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Thomas (Tom) Malone has joined the CEA Capital Advisors’ Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director.
Malone will focus on the acquisition and divestiture advisory business as well as the capital raising business for companies in the technology, media and telecommunications industries. He will be based in CEA’s New York office.
Malone says: “I am delighted to join a firm with such a stellar reputation and track record as CEA. CEA has long been known to value their clients and employees, treating them as the most important asset of the firm.”
Malone was most recently a Managing Director at
Fenox Venture Capital is investing USD2 million into I AND C-Cruise Co (IACC), which operates Green-EnergyNavi.com, asolar power web portal in Japan.
Fenox initially invested in the company in 2013, and has since then been providing continuous growth support. With the current investment, IACC plans to enter the electric power distribution market as it becomes deregulated in Japan in 2016.
Earlier in 2015, Fenox made a multi-million dollar investment in an Internet advertising startup in Japan. The investment in IACC represents Fenox’s second Japanese investment in 2015. With it, Fenox’s investments in Japan total USD10 million year-to-date.
“IACC offers the
Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and CIMB Group (CIMB), together with Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), have launched a Southeast Asia-focused middle market private equity fund, AIGF (ASEAN Industrial Growth Fund).
AIGF, which is based in Singapore, had its first closing at USD130m, and is joined by Shinsei Bank, Limited, a leading diversified Japanese financial institution, as strategic investor, and leading Japanese industrial companies and prominent institutional investors including Hitachi, Ltd., Yamato Kogyo Co Ltd, and THE TOHO BANK, LTD. The Fund is aiming to reach approximately USD200m over the next 12 months.
AIGF is a unique private equity platform that seeks
Private equity firm Vector Capital has sold Tidel, a provider of technology-enabled smart safe solutions for businesses and financial institutions, to an affiliate of Graham Partners.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Tidel is the market leader in providing innovative solutions to help customers streamline, protect and automate their cash management systems. In 2011, Vector acquired Tidel and subsequently worked with its management team to capitalise on favourable industry trends by leveraging the company’s No1 market position, unmatched distribution network and blue-chip retail customer base. Over the past four years, with the support of Vector, Tidel has undertaken
HIG Capital portfolio company, Harrison Gypsum (HG), a producer and processor of high-quality minerals and aggregates has acquired JA Jack & Sons, Inc.
JA Jack is a miner and processor of limestone products, sold into building products, glass, plaster, agriculture, animal nutrition, and coatings applications. The Company owns and operates a quarry on Texada Island in British Columbia and ships rock to a processing facility in Seattle, WA.
“We are excited about the strategic expansion of our operations into the Pacific Northwest,” says Paul Harrington, Chief Executive Officer of Harrison Gypsum. “JA Jack not only allows us to grow outside
Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners has completed the sale of Accelecare Wound Centers to Healogics.
Accelecare provides advanced wound care services in two diversified, highly complementary divisions, Accelecare Wound Centers, which offers full service wound management solutions to hospitals and related healthcare organisations, and Accelecare Wound Professionals, which provides wound care specialist physicians to skilled nursing facilities and hospital-based outpatient wound care facilities.
“We are very pleased with the pace of Accelecare’s growth since we completed our investment in December 2013. Management’s intense focus on expanding the Company’s footprint while increasing operational efficiencies created an attractive asset in the
Anthemis Group has appointed Moven founder and CEO Brett King as Venture Partner.
King will continue at the helm of Moven, the mobile banking application he founded in 2012.
As a Venture Partner Brett will work closely with Anthemis’ global advisory business, offering its clients his experience and insights to source and structure deals amongst startups and incumbents, while also leveraging his extensive network to their benefit.
“Having worked with Anthemis as a portfolio company, it is clear that they are one of the most uniquely connected teams in the digital financial space today. Thus, it is only
Apex Fund Services has acquired Pinnacle Fund Administration. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Pinnacle operates additional offices in New York and Vancouver.
Fund managers in the US and Canada are seeking to partner with stable providers that can provide a variety of services and outsourcing solutions. Pinnacle’s existing clients will benefit immediately from the acquisition by being able to access Apex’s full range of fund administration services, as well as expand their market reach available through the Apex Global Network of 34 offices worldwide.
Apex will rapidly introduce to the US and Canadian fund services sectors, particularly to middle market
Dominic Wheatley (pictured), Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, explains why issues of substance are driving up interest among fund managers in the potential upside of relocating to Guernsey.
During the last year we have seen increased interest among fund managers in the potential upside of relocating operations to Guernsey. A contributing catalyst has been the introduction of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), including the end of the transitional provisions in jurisdictions such as the UK.
AIFMD
AIFMD has introduced some potentially onerous requirements but managers can put themselves out of scope by establishing their funds in non-EU jurisdictions, such
Colombian private equity fund manager Tribeca Management Company, “Tribeca”, has fully exited its investment in Operador del Terminal de Carga Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado, “OTCA”.
OTCA was the exclusive operator of Bogota CargoCity, the air cargo terminal at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota.
The investment in OTCA returned US$56.5 million, resulting in an IRR of 22.9% for the project. Tribeca originally invested in OTCA in 2010 via FCP TCED (Infrastructure) – Fund II
The air cargo terminal at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota is the largest facility in Latin America. In 2014, it processed over 400,000 tons of
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