enterprises with values of EUR75-250 million headquartered in the UK and Ireland, DACH, France and Benelux, and Nordic regions of Europe in the business and financial services,
ACE & Company has launched its first food and beverage (F&B) vehicle specialised in investing in attractive opportunities in the fine foods and consumer food service sectors within Switzerland.
The vehicle will invest in high-quality and defensible brands with national and regional ambitions as well as international potential. ACE & Company’s F&B vehicle will provide partners with the financial, strategic and operational support needed to maximise their growth prospects.
In addition to being synonymous with first-rate quality products and services, the F&B industry in Switzerland is attractive offering large untapped opportunities as a result of a highly fragmented market
Aquila Capital has purchased a photovoltaic park in the UK for an undisclosed sum. The plant is located in Banwell, near Bristol and has an installed capacity of 7.2 MWp.
It was constructed by its seller and developer New Energy for the World GmbH. The manufacturer of the park’s CIS modules, whose high efficiency levels make them particularly well suited to the UK climate, is Solar Frontier.
The park has been connected to the grid since its completion in March 2015. It is classified as 1.4 under the Renewables Obligation Certificate (ROC) project. The UK supports the generation of
eVestment, a provider of traditional and hedge fund data and analytics for the institutional investing community, is launching new offerings in the private equity and venture capital arenas.
To serve institutional investors who are increasingly investing in private market funds, eVestment has acquired TopQ, an innovator in private equity analytics based in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the same time, eVestment is announcing the pending launch of a new and expansive private equity dataset in the second half of 2015 and will begin development immediately to integrate TopQ with the new eVestment dataset. With these moves, eVestment continues to deliver on its
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