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Middle-market private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP) has completed the acquisition of SG Holdings I (SERVA) from Wexford Capital, an SEC registered investment advisor with over USD4 billion of assets under management.
Founded in 1991, SERVA is a designer and manufacturer of fracking equipment, coiled tubing equipment, and well intervention and workover equipment, all of which are integral to the development of high-growth unconventional crude oil and natural gas resources in North America and increasingly in China.
The company's products are sold primarily in the US and to an increasing degree in Asia.
SERVA manufactures and
European private equity performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons for the period ending 31 December 2013, according to Thomson Reuters’ Private Equity Performance Index.
One year returns, which are most affected by the current market environment, moved in a positive direction from June 2013, registering a 3.8 percentage point increase to 11.80 per cent.
Buyout funds saw positive returns across all investment horizons, with strong double-digit returns in the one, 10 and 20-year time horizons. Medium buyout funds in the 20-year time horizon performed best, with returns of 23.25 per cent.
Venture capital fund returns also
Atlantic Fund Services (AFS) has launched services for funds in Austria – the company’s seventh market around the world and its third new market in 2014.
As well as its home market, the Polish company also offers its services in Luxembourg, the US, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Liechtenstein, and now Austria.
“In the past three years we have taken huge steps down the path of international growth of the company. Not long ago we were present only in Poland and the US, we are now in seven markets,” says Roman Lewszyk, CEO of Atlantic Fund Services operations in Europe.
Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners has made a strategic investment in Essen BioScience.
SFW is partnering in this investment with Essen’s co-founders, Kirk Schroeder and Brad Neagle, who serve as the current president and vice-president of operations and engineering respectively, and its management team.
With SFW’s support and resources, Essen plans on making significant investments to further expand its applications and assays, develop and introduce innovative new products, and continue to enhance its sales, service and support capabilities.
Essen BioScience, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a provider of critical analytical instrumentation, software, reagents and services used
Angus Taylor has joined JTC Group as group head of fund services.
He joins JTC from Herald Trust Company, where he worked as the managing director since 2012.
Prior to that, Taylor’s role was deputy chief executive officer for Kleinwort Benson Private Bank.
Taylor will primarily be responsible for leading the growth strategy for the JTC Fund Services division across all of the group’s international jurisdictions.
JTC Group's international funds team administers both closed and open ended funds established in Guernsey, Jersey, Luxembourg and the UK, as well as other non-domiciled fund structures in financial centres such
Quarton Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to Victor Oolitic Stone Company, d/b/a Indiana Limestone, on its acquisition by Wynnchurch Capital.
Indiana Limestone is a North American quarrier and fabricator of dimensional limestone.
Headquartered in Oolitic, Indiana, it is one of the world's richest limestone deposits, owns and operates quarries covering over 4,000 acres and holds reserves well in excess of 100 years supply in its eight main quarries.
Wynnchurch Capital, headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois with offices in Detroit, Toronto, and an affiliate office in Montreal, was founded in 1999 and is a
Private investment firm Clearlake Capital Group is to acquire ConvergeOne, a provider of communications solutions and managed services to enterprises globally, from Genstar Capital.
Headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, ConvergeOne offers one source for multivendor solutions – from initial design and implementation through ongoing consulting, technical support, and managed services across the spectrum of IT, contact centre solutions, and unified communications.
ConvergeOne maintains relationships with global solution leaders, including Avaya, Cisco Systems, IBM, Interactive Intelligence and Microsoft.
It has more than 4,100 customers, including 46 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies, operating in virtually every industry, including the
Attensity, a provider of corporate insight solutions based on proprietary data contextualisation, has closed USD90 million in equity financing.
Financing was provided by an international private equity fund and financial advisor company.
The new capital secured will be used to accelerate product innovation, fuel market growth, and expand the sales, marketing and engineering teams to meet the growing need for engagement and analytics applications using patented natural language processing (NLP) technology.
"Attensity is already an established market leader in social media analytics used by global companies," says Howard Lau, CEO and chairman. "Now we are extending that lead
French start-up Bunkr has closed its first fundraising at EUR1 million with investments from Idinvest Partners, Daniel Marhely (Deezer co-founder) and Xavier NIEL.
The financing will allow Bunkr to improve the development of its product, which allows users to share presentations using Dropbox and Twitter, and accelerate its international growth.
One year after its launch, Bunkr has 50,000 users in 170 countries, mostly in Brazil, Eastern Asia and the US.
Private equity firm Northern Lights Capital Group, a provider of strategic capital and resources to boutique asset management firms, has made an investment in Buick Capital Partners.
Buick is an independent, London-based private placement firm, providing advisory and placement services to alternative investment managers with strategies ranging from liquid hedge funds to private equity and other longer-term special situations vehicles.
The new company will be re-named Northern Lights Alternative Advisors (NLAA) and will provide expanded distribution and strategic capabilities for Northern Lights in the UK and Europe. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Buick was founded
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