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HIG Capital and Charlesbank Capital Partners have sold their interest in Vision Source, a division of TLC Vision to an investor consortium led by Brazos Private Equity Partners.
HIG Capital and Charlesbank Capital Partners acquired their stake in Vision Source in May 2010 when they purchased TLC Vision, a Minneapolis based eye-care services company.
Vision Source is an independent optometric franchising organisation with a network of more than 2,300 franchises across Canada and all 50 US states. The Company offers its members attractive purchasing power, practice management assistance and professional development. Led by an experienced management team, Vision Source has
In light of the current fiscal and monetary concerns that are gripping the minds of investors around the world, Institutional Asset Manager asked the heads of some of the world’s leading asset managers to share their thinking on portfolio management trends post-Lehman and beyond 2011 in concise fashion. Joseph Morgart (pictured), Senior Vice President, Alternative Strategies, Pyramis Global Advisors, responds:
"The top trend characterizing world investment markets from 2009 through 2011 following 2008’s global financial crisis (GFC) is volatility. Investors, institutional or retail, can ill-afford losses incurred – even those offset by periodic gains – but, more disconcerting for their long-term
WhaleShark Media has received USD150 million funding from JP Morgan Asset Management and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) bringing the company’s total funding from investors to nearly USD300 million. The capital will be used to support the company’s rapid organic growth through key strategic technology and personnel enhancements within the organisation and additional growth from new acquisitions.
As a part of the investment round, IVP’s Jules Maltz will join WhaleShark’s board of directors.
“This latest round of funding is a testament to the value WhaleShark Media provides by connecting its bargain-savvy consumers and merchant partners in the world’s largest online coupon and
Shareholder Representative Services (SRS), has appointed of Amanda Jackson as Director of Business Development for north east USA. Jackson, who is based in Boston, will closely manage SRS’ relationships with the M&A community, including private equity and venture capital clients, M&A attorneys, investment bankers, and management teams that are selling or planning to sell their companies.
The Northeast region has long served as one of the most significant sources of private capital for companies operating in diverse industries, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, consumer products, financial services, and manufacturing. According to data from the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, there
LGV Capital has successfully completed the management buy-out of ABI (UK) Group Limited (ABI), a manufacturer of caravan holiday homes focusing on the UK holiday parks market. The business is based in Beverley, Yorkshire and employs approximately 300 people.
LGV has backed the existing management team led by Chief Executive, Mel Copper, and including Richard Jones, Dean Hague, Paul Clackstone and Stephen Hardaker.
LGV is a well established provider of private equity in the UK market and part of the Legal & General Group. LGV has a 20 year history of successfully backing management teams in consumer, leisure, services and
Forecasting is a necessary but challenging exercise in investing. The more complex the financial markets, the more complicated a forecast. In addition, the natural difficulty of forecasting is exacerbated further by typical human responses to complex situations. Scott Wolle (pictured), Chief Investment Officer of Invesco, believes investors must develop a process that avoids the worst of the obvious errors, has hedges in place, and is constantly reviewed for sufficient robustness…
Invesco’s Global Asset Allocation team has analysed the pitfalls of forecasting in times of uncertainty confirming forecasters’ poor record at forecasting complex, long-term events and highly uncertain variables such as
Devglass Group, an independent manufacturer and distributor of insulating glass, has refinanced its bank debt and repaid EUR35 million of senior and junior mezzanine bonds held by European Capital. European Capital will continue to hold 40% of the equity alongside Olivier Rambeau, CEO and majority shareholder of the Devglass Group.
"We are very pleased with our investment in Devglass. The group has been able to create value ever since 2007," declared Ira Wagner, President of European Capital Financial Services Limited ("European Capital Services"). "This refinancing shows that French banks are still prepared to back the most dynamic and best-performing regional
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Christian M Lucky as a corporate partner in its Spokane office. Lucky joins K&L Gates from Stoel Rives LLP.
A corporate transactional lawyer with a wide-ranging practice, Lucky has experience in such areas as corporation and project finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, and project development. He represents a broad array of domestic and international clients, publicly-traded and private, in the financial services, venture capital, energy development, clean technology, and food production sectors, among others.
“We are excited to have Christian join K&L Gates and believe that his background in corporate finance will
Tony Reed has been appointed as Managing Director of Phoenix Fund Services (UK) Limited. He will report to John Rice, CEO, and join the Phoenix Fund Services’ executive management team.
Reed will be responsible for managing the relationships with clients of Phoenix’s UK funds business as well as for Phoenix’s compliance and risk management.
John Rice, Managing Director of Phoenix Fund Services, says: “Tony brings a wealth of experience to Phoenix having worked in a range of roles managing client relationships, running collective investment scheme operations and regulatory risk management at Insight Investment, JP Morgan, Halifax Bank of Scotland and
Investec Project and Infrastructure Finance has recently completed a new senior debt facility for Sea Fibre Networks Ltd. The USD7.5 million loan, for which Investec was the sole mandated lead arranger (MLA), will finance Europe’s most advanced sub-sea telecommunications network in a project which will link Ireland and the UK by fibre-optic cable.
Additional equity was provided by a group of mainly US investors. This was part of a USD15m funding round with CC Equity LLC as the equity participants.
Running between Anglesey and Dublin, the sub-sea cable will be the first laid within Europe in eleven years. This
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