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Hogan Lovells has advised Ovivo on the sale of its United Kingdom municipal division to Jacopa Limited, a company owned by some members of the local management team.
The transaction completed on 27 February 2015.
This transaction forms part of Ovivo Inc.'s wider strategy to restructure its operations to enable it to focus exclusively on core water treatment markets, namely the Electronics, the Municipal in North America and the Energy water treatment markets. This transaction enabled Ovivo Inc. to divest its non-core municipal water treatment business in the UK.
The Hogan Lovells team advising Ovivo Inc. on the sale
The German financial regulator (BaFin) has recently adopted a reciprocal private placement policy whereby German funds not within scope of AIFMD are allowed to be privately placed into other EU member states, with corresponding funds from EU member states allowed to be privately placed into Germany on an expedited basis.
Hassans has taken a leading role in the drafting of a new private placement regime for Gibraltar, in part to satisfy BaFin’s requirements to gain reciprocal rights, and has acted for the first Gibraltar fund to gain approval from BaFin to privately place into Germany on a reciprocal rights basis.
RCM Alternatives is to join forces with Attain Capital Management, acquiring its fund offerings, education, research and database assets while bringing its principals and employees under the RCM umbrella.
The transaction is expected to close in the first week of March.
Both Chicago-based companies specialise in pairing high net-worth individuals, investment advisors, and institutional investors with commodity-focused managed futures investments through separately managed accounts and private funds. The combination of these leading companies in the managed futures space underscores the growing demand for access to alternative investments that can work as a hedge against market volatility and provide diversification through
First Derivatives (FD), a provider of software and consulting services, has appointed Virginia Gambale to the Board of the Company as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
A US citizen, Gambale has extensive experience as an enterprise technology buyer in capital markets, a technology venture capital partner and an independent director across diverse industry sectors.
Gambale is managing partner of Azimuth Partners LLC, which assists in the development of strategies for growth, innovation and international expansion. In this role she has helped to scale international businesses, including Piper Jaffray, Infonic AG, Knoa Software, Workbrain and IQ Financial SystePrior to forming
Independent corporate, fund and private client services provider JTC has appointed Will Cameron (pictured) in a Director role as the Head of the firm’s Fareham office
which is an operational centre for some of the Group’s client administration, accountancy and corporate secretarial services.
Cameron joined JTC in 2015 from Saltgate (UK) Limited where he worked as a Director of Client Services with responsibility for all accounting and administration deliverables. Prior to this, he was with the Capita Financial Group working in their Fund Administration division with a specific focus on the real estate sector.
In heading up the management of
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
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