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Private investment firm HarbourVest Partners has appointed Olav König as a managing director and head of sales and client service for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
In this role König, a German national and a lawyer by background, will expand and enhance HarbourVest’s relationships with investors and their advisers in the EMEA geographic region.
“We are very pleased to have Olav join our team,” says George Anson, managing director at HarbourVest. “He brings extensive experience of working with clients in private markets, and as investors work to navigate the post-AIFMD environment, that experience will be particularly valuable.”
HIG Capital’s Brazilian affiliate has acquired a majority stake in Eletromidia, one of the largest players in the out-of-home advertising industry.
The two founders will retain a significant ownership and will continue in their positions of leading the company.
Founded in 1993, Eletromidia reaches over six million people daily with advertising solutions. The company manages urban furniture, digital outdoor displays and indoor networks across 18 cities.
“HIG’s investment will enable Eletromidia to participate in larger projects and fuel our organic expansion plans. Through this partnership, we are confident that we will improve the reach and depth of
CrowdStrike, a provider of security technologies and services focused on identifying advanced threats and targeted attacks, has raised USD30m in series B financing.
The round was led by Accel Partners and included founding investor Warburg Pincus.
Sameer Gandhi, partner at Accel Partners, will join the board of directors.
CrowdStrike will use the financing to further drive innovation in big data analytics and security intelligence and support an aggressive go-to-market strategy in the next-generation threat protection space.
"The completion of our funding is perfectly timed to meet growing demand for targeted attack detection, prevention, and monitoring," says
AXA Private Equity has appointed Juan Angoitia as managing director in the infrastructure team based in the Paris office.
AXA Private Equity’s infrastructure team has USD4bn of assets under management.
Angoitia has 15 years’ experience within the infrastructure industry. Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he spent five years at Citi Infrastructure Investors (CII) as investment principal based in London. At CII, Angoitia managed the firm’s investments in Kelda, a holding company of Yorkshire Water in the UK, and in Itinere Infraestructuras in Spain.
The appointment follows a number of key developments for AXA Private Equity in
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group is to acquire the Red Oak power generation facility in Sayreville, New Jersey, and has separately closed on the purchase of five power plants in California.
The acquisitions, which were executed in conjunction with Carlyle’s power affiliate Cogentrix, bring the total enterprise value of power asset transactions since Carlyle funds acquired Cogentrix in late 2012 to more than USD1.2bn.
Robert Mancini, Carlyle managing director and chairman of the board of Cogentrix, says: “Since Carlyle funds acquired Cogentrix, our power team has committed approximately USD600m of equity capital. The North American power generation
The Angel CoFund, a fund that invests in high-growth SMEs alongside UK angel groups, has realised its first investment through the sale of Nonlinear Dynamics, a Newcastle-based developer of software for analysing proteins, to Waters Inc.
Waters is one of largest companies in the analytical instruments industry, listed on the New York Stock Exchange and with a market cap of USD8.85bn.
Nonlinear Dynamics was the Angel CoFund’s seventh investment, completing on 19 July 2012 and participating alongside a group of experienced angels investors from Yorkshire and the North East, with additional debt provided by FW Capital and support for
Vermilion Software has expanded its operations to the Far East with a new office at 8 Marina View, Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore.
This expansion of operations will be led by Simon Cornwell (pictured), co-founder and global sales and marketing director, who has relocated to Singapore to ensure continuity of Vermilion’s client services and support in the Far East.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and having recently opened a larger office in North America, Vermilion’s newest expansion is to support the growing number of Vermilion clients and explore opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. Difficult market conditions
TyresOnTheDrive.com, the online mobile tyre-fitting service, has secured a further GBP1.5m investment, led by MMC Ventures and supported by EV Group, to support its nationwide expansion.
This latest round of funding brings the total investment, including funding from the founders, to over GBP2.6m.
Tyres on the Drive, which currently covers the North West and the West Midlands, is pushing ahead with plans to expand its operations into Yorkshire and across the South and London as quickly as possible. As a result of its rapid growth, the investment will be used to double its current fleet of specially designed
Carey Olsen has acted for private equity fund Better Capital PCC Limited on the raising of GBP185.6m through a placing and open offer to new and existing shareholders.
Net proceeds of GBP182.0m were deployed into Better Capital’s Fund II to invest in a portfolio of distressed businesses.
The fundraising follows Better Capital PCC Limited’s conversion into a protected cell company and the launch of Fund II last year.
Working with DLA Piper as lead counsel, the Carey Olsen team advising Better Capital on the fundraising was led by corporate partner Tom Carey and included senior associate Tony
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