Deals
Verdant Leisure, which is backed by Palatine Private Equity, has acquired its eighth leisure park, Scoutscroft Holiday Centre in the Scottish Borders. The acquisition is the bespoke leisure park operator’s fourth holiday park purchase in the last 18 months.
Scoutscroft is just one mile from Coldingham Bay Leisure Park, the site Verdant Leisure purchased in early 2017.
The purchase brings Verdant Leisure’s portfolio to eight parks across southern Scotland and North East England and marks the fourth bolt-on since the company was backed by Palatine Private Equity in April 2016. This deal will continue the company’s growth strategy to
Inflexion Private Equity has backed the management buyout of Calco Group BV (Calco), a Dutch provider of outsourced IT recruitment and training services to large blue-chip corporates.
Calco focuses on the provision of junior professionals mainly to the finance and insurance sectors with clients including the main banks and the top insurance companies in the Netherlands. More recently Calco has entered into new industry segments such as consumer goods, telecoms, energy, logistics and healthcare and aims to continue to expand into these newer markets.
Founded in 2004, Calco has developed a MasterClass programme where new joiners are intensively trained
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has advised entities managed by The Carlyle Group and affiliates of Värde Partners on the AUD1.2 billion restructure and recapitalisation of the Bis Industries group, an Australian resources logistics and materials handling provider.
The transaction, implemented via two Australian creditors’ schemes of arrangement and a subsequent recapitalisation through a partial debt-for-equity swap, sees Bis cut its total debt from approximately AUD1.2 billion to approximately AUD280 million (plus AUD38 million of finance leases). As a result of the transaction which has received both shareholder and court approval, senior secured creditors (including entities managed by Carlyle and
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has closed CVC Fund VI’s acquisition of the international women’s health assets which the fund agreed to acquire from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in Q3 2017.
The new company, called Theramex, is a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to women and their health. Headquartered in London, UK, the company will market a broad range of innovative, branded and branded generic products across 50 countries around the world. The portfolio, which is dedicated to women’s health, focuses on contraception, fertility, menopause and osteoporosis and includes key brands such as Ovaleap®, Zoely®, Seasonique®, Actonel®, Estreva® and Lutenyl. The Theramex brand
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has advised the founders of Thomas International, a provider of psychometric assessment solutions, on the sale of a majority stake in the company to Palamon Capital Partners, a pan-European growth investor.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Thomas International is a leading provider of online psychometric assessments, consulting, and related products and services with a focus on the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market. Founded in 1981 by the Reed family, the company has been at the forefront of assessment innovation for more than 37 years, helping SMEs to
A team from Noerr led by Georg Schneider has assisted private equity funds advised by Orlando Management AG in the sale of TierOne Beteiligungs GmbH to HIG Capital.
TierOne is a holding company which holds a majority stake in the automotive supplier Beinbauer.
The Beinbauer Group primarily specialises in components for commercial vehicles and consists of Beinbauer Automotive and Wagner Automotive, which together have around 700 employees at four sites.
Tortoise Investments in conjunction with existing management has completed the buyout of Tortoise.
As part of the transaction, the existing management and employees have increased their equity ownership of the company, with many investing additional capital alongside Lovell Minnick, who purchased the equity stake held by Mariner Holdings and certain retiring co-founders of Tortoise. Tortoise will maintain its independence and autonomy with its brand, investment processes and day-to-day portfolio management remaining unchanged.
“We are excited to set course with our new partner,” says Tortoise co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Birzer. “The asset management expertise and global network
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Ply Gem common stock in a go-private transaction valued at approximately USD2.4 billion.
Ply Gem Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PGEM), is a leading North American building products manufacturer.
Ply Gem’s board of directors unanimously approved the agreement, which provides for the payment of USD21.64 per share in cash to all holders of Ply Gem common stock. The cash purchase price represents a premium of approximately 20 per cent over Ply Gem’s closing stock price on January 30, 2018. Promptly following entry into the agreement, stockholders holding greater
A number of significant natural resources transactions in the latter part of last year are representative of an upshift in deal activity across the sector, according to M&A specialist Tony Lane of offshore law firm Carey Olsen.
Lane, a partner in Carey Olsen’s Guernsey corporate team, has advised Bushveld Minerals Limited (Bushveld), Avnel Gold Mining Limited and Sandstorm Gold Ltd on recent deals, while Clinton Hempel, managing partner of Carey Olsen’s BVI office, advised Cora Gold on its recent listing on the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) AIM Market.
Lane says: “There appears to be a growing appetite amongst those
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired Town & Country Holdings (T&C), the parent company of Town & Country Living.
Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Lakewood, NJ, T&C is the recognised leader in home textiles specializing in table linens, kitchen textiles, rugs, and innovative solution-based home products. The company is a leading supplier of both licensed brands and private label programs to major retailers across the globe.
“David and Jeffrey Beyda have successfully positioned T&C as a true partner to its customers and licensors. We believe T&C’s existing product and service offerings provide a great foundation for
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