The total value of UK mergers, acquisitions, flotations, rights issues and placements was GBP181.4 billion in the first nine months of 2011, an increase of 15.7 per cent on the same period in 2010, according to Experian Corpfin. This was despite the overall volume of deals falling by 6.7 per
Practice Plan, a leading UK provider of membership plans and other support services to dental practices, backed by UK private equity house Dunedin, has made two transformational acquisitions; Isoplan, a UK dental plan provider, and Medenta, the market leader in dental patient finance. Based in Oswestry, Shropshire, Practice Plan is
Headland Capital Partners’ Private Equity Fund 6 has acquired a 26.45% equity shareholding in Miclyn Express Offshore Limited (MEO) for USD141 million. Headquartered in Singapore, MEO is one of the largest providers of offshore vessels to the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Middle East with
Blackboard has completed its acquisition by an investor group led by affiliates of Providence Equity Partners in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD1.64 billion in enterprise value, plus the assumption of approximately USD136 million in debt. As previously announced, the transaction was approved by Blackboard stockholders at a
Monroe Capital has funded a USD27.5 million unitranche facility to support the acquisition of Fabco Automotive Corporation Partners by Wynnchurch Capital, Ltd. Based in Livermore, CA, Fabco is a leading North American supplier of highly engineered, specialty gearbox, axle and transfer case products for all-wheel drive, medium and heavy duty
Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has appointed Alex Thomson as an Investment Manager. Thomson joins from Investec Investment Banking. At Investec, Thomson spent four years in the Corporate Finance department working on a range of public and private transactions, principally in the consumer and healthcare sectors. Prior to this, he qualified as a chartered accountant
Velocis Fund has met its first fund closing target. The real estate private equity fund accepted USD36.5 million in capital commitments and an additional USD4.7 million of co-investment equity for a total of USD41.2 million of equity under management. Incorporating maximum leverage of 60 per cent, this first closing will
Independent fund services provider Butterfield Fulcrum, and Luxembourg Investment Solutions SA (LIS), a regulated (UCITS-licensed) management company, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to provide a complete suite of management company and fund administration services in Luxembourg. This relationship offers non-European fund initiators a quick and cost effective solution to
Some 674 private equity-backed buyouts deals worth an aggregate USD60.6bn were announced in Q3 2011, a 23% decrease in value from the previous quarter’s total of USD78.7bn, according to Preqin’s quarterly deals data. A total of 254 exits valued at an aggregate USD56.2bn were announced in Q3 2011, 54% down
Latham & Watkins represented DIC, the private equity arm of Dubai Holding, in connection with the sale of Ishraq Dubai LLC (Ishraq Dubai) to Almulla Group. Ishraq Dubai was 51% owned by DIC and 49% owned by Ishraq Gulf Real Estate Holding BSC, which in turn is majority owned by
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