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Private investment firm SK Capital Partners has promoted Philip Marxen to principal. Marxen originally joined SK Capital as a Vice President in early 2014.
Marxen plays a significant role in sourcing and executing new investments and works with several of the firm’s portfolio companies including Addivant, of which he is a Director. Previously, he was an investment professional at The Blackstone Group and TPG Capital.
“We are very pleased to recognise Philip’s contributions with a well-deserved promotion,” says Managing Director Barry Siadat. “He has quickly established himself as an integral member of our team and we are confident that he
Private equity fund Ambienta SGR has appointed Nico Helling as a Partner based in Germany.
Helling, who has close to 20 years’ experience in private equity, will lead Ambienta’s operations in the German-speaking region, strengthening the partnership to support current and future growth. He joins from Vorndran Mannheims Capital Advisors, a European midmarket fund, where he was a Partner.
Prior to this Helling spent 10 years at Montagu Private Equity, where he was responsible for Montagu’s investment business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as Poland and Eastern Europe. He was also a member of the management, investment and
International investment bank Altium Capital has advised on the sale of sofa.com to private equity firm CBPE Capital.
Founded by Rohan Blacker and the late Pat Reeves in 2005, sofa.com is a fast growing omnichannel retailer of sofas, armchairs and beds. Over the last nine years Sofa.com has become a disruptive force in the furnture sector, providing exceptional product quality and value for money, best in class customer service whilst benefiting from an online route to market which reduces the businesses’ reliance on retail stores. Sofa.com recently opened a state of the art manaufacturing facility in Poland, and as a
NEXTracker, Inc., designer and manufacturer of single axis PV trackers, has completed USD25 million in equity and growth capital financing.
The funding round, which closed in December, includes investments from SJF Ventures, Tennenbaum Capital Partners and earlier investors Sigma Partners and DBL Investors. NEXTracker, based in Silicon Valley, provides state-of-the-art solar trackers that maximize system energy output while reducing installation and operating costs, resulting in substantially increased solar project profits.
“SJF Ventures is thrilled to partner with NEXTracker,” says managing director and co-founder Dave Kirkpatrick. “NEXTracker is led by successful solar veterans who have developed new tracking systems
The commercial law firm Noerr has advised and assisted Oakley Capital in its acquisition of majority stakes in the German and Polish subsidiaries owned and operated by the consulting and systems company Damovo.
Damovo is specialised in integrated solutions in the field of unified communications and collaboration (UCC).
The buyer is the fund “Oakley Capital Private Equity II”, which is acquiring the shares from Damovo II. Besides the German and Polish operations, Oakley is also acquiring Damovo’s operations in Belgium, Ireland and Switzerland as well as Damovo’s Global Services business. The British telecommunications provider Daisy Group is also investing
Prudential Capital Group provided more than USD11.3 billion to companies and projects worldwide, and increased its total assets under management to a record high of USD71.6 billion in 2014.
Additionally, the company announced that it has the capacity to provide more than USD12 billion in financing in 2015. Prudential Capital Group is an investment business of Prudential Financial Inc.
“Our ability to offer a financial capability that meets the needs of middle market companies around the world was a driving factor in helping us achieve a strong 2014,” says Allen A Weaver, senior managing director and head of Prudential Capital
ClusterHQ has secured a USD12 million Series A funding round led by Accel Partners London, with participation from Canaan Partners as well as existing investors.
DN Capital seeded the fund in 2013 and participated in this follow-on round where ClusterHQ will use the funds to expand technical and go-to-market resources to help organisations use containers in production. The funding represents the largest Series A investment in the container ecosystem to date.
With five years' experience solving data problems for container-based applications, ClusterHQ is the company behind Flocker, the popular open-source project for containerising stateful services – for example, the databases,
LGT Capital Partners has held the final close of Crown Co-investment Opportunities plc (CCO), its first dedicated co-investment fund, with total subscriptions of USD432 million.
The program’s investor base consists of 20 institutions, including pension funds, endowments and family offices in Europe, the United States and the Middle East.
Tycho Sneyers, Managing Partner at LGT Capital Partners, says: “Institutional investors have shown an increasing interest in co-investments over the last few years, and with CCO, they achieve exposure to a differentiated strategy. The fund focuses on small and middle market buyouts, investing alongside high quality fund managers in the
Illuminate Financial Management LLP (“IFM”) is pleased to announce that
The founding partners of Capsicum Private Office, the UK based Family Office representing the Chilton family, have taken a stake in Illuminate Financial Management.
Capsicum will also invest in IFM’s FinTech Opportunities Fund (“FinTech Fund”) which is now in its initial fundraising.
"IFM is delighted to welcome Rupert Swallow and Grahame Chilton of Capsicum as both business partners and investors,” says Mark Beeston, CEO and Founder of IFM. "Their decision to invest in both our company and our Capital Markets FinTech Opportunities Fund represents the strongest validation of the unique
Energy-focused private equity firm EIV Capital (EIV) has held the final closing of its second fund, EIV Capital Fund II, with total committed capital of USD267 million, surpassing the fund’s USD200 million target.
Fund II will focus on making growth investments primarily in midstream and related oilfield service energy companies.
After receiving 100% participation from limited partners in its first fund, EIV launched its institutional fund raise for Fund II in June 2014 and completed the raise in six months; attracting a diverse base of limited partners providing strong support for EIV’s midstream focus.
“Our inaugural fund’s strong performance and
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