Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central and South Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of Romanian supermarket chain Profi Rom Food. Profi is a modern retail network with the widest geographical spread in Romania, having a strong presence in almost 250 cities, smaller towns and villages.
Goldman Sachs has agreed to invest USD95 million in MDC Partners through the purchase of non-voting convertible preference shares (the Preference Shares). In connection with the closing of the transaction, Bradley J Gross, a managing director in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, will join the MDC Partners
Global investment bank GCA achieved record revenues of GBP148 million and EBIT of GBP27 million in 2016, successfully completing 133 deals over the course of the year. This is GCA’s first set of results since its July 2016 merger with Altium. Recent high profile deals included advising JayZ on the
Cairngorm Capital Partners is making a further investment in Polyframe Group Limited (Polyframe), a UK manufacturer of trade windows and doors, to facilitate Polyframe’s acquisition and merger with Customade Group Limited (Customade). The enlarged group, with revenues in excess of GBP100 million, will trade as Customade and now has a
APS Holding (APS) has acquired a portfolio of Croatian non-performing loans (NPL) with a nominal value significantly exceeding EUR100 million. The firm’s newly established office in Croatia is expected to have more than 40 employees in the first half of the year. The acquisition includes secured and unsecured non-performing corporate
Private equity firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired substantially all the assets of Xtera Communications (Xtera), a provider of innovative and bespoke sub-sea fibre optic solutions. HIG previously provided debtor-in-possession financing to the Xtera debtors in connection with the chapter 11 case. Established in 1998 and based in the UK
Darby Private Equity’s Darby Converging Europe Fund III (SCS) SICAR (DCEF III) has completed a mezzanine debt investment in Unilink SA (Unilink), strengthening Unilink’s balance sheet and providing capital for growth through acquisitions. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Unilink is the leading insurance multiagency in Poland
Mark Hardwicke of boutique investment bank, Invenio Corporate Finance, writes on the tactics required to make a successful exit. The word was not even in the dictionary five years ago. Businesses were not making plans for it, the government was refusing to consider it, and almost no-one was predicting it.
Dyal Capital Partners (Dyal), a division of Neuberger Berman Group, has closed Dyal Capital Partners III (PE), its third fund, with approximately USD5.3 billion of committed capital. Dyal increased the target fund size by over USD2.0 billion during the marketing period, as investment opportunities increased and investor interest in the
Vision Capital has realised a 5.2x return its investment in Nordax Group AB (Nordax), a niche bank in the Nordic region. Vision Capital acquired a majority stake in Nordax in July 2010. During Vision Capital’s ownership, Nordax successfully implemented several important strategic initiatives to improve its business, including expansion into
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