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American Capital has expanded its investment management activities into the energy infrastructure sector with the formation of American Capital Infrastructure.
American Capital Infrastructure will be led by Paul Hanrahan, chief executive.
American Capital Infrastructure plans to manage investments in global energy infrastructure assets, including power generation facilities, power distribution and transmission networks, energy transportation assets and fuel production opportunities.
Joining Hanrahan are Rich Santoroski, managing director, and Rajeev Garside, vice president.
The creation of American Capital Infrastructure will expand American Capital’s energy investing efforts globally. To date, American Capital has invested USD606m in domestic mid-market oil field services and related
TowerBrook Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in Vistage International, the world’s largest for-profit peer-advisory membership organisation of chief executives and business executives.
With more than 16,000 members in 15 countries, Vistage delivers leadership development and business value to CEOs and key executives in the US and around the world through a professionally-facilitated peer-advisory process, one-on-one coaching and mentoring, content from experts, and connectivity forums.
Vistage was founded in 1957 as TEC (The Executive Committee), a forum for business leaders to share their issues and experiences to help each other generate better decisions and results for their companies. Today,
European private equity firm Cinven has completed its acquisition of Amdipharm, the family-owned international niche pharmaceuticals business, for a total consideration of GBP367m.
This deal follows Cinven’s acquisition of Mercury Pharma, an international specialty pharmaceuticals company, in August 2012.
Amdipharm will be merged, over time, with Mercury Pharma. The combined group has an enterprise value in excess of GBP830m, with revenues approaching GBP250m and a portfolio of more than 200 drugs.
Cinven originated these investments through its healthcare sector focus. Its strategy is to grow a global niche pharmaceuticals business, both organically and through further acquisition opportunities, including
Lumi, a provider of nutritional beauty products in China, has raised USD20m (RMB120m) in a series B funding led by private equity firm ClearVue Partners.
Fidelity, JAFCO and Capvent also participated in the round, along with existing shareholder, DCM. William Chen, managing partner of ClearVue, is also joining Lumi’s board of directors.
The new funds will support branding and product and channel development, and will help enhance Lumi’s customer service and strengthen its position as the leader in the nutritional beauty industry.
“An increasing number of female consumers are learning that nutritional beauty products are actually more natural and beneficial
Ecorse Investments, a company indirectly owned by funds managed by private equity fund Advent International, has closed its tender offer for the sale of EKO Holding Group shares, reaching a total subscription level of 97.98 per cent.
According to the schedule provided in the tender offer document for the sale of EKO Holding shares, the subscription period closed on 29 October 2012.
Through the tender offer, the shareholders subscribed to sell the total number of 47,632,553 shares, which is equal to a 97.98 per cent stake in the company.
The sales of 62.14 per cent of the shares have already
Pentaho has raised USD23m in a C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from additional existing investors Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and DAG Ventures.
Pentaho will use the funds to expand its development, engineering, services, sales and marketing efforts needed to support its continued growth and leadership in big data analytics.
"Pentaho Business Analytics, with its tightly-coupled data integration, business analytics and big data capabilities in one easy-to-use and cost-effective platform, has become the go-to solution for companies embarking on big data programmes," says Quentin Gallivan (pictured), chairman and chief executive at Pentaho. "Pentaho has a
The Association of Investment Companies is calling on the FSA to withdraw its proposals to restrict the distribution of some investment companies.
The proposals are set out in its consultation CP12/19 “Restrictions on the retail distribution of unregulated collective investment schemes and close substitutes”.
The proposals would prevent advisers from making recommendations to ordinary retail investors on VCTs and certain non-UK domiciled investment company shares (including companies with private equity, property and other portfolios of alternative assets). This could significantly restrict the ability of consumers to gain exposure to these asset classes, even though they could help meet their saving
Trading on Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), C2 Options Exchange (C2) and CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) will resume on Wednesday, 31 October.
The exchanges were closed on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
Steven O’Hanlon, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income at ACPI on the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to hold Indian interest rates and cut bank reserve ratios…
The RBI has continued to focus on inflation as its dominant concern while formulating its monetary policy – evidenced by the decision to keep the repo rate unchanged whilst lowering projected GDP growth. The move also underscores the current dichotomy in the growth/inflation dynamics facing the government and the RBI.
Whilst the tone of the RBI in the macroeconomic review and today’s policy document indicates some level of frustration in its inability to
Satuit Technologies, a provider of client management software for professional investment and wealth management firms, has released a new version of SatuitCRM Platform, adding client report management and secure distribution modules to the core functions.
The new platform provides SatuitCRM clients with the ability to create, organise, customise, collate and distribute their monthly, quarterly and annual client reporting packages using the familiar interface of SatuitCRM.
The SatuitCRM packaging module makes short work of creating individually tailored client financial report packages, saving hundreds of hours for each client, by organising documents from a variety of sources, including the large PDF files
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