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German Equity Partners III (GEP III), the private equity fund managed by ECM Equity Capital Management, is selling its majority shareholding in KADI, a Swiss producer of frozen food, to the Munich-based private equity company Paragon Partners.
GEP III acquired a majority interest in KADI in July 2008 in the context of an ownership succession. The management team will maintain a significant equity interest in the company and is reinvesting as part of this transaction.
Together with Paragon Partners KADI intends to continue its growth strategy. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price or other
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has made two new hires as it bolsters its infrastructure debt team to meet the burgeoning pipeline of deals.
Nicolas Lucas joins the growing infrastructure debt team at AllianzGI in a newly created role expanding their execution capacity. He will report into Adrian Jones, director of infrastructure debt.
Lucas has over seven years of experience within infrastructure and more than nine years of experience in the financial services industry. He joins AllianzGI from The Royal Bank of Scotland where he was vice president in infrastructure, power & utilities. Prior to this he held analyst and
SiteWit Corporation, which automates search engine marketing and website engagements for small businesses, has raised over USD1.5m in new equity capital from investors including Stage 1 Investors.
SiteWit provides small to medium sized businesses with tools that enable them to efficiently market their websites on Google AdWords, Bing Ads and Yahoo, which results in higher conversion ratios of website visitors to customers and sales growth. SiteWit markets its tools exclusively through a cadre of large hosting and software as a service partners who focus website building software and also partners who create marketplaces for the SMB market.
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European private equity performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons for the period ending 31 December 2012 and moved in a positive trajectory in all but the three-year time horizon, compared to June 2012.
According to the Private Equity Performance Index, one year returns, which are most affected by the current market environment, moved in a positive direction registering a 4.23 percentage point increase from June 2012 for venture capital funds (11.12 per cent), and an 11.6 percentage point increase for buyout funds (16.1 per cent).
Buyout funds saw returns across all investment horizons hold positive. In
Law firm CMS has appointed Matthias Lichtblau as executive director, effective 1 December 2013.
Currently director of business development and communications at CMS Germany, Lichtblau will take over from Matthew Gorman who has held the position since 2007.
In his new role, Lichtblau will work closely with CMS executive chairman Cornelius Brandi and will lead the CMS team based in Frankfurt.
Lichtblau, who is 45, has held his current role since 2007. Previously, he spent seven years at Clifford Chance, starting as a business development manager. Having moved into the European regional management team, he was
Asset managers and investment specialists taking part in a Camradata roundtable believe that environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis will be fully integrated into investment management by the end of the current decade.
While there were differences of opinion on what the mainstream would look like, there was broad acknowledgement that, currently, not enough time was given to ESG evaluation with many themes of sustainability taking decades to become meaningful.
Roundtable participants suggested that ESG metrics should not only be used for risk analysis but also be deployed to better identify investment opportunities. No longer should responsible investors
Fusion AI Partners has appointed Keith Fenwick as chairman of its advisory board effective 1 June 2013.
Fenwick (pictured) brings over 35 years of experience in the insurance sector including various senior positions within both Marsh and JLT.
"We are delighted to welcome Keith at this time as Fusion AI continues its successful growth strategy across the financial services spectrum. Keith will bring deep industry experience and a senior network to the operating companies within the partnership,” says Laurence Shaw, founding partner, Fusion AI Partners.
"I am thrilled to be joining Fusion AI at this exciting point
Campton Private Equity Advisors, a private equity fund of funds adviser, has appointed James H Grossman as a senior adviser to the firm.
Grossman (pictured) brings significant experience to the Campton team as a venture capital and private equity principal and attorney, a board member of private and public companies and an international arbitrator with experience in commercial and intellectual property matters.
Grossman is a member of the board of directors of several public companies, including UK-based Unicorn Venture Capital Trust. He was the head of the corporate law department at Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, a Los
Derbyshire-headquartered Forest Holidays, specialists in exclusive rural holiday accommodation, has opened its eighth site location in the UK near Micheldever in Hampshire.
The new site roll-out was completed with support and follow-on funding from private equity provider LDC, which originally invested in Forest Holidays in September 2012, and represents the first new location to be added to the business’ portfolio since LDC’s investment.
Forest Holidays now has 427 cabins set in Forestry Commission estates across the UK, including the Forest of Dean and Sherwood Forest in the Heart of England, Cropton Forest and Keldy in North Yorkshire, Deerpark Forest in Cornwall,
Law firm Dechert’s financial services group has launched a web page that brings together a selection of resources designed to address issues concerning the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Dechert believes that AIFMD represents the most significant EU regulation of the alternative investment funds industry in recent times, which will impact a wide range of asset managers, not just traditional hedge and private equity managers, whether they are based in the EU or outside.
Dechert’s new AIFM resources include the AIFM Matric, which explains marketing, management and implementation for EU and non-EU AIFMs and the AIFMD Marketing
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