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European growth private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners has elected Jean Bonnavion and Ricardo Caupers to the partnership.
Bonnavion (pictured), a French national, joined Palamon in 2005 and has been involved in a broad number of investments across Europe since joining. Last year he played a key role in the debt refinancing and equity fund raising of portfolio company Towry, a UK wealth advisory company to prepare the company for its next growth phase.
Prior to joining Palamon he spent eight years at Bain & Company working in Paris and London and prior to that he worked for the French
Enterprise cloud management company Intigua has secured USD8.6m in series A financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) with participation from seed investors Cedar Fund and individual investors.
Intigua aims to solve a major challenge faced by IT when transitioning critical applications to cloud infrastructures: how to extend deeply-embedded and critical monitoring, management and security technology never intended for the massive scale and dynamic nature of today’s private, public and hybrid clouds.
Intigua virtualises the management layer, transforming management applications into on-demand data centre services that are more scalable and agile. This also enables IT to use their existing management
Avolon, the international aircraft leasing business, is to partner with Wells Fargo, a diversified financial services company, to form a new joint venture aircraft leasing business called Avolon Capital Partners (ACP).
The formation of ACP is subject to a number of regulatory approvals.
Since its inception in 2010, Avolon has raised a total of USD3.7bn of debt capital from a wide range of financial institutions, including Wells Fargo, which has been a significant lender to Avolon since January 2011.
Krusen Capital Management has formed a partnership with Meeschaert Group to provide clients with alternatives advisory services, manager and strategy due diligence, and access to a platform of alternative investment solutions.
Krusen will be responsible for identifying actionable opportunities, analysing traditional and alternative solutions, conducting due diligence on best in class managers, and monitoring and advising on investments through their lifecycles.
Charles Krusen, chief executive, believes that hedged strategies are creating a paradigm shift in traditional portfolio management, reducing the volatility associated with long only portfolios. Alternative strategies provide both measurable risk-adjusted return and non-correlated sources of return that
Jorge Fergie is joining KKR as managing director to head its São Paulo, Brazil office and business development in Brazil, effective 1 March 2013.
Fergie (pictured) will work with KKR’s global investment teams and KKR Capstone, operational improvement experts who work exclusively with KKR’s portfolio companies, to lead KKR’s investment activity in Brazil.
Henry Kravis and George Roberts, co-founders and co-chief executive officers of KKR, say: “As one of the world’s largest economies, Brazil is an important area of growth for KKR. Jorge Fergie is a great leader for our business and we’re confident he will further enable us to
The Frankel Commercialisation Fund, in collaboration with The Samuel Zell & Robert H Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, has invested in Fusion Coolant Systems, a developer of an advanced coolant and lubrication system that makes manufacturing more efficient.
The Frankel Fund’s USD80,000 investment was part of a USD600,000 series A round that also included the Amherst Fund, Spark’s Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund and previous investors.
Part of a trifecta of student-led venture funds at the University of Michigan, the Frankel Fund is a pre-seed investment fund established to identify and
ORIX Private Equity has invested in R2integrated (r2i), a digital and social marketing agency.
This investment will accelerate r2i’s growth and allow r2i to pursue acquisitions in the digital and social marketing industry within key US and international geographies.
Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, r2i is a digital agency that offers web content management, digital marketing, and social media expertise to a variety of clients from Fortune 500 companies to non-profit organisations.
The current r2i management team, including Matt Goddard, chief executive officer, Dave Taub, chief creative officer, and Chris Chodnicki, chief technology officer, will continue to lead the company, which
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm specialising in direct credit and control equity investing in middle market and distressed companies, has named Jordan Allen as principal and chief operating officer.
Allen will oversee business operations at VPC.
“As our business continues to experience growth, so do the needs of our infrastructure and the scope and responsibilities of our management team,” says Richard Levy, managing partner. “Jordan will add an additional layer of depth by building upon the already strong foundation we have in place for our daily operations and identifying further efficiencies to support our growth.”
Before joining
Pan-European real estate investment manager AEW Europe has expanded its private equity platform with the appointment of Simon Blaxland as executive director.
AEW Europe is increasingly seeing opportunities arising from the current weakness in both the financial and real estate markets across Europe and has recently expanded its investment team to 40 dedicated professionals.
Blaxland’s appointment follows on from a number of senior hires within the firm’s private equity real estate business. Over the last 12 months, Carsten Czarnetzki, Simon Barrett, and Carolina Clemente have also joined the firm as directors within the portfolio management team.
Blaxland formerly held positions
Phoenix Fund Services’ UK funds business has grown more than 60 per cent in 2012 and now administers total funds under management of GBP850m.
Anthony Wolfe, business development director, says: “Phoenix is delighted that its UK funds business has grown so strongly in the past year in a harsh investment environment. This growth has been based upon our support of specialist fund managers who have a clear investment proposition and, despite unhelpful markets, have a strong investment track record. Phoenix looks forward to 2013 which offers the prospect of continued growth in supporting its clients’ success.”
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