Patron Capital and Electra Partners have agreed the GBP325 million acquisition of Grainger Retirement Solutions, the home reversion equity release business of Grainger plc. Completion of the transaction, in which each of Patron and Electra will invest GBP45 million, is subject to regulatory approvals. Board representation will be equal between
MCI.EuroVentures fund has signed an agreement for the purchase of 100 per cent of the shares in Mobiltek, the owner of Dotpay, a Polish electronic payment specialist. The latest investment of the MCI.EuroVentures fund is in line with the strategy to strengthen the fund’s exposure to services in the financial
GE Capital, Corporate Finance has served lead arranger on a USD180 million senior secured credit facility for Arbor Investments, a Chicago-based food and beverage private investment firm, to acquire a majority equity stake in DPI Specialty Foods. GE Capital Markets served as sole lead arranger and bookrunner on the transaction.
The Riverside Company has acquired Euromed, a provider of standardised herbal extracts and natural active substances for the pharmaceutical, dietary supplement and cosmetic industries. Euromed is a corporate carve-out from Meda, a Swedish pharmaceutical company. Based in Barcelona, Euromed processes more than 4,000 tons of raw materials every year to
Vinson & Elkins (V&E) has promoted 10 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective 1 January, 2016. The new partners are: Mike Heidler and Stephen Stout in Austin; Shaun Rogers and Danny Tobey in Dallas; Stephen Jacobson, Julian Seiguer, David Wall and Mingda Zhao in Houston; Dan Komarek in New York;
Aquila Capital has increased its exposure to renewable energy in Scandinavia by agreeing a majority co-investment in Norway’s largest operational wind park, Midtfjellet. The project has an installed capacity of 110 MW and an extension permit of 40 MW. The shares have been purchased from the Norwegian utility Energiselskapet Buskerud
Private equity firm Wellspring Capital Management's portfolio company ProAmpac has completed its previously announced acquisition of Coating Excellence International (CEI), a specialist in wide web extrusion coating and laminating of film, foil, paper, board and nonwovens. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. ProAmpac, formed by Wellspring through
Annual global M&A volume surpassed USD5 trillion for the first time ever in 2015, according to data released by Dealogic. This record-setting volume breaks the previous record of USD4.6 trillion set in 2007, by 9 per cent. There were 10 USD50 billion+ M&A transactions announced in 2015 worth a combined
Graphite Capital has sold its fund investment business Graphite Enterprise Trust (GET), an investment company investing in private equity funds and private companies, to Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). Graphite established GET in 1981, raising GBP23 million through a listing on the London Stock Exchange. Over the past decade, GET’s
Funds associated with private equity firm Providence are to acquire Biteì Finance International (Bite) from Mid Europa Partners for an undisclosed price. The transaction is expected to complete in the first quarter of 2016. Bite controls a leading mobile operator in the Baltic countries (No2 in Lithuania and No3 in
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