Kirkland & Ellis is advising a consortium comprised of funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia and CITIC Capital Holdings on its USD300 million proposed acquisition of Wall Street English (WSE), a global private English language school business, from Pearson, a leading global learning company. In 2016, WSE served 180,000 learners
RSM’s capital markets team has advised Keystone Law Group, a UK Top 100 law firm, on its GBP50 million initial public offering (IPO). The AIM listing will help the ambitious law firm, which was founded in 2002, to increase brand recognition and redeem outstanding shareholder loans to leave the Group
VITL, the personalised nutrition platform, has finalised a GBP550,000 round of follow on funding, led by the Angel CoFund and backed by Zoopla founder and CEO Alex Chesterman, and Bulldog founder and CEO Simon Duffy. The company will use the investment to expand its features and products, as it aims
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) is to acquire a portfolio of interests in ten UK public-private partnership projects for just over GBP400 million from Aberdeen UK Infrastructure Partners (Aberdeen). PiP will manage the interests directly. The acquisition, by the PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF), includes hospitals, highways operations and maintenance
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has reached an agreement to sell svt Group (svt), a provider of passive fire protection products and services as well as restoration management services, to Ergon Capital Partners III (Ergon). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. svt
BTL Group (BTL) has closed previously announced brokered and non-brokered private placements raising a gross total of approximately CAD15.3 million. BTL will use the capital raised to deliver its blockchain platform Interbit in early 2018. The company is targeting enterprises that can license Interbit to either build their own applications
Britbots, an organisation devoted to promoting the fortunes of UK-based robotics companies, has invested the first part of a GBP300,000 funding package for Tethered Drone Systems. Britbots operates the British Robotics Seed (SEIS) Fund and the equity crowdfunding platform, Britbots CROWD, which both support promising robotics-related businesses performing autonomous tasks
China Renaissance has expanded its asset management business with an array of strategies and approaches to investing in companies across high-growth sectors of China’s economy. The business will offer a range of options for investors who want exposure to “new economy” entrepreneurs, those with progressive business models built around innovations in
Quilvest Private Equity, the private equity arm of the Quilvest group, has acquired a majority stake in GEDH from Platina Equity Solutions, together with CEO Amin Khiari. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. GEDH is a French network of higher education schools dedicated to communication, arts management
The London team at Ropes & Gray has made some predictions for the private equity market in 2018, against the backdrop of market uncertainty caused by a range of factors including Brexit. Phil Sanderson (pictured), private equity partner at Ropes & Gray, says: “M&A in the UK will remain resilient
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