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S&P Capital IQ has completed an initiative to expand its fundamental dataset to include over 3,000,000 privately-held businesses with over 500,000 of those with detailed financials in Southern Europe, the Nordics, Germany, Austria, France, the UK and the US.
Following a thorough process of quality checks, similar to those in place for internally collected financials, the data is now available to investors, risk managers and researchers through the firm’s S&P Capital IQ desktop as well as its datafeed management solution, Xpressfeed.
Furthermore, S&P Capital IQ’s proprietary “Click-Through” functionality was introduced for private entities to allow for an extra
Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ) has expanded its London office with the addition of partners Peter JM Declercq and Sonya Van de Graaff to the business reorganisation practice.
Declercq and Van de Graaff (pictured) are joining the firm from Brown Rudnick.
Adam Harris, head of the SRZ business reorganisation practice, says: “Two years ago, we began a distressed debt & claims trading practice in London as it became clear to us that our clients were increasingly dedicating personnel and other resources to UK and European restructuring opportunities. That practice has blossomed, and the addition of Peter and Sonya
HIG Capital managing director Fraser Preston (pictured) and principal Brian McMullen have relocated from the firm’s Miami office to San Francisco in order to create a West Coast presence for the HIG Middle Market fund, targeting transactions with enterprise values from USD200m to USD1bn.
They will focus on making investments in leading middle market businesses located throughout North America with a particular emphasis on companies in the Western US.
HIG Middle Market invests in a wide range of industries with a focus on certain verticals in market sectors where HIG has extensive experience including technology, media and telecom,
Brazos Private Equity Partners, a Dallas-based private investment firm, has invested in European Wax Center (EWC), a provider of facial and body wax treatment services through its network of franchise stores.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Existing management, led by co-founders David and Josh Coba, who serve as chief executive and chief operating officer, respectively, will continue to run the company and will retain a significant equity stake in the business. Princeton Ventures, a private investment firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, invested alongside Brazos in this transaction.
Based in Hallandale, Florida, EWC
The Sterling Group, a middle market private equity firm based in Houston, Texas, has hired Jim Apple as a senior vice president, business development effective immediately.
Apple (pictured) has worked with Sterling closely for many years in his role in sponsor coverage at both Morgan Keegan and Raymond James.
In his new role at Sterling, Apple will lead the firm’s deal sourcing efforts with an immediate focus on family businesses and corporate carve-outs in the sectors of basic manufacturing, distribution and industrial service. He has over 20 years of experience working with industrial businesses in North America.
ACAS CLO 2013-1, an affiliate of American Capital, has closed on the sale of USD414m of collateralised loan obligation bonds. The transaction was arranged by Deutsche Bank Securities.
The CLO is externally managed by American Capital Leveraged Finance Management, a subsidiary of American Capital Asset Management, a wholly-owned portfolio company of American Capital, for an annual management fee of 50 basis points of total assets.
The CLO has primarily invested the proceeds of the bonds in broadly syndicated senior secured loans purchased in the primary and secondary markets.
"We are pleased that we materially improved pricing on the financing
The Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF) has formed an advisory board comprised of venture capitalists on the West Coast and select limited partners.
Enrique Godreau III is co-founder and managing director of GSharp Ventures and venture partner with 9Mile Labs. He was formerly co-founder and managing director of Voyager Capital, a Seattle-based venture capital firm.
Beth Horowitz is board member of HSBC Bank Canada and former CEO of Amex Bank of Canada. She is also member of Catalyst Canada Advisory Board and former member of Amex’s Global Diversity Council.
Michelle Lantow is chief administrative officer for New
GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing on middle market industrial business-to-business companies, has acquired Horsburgh & Scott (H&S) for an undisclosed amount.
Horsburgh & Scott is a custom gearing manufacturer for the global marketplace. H&S manufactures, repairs, and services highly-engineered, customer specific industrial gears and gear drives for more than 400 customers throughout the world. It is one of a few companies that is both capable of, and specialising in, the manufacturing of medium and large diameter gears (up to 25 ft. in diameter) for a variety of end markets including steel, mining, wind, rail, and sugar.
Evolution Capital Partners, a Cleveland based small business private equity firm, has adopted Navatar Private Equity CRM to manage its opportunity pipeline and deploy funds most effectively.
Evolution Capital Partners invests growth capital nationwide in second stage companies, providing the necessary resources to successfully navigate the critical transition through No Man’s Land.
"Our approach to investing involves a deliberate and defined process," says Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner, Evolution Capital Partners. "The Navatar platform allows us to efficiently manage this process which supports our core values and ultimately allows us to better serve our investors and growth
Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in the financial services sector, and Genstar Capital, a middle market private equity firm based in San Francisco, are to acquire Genworth Wealth Management from Genworth Financial for USD412.5m.
The sale by Genworth includes both of Genworth Wealth Management’s businesses: Genworth Financial Wealth Management (GFWM), an investment management and consulting platform, and Altegris, a provider of premier alternative investments.
GFWM primarily provides a growing universe of independent financial advisors with comprehensive support across every phase of their practice, helping them to meet clients’ wealth management and investment needs.
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