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Management consulting firm AT Kearney has expanded its private equity practice with the hiring of three new partners, Mark Anglin, Michael Dart and Todd Hooper, who specialise in consumer goods and retail investments.
They join AT Kearney from Kurt Salmon and collectively bring a full breadth of strategy and transformation capabilities to serve private equity investors and consumer-retail industry clients.
"We're especially pleased Mark, Michael and Todd have chosen to join our private equity team and confident they will continue to drive our rapid growth in the consumer and retail sector," says Robert Haas, partner and head of AT Kearney's
Court Square Capital Partners – along with participation by the existing senior management team – will lead an equity investment that will result in the purchase of a majority interest in Conterra Ultra Broadband Holdings.
The transaction includes the acquisition of stakes owned by the company's current institutional shareholders, including affiliates of Goldman Sachs, Duke Energy and GE Capital.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
This investment will bolster Conterra's expansion of its broadband network operations on a national basis in order to capitalise on the growing demand for high-capacity, carrier-class bandwidth services by the company's customers
LongueVue Capital (LVC), a New Orleans-based private equity firm, has invested USD8m of senior secured debt in Prime Health Services, a national provider of medical cost containment solutions.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, Prime Health is a diversified medical cost containment company that offers a full spectrum of services, including a nationwide Preferred Provider Organisation (PPO) as well as medical cost containment solutions.
Prime Health's cost containment services are tailored to the workers' compensation, auto liability and corrections markets. The company's primary customer base includes insurance companies, third party administrators, and self-insured employers.
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invendo medical, a manufacturer and distributor of a single-use and computer-assisted colonoscopy system, has closed a EUR20.3m financing round led by new investor Xeraya Capital, which invested via an affiliated company.
A German family office also joined as a new investor and existing investors TVM Capital, Wellington Partner, 360° Capital and the founders participated in the financing as well.
The financing will allow invendo to kick-off its industrialisation efforts for the FDA-cleared invendoscopy system.
The invendoscope SC20 has several features that are new to the field of colonoscopy:
— It is the only market-cleared single-use colonoscope
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Private equity firm Excellere Partners has completed investments in Frontline Energy Services and G2 Partners forming an integrity and risk management solutions provider focused on the energy and utility industries.
Frontline, headquartered in Flagstaff, Arizona, offers a host of integrity management services, including programme management, environmental and governmental compliance, field inspection, GPS data collection, cross-bore program implementation, and distribution integrity management program administration.
G2, headquartered in Houston, Texas, specialises in providing integrity and risk management solutions to the energy industry, including pipeline data and records management, pipeline and facilities integrity engineering, GIS and systems engineering, regulatory compliance support, strategic
Retail real estate specialist Simon Property Group has launched Simon Venture Group, a new business that will invest in retail innovation, focusing on opportunities that enhance the shopping experience.
Simon Venture Group will be investing across stages from early-stage to high-growth technology companies, making seed to series C+ investments and focusing on both direct and indirect strategic investment opportunities.
Mikael Thygesen (pictured), chief marketing officer of Simon Property Group, says: "We believe we have only scratched the surface on applying technology to the retail environment in innovative, interesting ways."
Simon Venture Group will be led by J Skyler
Marc Spilker is to step down as president of alternative investment manager Apollo Global Management and as a member of the firm’s executive committee.
Apollo’s executive committee will continue to manage the firm and will rely upon the firm’s management committee of senior executives from the firm’s investment and infrastructure functions to assist in implementing the firm’s growth initiatives and manage day to day operations.
Members of Apollo’s executive committee are Leon Black, chairman and chief executive officer; Josh Harris, senior managing director; and Marc Rowan, senior managing director.
Spilker (pictured) will stay on as a senior advisor
Corporate and finance lawyer Claire McConway has been appointed of counsel within the British Virgin Islands (BVI) practice of multi-jurisdictional offshore law firm Carey Olsen.
In this London-based role, McConway, who has practised corporate law for nine years at international UK and US firms in London, will focus on developing the firm's Russian practice.
She is a specialist in advice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and equity capital markets work.
McConway has particular expertise in corporate and finance transactions involving Russia and the CIS, which often use BVI companies, and has instructed on many
Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), Zernike META Ventures, through the Ingenium Emilia Romagna II Fund, and Atlante Seed are to invest in the growth of CellPly, an Italian start up specialised in molecular diagnostics.
The overall investment will come to over EUR2m and will involve the same business team as well as venture capital funds and numerous business angels that will take part in the operation.
It represents one of the biggest seed capital investments carried out in Italy and seeks to contribute to the completion of the prototyping phase of the diagnostics platform developed by CellPly.
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Private investment firm Inverness Graham Investments has completed its sale of lCCNexergy, a provider of rechargeable power solutions.
The sale of ICCNexergy generated a 5.5x gross cash-on-cash return and a 34 per cent gross IRR for Inverness Graham I.
Under Inverness Graham's ownership, ICCNexergy increased revenue by more than seven times and EBITDA by more than 15 times through both organic and acquisitive growth.
Inverness Graham initially invested in regional battery pack supplier EletriTek-AVT in 2007 and shortly thereafter acquired Nexergy, forming Nexergy Inc. Since then, the company has completed three add-on transactions. The 2010 merger of
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