Mourant Ozannes has acted as Cayman Islands counsel for the buyer group in connection with the take-private of China Nepstar Chain Drugstore, a Cayman Islands exempted company formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The take-private was effected by way of a Cayman Islands statutory merger, pursuant to which
Palatine Private Equity-backed holiday park group Verdant Leisure has acquired its seventh leisure park. Crosslaw Caravan Park in the Scottish Borders is the third holiday park purchase in the last nine months for the bespoke leisure park operator. The park will be renamed Coldingham Bay Leisure Park with immediate
Shard Capital Partners has held the first closing of the Suir Valley Venture Fund of Suir Valley Funds ICAV, the first Irish focused venture capital fund in Ireland that uses a regulated fund with a fully regulated Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM). The fund invests in early stage software companies
Cloud solutions provider (CSP) Cloud Direct has acquired Connect Support Services, following hot on the heels of its January acquisition of AOG Group, a Microsoft gold partner for hosting and communications. In previous months, Cloud Direct acquired Redblade in July 2016, ihotdesk in December 2015 and Datel Business Systems in June 2015. The acquisition of Connect
One of First Allied Securities’ affiliated independent financial advisory firms, Lifestyle Financial Advisors, has completed the merger of the Laura A Nagle independent advisory practice into its organisation. Nagle, a 35-year industry veteran, has joined Lifestyle with more than USD167 million in client assets, as of 31 October 2016.
Palamon Capital Partners has completed the sale of SARquavitae, an elderly care provider in Spain for EUR550 million. Palamon sold SARquavitae’s operating business to GeriaVi, which holds Geriatros, another leading player in the Spanish elderly care market, and is a subsidiary of DomusVi (a PAI Partners portfolio company) for EUR440 million.
Mid Europa Partners is to sell Alpha Medical, provider of laboratory testing services in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to Unilabs. The transaction, which is subject to customary clearance by local competition authorities, and is expected to close in Q2 2017, represents the largest healthcare transaction in Central Europe since
Private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners is to acquire a majority stake in Foreside Financial Group, a provider of a variety of regulatory compliance and distribution solutions to clients in the investment management industry. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Established in 2005 and based
Proper fund governance has long been championed by leading offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman, which for the last decade has encouraged its hedge fund clients to hold at least annual directors meetings. Initially this was met with some resistance according to Robert Briant (pictured), Partner and head of
Circle Partners is an independent fund administrator with offices in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and across the EU, the Americas and Hong Kong. "We've seen a lot of growth in new BVI fund vehicles over the last 12 months – both the Incubator Fund and the more popular Approved Fund,"
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