Funds managed by FL Partners, a Dublin-based investment boutique, have acquired Potensis Recruitment, one of the largest recruiters to the UK housebuilding and construction industries, together with SEAL Resource Management, a related business. Potensis, founded in 2000, provides temporary and permanent recruitment services to the residential housebuilding, social housing and
Céréa Capital II has completed its fourth investment, participating in the reorganisation of the capital and financial structure of GPS Group, in partnership with Bpifrance and the company's management. Based in Bordeaux, GPS Group is specialised in industrial packaging logistics, used for the transport of viscous or liquid materials such
EOS Investment Management has acquired, through its energy fund Efesto Energy, a portfolio of approximately 40 MW owned by Telmo Group from Bergamo, Italy. This EUR140 million transaction places EOS IM’s latest acquisition among the biggest transactions in the last 12 months in Italy in the renewable energy sector. The
MARU Group, a market and customer insights company backed by Primary Capital Partners, has acquired research technology platform Usurv for an undisclosed sum. Usurv will subsequently be rebranded to Maru/Usurv and founders Martin Bysh and Guy Potter will remain with the company to oversee its growth trajectory and development.
Huron Capital Partners has closed the Huron Fund V with USD550 million of total limited partner capital commitments. The fund, which is Huron Capital Partners’ sixth investment vehicle, closed at its hard cap and in excess of its USD500 million target. Receiving commitments from a number of top-tier investors,
Law firm Noerr has advised Scout24 on the closing a new syndicated loan facility. Noerr’s Frankfurt partners Andreas Naujoks and Dr Torsten Wehrhahn provided the team lead in this deal. The Munich internet group Scout24, which had its IPO a year ago, is replacing its previous syndicated loan facility
The last six months of M&A activity across the US/UK M&A corridor reached USD126 billion, with US outbound deals to the UK rising 3.6 per cent and UK outbound deals to the US falling by 20.4 per cent. According to the Deloitte US/UK M&A Deal Monitor, the final quarter of
The volume of European restructurings is expected to hit its next peak in 2017, according to a survey by Debtwire in conjunction with independent investment bank Greenhill and law firm Orrick. The study, for Debtwire Europe’s 13th European Distressed Debt Market Outlook, canvassed the opinion of 130 European hedge fund
A management group led by Joseph M Limber, in partnership with Ampersand Capital Partners and 1315 Capital, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the commercial laboratory of Genoptix. Genoptix is a Novartis company that specialises in oncology diagnostics and informatics services. The transaction is expected to close
Noerr has advised Novelis, a specialist in rolled aluminium products owned by India’s Hindalco Industries, on the refinancing of its USD1.8 billion term loan B line still existing after its acquisition by Hindalco. The refinancing and restructuring transaction was handled by an international banking consortium under the lead of the
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