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Lionpoint Group has launched a new service to help alternative investments clients address manager and investor requirements for greater transparency of underlying portfolio companies and investment holdings.
Primary services include process optimisation, operational efficiency improvements and the implementation of enabling technologies to support the collection, validation, normalisation, performance reporting and analytics associated with underlying holdings in Private Capital, with a focus on Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure. Offerings also include support with risk and compliance monitoring as well as Portfolio Company and underlying investment valuations.
While remaining product agnostic, the Lionpoint Group team has solution expertise with products including AssetEye,
David Andrews has agreed to join the Evermore’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Energy Group.
Andrews will be based in Evercore’s Houston office and will focus on oilfield services and equipment companies. He joins 8 other advisory partners and a team of more than 70 oil and gas advisory professionals in Houston, London, Aberdeen, Mexico City and New York.
Andrews was most recently a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and Head of Oilfield Services coverage. He started his career at Lehman Brothers and has over 15 years of experience covering the Oilfield Services sector.
The newly-launched Bio/Med Investor Network is to focus on early-stage investments in bioscience, medical technologies and digital health companies.
The Network is supported by Georgia Bio, the Georgia Research Alliance and each of the state’s research universities. Investment targets will include Georgia-based companies typically seeking between USD200,000 and USD2 million, but the Network is also evaluating investment opportunities throughout the United States.
“Bioscience companies seeking early-stage capital have specialised needs and currently limited options,” says Ed Schutter, CEO of Atlanta-based Arbor Pharmaceuticals. “The Bio/Med Investor Network will not only offer an experienced pool of successful investors, but will also provide
International investment bank Altium has rounded off another active year, completing over 50 deals and pushing the total deal value for the firm in the last three years past GBP9bn.
In the UK, the firm has seen exceptional levels of growth, with deal values up 94 per cent in 2014. Notable transactions from the period include The Riverside Company buying a majority stake in specialist accountancy firm Brookson and the sale of Scientific Analysis Laboratories (SAL) to the newly formed Concept Life Sciences, which is backed by Equistone. Most recently, Altium advised on the GBP303.7m takeover of Italian restaurant chain
Independent debt advisory firm Tomorrow Partners has appointed Daniel Morland as a partner.
This expansion of the partnership comes on the back of the highly successful launch of Tomorrow Partners in 2012, with the firm advising on seventeen completed transactions in the last two years, with an aggregate financing size in excess of EUR5 billion.
Daniel joins from Gleacher Shacklock, where he was a partner and Head of Debt Advisory. He brings over 20 years of financing experience, including prior roles at Close Brothers and Robert Fleming & Co. He has advised on the financing of a number
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
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