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Growth equity firm General Atlantic has appointed Dr. Ronald McMahan, founder of Global Energy Decisions and senior vice president at IHS, as a special adviser to the firm.
McMahan will provide strategic counsel to GA and its portfolio companies with a focus on GA’s energy and resources sector.
Founded in 1980, GA is active in the energy and resources sector, identifying and investing in businesses that facilitate the transformation of global supply and demand infrastructure of critical resources.
GA’s recent investments in the sector include Asian Genco, an energy and resources company providing power in India, and Gavilon, a provider
Aureos Capital’s Emerge Central America Growth Fund has acquired a 48 per cent stake in Adalta, a Costa Rica based company that specialises in the production of house and car cleaning products and insecticides.
Adalta was created through a management buyout of a division of Corporación CEK, the Costa Rican manufacturer and retailer.
This is the seventh investment for the Emerge fund.
David Barboza, Adalta’s general manager, says: “We will now take the commercialisation of our products to the next level. We will focus on expanding our presence throughout Central America. Through our partnership with Emerge, we will
Several former members of The Chicago Corporation have re-launched the firm to provide middle-market companies with a range of financial and corporate advisory services including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital raising, and financial restructuring.
The Chicago Corporation was originally founded in 1965 as a regional investment banking firm for middle-market companies.
After growing to more than 1,500 employees, the company was sold in 1997.
Several former members of the company, along with a team of investment bankers from other firms, have come together to re-establish the firm.
"Many of us worked in the Chicago area and knew, or
Private equity firm The Carlyle Group has raised USD1.1bn for its first financial services fund, Carlyle Global Financial Services Partners.
The financial services team, which has made three investments to date, focuses on financial services companies around the world, including banks, insurance companies, asset managers and financial service providers.
“We are grateful for the support of our investors and the confidence they have placed in us. We have been exceptionally disciplined and have maintained our focus on investing where we can add the most value: mid-market and regional financial institutions that need both additional capital and the confidence that
Private equity firms invested about USD2bn across 56 deals in India during the quarter ended March 2010, according to a study by Venture Intelligence.
The amount invested during the latest quarter was the highest in the last six quarters.
The figure was significantly higher than that during the same period last year, which witnessed USD620m being invested across 58 deals, and also the immediate previous quarter of USD1,681m across 102 deals.
The largest investment during the quarter was the USD425m investment into power generation firm Asian Genco by General Atlantic, Morgan Stanley, Norwest, Goldman Sachs and Everstone.
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Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity firm, has completed a further GBP24m development capital package to support a major expansion programme by Willowbrook Healthcare.
Willowbrook is a nursing and dementia care home group for the elderly.
The new funding takes the total commitment of Graphite funds, the management team and its banking partners to almost GBP80m. In November 2008, Willowbrook raised GBP53m to finance the initial development of care homes.
Willowbrook, whose care homes operate under the Avery brand, currently has three homes located in Sunderland, Kirkstall (Leeds) and Newcastle-under-Lyme, with a further five under development. It will use
Investment bank Moelis has appointed John T. Grady as a senior adviser based in Boston.
Grady (pictured) will be responsible for working closely with client coverage bankers and product specialists to broaden client relationships and provide senior level advice and expertise to the firm and its clients.
Grady has over 25 years of experience in financial services in senior positions across asset management, private wealth management and banking.
He was most recently a managing director and head of new business development at Athena Capital, an investment management firm based outside Boston.
Prior to that role, he was the managing director
Lionsgate, a producer and distributor of motion pictures and television programming, has formed a partnership with private investment firm Saban Capital Group to operate and manage Tiger Gate, an operator of pay TV channels and a distributor of TV programming and action and horror films across Asia.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Established by Lionsgate in partnership with William Pfeiffer and Paul Presburger in 2008, Tiger Gate currently operates the thriller/horror channel Thrill and the action channel KIX.
The channels, which launched in Indonesia in August 2009, will launch in Hong Kong and Singapore on 28 April.
Prospect Capital has made a secured debt investment of USD35m in Shearer’s Foods, a manufacturer and distributor of snack food products based in Brewster, Ohio, to support the acquisition of Snack Alliance.
Founded in 1974, Shearer’s is the largest producer of kettle cooked potato chips in the US.
Shearer’s also produces traditional potato chips, tortilla chips, cheese curls, and other snack products.
The company serves a blue-chip list of co-pack, branded, private label, and food service customers.
Robert Shearer, the company’s chief executive officer and the former chairman of the board of directors for the Snack Food Association, has played
Private equity firm The Carlyle Group has appointed Eric Kump as a managing director for leveraged buyouts at Carlyle Europe Partners.
Kump (pictured) joins Carlyle from Dubai International Capital where he was head of the European private equity team.
He brings more than 15 years of experience in the private equity industry to Carlyle. Kump is based in London.
William E. Conway, co-founder and managing director, The Carlyle Group, says: “With huge experience in private equity and a track record of successful investments spanning various sectors, investment sizes and geographies, Eric will be an excellent addition to our strong European
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