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Pamlico Capital and the management team of Clarity Telecom have entered into a definitive agreement to purchase broadband assets in Rapid City and Sioux Falls, South Dakota from WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone.
Post-close, the Clarity team will continue to provide high-speed broadband, video and voice services to more than 50,000 residential and commercial customers in South Dakota.
Pamlico initially partnered with Clarity’s management team in 2003 to build NewWave Communications, a rural broadband company that grew to serve 160,000 subscribers. After successfully exiting NewWave through transactions with Time Warner Cable (2011) and Rural Broadband Investments (2013), Pamlico partnered
Egyptian investment bank CI Capital Holding (CICH) and alternative asset manager Duet Group have launched the Duet-CIC Egypt Opportunities Fund to invest in the Egyptian economy.
The partners believe that Egypt will position itself as the region’s leading investment destination in the medium-to-long term and have agreed to launch a private equity fund with up to USD300 million of committed capital to invest in Egyptian businesses, injecting growth and buyout capital into the economy. The focus will be on consumer and consumer-related industries.
The alliance will provide an opportunity for international capital to participate alongside domestic investors and will
WHEB Partners, a private equity fund manager specialising in growth opportunities in energy and resource efficiency technology markets, has appointed Florian Strehle as its new Munich-based partner.
Strehle has eight years’ private equity experience, six of which were at AUCTUS Capital Partners, a German private equity fund manager where he was a member of the management board.
Before that he was at 3i Group where he was an associate in the firm’s technology investment team.
He also spent four years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.
Together with WHEB’s other two Munich-based partners, Jörg Sperling
Altium has appointed Oliver Vaughan as an assistant director in its London office.
He joins from Livingstone Partners where he was also an assistant director, having previously trained as a chartered accountant with Deloitte.
Vaughan is an experienced M&A practitioner with broad experience across various sectors, particularly industrials.
The appointment of Vaughan is part of Altium’s continued expansion of its London presence in response to increasing market activity and deal flow. Other recent recruits include Christopher Jones, who was hired as managing director at the end of 2013, and Octavia Wayne, who joined the team as an analyst in
The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has elected Anne Glover, chief executive and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, to serve as its chairman for the year to June 2015.
She succeeds the 2013-2014 chairman George Anson of HarbourVest Partners, who will become EVCA´s immediate past-chairman.
“In the last 12 months the EVCA has continued to build on its strong foundation of proactive communications, notably through the update of the Professional Standards handbook, as well as expand its education programme,” says Anson. “I am confident that, under Anne´s leadership, the EVCA will continue this momentum and bring
The Goldman Sachs Group and Bain Capital Partners have agreed to pay a total USD121 million in settlement of Dahl v Bain Capital Partners, according to law firm Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.
Bain has agreed to a settlement for USD54 million, and Goldman Sachs agreed to a USD67 million settlement, as two of seven defendants in the case.
Plaintiffs are former shareholders of certain public companies who sold their shares to the defendant private equity firms in large leveraged buyouts (LBOs) announced between 2003 and 2007.
In 2007, the defendants, all major US private equity firms, were
Quarton Partners, a middle market investment banking firm serving privately held and publicly traded companies as well as private equity firms, has hired Matt Schloop and Doug Shinkle.
Schloop joins Quarton as a director. He has over 14 years of middle market merger and acquisition experience across many industries, with a particular focus on industrial manufacturing, distribution and service businesses.
Prior to joining Quarton Partners, Schloop spent eight years with Pfingsten Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm. Schloop also held positions at Mesirow Financial and P&M Corporate Finance prior to joining Pfingsten.
Shinkle joins Quarton as an analyst. Shinkle
Funds advised by IK Investment Partners are to sell Minimax Viking to Kirkbi A/S, a Danish investment company, and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), a specialist asset manager.
Financial details have not been disclosed.
IK acquired Minimax together with the company’s management in June 2006, at a time when the company was a regional market leader in Europe and Germany and ranked third worldwide in its market.
In the past eight years, Minimax has transformed into a global market leader with a fully integrated offering covering fire suppression products and distribution, system integration and services. It has more than
EisnerAmper has launched EisnerAmper Compliance and Regulatory Services (CARS), a full-service consultancy providing outsourced compliance programmes and solutions to US and offshore investment advisers.
CARS supports clients managing all asset classes including alternative (hedge funds, private equity funds, funds of funds and CPOs) and non-alternative investment vehicles, wealth managers, managed account platforms, mutual funds, broker-dealers and family offices.
CARS is led by Gary Swiman, Ppincipal, and Carmine Angone, director. They have more than 25 years of experience in evaluating, implementing and leading compliance, audit, and anti-money laundering departments for some of the world’s largest asset management and broker- dealer
Varagon Capital Partners, a new asset manager focused on direct lending to middle market companies, is aiming to provide tailored investment services that meet the needs of sophisticated institutions.
Varagon is an independent firm, backed by American International Group and by certain partners and affiliates of Oak Hill Capital Management, and launches with an initial USD1.5 billion investment commitment from AIG.
Varagon offers a way of investing in middle market credit, providing tailored investment services that meet the needs of sophisticated institutions. Varagon couples information transparency and flexible investment mandates with robust risk management to create a differentiated proposition
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