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TrueCar, a publisher of real-time transparent new and used vehicle transaction data in the US market, has raised USD200 million of growth capital, in part by leveraging its private investor portal on SharesPost.
SharesPost’s company-controlled online transaction platform allows users to connect with SharesPost’s members, who comprise the industry’s largest network of qualified institutional buyers and sophisticated, accredited, individual private equity investors.
By providing companies with access to growth capital as another benefit to its platform, SharesPost has signalled the next phase of its evolution and the development of its online private capital marketplace.
"SharesPost introduced TrueCar to the
Par Equity is to launch The Par Syndicate EIS Fund I (the fund), which will invest in innovative small and medium-sized companies with high growth potential.
The fund will seek to generate attractive investment returns as well as offering investors the opportunity to mitigate investment risk by investing only in companies qualifying under the rules of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). The Fund will invest alongside business angels, in particular members of the Par Syndicate, an active group of business angels focusing on investment opportunities in information & communications technology, medical technology and clean technology. In this way, the Fund
AXA Private Equity is to acquire a majority stake in Photonis from Astorg Partners. The acquisition has the full support of Photonis’ existing management team, headed by its CEO, Goossen Boers.
Photonis is an international high-tech group, headquartered in Merignac (France) specialising in photo sensor technology. It is a world leader in the design and manufacture of state-of-the-art image intensifier tubes for space, research, defence and commercial applications. In 2010, the group employed approximately 1,000 people in France, the Netherlands and the USA, delivering a turnover of around EUR160 million.
AXA Private Equity previously owned Photonis from 2001
Sean E Murphy has joined Evercore Partners’ Investment Banking business as a Senior Advisor. Murphy, who will be based in Chicago, will focus on advising clients in the health care industry.
Murphy was most recently a Corporate Vice President and Head of Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions at Abbott Laboratories, Inc. His career at Abbott spanned three decades, including operations management, such as running the vascular business after the acquisition of Perclose, and leading Abbott’s external development effort for ten years. In that capacity, Murphy led over USD30 billion in transactions across the pharmaceutical, medical technology, diagnostics, and nutrition
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has added M&A and private equity lawyers Douglas Freeman and Victor Chen as partners in the Firm’s corporate practice.
Freeman will be resident in both the Firm’s Hong Kong and New York offices and Chen will be resident in its Hong Kong office. The Firm also announced that Hong Kong-based capital markets attorney Joshua T Coleman was elected to the partnership effective 1 September.
The new partners bolster Fried Frank’s growing profile in Asia, a critical region to global companies, and are reflective of the evolving needs of the Firm’s market-leading client
UK-based private equity firm Electra Partners has added Chris Hanna as an investment partner. Hanna, who joined 1 September, joins from Phoenix Equity Partners where his investments included Nationwide Autocentres, NFT, ASCO and Ashtead Technology Rentals.
Hanna will work alongside Alex Fortescue and the other Investment Partners in investing Electra Partners’ GBP350 million investment capacity in what the company expects to be a very good period for investing.
Alex Fortescue, Chief Investment Partner of Electra Partners, says: “I am delighted to welcome Chris to Electra Partners. He brings great experience and a successful track record. We have a very talented
CommScope has completed its acquisition of Argus Technologies, a producer of innovative antenna solutions for wireless applications. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Argus, headquartered near Sydney, Australia, provides a wide array of high performance, high technology antennas for base stations, stadiums and venues, and other wireless applications. The acquisition enables CommScope to broaden its antenna solutions portfolio, deepen its research and development capabilities, strengthen its global market presence and accelerate its growth in the wireless market.
“We welcome the Argus team to CommScope and are excited about our future together as we help customers evolve their networks
The Aureos Latin America Fund (ALAF) has completed the acquisition of a majority position in Handell, a Mexican company specialised in importing and distributing some of the world’s leading toy brands in Mexico.
Handell has been in the Mexican market for seven years and has a world-class management team with proven experience in supplying department stores and retailers. It has been Mexico’s exclusive representative and distributor for several leading international toy manufacturers, including Jakks Pacific, MGA, Moose, Giochi Preziosi, Playmates, Nikko, and Meccano, whose licensed products include toys for Disney, Hello Kitty, Bratz, Little Tikes, Sponge Bob, Smurfs, World Wrestling
SUSI Partners AG has acquired three 1 MWp photovoltaic power plants in the Province of Mantova developed by SOLON S.p.A. for the SUSI Sustainable Euro Fund I.
SOLON, a world leading integrated photovoltaic supplier, built these free-standing fixed installations in July 2011 using its own SOLON Blue modules and PowerOne inverters.
The Chief Investment Officer of SUSI Partners AG, Otto von Troschke, says: “We are very happy to announce this investment, more so since our partner is one of the leading players in the field of photovoltaic energy. We have secured financing for 3 MWp and are confident to
Lyceum Capital portfolio company Compact Media Group, an independent rights administrator and distributor of royalties for TV, film and music, has acquired its first add-on company Rights.tv, a leading consultancy that provides business affairs and commercial guidance.
Backed by Lyceum in October 2010, Compact provides a broad range of collection and administration services which maximise royalty income for intellectual property rights owners such as producers, distributors and broadcasters, as well as government-backed agencies and financial institutions.
Since Lyceum’s GBP17 million investment, the mid-market growth investor has implemented a programme of operational enhancement and organic growth, resulting in a number
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