The talent can feel their chances getting as stale as the pre-sliced bagels. The agony of the wait, and being able to eyeball the sizeable audience that prepares for their arrival, is enough to offset the frigid air conditioning. Team by team, one by one, they’re shuffled on-stage, then off—just as quickly as they can showcase their capabilities, right after, they’re being either complemented or questioned and then it’s out the door. Simon Cowell’s latest game show experiment? Nope: it’s angel investing. And it’s thriving in New York City. In a conference room overlooking the Manhattan skyline, the New York Angels welcome on an early June day about a half-dozen entrepreneurial teams—peHUB attended the off-record meeting under the expectation we would not publish the companies’ names.
Eliza Corp., a provider of integrated healthcare communication strategies, analytics and business intelligence, has inked an undisclosed amount of financing from private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners. The round is the first institutional financing for Eliza, and will be used to provide liquidity to some shareholders as well as provide growth capital. Following the transaction, Eliza’s founders and senior management team will continue to own a majority of the company. Parthenon has offices in Boston and San Francisco.
Buyout shop Penta Investments will submit an offer to buy troubled Austrian engineering group A-TEC, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing a report in the newspaper Wirtschaftsblatt. A-TEC needs to find a buyer by June 30 under a deal with creditors struck in December, Reuters wrote. Terms of the offer were not disclosed.
Leonard Green & Partners and funds advised by CVC Capital Partners have signed an all-cash deal to buy BJ's Wholesale Club for $2.8 billion. BJ's shareholders will receive $51.25 per share, representing a 7% premium to the closing price of BJ's shares on June 28. Morgan Stanley acted as financial advisor to BJ's. Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup Global Markets, Barclays Capital and Jefferies & Company, acted as financial advisors, and – in addition to General Electric Capital and Wells Fargo Capital Finance – provided fully committed financing to CVC and LGP.
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Apollo Global Management is planning to invest up to $500 million in Indian steel pipe manufacturer Welspun Corp., according to the company, Reuters reported Wednesday. The private equity firm said it will put 13.05 billion rupees ($290 million) in Welspun, Reuters wrote.
American Apparel Inc., which recently raised $14.9 million from private investors including Canadian financier Michael Serruya and Delavaco Capital, is in talks to replace two of its six board members, Reuters reported, citing news from Bloomberg. Serruva and Delavaco Capital may buy $8 million of additional shares in the coming weeks, Bloomberg reported.
(Reuters) – Google Inc, frustrated by a string of failed attempts to crack social networking, is taking another stab at fending off Facebook and other hot social sites with a new service called Google Plus. Google designed the service, unveiled on Tuesday, to tie together all of its online properties, laying the foundation for a […]
Private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management will invest about $175.5 million into First BanCorp, Reuters said. Oaktree is the second buyout shop to invest in First BanCorp in the past two months. Thomas H Lee Partners agreed to invest $180 million in the Puerto Rico-based bank in May. Oaktree will own a quarter of the bank, once the $425 million preferred shares held by the U.S. Treasury are converted into common stock, Reuters wrote.
Canada's Dollarama Inc.’s largest shareholder will exit the company, selling its stake to an unidentified financial institution for $301 million, Reuters reported. Bain Dollarama, which is indirectly owned by private equity firm Bain Capital, will sell its 9.2 million shares for C$32.50 each, a slight discount on the company’s closing price Monday. Bain Dollarama's stake represented 12.4% of Dollarama's about 73.65 million outstanding shares, Reuters said.