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Pan-European private equity real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners has appointed Nik Haigh as a Director of Client Relations, where he will be specifically responsible for expanding the firm’s relationships with investors in the US and Canadian markets.
Haigh re-joins Tristan, having previously served with the Asset Management team of Tristan’s predecessor, Curzon Global Partners, from 2004 to 2009. Over the past three years Haigh led the European division for a major international not-for-profit, spearheading institutional and individual fundraising where he developed effective relationships with corporate, government, foundation, and high net worth partners. Haigh will be an integral part
Private equity firm HIG Capital has appointed Carl Harring as a Managing Director in its London office.
Harring joins HIG from HgCapital, where he led a number of small and medium-sized European LBOs. Before that, he spent nine years at Apax Partners in London, where he invested in a number of highly successful transactions across Europe.
Harring says: “I am very excited to join HIG The firm is a leader in its field and has a unique business model focused on providing deep operational and strategic resources, and a very flexible capital base which enables it to invest both
President Obama on 5 April, 2012 signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), which seeks to eliminate certain restrictions on capital formation and to encourage economic growth in the United States by “improving access to the public capital markets for emerging growth companies,” a new category of issuers created by the Act.
As law firm Dechert points out, the JOBS Act also includes provisions that significantly ease the restrictions on general solicitation and general advertising for all issuers making private offerings of securities in accordance with Rule 506 of Regulation D and Rule 144A under the
BaltCap, a leading venture investor in the Baltics, has signed a EUR1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an ultra-fast database management system with built-in Internet-style search functionality.
The company is an enterprise software start-up created by Latvian programmers and backed by seed investors from the UK and the Baltics.
Clusterpoint has built a highly scalable database platform designed for cloud computing infrastructure. Clusterpoint’s database software provides superior performance on modest hardware so that it delivers greater energy-efficiency in data centres. The company has paying customers and revenue and will use BaltCap’s investment to expand internationally, including hiring senior management in
Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) has been awarded approximately USD1.3 billion in commitments for Morgan Stanley Private Markets Fund V (PMF V) and certain other separate accounts.
AIP’s strategy is to combine primary funds, co-investments and secondaries in one globally diversified portfolio of private equity investments. The capital raise, which includes USD720 million for PMF V and USD580 million for related separate accounts, exceeded AIP’s initial USD1.25 billion target.
"We are very gratified by the success of our business development efforts in this challenging fund raising environment," says Jacques Chappuis (pictured), Head of AIP. “We believe that our deep
Beanstalk, the boutique corporate finance advisor, has helped building energy efficiency software company Sefaira secure the largest series A funding round in the cleantech sector in the UK for over two years, with funding of USD10.8m.
The international series A funding round was led by New York-based venture capital fund Braemar Energy Ventures, in partnership with Netherlands-based Chrysalix SET and London-based Hermes GPE.
Founded in 2009, Sefaira has developed a unique whole building physics-based approach to managing sustainable building design. Sefaira enables architects, engineers and building owners to rapidly optimise the energy and environmental aspects of building design,
Private equity firm Advent International has appointed two new Independent Regional Advisors in Norway, Birger Nergaard and Gunnar Rydning.
Nergaard and Rydning join Simon Lindfors, who has been an Independent Regional Advisor to Advent in Sweden since 2010, and will work closely with Jens Petter Hagen, who coordinates Advent’s activity in the Nordic region.
Nergaard established Verdane Capital, formerly Four Seasons Venture, in 1985, and was joined by Rydning in 1986. Together, they built Verdane Capital into one of the largest venture capital companies in the Nordic Region. Both Birger and Gunnar have over 25 years experience of investing
Metric Capital Partners (MCP) has completed an investment in LM Funerals (LMF), a leading UK provider of funeral services, in conjunction with Duke Street and Babson Capital Europe. MCP has provided financing across several tranches of capital to fund the acquisition of LMF from Sovereign Capital, and will also be a significant shareholder in the business.
Headquartered in Wolverhampton, LM Funerals is the number 3 player in the UK market and has more than 60 branches concentrated in the Midlands and the South East. The company has grown by both acquisition and organic rollout since its inception. Typically each acquired
Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity has acquired Access Cash General Partnership, a Canadian independent service organisation that manages the country’s second largest network of automated teller machines (ATMs).
Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity partnered with the current management team who will remain in place and will hold a significant minority stake in the Company.
Access Cash, with offices throughout Canada, manages a network of more than 6,000 ATMs in grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants, bars, hotels and other merchant locations. The Company is a market leader in the operation of private label (non-bank branded) ATMs and a pioneer in the
Private investment firm HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of Trinity, the correctional services business of Compass Group PLC (LSE: CPG).
Trinity, which operates under the brand names Trinity Services Group and Canteen Corrections, is one of the three largest providers of outsourced food service and commissary services to the corrections industry. Going forward, the business will operate exclusively under the name “Trinity Services Group.” Compass Group will retain a meaningful ownership stake in Trinity.
Based in Tampa, Florida, and with revenues in excess of USD300 million, Trinity provides outsourced food and commissary services to more than 200,000 inmates at
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