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London-listed private equity fund JZ Capital Partners Limited has expanded its US vertical portfolio by making two acquisitions alongside Edgewater Funds LP (Edgewater).
JZCP and Edgewater invested USD1.6 million each to acquire Action Products Marketing Corporation and ConShield Technologies Incorporated ("APMCS"), an infrastructure rehabilitation company headquartered in Johnston, Iowa. The company specialises in formulating and selling cementitious manhole and pipe rehabilitation products and provides the associated equipment used for application itself. The acquisition of APMCS is the third for the water infrastructure sub-vertical and the sixth for the water business overall.
JZCP and Edgewater also invested USD1.31 million each to
International mid-market advisory firm Clearwater International has advised height safety services provider Total Access (UK) Limited on its sale to Arco Limited.
Staffordshire-based Total Access is one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of height safety and confined space training and equipment, with over 20 years experience. The company was the first UK company within its industry to be UKAS accredited to British Standards and is independently audited by UKAS.
Arco offers a world-class range of over 170,000 quality assured, branded and own brand products, including personal protective equipment, clothing, footwear, gloves, workplace safety and hygiene productsin both the
The US West Coast is an important region in terms of real estate investment, home to some of the largest institutional investors in the asset class as well as many prominent fund managers. Recent years have seen funds focusing on real estate investment in the West Coast raising increasing amounts of capital, with growing numbers of managers hitting or exceeding their target size.
The West Coast therefore represents a growing source of interest for institutional investors, with funds focusing on West Coast investment accounting for over a third of aggregate US regional-focused capital raised in 2014 so far. Residential property
Osborne Clarke, has advised a group of investors consisting of Imperial Innovations, Invesco Perpetual and Woodford Investment Management on the GBP50m Venture Capital funding of Cell Medica Limited.
Partner Rob Wood, who led the Osborne Clarke team assisted by Senior Associate Caroline Drummond, says:
“This is a significant deal in the Life Science sector, as is likely to be one of the top five private company funding rounds in 2014”.
Earlier this year, Osborne Clarke advised Imperial Innovations, Invesco Perpetual and others on the GBP581m IPO of the biopharmaceutical company, Circassia.
Nearly one in five (18%) people investing in a Venture Capital Trust this tax year will be doing so for the first time, according to a new study commissioned by Albion Ventures.
This is an increase on the previous tax year when an estimated 16% of investors were newcomers. On average IFAs believe the sector will attract over GBP475 million this tax year, up from GBP435.8 million during the 2013/14 tax year.
The survey shows that more than a third (34%) of advisers predict increased levels of interest among their clients in VCTs this tax year, a marginal increase on
Private equity investment firm HIG Capital has appointed Simon Laker as Principal and Head of European Asset Management of HIG’s real estate portfolio.
Laker will be based in HIG ‘s London office and joins the firm from Evans Randall, where he actively managed real estate investments across several European jurisdictions.
HIG Capital’s real estate platform targets opportunistic real estate investments, with a focus on adding value, improving performance, and achieving attractive risk adjusted returns. The HIG European real estate team is active across a wide spectrum of real estate asset classes and has completed 11 transactions across multiple jurisdictions
SCORPEO has recruited Jack McNally as Managing Director of SCORPEO US, based in the firm’s newly opened US office in Boston and Chris Barrow as Head of Business Development, based in London.
Prior to joining SCORPEO, Jack McNally worked for Lehman Brothers and then Credit Suisse for 11 years in New York, Boston and Zurich, where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of the Managed Securities Lending Business and Head of Prime Services, Switzerland.
Chris Barrow recently joined SCORPEO from HSBC where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Prime Finance.
ATADATA Solutions has reached an agreement has been made with its capital stakeholders to recapitalise the Company.
The Company will rebrand itself as ATADATA, which represents “Any to Any” for Enterprise-class application migration between any Data Centre, or Cloud Platform, for true Workload Portability. Furthermore, additional capital will be invested into the business for sustainable, long-term growth.
"This is an exciting moment for ATADATA," said Charles Wright, founder and CEO of ATADATA. "We are pleased to have reached an agreement with our partners that will provide the Company with the funding to aid in the execution of our business strategy.
A renewed focus on innovative research and development spending by major UK departments would create new export-oriented industries and help rebalance the economy.
That’s according to a new study published today at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
In past decades, many vibrant UK technology industries including semiconductors emerged from R&D spending at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and other departments, and future R&D spending should seek to recreate such a pipeline of innovation, says the 65-page report, entitled Creating Markets for Things that Don’t Exist.
Within the funding which is
Alcentra Limited has held the final closing of the Alcentra European Direct Lending Fund, LP (Fund) with investor commitments totalling EUR850,000,000.
The focus of the Fund is to provide debt financing to middle market companies in Europe. With the closing of the Fund, the firm’s committed capital for the strategy now exceeds EUR1,500,000,000.
“Direct lending is a large, attractive, long-term opportunity given the balance sheet constraints of European banks and the historical lack of non-bank lenders,” says Graeme Delaney-Smith, managing director and head of European direct lending for Alcentra. “Our size, experience and sourcing capabilities leave us well positioned,
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