AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), the specialist European financial services private equity firm has competed an offering by AnaCap Financial Europe SA SICAV-RAIF (AFE) of EUR325 million of senior secured floating rate notes due 2024. The offering took place through the new Luxembourg Reserved Alternative Investment Fund, AFE, building on AnaCap’s
Promise Gluten Free, an innovative bakery which entered the gluten free market in 2012, has sold a majority stake to Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair). Promise, based in Donegal, Ireland and founded in 2011, is a group of companies comprising Aran Ard Teoranta (trading as Gallagher’s Bakery) and Cuisine Royale Manufacturing
OMERS Private Equity has agreed to sell Civica to funds managed and/or advised by Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, for a total consideration of GBP1,055 million, generating a 2.6x money multiple for OMERS. Civica is a leading provider of business-critical software, digital solutions and technology-based outsourcing
Ridge Road Capital Partners has completed the merger of legal software companies TrialWorks and Needles. Between them, the companies have a combined 55 years of operating history and over 2,500 law firm clients. The combination of TrialWorks and Needles creates the leader in case management software for plaintiff-focused law firms,
Oak Hill Capital Partners (Oak Hill) has successfully closed Oak Hill Capital Partners IV (Fund IV), a USD2.65 billion private equity buyout fund. The fund was significantly oversubscribed, surpassing its target of USD2.0 billion and its hard cap of USD2.5 billion. Oak Hill will continue its 30-year history of
Castlelake has completed the first and final closing of its fifth general purpose fund, Castlelake V at its hard cap of USD2.4 billion in capital commitments after four months of marketing. The fund’s investor base consists of both existing and new Castlelake limited partners based in the US, Canada, Europe,
Middle-market private equity firm Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has closed the previously announced sale of its portfolio company Dexter & Chaney (Dexter + Chaney) to Viewpoint Construction Software (Viewpoint). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington and founded in 1981, Dexter + Chaney is a provider
ArchOver, a peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has become a member of UK Finance, the newly created trade body for financial organisations in the UK. Following its acceptance into the Asset-Based Finance Association (ABFA) last month, ArchOver will represent the interests of peer-to-peer lenders in the new group. UK
An investment partnership advised by Permira is to acquire a strategic equity stake in Klarna Bank AB which currently serves 60 million consumers and 70,000 merchants. Permira is a global investment firm which advises funds and accounts with a total committed capital of circa EUR32 billion. Permira focuses on identifying
Luke McDougall, Leveraged Finance Partner at Paul Hastings comments on the news that leveraged finance issued so far this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has already surpassed last year’s total, reaching a record USD143 billion in the first half of 2017, which is nearly 8 per
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