MMC Ventures-backed Base79 is to be sold to Rightster Group in a GBP50 million deal. MMC invested in Base79 co-founders, Ashley Mackenzie and Richard Mansell, from an early stage in March 2010, and since then MMC has supported the company as a shareholder and board member in their journey to
France’s cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is rising considerably as the corporate M&A appetite once again returns to North America and Europe, according to a study by Robert W Baird Group. Of the USD450bn worth of M&A deals taken place so far in 2014 – the highest half year
HgCapital’s Parts Alliance has partnered with automotive parts business Andrew Page (AP) to acquire the business’s assets of Unipart Automotive, a UK supplier of car parts and workshop consumables. The deal, which is for an undisclosed sum, means that HgCapital’s Parts Alliance will acquire a total of 12 of the
The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has appointed Dr Dorothy Kelso as director, head of strategy and research. Kelso, a Ghanaian native, joins AVCA with 15 years of research, strategy and private equity experience gained at organisations including EY, Coller Capital, IE Consulting, the IMF and Incisive
TowerPoint Capital has entered into an agreement with AllianceBernstein Private Credit Investors to facilitate its ongoing acquisition of assets and accumulate diversified portfolios in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. "We are thrilled with the opportunity to have AllianceBernstein as our exclusive financial partner and to have access to their significant
ACON Equity Partners III has completed the purchase of Injured Workers Pharmacy (IWP) from Audax Group and Parthenon Capital Partners. IWP is a specialty pharmacy serving patients in the USD8 billion workers' compensation, automobile personal injury protection and personal injury pharmacy markets in the US. As part of this
European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity has picked up substantially in 2014 and already looks set to surpass the 10-year European average for the first time since 2007, says Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. With around USD373 billion booked in 2014, deal flow is comfortably exceeding 2013's relatively subdued totals.
Luxembourg financial services regulator CSSF has received a total number of 773 AIFM-related applications – 215 requests for authorisation and 558 requests for registration. Following the processing of the 215 requests for authorisation, 151 entities have been approved as AIFM by the CSSF as at 22 July 2014. Among
As investors gain more confidence in the global economy, the wheels of the Chinese inbound and outbound M&A industry are expected to turn continuously for the rest of 2014. Vivian Lam, partner, corporate department at Paul Hastings, says: “The slowdown of the Chinese economy will not have a negative impact
Alter Domus, a provider of fund administration and fund services, has adopted Thomson Reuters FATCA solution across its services platform to improve client identification and on-boarding. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which came into effect on 1 July 2014, is intended to reduce the levels of tax avoidance
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