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Nova Capital Management has appointed Richard Lobo as an investment partner in the firm’s North American team.
Nova opened its North American headquarters in Chicago in January this year. This appointment follows Nova’s recent announcement of its acquisition of five home improvement and hardware brands from Newell Rubbermaid in the US.
Lobo (pictured) has spent the last 20 years with CHS Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm investing in mid-market companies in the US. As a partner and member of CHS’ investment committee, Lobo has been directly involved in dozens of transactions and brings a wealth of private
Summit Partners, a growth equity investor, has appointed two senior healthcare investment professionals: Darren Black, managing director in Summit’s Boston office, and Thomas Tarnowski, principal in Summit’s London office.
Since 1984, Summit has invested in more than 70 companies across the healthcare and life sciences industry.
“We’re delighted to welcome Darren and Thomas to our experienced team,” says Marty Mannion, a managing director in Summit’s Boston office. “Their deep knowledge and sector expertise will help Summit build on its nearly 30-year history of investing in the healthcare sector. We’re very much looking forward to working with them.”
LBO France has appointed Etienne Colas as managing director within the operating team.
The operating team was put in place by LBO France to help support its underlying portfolio companies and to generate value creation. The team’s mission is to structure the value creation process by working with the portfolio company’s management.
Composed of three members, the operating team reports directly to LBO France’s executive board. Colas joins Guy Latourrette, former chief executive of La Redoute and Devanlay-Lacoste, and Gilles Taldu, partner and member of LBO France’s executive board and former manager of Thomson and Capgemini.
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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
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