Design-led SME housebuilder Backhouse has secured a GBP50 million investment from alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital to support major growth plans for the company in 2019 and beyond. This new investment by Cheyne Real Estate Credit (CRECH) Fund V – Opportunistic takes the form of a joint venture, giving Backhouse
An affiliate of LibreMax Capital (LibreMax), an asset management firm specialising in structured credit, is to acquire Trimaran Advisors, a US-based investment manager with expertise in managing collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), from KCAP Financial (KCAP). Trimaran currently manages six CLOs with approximately USD3 billion of assets under management. Following the
Willdan Group has completed its previously announced acquisition of Lime Energy Co, a national provider of energy solutions for utilities and their commercial customers. Under the terms of the agreement, Willdan acquired all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Lime Energy for USD120 million in cash, exclusive of
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has added Atlas Knowledge (Atlas) to its Mintra Group platform. This is the second add-on for Mintra since Riverside’s 2014 investment in the company. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, Atlas provides digital learning solutions for safety critical industries, primarily for the oil and
O’Melveny has represented Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), a global technology specialist in optical communications, in a definitive agreement under which II-VI Incorporated (NASDAQ:IIVI), will acquire the company in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately USD3.2 billion. The O’Melveny team was led by David Makarechian, Silicon Valley Partner and
Moneypenny, the UK’s leading outsourced communications provider delivering telephone answering, live chat, switchboard and multichannel customer services, is partnering with private equity investor ECI Partners to help drive the next stage of the company’s growth. ECI’s significant investment will support Moneypenny’s ambitious plans to substantially grow its turnover by expanding
Aquila Capital is to acquire a portfolio of 21 operational small-scale hydropower plants located in Northern and Central Portugal with a total capacity of approximately 100 MW from EDP. The investment marks Aquila Capital’s first step into Portugal’s hydropower market. Aquila Capital is already active in the Iberian Peninsula’s integrated
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap II Fund has completed its first transaction in the Benelux by acquiring 2Connect, a leading manufacturer of specialised cables and connectors, from the van der Put family. Financial terms of the transaction, which sees the firm’s founder reinvest alongside the fund, have
Following the initial boom of liberalisation, new restrictions are having a severe cooling effect on the nascent international Chinese PERE market – fund managers that are in it for the long-haul will need to up their game during this period of tightening, writes Jimmy Leong, Managing Director in Asia, at
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has made a strategic investment in alternative investments platform iCapital Network.
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