Shareholders in the Standard Life European Private Equity Trust have approved plans to increase the dividend, simplify the fee structure and increase the flexibility of the investment strategy to enhance its overall exposure to private equity. Reflecting the strategic changes, the trust is removing the reference to “European”, simplifying its
Cobepa has acquired Brandblock Holding (HG) from Gilde Buy-out Partners. HG is a supplier of specialty consumer cleaning and maintenance products with headquarters in The Netherlands and growing sales in the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Italy. Baird served as the exclusive financial adviser to Gilde in the transaction
There is continued confidence in the venture capital trust (VCT) sector with fundraising for the 2016/17 tax year to 31 December 2016 up 53 per cent on fundraising to 31 December in the 2015/16 tax year, according to data published by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). Some GBP169.5 million
Angeles Equity Partners has closed Angeles Equity Partners I (AEP I) with USD360 million in capital commitments. The commitments came from a diverse group of institutional investors, including public and private pension plans, endowments, foundations, a sovereign wealth fund, and alternative asset managers in North America, Europe, and the Middle
Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, acting on behalf of its clients, and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, have agreed to acquire European medical laboratory services operator, Cerba HealthCare. The company is being acquired from PAI Partners, a
Between July and December 2016, Platina Energy Partners successfully restructured with Unicredit (London Branch) circa EUR100 million of non-recourse long-term financing, originally used to finance a 20 MW photovoltaic portfolio, consisting of three operational projects located in mainland Spain. The financial restructuring of the portfolio will allow the optimisation of the financing
Mount Street is to acquire EAA Portfolio Advisors (EPA) from Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA). At the end of 2009, EAA was created as the asset management company to manage the assets of the former WestLB. EAA was founded as a public law agency under the German Financial Market Stabilisation Fund
Francisco Partners has sold Source Photonics to a private equity consortium led by Redview Capital and Asia-IO, with participation from investors including TR Capital, Axiom Asia and Aberdeen Asset Management. Source Photonics is a provider of communications and data connectivity components and modules in next-generation data centres, mobile and fixed-line
Goodwin has advised Spice Private Equity (Bermuda), a subsidiary of the Swiss investment company Spice Private Equity Ltd, on a USD31.1 million sale of assets. Seven assets were sold including all primary fund investments, simplifying cash management for Spice and creating further capacity for new direct investments. The portfolio
Noerr has advised Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) and Siemens Bank on financing the purchase of automotive supplier Dieter Braun by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG). The DBAG Fund VI, advised by DBAG, has acquired the majority of the shares in Dieter Braun by way of a buyout. The seller is the
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