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Ingenious Ventures, a leading manager of VCTs in the entertainment sector, today announces that it has invested GBP2 million in a new arena-based live cricket event, Titans of Cricket.
The investment has been made through Ingenious’ Entertainment VCTs (www.ingeniousvcts.co.uk), which invest in a range of music festivals, live events and TV shows.
Titans of Cricket takes the best of Twenty20, the IPL and World Cricket, in an innovative new format. It features a two hour spectacular of batting, fielding, and bowling by top cricketing stars from four countries, competing in five extreme challenges to provide the ultimate test of
Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organisation, has agreed to invest USD5m in JSE Listed Allied Technologies Limited (Altech), Intel Capital’s first investment in South Africa.
This commercial investment agreement, subject to Altech shareholder approval, is part of a strategic collaboration in which Intel and Altech will explore various areas of collaboration in the Telecommunications, Multi-media and Information Technology (TMT) sectors to accelerate the adoption of broadband services in Africa. With this investment, South Africa will become the 50th country to attract Intel Capital investment.
Arvind Sodhani (pictured), president of Intel Capital and Intel executive vice president says: “Altech has
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has reached an agreement to acquire RAC Limited (RAC), the motoring services provider, from Aviva plc (Aviva). The transaction represents an enterprise value of GBP1bn. Completion, which is subject to regulatory and competition approvals, is expected at the end of the third quarter of 2011.
Founded in 1897, RAC is one of the oldest roadside assistance companies in the world and the second largest UK roadside assistance provider with over 7 million members. The company is headquartered in Birmingham, has approximately 4,000 employees, and provides motor-related services to both consumers and corporate clients.
Aurora Russia Limited has appointed Gilbert Chalk and Geoffrey Miller to the board of the company as non – executive directors.
Chalk (63) is a British citizen with extensive private equity and banking experience with Baring Private Equity Partners Limited and Hambros Bank Limited. Chalk also has considerable listed company expertise and is currently a board director of two listed companies, Castle Private Equity AG, a private equity and venture capital fund of funds and Vantage Goldfields Limited, an ASX listed South African Gold Mining Company.
Miller (45) is a British citizen, resident in Guernsey, with over twenty years of
Shazam, the world’s leading mobile discovery company, has raised USD32 million in new funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), with existing investor DN Capital participating.
The investment will be used to support the company’s continued growth and the development of Shazam’s real-time discovery and sharing App which creates an engaging, interactive mobile commerce platform for brands as it expands into television with Shazam for TV.
“Shazam has experienced incredible growth over the last year and established itself as the ultimate mobile App for media discovery and interaction,” says Matt Murphy, Partner
Guernsey-headquartered International Administration Group (IAG) has announced that it is to offer fund administration services in China.
IAG is forming a joint servicing platform with Exceedor in Shanghai that will allow it to offer onshore RMB denominated private equity fund administration services in China.
The formation of a Shanghai operation follows from establishment of an office in Hong Kong earlier this year.
Julian Carey (pictured), Managing Director of IAG’s Hong Kong office, says: “We already administer many of the traditional fund structures for private equity, real estate and other alternative assets. Now we have extended our services to include RMB
Proskauer has continued the expansion of its global corporate practice and London office with the addition of Peter McGowan, who will join the firm as a partner.
McGowan has broad-based experience in UK and EU regulatory matters governing the full range of corporate transactions, as well as funds structuring across private equity, retail, real estate and hedge funds. He advises on outsourcing, M&A, fund administration and custody arrangements in the investment management sector and counsels principals and agents in the investment services industry on private stock lending, foreign exchange and derivative trading arrangements. McGowan will join Proskauer from Berwin
Funds managed by Aureos Capital have sold part of their stake in Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Seva) Ltd, one of India’s leading integrated logistics solution providers, to global private equity firm, Warburg Pincus.
Aureos Capital is a private equity fund management company specialising in investing in small and medium sized businesses in emerging markets. The sale is Aureos Capital’s fourth exit from a portfolio of eight companies in India, where it has been increasingly active over the last five years through its South Asia Funds.
Since launching the Aureos South Asia fund in 2006, Aureos’ India team has focussed
Josh Cleveland (pictured) has joined Clairvue Capital Partners as Partner. Cleveland is a former Director of Business Development at Liquid Realty Partners, where he worked with Clairvue’s founding partners, Jeffrey Giller, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, and Brendan MacDonald, Partner.
Cleveland will be joining Jeff Granoff, a Principal who started with Clairvue in January, in Clairvue’s New York office.
Clairvue invests in real estate funds, operating companies and other types of real estate vehicles by providing financing for their recapitalisations or restructurings, and by acquiring limited partnership interests from incumbent investors on a secondary basis. Clairvue was established in
Bacchus Capital Management, LLC, a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on providing strategic capital and making private equity wine industry investments, has provided growth and refinancing capital to Andretti Winery, a well-known Napa Valley wine producer owned by one of the world’s greatest racing car drivers, Mario Andretti.
"Andretti is at a critical point in its history," says Andretti, Co-founder of the winery. "We have spent nearly 20 years developing this magnificent property in the heart of one of the world’s finest wine regions and producing outstanding varietals. My name is on every bottle and I am committed to producing
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