Lombard Investments has sold a major portion of its stake in Somboon Advance Technology, a Thailand-based original equipment manufacturing supplier of auto parts.
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Read more »Lombard Investments has sold a major portion of its stake in Somboon Advance Technology, a Thailand-based original equipment manufacturing supplier of auto parts.
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Actis invested $58 million in Companhia Sulamericana de Distribuição, which operates supermarket chains São Francisco and Cidade Canção. This marks Actis’ first investment in Brazil.
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Brookfield Asset Management has appointed Chris Harris as client relations manager for the private funds group.
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CallMiner, a provider of enterprise speech analytics, has closed USD4m in series C financing from Sigma Partners, Intersouth Partners, Inflexion Partners and an undisclosed partner.
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Crescent Financial Partners has purchased a minority stake in IT Trading’s proprietary quantitative trading software for USD3.2m.
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John DelPonti has joined the valuation and financial risk management practice of Navigant Capital Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Navigant Consulting, as a managing director in the Washington, DC office.
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Arsenal Capital Partners' portfolio company Novolyte Technologies, a manufacturer and supplier of specialty electrolyte materials for lithium ion battery and energy storage applications, has created a joint venture with Foosung, a producer of specialty lithium salts for lithium batteries.
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Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in financial services, has made a USD225m investment in CRT Capital Group, an independent institutional broker-dealer based in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Market conditions are now providing opportunities for private equity managers and their investors in selective areas of the market, according to research produced by professional services company Towers Watson.
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Galtere, a US registered investment manager, has launched an agribusiness private equity strategy that aims to take advantage of a fundamental shift in global market dynamics and a growing worldwide demand for commodities from institutional investors.
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Darby Overseas Investments, the PE arm of Franklin Templeton Investments,said that its Darby Technology Ventures Fund sold Atvi to Euronet Worldwide. Ativi is a Brazilian prepaid payments processor. Financial terms were not announced.
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CallMiner Inc. secured $4 million through a Series C financing. The funding came from Inflexion Partners, Intersouth Partners and Sigma Partners. CallMiner is a Fort Myers, Fla.-based provider of enterprise speech analytics. It plans to use proceeds towards its expansion.
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Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market buyout and growth equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement for a majority investment in Unite Private Networks, a provider of high-bandwidth, fibre-based communications networks.
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The fund managed by BNP Paribas Clean Energy Partners has acquired 100 per cent of Gortahile Windfarm, which owns and operates a 20 megawatt wind farm in County Laois, Ireland, from ABO Wind Ireland.
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Aquiline Capital Partners LLC made a $225 million investment in Stamford, Conn.-based CRT Capital Group, which is an institutional broker-dealer. The investment includes funds from CRT’s management.
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University of Michigan’s Frankel Commercialization Fund provided an initial investment to Ambiq Micro, which is developing microcontroller. The amount invested was not disclosed. Frankel Commercialization Fund is a student-led pre-seed investment vehicle. Ambiq Micro won a $250,000 prize in July from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco’s co-sponsored Global Business Plan Competition for university and business school students.
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Celator Pharmaceuticals raised $20 million in a Series D private equity financing. The Princeton, N.J.-based cancer treatment developer plans to use proceeds to complete clinical trials and other efforts to advance its CPX-351 liposome injection as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia. The latest funding round was led by a new investor, Thomas McNerney & Partners.
Read more »Black Pearl Capital, an asset management and advisory firm, has closed its first private equity fund with a committed capital of USD50m.
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Institutional Venture Partners has closed Institutional Venture Partners XIII, a USD750m later-stage venture capital and growth equity fund.
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Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has made an investment in Scalina, Brazil’s largest manufacturer and retailer of woman’s hosiery and lingerie.
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