AlpInvest Partners has promoted Michael Hacker to managing director and Michael Camacho to principal. Both joined AlpInvest’s secondary investment team in New York in 2007.
2 min read · 27 January 2014
Provence Technologies, a specialist fine chemistry research group, and its subsidiary Provepharm, developers of pharmaceutical applications, have invested in a new head office in Marseille. The investment will also fund the launch of a specialist incubator for the health care sector.
3 min read · 27 January 2014
Hutton Collins is backing Italian healthcare IT systems company Dedalus Group. The investment will be made through a subordinated loan and a minority equity interest.
4 min read · 27 January 2014
Castanea Partners has promoted Julian Chu to operating partner. Chu, who joined Castanea as vice president in 2012, has over fifteen years of experience in the digital marketing and ecommerce sectors.
2 min read · 27 January 2014
Highland Capital Partners Europe has led an investment into AMCS Group, an end-to-end software provider for the recycling & waste management industry. The UK is AMCS Group’s largest market, with 30 staff based in its recently expanded Glasgow site.
4 min read · 27 January 2014
Partners Group and Equis Funds Group have closed a $250 million investment to develop a dedicated Japanese solar platform. The investment consortium, co-led by Partners Group and Equis Funds Group on behalf of their clients and including investors such as Babson Capital, LGsuper and Qantas Superannuation, will fund the construction of utility-scale solar power plants across Japan, with the first plants expected to start generating electricity in the second half of 2014.
3 min read · 27 January 2014
Catch up on the latest after the weekend including how GP clawback is calculated, how much Orange County is expected to commit to PE this year and just exactly what happens to companies that get private equity money.
1 min read · 27 January 2014
VMware is to acquire AirWatch, a provider of enterprise mobile management and security solutions. VMware will acquire AirWatch for approximately $1.175 billion in cash and approximately $365 million of installment payments and assumed unvested equity. AirWatch is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.
4 min read · 23 January 2014
Commonfund Capital, has promoted Cari Lodge of Darien, CT, to the position of managing director. Lodge has been an important contributor to the organization’s secondaries investment business and will help lead continued growth within this important investment practice.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
Trive Capital has appointed Dan Lenahan, vice president, to the Trive team. Prior to joining Trive, Lenahan was a vice president at Insight Equity, a Dallas, TX area private equity firm.
1 min read · 23 January 2014
