Ares Management and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors are to merge to form Ares Kayne Management, a diversified alternative asset manager with a combined USD113 billion of assets under management as of 31 March, 2015. Under the terms of the agreement, Ares will provide USD2.55 billion in consideration, the majority of
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners are to acquire PKPE Energetyka (PKPE), the energy unit of the Polish National Railways (PKP) in a transaction that puts an enterprise value on the business of PLN1,965 million (approximately EUR477m). PKP Energetyka is a cross-country electricity distributor to the Polish railway network and
The Home Depot is to acquire Jacksonville, Florida-based Interline Brands, a national distributor and direct marketer of broad-line maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products. Under the terms of the agreement, The Home Depot will acquire Interline for USD1.625 billion in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The acquisition, which has been
PrivateEuity.biz, Israel’s first online secondary trading arena, has signed a series of agreements with senior employees who own shares in high-tech companies, including leading pre-IPO Israeli and North American start-ups. Following the agreements, which have been signed during the past few weeks, shares held by 14 employees at US, Canadian,
KKR and Borealis Maritime have acquired Hanseatic Ship Asset Management, a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of Commerzbank AG controlling a modern fleet of 18 container and dry cargo vessels, in a USD254.5 million deal through a joint venture vehicle established by the two firms. Hanseatic Ship Asset Management (HSAM)
Crescent Capital Group’s Crescent European Specialty Lending strategy has co-led the financing for Exponent Private Equity’s acquisition of The BBI Group, a Cardiff, UK-based company specialising in products and technologies in the diagnostics, healthcare, research, defence and food industries, from Waltham, Massachusetts-based Alere, Inc. EQT Credit and Babson Capital also
Darktrace has completed a USD22.5 million Series B with Summit Partners, a global growth equity investor. The round completes an exceptional growth year for Darktrace, with Talis Capital extending the Series A they led in March 2015, with a further USD1.8m prior to the Series B round. Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune
Backstop Solutions Group – a provider of cloud-based solutions designed to help the institutional investment industry save time, increase productivity and make better investment decisions – has partnered with Preqin Ltd. With this partnership, Backstop users can now seamlessly integrate Preqin investor data into their Backstop CRM platform. “Many of
Union Group has continued its expansion in the growing Peru hydropower sector with the acquisition of Empresa de Generación Eléctrica Canchayllo SAC (EGECSAC), a subsidiary of Rurelec PLC, for a total consideration of USD14.3 million. The deal includes a 5.26MW run-of-river hydro power plant in Junin, Peru, which adds to
Investors and fund managers alike frequently benchmark private equity returns against public markets in order to gauge the relative performance of their investments. For investors, it is an important exercise to undertake to inform portfolio construction decisions and to evaluate the performance of one asset class against another. For fund
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