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Jefferies has appointed James Seagrave as a Managing Director in the firm’s Global Financial Sponsors Investment Banking Group. He will be based in the firm’s London office and will focus on coverage of UK based financial sponsors.
“Comprehensive coverage of financial sponsor clients throughout the world is a vital part of Jefferies’ investment banking strategy,” says Benjamin D Lorello, Global Head of Investment Banking and Capital Markets at Jefferies. “James will become a vital part of one of the largest teams of senior bankers dedicated to financial sponsor coverage in our industry.”
“James’ considerable relationships across a large number of
Louis S Caiola, Jr has joined Dome Equities as a partner responsible for distribution of the firm’s real estate private equity offerings.
Previously, Caiola was a Senior Vice President at UBS and a Director at Deutsche Bank where he advised high net worth, family office and institutional clients on investment strategies. Prior to UBS and DB, he was a Principal in the Institutional Equities department of Thomas Weisel Partners.
"We are extremely pleased to have Lou join our team as a Partner at Dome Equities," says Managing Partner Eric Jones. "Lou’s experience with high net worth and family office investors
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Jeffrey A Del Papa as a Senior Vice President in the Services Group. He will focus on recapitalisations, management-led buyouts and growth capital investments in business services companies.
Del Papa joins TA from Thoma Bravo, where he served as a Vice President, originating, evaluating and executing investments and consolidations in the software sector. He was previously an Associate with Summit Partners, focused primarily on investments in the software, healthcare, consumer and financial services sectors. He also served as an Analyst with UBS Investment Bank. Del Papa received a BS in Finance from
The Q2 2011 IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator (DFI), which provides an early view of aggregate deal flow activity and trends in the global market, shows a 24 per cent increase in global M&A deal activity compared to Q2 2010.
Although activity was up across all regions, including North America, Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC), the strongest growth was driven by merger and acquisition movement in Latin America. IntraLinks’ Deal Flow Indicator results are based on the company’s involvement in a significant percentage of M&A deals in the early stages of each transaction, providing a leading perspective on global
Private equity firm GTCR has agreed to acquire a majority stake in BServ, Inc, a leading SaaS (software-as-a-service) provider offering financial services and banking technology that facilitates electronic corporate payments and bank-to-bank payment transactions.
GTCR is partnering with founder and CEO David Kvederis and the management team at BankServ as they continue to grow and expand the business. The Company offers Fedwire processing, SWIFT messaging, remote deposit capture, mobile and online payment processing technology and services for financial institutions and corporations. BankServ has completed a number of successful acquisitions and has earned a strong reputation in the market by providing
Nearly USD180bn of private equity was invested globally in 2010, up 62% from the previous year but still down 55% on the peak in 2007 according to the Private Equity 2011 report released this week by TheCityUK. Activity in the sector looks set to build on this recovery and top USD200bn in 2011 as investor sentiment continues to improve.
Over the next five years, some USD800bn in loans extended on existing private equity investments are due to be repaid or refinanced. There has already been a considerable deferring of debt maturities to 2014 and beyond, with the high-yield bond market
Hatteras Venture Partners has announced the first closing of Hatteras Venture Partners IV (HVP IV) with USD74 million in subscriptions towards a final fund target of USD125 million.
With HVP IV, Hatteras has formally launched “Hatteras Discovery,” an allocation of the fund focused on seed stage companies and projects in the field of human medicine and life sciences.
“In this difficult environment, we are pleased to be able to raise our fourth venture capital fund,” says Bob Ingram, General Partner. “Our limited partners agree with us that the time could not be better to capitalise the next generation of innovative
Private equity firm HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of Next Generation Vending and Food Service, Inc. Next Generation is a leading provider of vending services for corporate and institutional clients in the Northeastern United States, which is transforming the vending industry by implementing cutting-edge remote monitoring technology (RMS) and focusing on best-in-class service to deliver a superior customer experience.
Next Generation is based in Stoughton, Massachusetts and has operating facilities strategically located across the Northeast.
HIG joined forces with the management team, led by Chief Executive Officer, David Mac Isaac, and Chief Operating Officer, Joe Rogan, to consummate the
Cargill has made a binding offer to acquire Provimi, the global animal nutrition company, for an enterprise value of EUR1.5 billion from Permira funds, the private equity firm which owns Provimi. Provimi has agreed, on an exclusive basis, to commence the necessary Works Council consultations and appropriate regulatory approvals.
Cargill plans to acquire Provimi’s worldwide animal nutrition business, which has operations in 26 countries and employs more than 7,000 people across Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. The acquisition would strengthen and expand Cargill’s existing operations creating a global leader in animal nutrition.
"The combination of Cargill and Provimi would
Octopus has appointed George Whitehead (pictured) as venture partner manager. Whitehead joins from NESTA Investments where he held the position of Business Development Director for their GBP50 million fund and supported a number of programmes targeted at early stage growth businesses.
These programmes ranged from investments in company accelerators like Springboard, Seedcamp, Design London and the Microelectronics Academy to supporting networks such as the British Business Angels Association and the Business Leaders Network.
Prior to NESTA, Whitehead set up a biotechnology incubator, and managed an ICT incubator in Canada on behalf of the University of Toronto. He began his career as an Investment Manager at Oxford Innovation, where he built up one
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