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glendonTodd Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm, has closed its previously announced merger of Aztec Systems and Toutatis Client Services do Brasil, including foreign affiliated operating entities.
Both Aztec and Toutatis are glendonTodd portfolio companies.
This merger creates a multinational business process and information technology outsourcing firm with more than 1,000 clients in 13 countries and territories throughout the Americas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The new combined company, Toutatis Aztec Solutions (TAS), is based in Dallas and offers services including human resources outsourcing, finance and accounting outsourcing, procurement outsourcing, information technology outsourcing, and data
Private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners has completed fundraising for Arsenal Capital Fund III with USD875m of committed capital, exceeding its target of USD750m.
The firm’s previous fund, Arsenal Capital Partners II, was raised in 2006 with USD500m of committed capital. Arsenal now has over USD1.6bn of committed capital under management.
Terrence Mullen (pictured), co-founder and partner at Arsenal, says: "We are delighted to have surpassed our expectations for Fund III and achieved a 75 per cent increase in committed capital from our last fund. We sincerely thank all our investors for their tremendous support. We are
CapVest Equity Partners II and Lantmännen ek have created the leading Nordic poultry producer through the simultaneous acquisition of Kronfågel Group in Sweden and Denmark from Lantmännen, and Cardinal Foods in Norway from CapMan.
The new company will have a turnover of more than SEK5bn, while the ownership structure positions the business for further development in international markets, as well as opportunities for product development and innovation.
The new company will consist of Kronfågel, SweHatch and Skånefågel in Sweden, Danpo in Denmark and Cardinal Foods in Norway. It will be led by a team of executives drawn from both
Anchorage Capital Partners, the Sydney based private equity firm focusing on special situations and turnaround investment in the Australian, New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets, has held the first and final closing of Anchorage Capital Partners II at AUD250m.
Significant interest from both existing and new investors meant that the fund was oversubscribed and capped at AUD250m.
Anchorage maintained the strong local market support evidenced in prior fundraising efforts, with over 50 per cent of fund commitments sourced from Australian institutions. Offshore limited partners, comprising a select group of institutional investors from Asia, Europe and the US, provided the
Private Credit Strategies have recently attracted the attention of the LPs’ and more broadly the investor community. The main reason is performance: investors are looking at ways to enhance their returns on traditional credit and fixed income portfolios which have displayed meagre returns over the last couple of years due to a very low interest rate environment in most of the Western World, says Elvire Perrin (pictured), Partner at Altius Associates…
The market dislocation created by the increasing regulatory pressure on banks has created a space for non-traditional debt providers as well as opportunities on the distressed credit sales. Indeed,
Investment Management Group (IMG), a Moscow-based private equity real estate fund manager, has concluded bank financing for its two investee retail projects for the total amount of USD246.7m.
A long-term financing agreement for USD218m has been signed with the Russian Sberbank to finance the construction of Zelenopark project, a retail centre of approximately 100,000 square meters GLA, developed in partnership with PGP Development in Zelenograd, Moscow region.
The project’s size, favourable location next to the existing and new Moscow-St. Petersburg highways, and tenant composition will make it a destination for shoppers.
IMG invested in the project through
Private equity firm North Castle Partners has completed the sale of Caleel + Hayden Holdings, dba gloProfessional.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
gloProfessional is a developer and marketer of mineral-based cosmetics under the glominerals brand and premium skin care under the glotherapeutics brand. glo serves over 5,000 dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons, aestheticians, spas and salons both domestically and internationally, as well as select specialty retailers. In addition, the company recently launched to the same customer base a line of hair care products under the gloessentials brand name.
gloProfessional reaches its customers through a proprietary
Vulcan Capital, the Seattle-based investment management firm that oversees philanthropist Paul G Allen’s multi-billion dollar portfolio, has named Abhishek Agrawal as managing director and head of its new Palo Alto office.
Agrawal (pictured) will direct Vulcan’s presence in Silicon Valley and focus on expanding the firm’s investments in the internet and technology sectors.
Agrawal joins Vulcan Capital from General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm with USD17bn in capital under management, where he has worked since 2005. He has been closely involved in General Atlantic’s investments in the internet and technology sector, including AKQA, Alibaba Group, Bazaarvoice, Dice
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
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