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Catterton, a consumer-focused private equity firm, has acquired designed jewellery brand John Hardy.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1975, John Hardy is a luxury designer jewellery brand. Its collections are available at more than 600 retail locations across 27 countries and regions.
The company has appointed Robert Hanson as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Hanson brings more than 25 years of brand development and retail experience to John Hardy, including with American Eagle Outfitters and Levi Strauss.
Hanson says: "With Catterton's well-established track record for partnering with leading brands to help them capitalise
Charles River Associates (CPA) has appointed Robert W Holthausen to the firm’s board of directors.
Professor Holthausen will serve on the company’s audit committee.
Holthausen is the Ernst and Young and the Nomura Securities Company Professor of Accounting and Finance and is the chairman of the Department of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to Wharton, he was a Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.
Before his academic career, he was a CPA working at Price Waterhouse and he was also in the
Evercore is expanding its investment banking capabilities in London through the formation of a new European dedicated debt advisory business.
The business will be led by Swag Ganguly who joins the firm as a senior managing director from Rothschild in London. He will be supported by Mark Craig who joins as a managing director from Lloyds Bank in London.
This new business expands the services that Evercore can provide to existing and new clients in Europe and will form a core part of its offering in conjunction with strategic and mergers and acquisitions advice.
The team will work
Mission Creek Capital Partners, an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in San Francisco, has reported strong private equity stock distribution activity and new client mandates.
Mission Creek provides private equity and venture capital distribution management services for private equity institutional investors, general partners, executives and entrepreneurs.
Mission Creek currently manages distribution mandates for institutional and private clients with combined private equity commitments exceeding USD4.0 billion.
Henri Moudi, managing director, says: “Resurging IPO and M&A appetite has resulted in an attractive exit and stock distribution environment for private equity and venture capital funds. The first half of 2014 was
Blackstone has partnered with Black Rhino to identify, develop, finance, construct and operate large-scale infrastructure projects across Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on the energy sector.
This includes power generation, transmission, fuel storage and pipelines.
Formed in January 2012 and based in Johannesburg, South Africa and Dakar, Senegal, Black Rhino is led by founder and CEO Brian Herlihy, who previously founded and served as CEO of Seacom. At Seacom, Herlihy led a USD600 million submarine cable development project to connect fibre optic communications networks from Europe and Asia to 23 African countries. During his career, Herlihy has been involved
China Development Bank International (CDBI), the Macquarie Greater China Infrastructure Fund (MGCIF) and New Horizon Capital are to invest USD225 million in JinkoSolar Holding’s downstream solar power project business.
Upon completion of the investment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JinkoSolar, and the company's additional capital contribution to Jinko Power, the three investors will hold a total of approximately 45 per cent of Jinko Power's equity interest.
The investment by MGCIF has closed, while the investments by CDBI and New Horizon are expected to close in the near future upon satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The three investors are expected to
Israeli private equity fund FIMI Opportunity Fund is to acquire 40 per cent of Magal Security System’s shares from Ki Corporation at a price of USD3.50 per share.
Magal is a provider of solutions and products for physical and cyber security.
In addition, FIMI will pay Ki an additional consideration subject to the occurrence of certain conditions. Following consummation of the transaction, FIMI will be the largest shareholder of Magal.
The transaction is subject to certain conditions, including the approval of the Israeli Controller of Restrictive Trade Practices.
Gillon Beck, a senior partner in FIMI, says:
Private equity firm GTCR has acquired XIFIN, a California-based provider of cloud-based software and services to diagnostic service providers.
XIFIN's technology platform enables end-to-end connectivity from patient to payor, linking together the many stakeholders in healthcare delivery.
Since its founding, XIFIN's technology solutions have supported some of the US's largest and most complex diagnostics providers. The company's customers occupy a diverse set of industry segments, including molecular diagnostics, pain management/toxicology, anatomic pathology, radiology, hospital outreach, medical device and clinical laboratories.
XIFIN's core product is a cloud-based workflow application designed to help clients optimise billing and collection practices, automate
Albion Ventures has invested GBP2.5m in OmPrompt, a provider of the customer automation management solutions that streamline order-to-cash processes for global manufacturing companies.
OmPrompt launched its cloud-based service in 2005 and now leads the market for customer automation management in the consumer goods, medical device and logistics sectors.
Customers include Groupe Danone, Kellogg’s, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Unilever, Medtronic, Smiths Medical and Stryker Corporation.
Robert Whitby-Smith, partner at Albion Ventures, says: “We are delighted to support OmPrompt’s next phase of growth. Worldwide the integration broking space is a multi-billion dollar market and expanding. Market forces will eliminate the wasteful and
The online English platform ABA English has closed its first funding round for USD3.4 million with the venture firm Nauta Capital.
ABA English specialises in online English teaching using a learning methodology, exclusive media content and its own developed interactive technology.
The Barcelona based e-learning start-up was launched in 2013 with new unique content and a new go-to-market approach. In its first year it reached one million students in 170 countries, with a particularly strong presence in Italy, France, Spain, Brazil and Mexico. The funding from Nauta will be devoted to accelerate ABA's growth and international expansion.
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