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Frost Brooks, the London-based boutique private equity firm, has completed its second deal with a significant capital investment for BizEquity, an online provider of business valuation services.
The new investment included commitments from Frost Brooks’ founders and also from the firm’s network of limited partners comprised of former leader of the world’s largest data company, Experian; captains of industry and executives from Lloyds Bank; Standard Chartered Bank; and other leading financial institution executives.
It will help US-based BizEquity, which already has a presence in London and Singapore, accelerate its expansion strategy, which includes a full UK launch in first
Ogier in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has advised DT Asia Investments Limited on its initial public offering of 6,000,000 units on Nasdaq, raising USD60 million.
DT Asia Investments Limited is a BVI incorporated special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) formed for the purposes of engaging in a business company with one or more businesses.
Whilst not limited to a particular industry or geographic region, the intention is that DT Asia Investments Limited will focus on businesses which have their primary operations located in Asia, with an emphasis on China.
Ogier acted with New York based firm Ellenoff Grossman
TOP 10 OPERATIONAL RISKS: A Survival Guide for Investment Management Firms
By Holly H Miller, Managing Director of Middle Office Services, SEI’s Investment Manager Services division
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Virtually every investment management firm has the opportunity to take risk management to higher level, taking a fresh look at common areas of risk, identifying priorities for action, and then considering the variety of relatively straightforward risk-management measures that can be deployed
Different organizations have different exposures and tolerance levels to operational risk, depending, for instance, upon their investment strategies, the markets in which they operate and the instruments they employ; thus there is
Global law firm White & Case has advised Novator on its investment in MoDe, a technology company that provides mobile value added services to mobile network operators in emerging nations.
Novator, an international investment firm, has been established for more than ten years and has a particular emphasis on emerging markets and on special situations.
Novator made its investment by way of a convertible loan which will provide MoDe with the resources to expand its operations beyond the 13 African countries in which it currently operates.
Bruce McInroy, partner at Novator, says: “White & Case fielded an experienced
The RAG-Stiftung foundation has acquired a majority holding in specialist engineering firm HAHN Automation via RAG-Stiftung Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH.
The transaction is currently awaiting approval from the merger control authorities.
A CMS Hasche Sigle team led by Dr Richard Mayer-Uellner and Dr Malte Bruhns advised the foundation on all legal aspects of the transaction.
Established in 2007, the RAG-Stiftung foundation is tasked with winding down the subsidised coal mining operations of RAG Aktiengesellschaft in a socially responsible way by the end of 2018. Another role of the private-law foundation is to finance the perpetual obligations arising from German coal
Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Sage Automotive Interiors, the second largest automotive textile supplier in the world.
Sage management invested alongside Clearlake in the transaction.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“This acquisition underscores Sage’s success and vision, and provides a stable platform to help drive our future growth, both domestically and globally,” says Dirk Pieper, Sage CEO. “Clearlake is an experienced investor in the automotive space, bringing valuable industry expertise and strong financial resources. We appreciate this vote of confidence in all that Sage has accomplished and in our future, and we look forward
New Mountain Capital has closed its fourth private equity fund, New Mountain Partners IV, with USD4.13 billion of equity capital commitments.
This includes USD4.0 billion of third party limited partner commitments and over USD130 million from the general partner and affiliated investors.
The fund, which had a target of USD3.0 billion, was oversubscribed at its hard cap of USD4.0 billion of limited partner commitments.
“We thank our Fund IV investors for their friendship and partnership,” says Steven B Klinsky, founder and CEO of New Mountain. “We will do our best to reward their confidence with strong performance.”
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF), which is managed by Maven Capital Partners, has invested in cinema software supplier Unique Digital, its eighth investment in just over a year.
Funding from the GMLF will help the company to continue the UK roll out of its latest product MovieTransit, the first broadband IP distribution network for the delivery of entire movies to cinemas.
Unique Digital is a software developer for the cinema industry, founded by entrepreneur Chris Hagan in 2003, providing proprietary solutions for the management of digital equipment in cinemas. MovieTransit, a content distribution solution, has been fully operational
Private equity fund Monomoy Capital Partners has completed its tender offer for the common stock of Cobra Electronics at a price of USD4.30 per share.
Immediately upon the closing of the tender offer, Monomoy completed a merger transaction to take Cobra private and add Cobra to the Monomoy portfolio of companies.
Cobra is a global designer and distributor of communication and navigation products, including two-way radios, radar detectors and citizens band radios. Monomoy will focus on improving margins and cash flow while supporting and growing its core business.
“We are thrilled to add Cobra to our consumer electronics
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