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Alternative investment and asset management firm Garrison Investment Group has selected iLEVEL to manage the firm’s portfolio data and streamline their reporting process.
Founded in 2007, Garrison Investment Group focuses on deploying capital in opportunities across corporate finance, financial assets, and real estate. Garrison will initially implement iLEVEL for their Business Development Company (BDC) and Corporate Lending funds.
“As our BDC and Corporate Lending businesses continue to grow, we recognise the need for a system to help us analyse portfolio data and report to our investors with greater efficiency and transparency,” says Michelle Rancic, Chief Accounting Officer, Garrison Investment
NeoXam has completed its carve-out from its former parent group Sungard Financial Systems, and acquires Nexfi with the support of BlackFin.
NeoXam is a provider of front, middle and back office software solutions dedicated to asset managers, asset owners and securities servicing platforms. It employs 300 highly skilled financial software developers and consultants in Europe, China, Africa, and the US. Neoxam’s clients include Tier 1 financial institutions such as Caceis Investor Services, BBVA Asset Management, UBS and Citic Securities. In January 2014, BlackFin acquired the GP3 and Decalog software programs from SunGard and constituted NeoXam together with buy-in manager Serge
Alternative investment manager Lexington Partners has renewed a three-year agreement, or "smartnership," with the Happy Hearts Fund to jointly rebuild three schools in Latin American countries.
This marks the second three-year pledge that Lexington Partners has made to Happy Hearts Fund. Lexington's initial pledge, in 2012, has resulted in the rebuilding of three schools for 1,086 children. In 2012, Lexington contributed toward the rebuilding of the Divino Nino Jesus School for 720 children in the region of Chincha, Peru. In 2013, Lexington contributed toward the rebuilding of the Jose Maria Pino Suarez School for 186 children in the region of
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has provided a USD50 million credit facility to The Credit Junction, an online provider of working capital financing to small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The facility will allow the company to provide comprehensive capital solutions to SMEs across the United States, with the long-term vision of transforming the way SMEs finance their working capital needs.
In addition to providing The Credit Junction with its first institutional credit facility, VPC has provided an investment to fund working capital needs in advance of the company’s
Aviva Investors is making an investment of EUR40 million in a financing package for the Milan underground providing debt to the project alongside banks and other institutional investors.
Aviva Investors is the largest institutional investor in the financing.
This represents the first issue of an Italian Project Bond – a product created by the Italian Government to allow international investments in Italian infrastructure.
The underground line, the fifth for Milan, will connect Bignami station, North of Milan, through the city centre to the San Siro stadium. Completion on construction is scheduled for October 2015.
Lorenzo Paolasini, Assistant
SEKO Logistics (SEKO) a provider of supply chain solutions, has selected Greenbriar Equity Group, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the global transportation industry, as its new equity partner to help spearhead the next stage of its growth.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1976, SEKO provides complete supply chain solutions specialising in forwarding, transportation, logistics, software and warehousing. Central to SEKO’s customer centric solutions are innovative and customisable technology tools that provide a seamless flow of information and give customers truly global supply chain visibility. With over 120 offices in 40 countries worldwide, SEKO’s
Ogier has acted as BVI legal counsel on the USD76,875,000 IPO on NASDAQ of Atlantic Alliance Partnership Corp.
Atlantic Alliance Partnership Corp is a special purposes acquisition company (SPAC) formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation, contractual or control arrangement with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, or engaging in any other similar initial business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
Ogier partners Simon Schilder and Michael Killourhy acted for Atlantic Alliance Partnership Corp with New York firm Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP. Weil Gotshal &
China Information Technology (CNIT) has entered into a strategic agreement with Shenzhen Capital Group Co.
Under the terms of the agreement, Shenzhen Capital will collaborate with the Company in exploring new investment opportunities in the cloud computing technology space. It will also assist the Company on an as-needed basis with its market expansion throughout China.
As a leading venture capital firm in China, Shenzhen Capital has RMB10.0 billion (USD1.6 billion) of assets under management. Shenzhen Capital has helped over 500 portfolio companies grow in sectors ranging from information technology and telecommunication to pharmaceutical and new material. The Shenzhen Capital investment
Institutional asset manager Unigestion has reported ‘encouraging’ results from a survey of hedge fund and private asset managers it invests in on their approaches to ESG.
Whilst the survey revealed that 60 per cent of hedge fund managers were still reluctant to introduce ESG criteria into their investment approach, this is a big improvement since the survey was last conducted in 2011, when 75 per cent of managers were reluctant. The percentage of managers that do incorporate ESG criteria has increased significantly from 25 per cent to 40 per cent and the proportion of managers Unigestion classifies as ‘leaders’ in
Firm Capital has held the closing of the initial capital raise of Firm Capital Private Equity Realty Corp (FCPERC), a real estate merchant banking and private equity investment corporation focused on opportunistic, tactical and distressed real estate debt and equity investments in Canadian public and private entities.
Investments will be heavily focused on the following investment platforms: Activist Strategies, High Yield Structured Debt, Distress Debt Acquisitions, and Real Estate Joint Ventures & Capital Partners.
FCPERC has raised its initial capital and its growth capital will come from both future equity offerings and possibly an Initial Public Offering.
FCPERC employs an
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