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Evercore has acquired Kuna & Co, the Frankfurt-based investment banking advisory boutique, and appointed Walter Kuna as Senior Managing Director of Evercore's German advisory business.
Kuna founded Kuna & Co in 2004 and has built it into a leading independent advisory business with a focus on real estate in Germany. Prior to forming Kuna & Co, he was Managing Director of Lazard Germany, having been a founding partner of Lazard's German M&A advisory business in 1989.
Kuna & Co is an independent advisory firm with a team of ten professionals based in Frankfurt. Over its 11 year history, it has
Private equity firm Swander Pace Capital has sold its minority investment in natural and organic meat company Applegate to Hormel Foods Corp.
Swander Pace, along with Applegate founder Stephen McDonnell, have transferred ownership to Hormel in a transaction valued at USD775 million.
“We have enjoyed working with Stephen and the rest of his team to grow Applegate into the leader in the natural and organic meat industry,” says Andrew Richards, a Managing Director at Swander Pace. “Over nearly three decades, Applegate has been changing the food industry and providing quality products to meet the changing preferences of consumers who highly
Partech Ventures has co-led a new EUR10 million financing round in Kantox, a specialist in foreign exchange services for SMEs and mid-cap companies.
“With our 2nd significant investment in 18 months, Partech Ventures reaffirms its full commitment to Kantox,” says Philippe Collombel, Managing Partner at Partech Ventures and Kantox board member.
“Kantox is a fast growing company, with a clear business model led by a strong, visionary and ambitious management team”, adds Philippe Collombel, who also added “with its disruptive model, Kantox can soon become the worldwide leader in foreign exchange services for SMEs and mid-cap companies.”
“We are very
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a market leader in enterprise security solutions, today announced the completion of its previously reported acquisition by
Funds advised by Bain Capital have acquired enterprise security solutions specialist Blue Coat Systems from Thoma Bravo, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD2.4 billion.
Blue Coat offers an integrated portfolio of security products to combat today’s advanced threats with solutions that have become the de facto standard for much of the Fortune Global 500. Backing the strength of its solutions, Blue Coat also has the largest, most robust global cloud security infrastructure, which integrates with its
Investment strategies for listed funds have widened in scope in the past 12 to 18 months, according to Tom Attenborough, Head of Large Caps, Primary Markets at the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Attenborough, who was speaking as part of a panel of experts at the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015 in London earlier this month, said he agreed with the event’s keynote speaker Guy Hands, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited, that investors were once again far more willing to take risk. Attenborough said it had resulted in a diverse issuance calendar with trends emerging in
Latest figures released on Jersey’s finance industry show a steady performance including a small increase in banking deposits and signs that a change to fund regulation will support certain types of new funds business.
Banking deposits have reached their highest level since last summer and while there was a small fall in the value of funds, this has followed a period of consistent growth each quarter, so overall the economic picture is very stable. The statistics, collated and prepared by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), are for the three month period ending 31st March 2015. Headline figures include:
The
Kurma Partners (Kurma) has teamed up with Insitut Pasteur to launch its third fund Kurma Diagnostics (KDx), a venture capital fund Venture Capital fund dedicated to financing early-stage European innovative Diagnostic projects and companies.
The new fund supported by the European Investment Fund, Fonds National d’Amorçage, Institut Pasteur, and BNP Paribas, will benefit from the extensive network of European clinical and academic research institutes that has been cultivated over the past six years.
To date, Kurma has made investments across Europe via two funds, in therapeutics, devices, and diagnostics companies, and has demonstrated its value as a financial and
Ontario, Canada is making it easier for businesses that produce positive social or environmental impacts, along with a sustainable financial return, to grow and succeed.
The province, in partnership with the Network of Angel Organisations–Ontario (NAO-Ontario), is launching the Impact Angel Alliance. The Alliance will encourage more investors to help kick-start promising, high-growth social ventures in Ontario. This will be Canada’s first impact investing angel network.
The Alliance will work with NAO-Ontario to:
• Raise awareness of social ventures among established angel investor groups.
• Help diversify angel group membership to help bring in more women, visible minorities, and
Aquila Capital has purchased a portfolio of six photovoltaic parks in France. The plants, which have a combined installed capacity of 57 MWp, are located in the Aquitaine region near Bordeaux and are connected to the grid.
The photovoltaic plants benefit from France’s 2011 feed-in tariff scheme and have secured a long-term feed-in tariff of 11.08 cents per kilowatt hour. Investments of this size in the established French photovoltaic market are rare. With a photovoltaic track record of approximately 462 MWp, Aquila Capital is one of the three largest financial investors in the European photovoltaic market¹. With this transaction, Aquila
notonthehighstreet.com, the UK’s largest curated online marketplace, has secured a GBP6M term loan from Silicon Valley Bank. The funding will be used to provide additional liquidity as the business continues to grow.
notonthehighstreet.com brings together over 5,000 of the UK’s best small creative businesses offering over 170,000 original, inspirational lifestyle products, many of which are bespoke and made to order. Investors backing the business include Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Fidelity Growth Partners and Industry Ventures LLC.
Andy Botha, CFO at notonthehighstreet.com, says: “Our business has continued to go from strength to strength and this financing will enable
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