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Law firm Paul Hastings has appointed investment funds partner Duncan Woollard as a partner in the Corporate practice in the firm's London office. Woollard will be joining the firm from King & Wood Mallesons.
Woollard advises on a wide range of private equity and fund structuring matters. He specialises in the raising of investment funds in the private equity sector as well as in venture capital, infrastructure, direct lending, real estate, mezzanine lending and distressed debt. His practice encompasses advice to general partners, institutional investors and investment advisers on all aspects of complex fund-raisings, including on fund structuring, fund management businesses,
Mark Mifsud, Kate Downey and Alexandra Conroy are to join Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as partners in the Asset Management Practice, based in the firm’s London office.
Mifsud, Downey and Conroy advise fund sponsors and financial institutions across a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, venture and growth, infrastructure, credit and real estate. They also provide advice on carried interest, co-investment and other incentive arrangements.
"We are pleased to welcome Mark, Kate and Alex to Fried Frank's London office, where they will be instrumental in extending our premiere funds practice in the US to Europe and
Virgin Pulse has secured additional funding of USD92 million. This latest round of investment will be used to further accelerate the company’s impressive growth and customer success.
The round was led by Insight Venture Partners and included participation from existing investor, Virgin Group. As part of the transaction, Nikitas Koutoupes, managing director, and Anika Agarwal, vice president at Insight Venture Partners, will join Virgin Pulse’s Board of Directors.
The investment follows the recent launch of Virgin Pulse’s next generation workforce well-being platform that enables enterprise clients to increase employee engagement and productivity, build culture, and decrease healthcare costs by providing
Job matching platform, jobandtalent has secured USD25 million in funding as an extension of its Series A investment, which was previously closed in July 2014.
The funding round is the biggest investment inflow to date for a company within the job matching category.
An investor group by Pelayo Cortina Koplowitz increased its participation and has co-invested with the previous investors, including Qualitas Equity Partners, Kibo Ventures, Fundacion Jose Manuel Entrecanales, and business angel Nicolas Luca de Tena.
"We are extremely excited about this round of funding," says Juan Urdiales, Co-founder of jobandtalent. "We created the job matching category
Aberdeen Asset Management is to acquire FLAG Capital Management, LLC (FLAG), a manager of private equity and real asset solutions with offices in Stamford CT, Boston, MA, and Hong Kong.
This acquisition is in line with Aberdeen’s strategy to strengthen and grow its global alternatives platform and solutions provision via multi-manager coverage of hedge funds, property and private market allocations, infrastructure investments and pan-alternative capabilities. FLAG’s well-established private equity teams in the US and Asia will help broaden Aberdeen’s private markets solutions activity within the alternatives arena.
As of 31 December, 2014, FLAG managed assets of approximately USD6.3 billion
After a financing round of EUR2.7 million acquired last September, biotechnology company VitamFero has closed its third financing round at EUR4.3 million.
An additional investment of EUR1.6 million has been made jointly by two newcomers – CAPAGRO and Anjou Amorçage) and by the management team and business angels who had already participated in previous capital increases.
CAPAGRO and Anjou Amorçage thereby join the existing majority syndicate of CapDecisif Management, GO Capital and Pradeyrol Développement.
VitamFero develops major science achieved through research conducted in partnership, notably, with INRA, François-Rabelais University of Tours, University of Burgundy (Dijon) and Merial in
Rockaway Capital, a VC firm focused on investing and building Internet companies in emerging markets, has entered the US market with the opening of its first office in San Francisco's SOMA district.
The firm has invested USD28 million in seed stage, high growth, transformational start-ups across e-commerce, B2B SaaS, Fintech, and travel/transportation and has additional access to USD225 million in funding. Initial offices were in Prague and Sao Paolo.
Rockaway Capital has already brought over its first group of globally viable entrepreneurs and start-ups to introduce them to the US venture community and bring their products to market here. Rockaway
Electranova Capital, the energy cleantech venture capital fund managed by Idinvest Partners and strategically backed by the EDF group, along with BPI and Allianz, has invested in North American Startup FirstFuel to accelerate its European growth.
FirstFuel's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform applies advanced analytics to utility meter and business data, enabling energy providers to deliver highly personalised insights to all their business customers. The services such as energy efficiency, demand management and on-site generation at scale.
FirstFuel has established itself as the leading platform for customer intelligence in the transforming energy sector. Since its commercial launch in late
Idea CCR, a platform managed by IDeA Capital Funds developed with support and funding from the anchor investor Bayside Capital (HIG Bayside), an affiliate of HIG Capital, is to invest in Italian mid-sized enterprises in distressed situations.
The aim is to help them restructure and turnaround, and consequently to help banks maximise the recovery of their original loans.
Idea CCR is currently in discussions with a number of leading Italian banks which are expected to contribute to Idea CCR a portfolio of medium and long term corporate loans. Currently, such portfolio is expected to have a nominal value of
Stockholm-based Arctos Corporate Finance (Arctos) is becoming part of Livingstone, an international mid-market M&A and Debt Advisory firm with offices in North America, Asia and Europe.
Arctos becomes part of Livingstone with immediate effect. The newly-named Livingstone Stockholm is a fully integrated part of the firm’s international infrastructure and joins established teams in Beijing, Chicago, Düsseldorf, London and Madrid. The marriage of the two firms creates a 100-strong organisation completing over 50 mid-market transactions each year.
Livingstone has worked closely on transactions with Partners Thomas Karlsson, Kenneth Westlund and Anders Jacobson, and co-founder Bertil Karlsson, for over 10 years.
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