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Phoenix Services International, a steel mill services provider, has acquired Gagneraud Industrie SAS (GI). GI will now be known as Phoenix Services France.
Headquartered in France, GI began operations in the early 1900s as a subsidiary of the Gagneraud Group, which was founded in 1880, and is the largest provider of steel mill services in France. GI has a longstanding strong reputation for providing critical services to steel mills and for being a leading supplier of slag to the construction and building materials industries.
Doug Lane, President and CEO of Phoenix, says: “The acquisition of Gagneraud Industrie SAS is an
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You have probably heard from your bankers that the NASDAQ exchange is for tech savvy companies like Google and Apple and the NYSE is where the blue chip companies like GE and Caterpillar choose to list. You may think that the NASDAQ market is more of an electronic exchange where dealers place competing bids and offers to help facilitate institutional client trades. You may look at financial television and see scenes from the NYSE
Troika Ventures, the venture arm of Troika Dialog and venture company, has successfully achieved the first exit from its investment portfolio by selling its share in Evernote Corporation to Sequoia Capital.
Troika Ventures was Evernote’s first institutional investor, which has since successfully attracted multiple investment rounds from top tier international and US venture funds, including Docomo Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
“Evernote was one of the first companies that we invested in,” says Artyom Yukhin, the head of Troika Dialog’s venture division. “In addition to financing, we provided expertise and assistance at an early stage to bring the
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co has appointed Ali J Satvat as a Director based in Menlo Park. Satvat joins KKR from Apax Partners where he served as a Principal on the health care investment team and managed new investments and portfolio companies across various health care sub-sectors.
Satvat will join the more than 20 person global health care team that is led by Mike Michelson, Jim Momtazee and Dominic Murphy. The team is responsible for sourcing new opportunities and providing industry knowledge and expertise to KKR’s private equity transactions.
"There continue to be a number of developments that make health
Hogan Lovells has recruited Xavier Doumen as a partner in the firm’s private equity practice in Paris. Doumen joined Hogan Lovells on 1 February 2012 from Willkie Farr & Gallagher where he worked on private equity and strategic M&A transactions.
Doumen joins the Hogan Lovells Global Private Equity practice, which has more than 190 lawyers in 14 countries.
Alan Greenough (pictured), Co-Head of private equity, says: "Xavier is a great addition to our Corporate team and a key element in reinforcing our private equity activity in Paris, working alongside Stéphane Huten.”
Doumen adds: "The global platform at Hogan Lovells presents
Private equity firm HIG Capital has opened an office in Rio de Janeiro and appointed Fernando Marques Oliveira as a Managing Director to lead its Brazil and Latin America team.
Prior to joining HIG, Marques Oliveira was Managing Director and head of the Latin America team at General Atlantic (GA), where he was involved in a number of transactions including Qualicorp and Peixe Urbano. Before GA, Oliveira spent many years at Grupo Icatu, where he led a number of successful investments, including Mabel, Aracruz and Grupo ABC.
Oliveira says: “I am looking forward to joining the HIG team. HIG has
For a second year running, the investments of LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, feature most prominently on the annual Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100.
Published this weekend for a sixth year, the league table ranks Britain’s 100 private-equity-backed companies with the fastest-growing profits (ebitda) over the last two years.
LDC is the private-equity house with the highest number of investments on the league table. Seven of its companies have won places, compared with ten last year. These range from outdoor equipment retailerMountain Warehouse (No 64), to BigHand (No 11), which develops dictation software
Commercial law firm EMW has appointed Jodi Tierney (pictured) as its new Head of Asset Based Lending (ABL), as part of substantial plans to expand its London office.
Tierney joins from Francis Wilks & Jones LLP where she was Partner, having previously been a Senior Associate at Hammonds. She will head up a fast-growing 10-strong Asset Based Lending practice which was recently appointed to the asset finance panel of Santander in 2010.
Tierney’s extensive experience includes advising in relation to collections, asset recovery and fraud situations for asset based lenders, banks and other financial institutions, as well as actions against
China surpassed the UK to become the second-largest recipient of venture capital equity financing in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource, which tracks venture-backed companies, Chinese firms received 332 venture capital equity financing deals in 2011, surpassing the UK’s 274. The US retained its lead with 3,209 deals.
Each deal represents a single case of equity financing by a professional venture capital firm, corporation, other private equity firm or individual. Deals are an indicator of the emergence of start-up and growth companies in an economy.
Venture capital firms are not only placing more bets on China, but bigger bets, as
General Atlantic LLC (GA) has appointed David Topper, a former Vice Chairman of JP Morgan and leader in its capital markets group, as a Special Advisor to the firm.
Topper has nearly 30 years of capital markets and investment banking experience. He will be working closely with GA’s portfolio group as well as GA’s portfolio company management teams on specific projects.
Bill Ford (pictured), CEO of General Atlantic, says: “We are extremely pleased to have David join us as a Special Advisor. His extensive experience in the global capital markets will be extremely valuable to us as we
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