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New York private equity firm Castle Harlan, Inc, has promoted Anand T Philip (pictured) to Managing Director, while Joyce M Demonteverde has joined the firm as Vice President. Demonteverde had previously been with Castle Harlan, Inc prior to going to the Harvard Business School.
Castle Harlan believes that Philip’s promotion and Demonteverde’s return will strengthen the firm’ capabilities in identifying and aggressively pursuing new investment opportunities and will enhance the firm’s work with existing portfolio companies.
John K Castle (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive of the firm, says, "Anand Philip is an extraordinarily talented and hard-working professional. He has earned
Nearbuy Systems has secured a USD1 million round of financing led by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, and Metamorphic Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate the development and deployment of Nearbuy System’s software into major retail stores.
With what is often described as the "holy grail" of in-store marketing — knowing a shopper’s precise location within the store — Nearbuy Systems allows retailers to bring their product promotions to the shopper where it makes the most sense and where most purchase decisions are already being made, within the aisle of the store. For years now,
BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has agreed to sell a majority of its equity stake in ConvergEx Group as part of a definitive agreement for ConvergEx Group to be acquired by funds advised by CVC Capital Partners, a leading global private equity firm, in an all cash transaction expected to close in the early fall.
BNY Mellon agreed to sell the majority of its holding in ConvergEx Group while remaining a minority shareholder. Upon closing, the transaction is expected to enhance BNY Mellon’s capital position, adding approximately 15 basis points to the company’s Basel
AXA Private Equity, the leading European diversified private equity firm, and Tozzi Group, the industrial company have entered into a joint venture to invest in the Italian solar energy sector. The joint venture, TRE Solar S.r.l., acts as a holding company and invests in Italian solar farms.
The TRE Solar joint venture is the latest development of the long-term partnership between AXA Private Equity and Tozzi Group. The partnership was formed in 2007 to invest in renewables. AXA Private Equity will hold a 65% stake in the TRE Solar joint venture and Tozzi Group will own the remaining 35%.
Teachers’ Private Capital, the private investment department of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Flexera Software from Thoma Bravo, LLC, a private equity firm. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The Chicago-based company develops comprehensive solutions – from software licensing, installation, entitlement management and delivery to software deployment and license compliance and optimisation – that play an increasingly strategic role in managing application usage at Global 2000 companies. Flexera Software’s growth has been fuelled by its ability to take advantage of emerging market opportunities such as intelligent device manufacturers’ increasing
It could be a long summer, argues PSigma Investment Management chief investment officer Tom Becket (pictured), with the European sovereign debt crisis and the political argument over raising the US government debt ceiling still unresolved. Unless these issues are tackled decisively, not even the sterling performance of the corporate sector may be enough to sustain the fragile market recovery of the past two years…
The last few weeks have been extremely testing for financial markets, once again ruining summer holidays, as fund managers nervously glance at their Blackberries under the disappointed gaze of their families. Recent summers have all proven
Despite being cautious on G5 growth, it’s difficult seeing value in bonds. Unless, of course tepid recovery rates are now relapsing into something more sinister, in which case, deflation-risk re-emerges and QE gets dusted off again. Neil Williams (pictured), Chief Economist, Global Government and Inflation-Linked Bonds at Hermes Fund Managers, discusses why any comparisons that liken now to the 2008-2009 crisis look premature…
Activity levels are still improving, China is growing strongly, Japan will reconstruct, and global inflation is rising. Thus, backing up Bernanke’s assertion that deflation is no longer a “non-trivial risk”, and the Fed is now in “…a
Bichot & Associes , the new corporate law firm dedicated to M&A/private equity, has advised Clément d’Harcourt, founder of the company AlbumBlog, on its second fund raising.
AlbumBlog manages the website www.albumblog.com, a leader in online virtual and interactive photo albums. The funds raised from the industrial investment holding Qualis, for a non-disclosed amount, will be used to support the development of AlbumBlog.
BICHOT & ASSOCIES’ team was led by Charles van den Broek d’Obrenan, partner.
Charles van den Broek d’Obrenan says: "Working with entrepreneurs is always very stimulating. We speak the same language. Anyway, AlbumBlog is a nice
Pan-Asian equities are at an inflection point this summer. The question everyone is asking is: have the Chinese authorities over-tightened, thus causing a hard landing in the economy, or have they finessed their tightening expertly and managed to create the much sought after ‘soft landing’. Rupert Foster (pictured), manager of the Matrix Asia UCITS Fund comments on why he is in the ‘soft landing’ camp…
I disagree with the bears who would point to the bursting of the property market bubble, stubbornly high levels of inflation creating fears of stagflation, and the likelihood of savage bad debt escalation after the
Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Zeus Technology Limited (Zeus) on its sale to Riverbed Technology, Inc (Riverbed). Under the terms of the acquisition, Riverbed will pay approximately USD110 million in cash at closing and up to an additional USD30 million in cash based on the achievement of certain bookings targets over the following year.
Founded in 1995 and backed by Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) and DFJ Esprit, Zeus delivers high performance software-based load balancing and traffic management solutions for virtual and cloud environments. Zeus enables enterprises to deliver applications and websites with a consistently excellent user-experience, whatever
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