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Monroe Capital has provided a USD22 million unitranche facility to Links Global LLC. Monroe Capital’s facility was used to refinance existing debt and provide growth capital through an acquisition facility.
Links Global, based in Walnut, California, is a third party logistics business providing freight hauling services, warehouse storage space and related equipment from facilities located in California, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Oregon. Customers include leading companies in the beverage, construction, corrugated materials, food and mining industries, among others.
Tom Aronson, Managing Director at Monroe Capital, says: “We are excited to provide Links Global with a one-stop financing solution that will
It is very hard to know where to start. The last month has been a chaotic mix of extreme market volatility, contradictory but generally poor economic data, baffling politics and bizarre actions from governments around the world, says Thomas Becket, Chief Investment Officer of PSigma Investment Management…
It has all made for a horribly potent cocktail that created a miserable month for global asset prices and has impacted badly upon investor and consumer confidence around the world. At times there were strong echoes of the misery that we suffered in 2008, as intraday market volatility spiked and indices and individual
Private funds lawyer Udi Grofman has joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a corporate partner in the New York office.
"Udi is one of the top lawyers in the alternative investment management field," says Paul, Weiss chair Brad S Karp. "We are thrilled to welcome a partner of his caliber and stature."
Grofman’s experience includes structuring a wide variety of alternative investment products, including hedge funds and private equity funds as well as structuring seed and strategic relationships. Grofman regularly advises investment management firms and their principals on risk management and regulatory compliance, as well as on operational
IK Investment Partners is to sell Etanco, the French market leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of building fasteners and fixing systems to 3i and funds managed by 3i.
The management team remains committed to the business, with CEO Ronan Lebraut re-investing alongside 3i and retaining a 25% stake in the company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered near Paris with 600 employees, Etanco is the leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of building fasteners and fixing systems in France. The company also has a strong presence in Belgium, Italy and Eastern Europe through its subsidiary
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
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