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Macoma Capital Group has made its largest investment in W North, an energy company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties in the Williston Basin.
The energy company structures strategic alliances and exploration agreements with leading operators and mineral owners to increase production in the basin.
“We are excited about this unique investment opportunity at the heart of the Bakken shale play,” says Andrew Cohan, managing partner at Macoma Capital Group. “Our new energy partner has an established track record of successfully managing Bakken assets, and its leadership team has the necessary industry acumen and
Comvest Partners has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to monitor and analyse portfolio performance.
Comvest Partners is a multi-strategy investment firm based in West Palm Beach, Florida that specialises in providing equity and debt capital to middle-market companies in the US.
Private capital fund managers use iLEVEL to better control performance data for each asset in the portfolio so that the entire organisation can leverage a single source of the truth. This consolidated data can be used to realise trends in investment performance and better explain returns to limited partners, who are looking for an increasing amount
Dillon Eustace has expanded its global practice with the senior hire of Jonathan Law to its Cayman office and the addition of Fionnán Gannon to its Dublin office.
Law joins the funds and corporate team in Cayman as partner, and brings with him over 10 years of Cayman law expertise.
Gannon has moved from the Irish Stock Exchange, where he was previously a senior regulation executive, to join Dillon Eustace’s listing department.
Having started his career at Dundas & Wilson in Edinburgh, Law subsequently joined Clifford Chance in London, and has experience in Cayman as partner at another
Preqin takes a detailed look at the private equity industry in Asia and how it has changed in recent years, including fundraising, investor preferences and deal activity. Plus, performance benchmarks for Asia-focused private equity funds by vintage year and key statistics in detail for Greater China, ASEAN, Northeast Asia and South Asia.
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Pamplona Capital Management has appointed Jeffrey Kirt as a partner, as it continues to strengthen its US private equity presence.
Kirt joins from Oak Hill Advisors, where he was a partner responsible for stressed and distressed investments, having joined the firm in 2002. He also had senior research responsibility for the aerospace, automotive and financial industries.
His appointment follows that of Bill Pruellage last month, formerly co-president at Castle Harlan, and increases to four the number of partners based in Pamplona’s New York office.
Pamplona is currently investing its recently committed USD4 billion fourth private equity fund.
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Law firm White & Case has advised private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe on the EUR820 million sale of Dutch-based full service payment service provider GlobalCollect to Ingenico.
GlobalCollect employs around 500 people and helps clients accept payments from more than 170 countries in more than 150 currencies, using in excess of 150 local payment methods including all major credit cards, debit cards and alternative payment methods.
London-based White & Case partner Ross Allardice, who led the team which advised GlobalCollect, says: “We were very pleased to advise and support GlobalCollect and its shareholders on this important
Three Hills Capital Partners, the new private equity investment platform launched in November 2013, has held the final close of its first fund at the hard cap of EUR100 million (USD127 million).
Three Hills Capital Partners was founded by Mauro Moretti, a former partner at Hutton Collins, the firm he joined in 2008 from BC Partners.
The team includes Leks de Boer, a former member of the investment team of Hutton Collins, and Michele Prencipe, who also worked at Hutton Collins as well as Clessidra.
The new fund, based on its capability to provide subordinated private debt and
In Q3 2014, 185 private equity funds held a final close and secured an aggregate USD73bn, a figure which is expected to increase by 10 to 20 per cent as more information becomes available.
This is the lowest quarterly amount of capital raised in three years, when USD66bn was secured by funds closed in Q3 2011, according to Preqin.
Despite this, fundraising for the whole of 2014 is still likely to be strong following USD111bn raised by funds closed in Q1 and USD143bn in Q2.
Buyout fundraising was down in Q3 2014; 37 buyout funds closed during the
Perella Weinberg Partners has held the final closing of its USD600 million PWP Growth Equity fund.
The fund exceeded the original USD400 million target and met the revised cap of USD600 million.
PWP Growth Equity is a private equity investment strategy focused on primarily US-based growth-oriented companies in the lower middle market, spanning the consumer, services and industrial sectors. The fund was co-founded by partners David Ferguson and Chip Baird, who joined the firm in 2012. Ferguson and Baird have worked together for over a decade and have more than 40 years of combined experience in private equity investing.
Octopus Investments is expanding its healthcare business through the acquisition of MedicX Holdings Ltd, a UK healthcare real estate investment manager.
The acquisition has been completed via Octopus’ parent company, Octopus Capital Ltd.
Octopus Capital Ltd and the MedicX management team, led by Mike Adams, have agreed to acquire MedicX from funds advised by Cabot Square Capital.
The acquisition takes Octopus’ funds under management to over GBP4.7 billion with MedicX managing GBP0.9 billion of funds across the LSE listed MedicX Fund (MXF) and two private closed-ended funds.
Octopus has been an active investor in the healthcare sector
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