NVM Private Equity has backed a management buy-out (MBO) at Presteigne Broadcast Hire, a specialist in the broadcast equipment hire sector in the UK. The business hires a selection of specialist equipment predominantly to outside broadcast companies with a particular focus on the live sport and event sector. Founded
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets has appointed Mark Gilligan as head of infrastructure equity, effective from 3 October. Based in London, Gilligan (pictured) will report to Ruulke Bagijn, global head of real assets private equity at AXA IM – Real Assets, and will have responsibility for the infrastructure equity
Seyfarth Shaw has appointed Gregory A Markel as a partner in the firm’s litigation department based in New York. Markel joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York. Markel’s practice focuses on high-stakes litigation regarding securities and antitrust issues, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and directors' and officers'
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised FLSV Fund Administration Services (FAS) and its owners on its disposal to Sanne Group for a total consideration of USD65.8 million subject to customary adjustments. The transaction is expected to complete by the end of November 2016. FAS is a New York-headquartered business
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed David Marshall as a partner in London. Marshall joins the firm from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain where he was a partner. He has over 15 years’ experience of advising clients on UK and cross-border private equity and venture capital transactions with a
Law firm Goodwin has elected 15 lawyers, including London-based private equity specialist Gemma Roberts, to the partnership with effect from 1 October. Roberts, who becomes Goodwin’s 12th partner in London, advises on private equity transactions with a particular focus on the middle market and corporate mergers and acquisitions. She represents private
Bryan, Garnier & Co, a pan-European investment bank focusing on growth companies, has appointed Gary Lilley as managing director of its European sales desk in New York. With over 30 years of institutional equity sales experience in both London and New York, Lilley will take on the commercial follow-up of
True Capital has acquired Blackbird Retail, the owner of one of the UK’s largest online furniture retailers, The Cotswold Company. True Capital is partnering with the existing management team who will continue to lead the company through its next stage of growth. True Capital will use its sector specialist
Development Partners International (DPI), an African private equity firm with USD1.1 billion under management, has acquired through its ADP II fund a stake in Général Emballage, a packaging business in Algeria, which specialises in the manufacturing and processing of corrugated cardboard. ADP II closed in March 2015 at USD725 million,
Independent private and institutional client service provider JTC Group has appointed Dirk Oppelaar as the new managing director of its Geneva office. In his new role, Oppelaar will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the company’s Swiss operation, in addition to acting as a key figure in the ongoing
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