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Middle market private equity firm Genstar Capital Management has appointed Gretchen L Robinson in the newly created role of vice president of investor relations.
Robinson joins Genstar from independent global asset manager Capital Dynamics, which she joined in 2008 and most recently served as a vice president in investment management.
While at Capital Dynamics, she was responsible for over USD500 million of commitments and relationships with over 35 private equity and venture capital managers, and fundraised for the firm's most recent buyout fund and venture capital fund of funds.
Earlier, Robinson was an analyst at Wells Fargo in
Fund and corporate services provider Alter Domus has completed the acquisition of O’ Donovan Stewart Corporate Services (ODS) in Ireland.
O’Donovan Stewart Corporate Services provides corporate services to a broad portfolio of client companies, particularly aircraft leasing and aircraft owning companies where it currently acts for a range of clients from the US, South Africa, Europe and Asia.
All existing ODS employees will join Alter Domus as part of the acquisition.
The founding director of ODS, Peter Stewart, will continue to serve as an independent executive director of Alter Domus (Ireland) Limited.
Laurent Vanderweyen, chief executive officer
Kirkland & Ellis International has appointed Stephen Lucas as a partner in the firm’s debt finance practice group based in London.
Lucas represents sponsors, financial institutions, funds and corporations on financings including leveraged finance, structured debt and restructurings.
“Stephen is widely recognised as among the top finance lawyers in London. He is a brilliant, hard-working lawyer and strategic thinker, and a significant addition to our already strong and very active European debt finance group,” says Jeffrey C Hammes, chairman of Kirkland’s global management executive committee.
Lucas joins Kirkland from the London office of Weil Gotshal & Manges and
FNEX, the financial marketplace for alternative investments, has appointed Carissa Newton as the company’s chief marketing officer.
Newton reports directly to FNEX CEO Todd Ryden and leads all strategic marketing efforts at FNEX beginning with the company’s national marketing and advertising campaign.
FNEX launched FNEX.com, an online marketplace for alternative investments including direct placements in private companies, hedge funds and managed futures accounts, in September 2013. The web-based platform provides investment advisors, family offices, institutions, and accredited investors access to investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the US.
“Carissa’s deep understanding of financial services and technology
Post Capital Partners has held first closing of Post Capital Equity Partners III, its second fund, at USD52 million.
The target size of the fund is USD100 million.
The firm will continue to make both minority growth and control investments in small and middle-market companies by primarily employing its “Executive-First” deal sourcing and investment strategy.
Post Capital Equity Partners III also completed its first investment by acquiring EC Waste from Waste Management. EC Waste is the leading waste management provider in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. EC Waste CEO Randy Jensen is a 30-year waste management industry veteran
Amba Defence, a West Midlands-based company that provides defence, security and safety equipment and monitoring services, has secured investment of more than GBP250,000 from Midven.
Amba Defence delivers bespoke services to national infrastructure, national and international governments, private institutions and high net-worth individuals.
The GBP256,000 venture capital funding, made through Midven’s Exceed Fund, will enable Amba to expand its product portfolio of advanced technologies and recruit additional staff to support the organisation’s growth plans.
Amba provides security and defence solutions delivered by its four divisions: consultancy, solutions, technology and control.
Managing director Shires Crichton, who formed Amba
American Infrastructure MLP Funds (AIM), a private investment firm, has committed up to USD130 million of capital to StoneMor Partners, including acquiring an indirect majority interest in the company’s general partner.
As part of the commitment, AIM will purchase USD55 million of four-year, non-cash common units to fund near term acquisitions, and will make available up to USD50 million of additional capital contributions to fund growth.
AIM invests in companies that qualify as master limited partnerships and manages over USD1.5 billion in assets.
"This investment commitment gives us a well-capitalised general partner," says Lawrence Miller, StoneMor's president and chief
Private equity firm MarginXL Capital Partners has been accepted into the SAS Alliance, a programme that seeks to establish relationships with key industry, solutions and specialised implementation partners of SAS software and solutions.
MarginXL Capital seeks to address a sizeable gap in middle market operational private equity investing, namely to harness and exploit the explosion of data and to generate insights from that data to improve profits and investment returns.
"We are thrilled to be announcing our new relationship with SAS today," says George Stelling, managing partner at MarginXL Capital Partners. "We've used SAS software extensively in our careers as
Ultra-low interest rates are encouraging a rebound in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with premiums on deals for small and medium-sized companies far outstripping larger transactions, according to Allianz Global Investors.
Companies, buoyed wider-spread optimism of an improving economy, are looking to put cash to work externally while business valuations are still attractive.
Improved sentiment means more corporates are likely to embrace M&A and capital expenditure compared to the organic growth and deleveraging that prevailed after the crisis.
Between 2001 and 2013, US buyers were willing to pay an average M&A premium of 25 per cent for small caps
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to the shareholder of Geo Networks, a London-based dark fibre provider, on the company’s sale to Zayo Group, an international provider of bandwidth infrastructure.
Founded in 2002 by Jonathan Watts and Chris Smedley, Geo owns and operates a high capacity fibre network in the UK, providing managed networks, dark fibre and co-location services to a variety of high-bandwidth sectors including media companies, service providers, financial services, data centres and gaming organisations. Geo is the only company in the UK to focus solely on the design, build and operation of bespoke dedicated fibre
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