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Riordan, Lewis & Haden | Equity Partners (RLH) has invested in Clarity Solution Group, a provider of high-value data analytics consulting services.
Clarity helps its enterprise clients increase revenue and reduce cost by discovering hidden trends in the data clients already possess. The company serves clients across a wide variety of industries including financial services, healthcare, media, and manufacturing.
RLH is partnering with Clarity's management team, including CEO Mike Lamble and founders John Papadia and James Urhausen III, to recapitalise the company and further accelerate its growth.
J Christopher Lewis, managing director of RLH, says: "Clarity combines top-tier
Phoenix American Financial Services (PAFS) is offering fund administration services to new investment fund companies operating under SEC rule 506(c).
Because the new funds engage in general solicitation for new investors, Phoenix American provides a range of front office services in addition to the company's back office outsourcing offering which includes shareholder record keeping, transfer agent services, tax and accounting services, printing and fulfilment.
As a result of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, new fund companies operating under SEC rule 506(c) are permitted to engage in general solicitation for new investors. Phoenix American Financial Services now offers
Private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group has closed Greenbriar Equity Fund III on USD1.1 billion, the firm’s largest fund to date.
The fund’s broad range of limited partners includes foundations, university endowments, family offices, insurance companies, pension plans and other institutional investors.
The fund will follow the same strategy as its predecessors, Greenbriar Equity Fund and Greenbriar Equity Fund II. Since the inaugural fund closed in 2001, Greenbriar has made over 30 platform and follow-on acquisitions.
Regg Jones, co-founder and managing partner of Greenbriar, says: “We are extremely pleased with the strong show of support from many longstanding
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has made two key senior hires – Jennifer Choi to managing director, industry affairs, and Nicole Caty to managing director, membership and events.
“We are pleased to be adding such talented executives to enhance and broaden the ILPA team,” says Michael Mazzola, ILPA chairman (MetLife). “The ILPA has an ambitious strategy and having the capabilities that Jennifer and Nicole add to the team will allow us to accelerate a number of our programmes.
“Having a dedicated executive attending to the needs of our members has been a priority for the association and adding
Monroe Capital has funded a senior secured credit facility to support the spin-off of BCC Software from its former parent, Bell and Howell, by private equity sponsor Versa Capital Management.
Based in Rochester, New York and founded over 30 years ago, BCC creates postal software solutions and provides extensive data marketing services.
Since launching the firm’s national technology vertical, Monroe Capital has partnered with many of the country’s well known private equity and venture capital firms to finance software, e-commerce, industrial technology and tech-enabled services companies.
EFG Fund Services has been appointed as full service provider to Index Ventures’ latest fund Index Ventures VII, a Jersey-domiciled venture capital fund which has raised EUR400m in commitments from international investors.
The fund will make equity and equity-related investments in early stage companies in the technology field.
EFG Fund Services’ relationship with Index Ventures dates back to 2000 and this appointment brings to seven the number of Index funds to which EFG Fund Services has been appointed.
Index Ventures VII is a Jersey Expert Fund which held its initial closing in April 2014, since when it has
Angel investors Stephen Houston and Peter Cowley are to join Angel CoFund’s 10-strong investment committee.
Houston is best known for his involvement with Halo, the business angel network for Northern Ireland, which in 2010 was named British Business Angels Association’s Angel Network of the Year. With a background in Fast Moving Consumer Goods and property, he brings to the role 25 years of management and start-up experience.
Cowley is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor, who is well known in the Cambridge enterprise scene, where he is a board member of the Cambridge Angels, as well as a Fellow
ACCIONA is to partner with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) to consolidate and develop one of the largest operating international renewable energy portfolios in the world.
Under the agreement, KKR will invest in ACCIONA Energía International (AEI), the international renewable energy generation business of ACCIONA Energía, the Spanish multinational’s energy division. KKR is making the investment from its global infrastructure fund.
KKR is acquiring a one-third stake in AEI at a price of EUR417m and will help to fund future growth of the renewables portfolio. ACCIONA Energía will retain the remaining two-thirds of AEI.
AEI will hold ACCIONA Energía’s
Offshore law firm Appleby has appointed Benjamin Woolf as partner.
Woolf is a member of the corporate and commercial practice group and specialises in structured finance and corporate transactions.
He also works on mergers and acquisitions, asset finance and subscription finance.
Managing partner of the Cayman office, Bryan Hunter, says: “Benjamin is an exemplary lawyer and his recent promotion to partner is in recognition of not only his hard work, skill and expertise but also the impressive growth of Appleby’s corporate and finance team.”
Prior to joining Appleby, Woolf practised at Clifford Chance and Mayer Brown where
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is planning to launch a GBP1 billion fund to acquire equity stakes in operational offshore wind projects in the UK.
GIB is seeking a suitable group of strategic, long-term co-investors to participate in the capital raising exercise.
The fund will be managed by a GIB subsidiary which is currently regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and will be seeking permission from the FCA to become a regulated fund manager.
With 3.6GW of installed capacity, 1.4GW in construction and a number of further projects in the pipeline, the UK sector is set
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