Swiss institutions are looking to diversify their alternative allocations in a bid to improve yield and meet their long-term liabilities. Real estate, private equity and infrastructure funds (and co-investment deals) are a major part of their portfolios with hedge funds still viewed with a degree of caution. Recently, asset managers
Dealmakers are confident that Britain’s decision to leave the single market and head for a “Hard Brexit” won’t impact cross-border M&A activity with UK targets, according to a study carried out by Intralinks. However, the Deal Flow Predictor, which reflects the viewsof 440 global dealmakers, also reveals that the UK Government’s
Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services and Safway Group, which agreed to combine on 20 March, have named Safway’s president and chief executive officer Bill Hayes as president and CEO of the combined entity. Brand chairman and CEO Paul Wood will become a senior adviser and chairman emeritus. “The opportunity
Alternative investment manager FS Investments has launched its first closed-end interval fund, FS Energy Total Return Fund, which seeks to generate an attractive total return by investing in the equity and debt securities of public and private energy and energy infrastructure companies. FS Investments already manages more than USD5 billion
Noerr has advised Kieser Training on setting up a joint venture together with the Chinese project developer EuroSinoInvest (ESI). The joint venture marks Kieser’s entry to the Chinese market. The first Kieser training studio in China is soon to open in Beijing, and another 20 studios will be established
LBO France has entered into exclusive negotiations for the sale of CHRYSO, one of the four main global specialty chemicals groups for construction materials. The sale of CHRYSO would be the first for the LBO France White Knight IX fund. CHRYSO is an international producer of additives and admixtures
Collyer Bristow has acted for an entity backed by venture capitalist Jon Moulton on the acquisition of an aluminium powder coating business in Birmingham. Ragavan Arunachalam, who led the transaction for Collyer Bristow, says: "It is a great business which our client was keen to acquire. The hard work put
Progressio SGR, the Italian private equity firm, is raising a new fund, Progressio Investimenti III, in response to LP demand and a doubling of proprietary deal flow over the past five years. Progressio will raise EUR225 million for a final close at the end of 2017, after a summer first
Gide has advised US fund KPS Capital Partners on the acquisition of Winoa, which includes WHA Holding and its affiliates, from a consortium of investors led by KKR. Founded in 1961, Winoa, whose historic headquarters are located in Cheylas, France, is a global manufacturer of steel abrasives with over 10,000
Private equity funds continued to invest across Europe in 2016 with an 18 per cent annual growth rate in deals volume, according to data released by Clearwater International. Clearwater’s latest Multiples Heatmap Analysis reveals that the growth in volume was accompanied by increased values, with PE funds paying on average
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