Paul Hastings has advised ActivumSG Capital Management on the acquisition financing of formart, the second largest residential real estate developer in Germany, from Hochtief Solutions. ActivumSG Capital Management is a European fund manager that invests in niche opportunities in real estate related sectors by identifying high quality, but undervalued assets
Europe’s executives are more bullish about the European M&A outlook than they were a year ago, according to the second edition of the European M&A Outlook by Mergermarket in association with CMS. Of the 225 Europe-based corporate executives surveyed, 76 per cent expect that dealmaking will increase or increase greatly,
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has agreed to acquire Bridon Limited, a manufacturer of wire rope, from Melrose Industries. The transaction, led by Teachers’ Private Capital (TPC), values UK-based Bridon at GBP365 million (approximately USD656 million), subject to customary adjustments, and is expected to close by the end of 2014
Blackstone’s board of directors has approved a plan to spin off its financial and strategic advisory services, restructuring and reorganisation advisory services and its Park Hill fund placement businesses. The businesses will be combined with PJT Partners, an independent financial advisory firm founded by Paul J Taubman (pictured). The parties
The RAG-Stiftung foundation has acquired a majority holding in specialist engineering firm HAHN Automation via RAG-Stiftung Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH. The transaction is currently awaiting approval from the merger control authorities. A CMS Hasche Sigle team led by Dr Richard Mayer-Uellner and Dr Malte Bruhns advised the foundation on all legal
Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Sage Automotive Interiors, the second largest automotive textile supplier in the world. Sage management invested alongside Clearlake in the transaction. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. “This acquisition underscores Sage’s success and vision, and provides a stable platform to help
New Mountain Capital has closed its fourth private equity fund, New Mountain Partners IV, with USD4.13 billion of equity capital commitments. This includes USD4.0 billion of third party limited partner commitments and over USD130 million from the general partner and affiliated investors. The fund, which had a target of
Private equity fund Monomoy Capital Partners has completed its tender offer for the common stock of Cobra Electronics at a price of USD4.30 per share. Immediately upon the closing of the tender offer, Monomoy completed a merger transaction to take Cobra private and add Cobra to the Monomoy portfolio of
Keensight Capital, a European growth private equity firm, has completed the sale of FircoSoft, a provider of watch list filtering solutions for bank transactions, to Reed Elsevier. Created in 1990 and based in Paris, FircoSoft provides software solutions which allow its clients to filter financial transactions against sanctions and watch
An investment fund that Adamas Finance Asia (ADAM) invested USD1 million in last September has exited from a credit-finance project with a gross IRR of 22 per cent. ADAM has also received a second semi-annual dividend distribution in the amount of USD75,301.98 from its investment in GCCF. Following an
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