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Corigin, a real estate and private equity company, has launched in New York.
Corigin is headed by Ryan Freedman, chairman and chief executive officer.
Corigin is the spin-off of Coalco New York, the US operation of real estate company Coalco Development.
As part of the spin-off, Corigin has assumed assets of affiliated domestic businesses and consolidated other domestic holdings to create two core divisions, Corigin Real Estate Group and Corigin Private Equity Group.
"We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of Corigin, which marks the evolution of our business," says Freedman, formerly chairman and chief executive of Coalco New
RoundTable Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has completed the sale of Bioniche Pharma Holdings to Mylan, a pharmaceutical company, for USD550m in cash.
Bioniche Pharma is a sterile injectable pharmaceutical company based in Galway, Ireland, with a majority of its sales in the US.
Since its initial investment in 2006, RoundTable actively supported the company’s growth initiatives via the addition of several key members of the senior management team, a business development programme and investments in product development, including a new R&D facility in Galway.
Jack McGinley (pictured), founding partner of RoundTable and
An affiliate of Acon Investments, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement to sell 100 per cent of SAE Towers to KEC International of India for USD95m (excluding working capital adjustments) on a debt-free, cash free basis.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with production facilities in Monterrey, Mexico and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, SAE Towers is the largest manufacturer of transmission towers in the Americas, with an annual production capacity of 100,000 metric tons.
SAE Towers’ management team and employees will continue with the company. Under the leadership of Luigi Ruggieri, SAE Towers’ chief executive, the company will
H.I.G. Bayside Capital, an affiliate of private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, has closed H.I.G. Bayside Loan Opportunity Fund II, a special situation loan fund focused on distressed transactions.
The fund closed on 30 July 2010 and has total aggregate commitments of USD1.1bn, exceeding its USD1bn target.
The fund will have a broad investment mandate to invest in non-control loan obligations of stressed and distressed companies in the US and Europe, including the ability to provide liquidity to troubled companies and to acquire the debt obligations of such companies.
The fund complements Bayside Capital’s existing distressed investment vehicle, H.I.G. Bayside Debt
Sheryl Schwartz, formerly a managing director at TIAA-CREF, has joined Perseus as a senior managing director working in its New York office.
Schwartz will work on mezzanine debt, private equity investments and investor relations.
Schwartz joined TIAA in 1988 and held a variety of positions there. She worked three years investing in corporate private placements, two years trading secondary private placements and four years investing in mortgage and asset-backed securities.
Beginning in 1997, Schwartz established the TIAA alternative investment programme and built a portfolio of approximately USD13bn of commitments in alternative investments including investments in buyouts, venture capital, distressed and
Susquehanna Growth Equity and technology services veteran Brad Galle have acquired the JK Group, a provider of technology solutions for corporate philanthropic management programmes.
Galle will serve as the company’s chief executive officer effective immediately.
"JK represents a tremendous opportunity to take a leader in a market and make it even stronger," says Scott Feldman of Susquehanna Growth Equity. "Customers who already use the company’s services can expect to see noticeable enhancements to the product offerings, new products and new channel partnerships over the coming months."
Feldman and Amir Goldman will represent Susquehanna Growth Equity on the company’s board.
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Private equity investor Next Wave Partners has funded the merger of market research consultancies SPA and Future Thinking, formerly known as The Oxford Research Agency.
The newly formed agency will boast a GBP13m+ turnover and an international network of offices in London, Paris, New York and Oxford.
As part of the integration process, a single company brand will be developed with a new management board made up of SPA and Future Thinking personnel. The new combined entity will be run by Jon Priest as group chief executive.
The deal has been funded by growth capital private equity investor Next Wave
DN Capital, a media and technology early stage and growth capital investor, has led a EUR7m growth investment in Mister Spex, Germany’s largest online retailer of eyewear.
French investment company Xange Capital also participated in the round together with existing investors Grazia Equity, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Team Europe Ventures and Astutia.
Mister Spex will use the capital from this investment to strengthen its growth in Germany and support international expansion.
Nenad Marovac, managing partner of DN Capital, says: "We have been very impressed with the performance of Mister Spex to date as well as the dynamic management team. We
Endomagnetics, a medical device company that helps surgeons track the spread of breast cancer, has raised GBP770,000 from a syndicate led by UCL Business and Sussex Place Ventures.
The financing coincides with the appointment of Dr Eric Mayes as chief executive of this recent spin-out from University College London and builds upon a previous seed round of GBP350,000 that was secured in June 2009.
Endomagnetics uses magnetic tracers and a highly sensitive magnetic sensing device to help breast cancer surgeons detect the extent that breast cancer has spread during an operation.
“The SentiMag solution allows surgeons in many more
Law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has expanded its private equity practice with the addition of James J. Moriarty and Russell J. Pinilis as partners in the firm’s New York office.
Prior to joining Kramer Levin, Moriarty and Pinilis were partners at O’Melveny & Myers.
Moriarty (pictured) represents a number of middle market private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of industries and transactions, including acquisition and sale transactions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, recapitalisations, management equity arrangements and mezzanine and growth equity financings.
Pinilis is a tax and fund formation attorney and has worked extensively with
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