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Wynnchurch Capital has formed an executive advisory board, comprised of seasoned executives with expertise in industries and geographies targeted by the private equity firm.
John Hatherly (pictured), founding partner of Wynnchurch, says: "The intent of the executive advisory board is to assist Wynnchurch and our portfolio companies in better understanding targeted industries and markets, and developing applicable growth strategies. Additionally, some of the executives joining the Executive Advisory Board will serve on boards of directors of certain portfolio companies, bringing thought leadership, independent perspectives and support for our CEOs."
Jim Goodwin, former chairman and chief executive of UAL
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has added Pennsylvania-based TerraSim to its Bohemia Interactive Simulations sro platform.
Bohemia develops and provides games for training technology and interactive simulation systems for defence, emergency and mission-critical customers.
TerraSim delivers to Bohemia its capabilities in automated terrain generation software, which is a highly specialised niche.
“TerraSim builds the world’s best terrain generation software,” says Riverside partner Martin Scott, who leads Riverside’s software and IT specialisation in Europe. “This acquisition accelerates Bohemia’s technical capabilities and should open new opportunities for the company.”
Bohemia plans to retain operations at TerraSim’s Pittsburgh
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners’ BioDiscovery 4 – its fourth fund dedicated to life sciences – has made its first investment through its participation in the series A financing round of Allecra Therapeutics, which it co-leads with Forbion Capital Partners.
EMBL Ventures is also part of the syndicate.
Allecra was formed in 2013 in France and Germany as a strategic partnership between Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited (Chennai, India), the founders – including Allecra’s CEO Nicholas Benedict – and the two lead investors. This Series A financing of EUR15m will support early clinical development of two new antibiotic
Healthcare venture capital firm Aberdare Ventures has appointed Mohit (Mo) Kaushal as a partner.
Kaushal (pictured) is a leading authority on information-enabled care delivery and will focus on Aberdare’s investments in technologies and services that will drive healthcare efficiency.
“Mo has lived at the intersection of medicine, technology, communications, and policy for years,” says Paul Klingenstein, founder of Aberdare Ventures. “He’ll make an enormous contribution to our efforts in transformational health investing. The timing is superb for all of us.”
An MD and MBA by training, Kaushal was most recently the inaugural chief strategy officer and executive vice president
BDA, along with its co-adviser in France, Easton Corporate Finance, has advised Aixam Mega’s shareholders, including the majority shareholder AXA Private Equity, on the divestment of Aixam Mega Group to Polaris Industries of the US, a manufacturer of snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.
Despite a challenging economic environment in Europe, BDA and Easton mobilised their international teams to identify, access and motivate potential industrial buyers and thus offered Aixam’s shareholders a choice between several offers coming notably from North America and Asia.
For more than 25 years, Aixam Mega Group has been the European leader in the light quadricycle
Sovereign Capital, the UK private equity buy and build specialist, has promoted Matthew Owen to partner. He will work alongside managing partner Andrew Hayden and fellow partners Dominic Dalli, David Myers, Michael Needley and Kevin Whittle.
Owen (pictured) joined Sovereign’s research and origination team in 2004 and is primarily focused on the business services sector. He has been a member of Sovereign’s investment committee since June 2011 and holds board positions at a number of portfolio companies.
Businesses identified by Owen include platform investment The IMS Group, a leading regulatory compliance consultancy firm, and the three bolt-on acquisitions IMS made
Graham Stock (pictured), chief strategist at Insparo Asset Management comments on China-Africa relations ahead of the China-Africa Business Summit…
“China is a source of valuable inward investment for Africa and will remain a long-term source of demand for African exports. The focus to date has been on oil and base and precious metals, with Chinese diplomatic and commercial activity particularly evident in Angola, Sudan, Nigeria, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zimbabwe. We expect to see increased interest in the agricultural sector too, through demand for grain exports from southern Africa, long-term leases of undeveloped arable land across the
The number of mergers and acquisitions deals that leak has declined dramatically over the last two years, as the risks from leaking rise and regulatory pressures increase, according to research from IntraLinks.
The research study, conducted with the M&A Research Centre at Cass Business School, London and Remark, examined more than 4,000 transactions from 2004 through 2012 and interviewed 30 M&A practitioners in Europe and the US. It found that leaked deals take longer to execute and are significantly less likely to close.
The research interviews also showed that most deal leaks are deliberate, with leaking by sellers
HgCapital has held the final closing of its latest private equity fund, HgCapital 7.
The GBP2bn fund will provide broad coverage of the Northern European mid-market through its four sector teams, dedicated portfolio management group, and investment offices in London and Munich.
Prior to the launch, HgCapital set the hard cap at GBP2bn in accordance with its investment strategy, diversification targets and capacity to invest and manage its portfolio to achieve optimised returns for investors. HgCapital maintained this hard cap despite the fund being significantly over-subscribed.
HgCapital 7 is supported by a number of the industry’s most
Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, has completed the sale of portfolio company TrustHouse Services Group to Elior SCA, a provider of contract and concessions catering headquartered in Paris, France.
Elior partnered with its two main shareholders and TrustHouse’s existing management for the acquisition.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
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