Harris Williams & Co has acted as adviser to private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners on the pending sale of its portfolio company ESE World to RPC Group. ESE is a European provider of temporary waste storage solutions. The pending transaction is expected to close in the first
100 Women in Hedge Funds has launched a new brand and formally changed its name to 100 Women in Finance. The organisation says the change reflects its growth over the past 15 years from a small group of women working in the hedge fund industry in New York to a
Increased protection against growing cybersecurity threats will be a top driver impact private equity firms’ IT spend in the next 12 months, according to a survey by Eze Castle Integration. The 2016 Private Equity CTO Survey, conducted in partnership with IDG Research, polled 101 senior-level executives. It found other
Japanese denim brand EVISU has agreed a buy-back deal for its retailing and franchising rights in China. Parent company EVISU Group Limited is reinvesting, alongside private equity fund Cassia Investment, to buy back New Elegant Trading’s interest in their China joint venture, which is financially supported by IDG Capital.
The Abraaj Group has implemented RAVN Connect Enterprise, a cognitive search platform which is designed to transform the way users locate, leverage and collaborate on expertise across networks. RAVN Connect Enterprise, built upon the AI platform RAVN Applied Cognitive Engine (RAVN ACE), takes enterprise search, knowledge management and unstructured data
Decision Tech, a performance marketing and data company that owns and operates broadbandchoices.co.uk, has acquired comparemymobile.com for an undisclosed sum. The move comes just three months after Decision Tech completed the acquisition of sellmymobile.com, and strengthens the group’s presence in the mobile handset recycling market. The comparemymobile.com acquisition makes
European technology has come of age in 2016, with the total M&A deal value more than doubling in the last 12 months to USD127.2 billion, according to M&A advisory firm Magister Advisors. This was driven by the blockbuster acquisitions of ARM, Supercell and NXP. There was also a series
Burford Capital is to acquire GKC Holdings, the parent of Chicago-based Gerchen Keller Capital, for USD160 million in a combination of cash, Burford shares and loan notes and a further potential USD15 million in performance-based share consideration. The acquisition will be immediately accretive to earnings per share. GKC is
German hotel group Meinninger Hotels and private equity firm VIYM have signed a management agreement which will see Meinninger open its first hotel-hostel hybrid in Russia, as part of VIYM’s Nikolskiye Ryady development in Saint Petersburg. The overall cost of the Nikolskiye Ryady project, including both hotel properties – the
Vinson & Elkins has promoted eight lawyers to its partnership, effective 1 January 2017. The eight are Mark Brasher, Jason McIntosh, Becky Petereit, Bailey Pham, Simon Rootsey, Lande Spottswood, Thomas Zentner and Craig Zieminski. “Our new partners are outstanding attorneys who have shown tremendous dedication to the firm and
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