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Cirque Energy has entered into a USD5 million common stock purchase agreement with Kodiak Capital Group, a Newport Beach, California-based institutional investor.
Cirque has agreed to file a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission covering the shares that may be issued to Kodiak under the terms of the common stock purchase agreement.
After the SEC has declared the registration statement related to the transaction effective, Cirque will have the right at its sole discretion over a period of one year to sell up to USD5 million of common stock under the terms set forth in the
Carne Group has received authorisation for an independent AIFMD-compliant management company in the Channel Islands.
The new management company has become immediately operational with Carne Group’s fund clients. It is particularly suitable for alternative fund managers, including credit, hedge fund, private equity, infrastructure and real estate investment firms.
Carne has received authorisation as a fund services business from the Jersey regulator, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC).
Carne already has over 20 clients making use of its AIFMD management company solutions in Ireland and Luxembourg. The Jersey management company is the first to be approved outside the European
Advent Life Sciences has closed its Advent Life Sciences Fund II (ALSF II), a GBP145.5 million (USD235 million) venture capital fund raised to seed and build life sciences companies in the UK, Europe and the US.
The fund will back entrepreneurs and early-stage and mid-stage companies with the potential to deliver first- or best-in-class breakthrough products for unmet medical needs.
The fund, which quickly exceeded its target, was raised entirely from independent financial investors including funds-of-funds, pension funds, and family offices.
“We thank our returning and new LPs for the strength of their support, which allowed us to
Infracapital, the infrastructure investment arm of M&G Investments and parent Prudential plc, has reached a final closing of its latest fund, Infracapital Partners II, with total commitments of GBP1.0 billion (USD1.6 billion).
Co-investment pledges take the total investable funds to over GBP1.3 billion. As with its predecessor, Infracapital Partners LP, the fund’s strategy is to invest in, and actively manage, core infrastructure assets across Europe.
The fundraising, which exceeded its initial target, received strong backing from existing investors and in addition welcomed a number of new investors from across Europe, North America and Asia. In addition to seed capital
Private equity firm GTCR is to sell portfolio company Devicor Medical Products to Danaher Corporation’s Leica Biosystems, a provider of anatomical pathology solutions and automation used to advance cancer diagnostics.
Devicor is a medical device company specialising in products for use in breast biopsy procedures. The company is the global market leader in the vacuum-assisted biopsy segment of the breast biopsy market. Its products include the Mammotome Breast Biopsy System, tissue markers and related products, which, to date, have enabled more than four million women to have a minimally invasive breast biopsy.
Devicor began as a management partnership formed
Ogier in both the British Virgin Islands and Jersey has advised Seven Energy International Limited and its group on an issue of USD300m aggregate principal amount 10 per cent senior secured notes due 2021.
The notes, which are listed on the Irish Stock Exchange's Global Exchange Market, were issued by Seven Energy's subsidiary Seven Energy Finance Limited and are guaranteed by other subsidiaries of Seven Energy.
Seven Energy is an indigenous African oil and gas exploration, development and production company with a focus on supplying gas to the domestic market. In the six months ended 30 June 2014, Seven
IMSPEX Diagnostics Limited has completed its GBP1.4 million funding round led by Finance Wales and the Angel CoFund.
The funds will be invested in establishing a group administration and sales team who will be based in Abercynon.
IMSPEX acquired Dortmund based technology company G.A.S GmbH in January 2013. The subsidiary develops and manufactures the group’s range of analytical instrumentation based on Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS). The lead products are the Siloxane and Beer analysers. The Siloxane device monitors the quality of biogas in real time, ensuring it is sufficiently clean to pump on to national gas grids. The beer analyser
Engineering and construction are likely to be attractive areas for investors as a revival in infrastructure spending accelerates over the next decade, according to a white paper from The Boston Company Asset Management (TBCAM), the Boston-based equity investor for BNY Mellon.
The report, A Blueprint for Investing in Infrastructure Themes, notes decaying bridges and roads are a common theme throughout the U.S. and other developed economies. In Germany, for example, a recent government study concluded that USD9.7 billion needs to be spent annually to maintain the current infrastructure, according to the report.
In the US well-publicised events such as
There are USD73bn of assets in listed alternatives on the London and Amsterdam stock exchange, according to Dexion Capital, the alternatives investment bank.
The sector has added, in the last 12 months alone, a total of USD18bn. This breaks down as USD12.6bn through 22 IPOs and a further USD5.4bn from follow-on fundraises.
Half the IPOs have been credit and property funds, raising USD1.38bn and USD2.6bn respectively.
Within credit, alternative sources of financing has been an important theme and, within property, alternative property sectors such as student accommodation or care homes have registered investor interest.
Head of research Tom Skinner says: “The highly regulated environment which we have seen
First Reserve has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to streamline its portfolio data collection process and to manage the performance data of its portfolio of energy assets.
First Reserve is the largest global private equity and infrastructure investment firm exclusively focused on energy, with operations spanning the energy spectrum from upstream oil and gas to midstream and downstream, including resources, equipment and services, and infrastructure.
“We have been in the market for a long time for a system that could handle our complex and vast portfolio of energy-related companies. Our investment process relies on numerous data points,
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