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Institutional investors in Singapore and Hong Kong have invested USD15 million into Huy Vietnam Group Limited, Vietnam's largest operator of local Vietnamese food restaurants.
This Series C round of funding will be used to support the Company's network expansion in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and other cities.
Operating since 2007, the Company is one of Vietnam's first international, professionally managed restaurant companies serving traditional Vietnamese food prepared from formulated family recipes. The Company currently runs over 70 restaurants under the "Mon Hue", "Com Express" and "Pho Ong Hung" brands, serving affordable, delicious and authentic local Vietnamese cuisines in a
Credibility Capital, a marketplace lender focused on prime credit small business borrowers, has launched its online lending platform at www.CredibilityCapital.com.
New York-based company seeks to close a critical gap in small business lending, providing affordable financing solutions to businesses many of which are too small for traditional banks and are frequently pushed to more expensive financing solutions that are not commensurate with their credit profiles.
“We are filling a void in the small business financing landscape that took shape in 2008 with the pullback of bank lending,” says Brett Baris, President of Credibility Capital. “Because of our partnership model, we
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has invested in Applied Data Finance (ADF), an early-stage provider of online consumer credit.
This facility will provide the growth capital necessary as the Company looks to launch its suite of lending products in the second quarter.
In addition to providing ADF’s first institutional credit facility, VPC will also provide an equity investment to fund working capital in advance of the Company’s Series A round expected later this year.
“We are very excited to partner with Krishna [Gopinathan] who is truly a
A new white paper from Broadscope Fund Administrators outlines key US FATCA and UK FATCA reporting and registration deadlines for Cayman Islands private equity firms.
The paper, US and UK FATCA Reporting Obligations for Cayman Islands Domiciled Private Equity Funds, provides a clear timeline of deadlines that are rapidly approaching.
"The Cayman Islands registration deadlines are only 15 days away and there is still considerable uncertainty in the market, primarily because the Cayman Islands registration portal opened less than a month ago," says Robert F Aufenanger, Founder and Managing Member. "Private Equity firms that have yet to register need
European venture capital firm Truffle Capital has promoted Antoine Pau and Alexandre Ouimet-Storrs partner status.
Pau (35) joined Truffle Capital in 2008 as Investment Director in the life sciences sector. Formerly, he managed legal audits of pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as private equity fundsat Mazars, where Antoine also conducted financial due diligences for tech companies in the Transaction Services department.
Pau is a Board member of Theradiag (Alternext: ALTER), Abivax, Biokinesis, Deinobiotics and Diaccurate, all of them Truffle portfolio companies. A PharmD and an ESSEC graduate (MSc in Management), Pau is also an adjunct lecturer at Sciences
SEI has launched SEI Firm Compliance, a new global regulatory management framework that equips investment organisations to oversee and orchestrate compliance functions firm-wide, across investment products and regulatory jurisdictions.
SEI’s Investment Manager Services (IMS) division developed the compliance framework as an add-on to the customised global operating platform it provides to its investment manager clients.
SEI’s offering takes a new approach in that it centralises an investment firm’s internal and outsourced compliance functions in a single management framework tailored to the user’s mix of business activities. SEI has incorporated the compliance framework into the Manager Dashboard of SEI’s global
Middlefield is to merge the Energy IndexPlus Dividend Fund into Middlefield Global Infrastructure Mutual Fund effective on or about 17 June, 2015, with Global Infrastructure Fund being the continuing fund.
Given the relative illiquidity of the Fund's units on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX"), the Merger is expected to benefit the Fund's unitholders by providing an opportunity to hold units of Global Infrastructure Fund, a strong-performing mutual fund that offers daily redemptions at net asset value.
Completion of the Merger is expected to take place on or about 17 June, 2015, (the date of completion being the "Effective Date"), and
Ogier has advised Friends Life Group Limited, a London-listed Guernsey company, on its acquisition by Aviva, a deal which has created the UK's largest insurance, savings and asset management firm.
The combined group will have some 16 million UK customers – equivalent to about one in four households – and around GBP340 billion of assets under management. The GBP5.6 billion takeover of Friends Life is the largest insurance deal in the UK since the merger of CGU and Norwich Union in 2000, which created Aviva.
Ogier has been working with international law firm Linklaters LLP to bring the transaction
Inverness Graham has successfully sold AdvancedCath, a leading designer and manufacturer of catheter systems, to TE Connectivity Ltd for USD190 million in an all-cash transaction.
The sale marks the fourth portfolio company exit for Inverness Graham in just over one year.
AdvancedCath designs and manufactures advanced catheter systems used in complex interventional procedures, for its medical device OEM customers. Inverness Graham acquired AdvancedCath in 2011 in a proprietary, "non-banked" transaction as a result of a search with the same industry experts that assisted with the successful platform-build and exit of previous Inverness Graham portfolio company ExtruMed. The AdvancedCath platform
Newly formed investment group, DW3 Products Group (DW3), which is backed by private equity firm NorthEdge Capital, has acquired Window Widgets, and Eclectic Systems.
Window Widgets was founded in 2004 and has become the first port of call for key components for the window, door and conservatory sectors. Eclectic Systems is best known for developing the fast-growing, revolutionary Residence 9 (R9) window system. The two businesses have been acquired from Dan Gill, who will now take on the role of CEO of the DW3 Products Group Window Division and join the main DW3 Board.
The acquisitions bring the total
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