Following its recent acquisition of Bento Sushi (Bento), YO! Sushi (YO!) has appointed Richard Hodgson as Chief Executive Officer, commencing in December. Hodgson was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Pizza Express, where he was instrumental in driving the internationalisation of the business. As agreed with the Board when Mayfair
Christopher J Flynn has been named CEO of both TCRD and THL Credit effective 30 November, 2017. Sam W Tillinghast, co-CEO of THL Credit alongside Flynn, will resign his position on the same date. The current management team of THL Credit, which has deep credit, origination, and operational experience across
Libra, a specialist in financial software for the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, has closed a USD7.8 million Series A round led by a prominent, multi-billion dollar European family office. Participating investors include Liberty City Ventures, leading trader and liquidity provider XBTO, Boost VC, and Lee Linden. The funding will
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK VII Fund is to sell the Ramudden Group, a Nordic provider of work zone safety solutions, to funds managed by Triton. Founded in 2005, Ramudden is a specialist provider of work zone safety solutions for the road, construction and industrial sectors. The service offering includes rental
Kirkland & Ellis is advising a consortium comprised of funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia and CITIC Capital Holdings on its USD300 million proposed acquisition of Wall Street English (WSE), a global private English language school business, from Pearson, a leading global learning company. In 2016, WSE served 180,000 learners
RSM’s capital markets team has advised Keystone Law Group, a UK Top 100 law firm, on its GBP50 million initial public offering (IPO). The AIM listing will help the ambitious law firm, which was founded in 2002, to increase brand recognition and redeem outstanding shareholder loans to leave the Group
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has launched its second UK Infrastructure Debt Fund, which is aimed at institutional investors and will invest in core UK infrastructure assets, including primary brownfield and greenfield transactions within the transport, energy and social infrastructure sectors. Like AllianzGI’s pioneering, first UK Infrastructure Debt Fund, this new
Tikehau Capital has successfully completed the placement of a EUR300 million bond issue maturing in November 2023. This inaugural senior unsecured bond issue has a fixed annual coupon of 3 per cent. The settlement-delivery is scheduled for 27 November 2017. The proceeds of this issue will be used for
VITL, the personalised nutrition platform, has finalised a GBP550,000 round of follow on funding, led by the Angel CoFund and backed by Zoopla founder and CEO Alex Chesterman, and Bulldog founder and CEO Simon Duffy. The company will use the investment to expand its features and products, as it aims
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) is to acquire a portfolio of interests in ten UK public-private partnership projects for just over GBP400 million from Aberdeen UK Infrastructure Partners (Aberdeen). PiP will manage the interests directly. The acquisition, by the PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF), includes hospitals, highways operations and maintenance
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