Kinetic Partners, the global financial services advisory firm, has made two promotions in its team in Hong Kong. AnnMarie Croswell has been promoted to member and Katrina Banh to associate director within Kinetic Partners regulatory compliance team in Hong Kong. Since establishing in Hong Kong two years ago, Kinetic
The Abraaj Group has, through one of its funds, acquired a stake in Kool Food, a Moroccan chocolate confectionery manufacturer based in Casablanca. Kool Food was founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Anas Lahlou and specialises in developing, producing and selling chocolate confections, powder drinks as well as other sweet and
LoneStar, backed by private equity firm AEA Investors, has bought Hydrobolt, a manufacturer and distributor of high integrity fully traceable specialty fasteners, machined components, and flanges and fittings predominately servicing the global oil and gas and power generation markets. The transaction, which has been managed by Rothschild, represents an exit
Adam Chester has joined the Jersey office of Walkers as a partner in the firm’s finance and corporate group. Prior to joining Walkers, Chester founded CGI Legal, an independent corporate legal services provider in Jersey, which provided non-contentious and transactional legal services. Before that, he spent six years at
Private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners has acquired Synchrogenix, a regulatory writing and related services firm. Synchrogenix provides services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies worldwide. Concurrent with the transaction, Synchrogenix will be merged into Certara, a global technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consultancy acquired by Arsenal
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to AMT-SYBEX Group on its sale to Capita plc for an initial consideration of GBP82 million. There is a contingent consideration of up to GBP23 million based on the business reaching specific profit targets over the next 12 months. Completion of
European growth private equity firm Keensight Capital has promoted Philippe Crochet to the position of partner. Crochet (pictured) has 15 years of international experience in the telecom industry as well as in private equity. He began his career in 1998 at Nortel, then moved on to Algety Telecom before
Denver-based private equity firm KRG Capital Partners has completed the sale of Focus Group to WSP Global. Focus is a provider of engineering services in Western Canada to the energy and infrastructure end markets. WSP is a professional services firms, working with governments, businesses, architects and planners and providing
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed an investment to support the multi-million pound management buy-out of Connect Communications, a provider of telephone systems and unified communications channels to businesses across the UK, mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa. Established in 1992, Connect Communications manages the day-to-day running of multi-site
Middle market private equity firm Castle Harlan has acquired Gold Star Foods, a nutritional food distributor to K-12 schools in California, Arizona and Nevada. The seller was the Chicago private equity firm Prospect Partners. Gold Star, based in Ontario, California, serves 380 school districts comprised of more than 3,500
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