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Atria Senior Living Group, a provider of independent living, assisted living and memory care services, has signed a definitive agreement to merge its real estate with Ventas, a healthcare real estate investment trust.
As part of this transaction, Ventas will purchase Atria’s portfolio of senior living communities in exchange for an estimated USD3.1bn, including USD1.35bn in Ventas stock, USD150m in cash and USD1.6bn in debt either to be assumed or repaid.
Atria will continue to manage the portfolio of communities and will remain an independent, privately-owned management company.
Subject to certain approvals, the transaction is expected to close in the
Fountain Partners has appointed John Van Hooser as managing partner.
Van Hooser joins Fountain Partners founder Tom Carter in managing its third fund, Fountain Leasing 2010, which is dedicated to equipment leasing needs of venture, growth and expansion stage companies.
Van Hooser brings over 15 years of venture capital and private equity experience most recently as a general partner at M/C Venture Partners.
"I am very excited to join Fountain and to work with Tom to continue to build on the company’s success," says Van Hooser. "In my years as an equity investor, I have had first hand exposure to
New technologies are helping fund boards operate more efficiently and effectively. Simon Small (pictured), managing director for licensing in Europe at Diligent Boardbooks, explains why the fund industry is waking up to the transformative potential of cloud computing in the boardroom.
As a result of global events over the past two years, the importance of good governance is more firmly in the spotlight than ever before. Company boardrooms in every sector are now subject to ever more rigorous compliance directives and procedures, which mean more paperwork and more information to compile, process and digest. Nowhere is this change felt more
Sovereign Capital-backed LM Funerals, one of the UK’s largest independent funeral services companies, has appointed Deborah Kemp as its new chief executive.
Kemp was previously chief operating officer of De Vere Hotels & Resorts, where she held executive responsibility for all aspects of financial and operational delivery across the company’s 13 sites, including the prestigious Grand Hotel Brighton and Cameron House Loch Lomond.
Prior to this Kemp spent over 20 years in pub retailing, most recently as managing director of Punch Taverns, where she was responsible for the company’s estate of 7,500 leased public houses.
Wolverhampton-based LM Funerals was
Monomoy Capital Partners, a New York private equity fund, has signed a definitive agreement to sell its portfolio company Barjan, a distributor of consumer products to travel centres, truck stops and convenience stores, to TSC Global.
TSC Global specialises in the sales, marketing and distribution of consumer brand products to America’s top retailers, travel centres and truck stops.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“The sale of Barjan to TSC is a great example of the Monomoy investment strategy,” says Daniel Collin, partner at Monomoy Capital and chairman of the board of Barjan. “We acquired a distressed market
Octopus Investments has made an investment of GBP2m into UltraSoC Technologies, a provider of technology for embedded systems used in electronic applications from automotive to consumer products such as mobile phones.
The investment in UltraSoC represents the 22nd deal concluded by Octopus this year.
UltraSoC is developing UltraDebug, an advanced debugging technology for multiple processor systems that will be used to debug the application software that provides the functionality and performance in modern electronic systems.
UltraSoC was founded in 2006 by Dr Karl Heeks and Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier and spun out from the Universities of Kent and Essex
Intercos, a developer and subcontracter of beauty products for colour cosmetics companies, has agreed a financing platform of up to EUR50m, without voting rights, with subscription guaranteed by Intercos’ main shareholder, Dario Ferrari.
This agreement ensures financing for the 2010-2014 business development plan.
Eurazeo owns 25.1 per cent of Intercos’ capital through Euraleo and retains the option to subscribing its pro-rata share through the end of 2010.
In addition to the financing agreement, Intercos also renegotiated its debt with covenants adapted to the new business plan, and debt maturities extended up to 2016.
In 2010, Intercos recorded a
Compact Media Group, the independent rights administrator and distributor of royalties for TV, film and music, has secured GBP17m of investment from Lyceum Capital to drive the growth and development of the business.
Compact provides a broad range of collection and administration services which maximise royalty income for intellectual property rights owners such as producers, distributors, broadcasters, as well as government backed agencies and financial institutions.
The firm represents over 300 companies including BBC Worldwide, ITV Global Entertainment, Scottish Media Group, Fremantle Media, Channel 4, Discovery Communications, National Geographic, Icon, Echo Bridge and a number of the UK’s largest
LLR Partners, a middle market private equity firm with over USD1.4bn under management, has closed an investment in Lightspeed Financial, the proceeds of which will be used to finance the acquisition of Terra Nova Financial.
Lightspeed is a provider of direct market access trading technology, risk management solutions and brokerage services for institutional investors and professional retail active traders.
The acquisition brings Lightspeed’s total client base to more than 7,500 active traders executing an average of over 220 million equity shares per day with total client assets exceeding USD1.35bn.
“We are excited about our partnership with LLR and leveraging their
Riverlake Partners, a Portland-based private equity group focused on the lower middle market, has led a USD5m preferred round of funding for RPI.
The investment is being made through the company’s second fund, Riverlake Equity Partners II.
RPI, based in Seattle, specialises in automated manufacturing and fulfillment for the consumer make-on-demand printed products market.
RPI plans to use the additional funds to continue executing its growth plan.
Huntington Capital of San Diego, which provided USD5m of mezzanine financing to RPI in July, also participated in this round of preferred financing.
In conjunction with this investment, Riverlake partner Victor (Vic) G.
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