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Stephen Gillespie is to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in the London office. Formerly a senior partner in the European debt finance practice in Kirkland & Ellis International’s London office, he will continue his European leveraged and acquisition finance practice at Gibson Dunn.
“We are delighted to have Stephen on board,” says Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. “Building a top quality English law transactional practice is a strategic priority for the firm, and Stephen’s addition is an essential component to attaining that goal. Stephen is a recognised leader in European leveraged and acquisition
Private investment firm Inverness Graham has sold RacoWireless to strategic acquirer KORE Wireless Group, Inc, in an all-cash transaction.
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, RacoWireless is a leading enabler of the Internet-of-Things and machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless data connectivity solutions offering end-to-end connectivity and location aware solutions to more than 500 reselling customers. During Inverness Graham's two-years of ownership, RacoWireless executed an organic and acquisitive growth strategy that more than doubled revenue and increased EBITDA by over five times.
Inverness Graham acquired RacoWireless in a proprietary, "non-banked", transaction in September of 2012 as a result of a proactive search effort within the
Ranger Aerospace has added Argosy Private Equity to its newest platform for pursuing investments and acquisitions in the aerospace industry.
The lead institutional investor in Ranger's latest venture is Azalea Capital. This group seeks accelerated growth in acquired companies through a collaborative partnership with proven management teams. This marks the third time that Ranger and Argosy have affiliated in the past dozen years. Argosy was a major investor in Ranger's previous successes with both Keystone Helicopter and Ranger International.
The teammates have formed a new holding company called Ranger AeroSystems for these pursuits, and the first new investment was accomplished
US private equity and venture capital funds generated positive returns for their investors in the second quarter of 2014, with the former asset class outperforming the latter by a margin of almost two to one.
Private equity also surpassed venture capital over the six-month period ending June 30, and both surpassed the performance of public equities at the half-year mark, according to Cambridge Associates.
The Cambridge Associates LLC US Private Equity Index rose 5.7% in Q2, versus an increase of 3.0% for the Cambridge Associates LLC US Venture Capital Index. The PE benchmark was up 8.9% at mid-year while the
Hipercept has expanded its existing services to formally support Private Equity companies. The firm will leverage its global infrastructure to provide a suite of managed services to the Alternative Investment industry.
Since its creation in 2009, Hipercept has engaged with numerous Private Equity and large multi-asset clients. Focusing on Private Equity as an asset class has become both an opportunity and a strategic necessity.
"Private market players, either from the investor community or from a fund management perspective, have diversified with multi-asset investment strategies," says Damien Georges, CEO of Hipercept. "This has naturally led Hipercept in the same direction. When
Albion Ventures has led a GBP3.2m investment round in Exco InTouch (Exco), an electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) and patient engagement software business.
Founder investor, Scottish Equity Partners (“SEP”), also participated in the round and remains the company’s largest shareholder.
Founded in 2004 by its current CEO, Tim Davis, Exco provides mobile and digital services to pharmaceutical companies for the engagement and collection of information from patients in clinical trials and real-life settings (ePRO). This rapidly growing sector is being driven by the increasing need to demonstrate actual benefits of medical treatments for regulatory and reimbursement purposes. Exco’s
German Equity Partners IV (GEP IV), a fund managed by the German private equity firm ECM Equity Capital Management (ECM), has acquired 100% of the equity of travel operator Leitner.
The shares, previously wholly owned by the Blankenburg family, have been transferred to GEP IV with effect from 8 December. The purchase price and further details of the transaction were not disclosed. After more than 20 years of steady growth the previous shareholders – together with the company’s new shareholder and its current management – intend to capitalise on Leitner’s strong market position and scalable business model to capitalize on
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised CEE Equity Partners Limited (CEEEP) on its acquisition of a majority stake in BKF University of Applied Sciences, a private higher education business in Hungary.
“It was great to work with CEEEP, a growing client for White & Case, on its first investment outside of Poland,” says Budapest-based White & Case partner Edward Keller, who led the team which advised CEEEP. “The transaction was of particular importance as it was the first sizeable private equity investment in a higher education institution in the region.”
CEEEP is the investment advisor for
Circle Squared Alternative Investments (CSQ) has partnered with USD1.5bn money management and investment consulting firm Strategic Capital Alternatives (SCA).
SCA provides customised investment portfolio models and operational platforms to independent registered investment advisors (RIAs).
The partnership is aiming to empower advisors who work with SCA to capitalise on an investment model long employed by institutional investors – the outsourcing of highly specialised CIO-level analysis – but just now becoming available to independent financial advisors.
“Our OCIO model is a direct response to advisors’ recognising their efforts are much better spent on gathering assets than managing them, something institutions figured out
Private equity firm NorthEdge Capital has strengthened its team with the appointment of James Marshall as Investment Executive.
NorthEdge, which focuses on investing in businesses based in the North of England, has seen a very active year and has now made 10 investments from its maiden fund, representing over GB{100m of investment into the Northern business community during the last 18 months.
Marshall will be based in the firm’s Leeds office. A Chartered Accountant, he joins from corporate finance specialist, Dow Schofield Watts, where he was instrumental in establishing its Yorkshire team. Prior to this Marshall spent three years
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