Deals
Cavendish Corporate Finance has advised on the sale of Tempcover Limited, a UK-based provider of direct to consumer, short-term motor insurance products to Connection Capital (Connection).
Founded in 2006 by Alan Inskip, CEO, Tempcover’s multi-carrier insurance offering enables customers to buy temporary motor insurance directly from the company’s website and select partners. Recently, the company has successfully launched additional temporary cover products to meet its growing customer base’s requirements.
Alan Inskip, CEO of Tempcover, says: “This new partnership is a very exciting opportunity for Tempcover to both consolidate its existing position and provide a platform for further growth into
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has partnered with existing management to recapitalise Gurobi Optimization (Gurobi) a Houston-based software provider.
Shea & Company served as the exclusive financial advisor to Gurobi. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Gurobi has developed a suite of optimisation products that fully exploit the latest mathematical, engineering and computing technologies to deliver industry-leading performance and robustness. The Company’s software libraries enable 1,500 companies in more than 40 industries to employ mathematical programming to build sophisticated decision support systems that can generate and evaluate a vast array of
BNY Mellon Investment Management has completed the sale of investment boutique CenterSquare Investment Management to the private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners and CenterSquare’s management team.
Originally announced on 20 September, 2017, the terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Todd Briddell, CEO and CIO of CenterSquare Investment Management, says: “We are excited about the next phase of CenterSquare’s evolution, as we continue to bring premier real estate and infrastructure strategies to the market while investing in the development and growth of our company. Lovell Minnick shares our vision for the future of CenterSquare and we are delighted to partner
A total of 106 companies floated on the London Stock Exchange’s markets in 2017, raising GBP15 billion, an increase of 63 per cent by number of IPOs and up 164 per cent by value of IPOs compared to 2016.
London Stock Exchange has surpassed all European exchanges this year by number of IPOs and money raised, ranking second globally by money raised.
London’s IPOs have become even more international in 2017, with nine of the top ten IPOs by size coming from outside of the UK. Twenty North American companies chose London for their listing, with the UK markets remaining
Activist hedge fund Cevian Capital has agreed to sell its entire shareholding in AB Volvo (Volvo) to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding), subject to regulatory approval.
The acquisition comprises 88.47 million A-shares and 78.77 million B-shares, corresponding to 8.2 per cent of the capital and 15.6 per cent of the votes, which represents the largest ownership in AB Volvo by capital and the second largest by votes.
Nomura International Plc and Barclays Capital Securities Limited will acquire Cevian Capital’s shares in AB Volvo and then ell the shares to Geely Holding/
Cevian Capital’s co-founder, Christer Gardell (pictured), says: “Today’s announcement
ENGIE, France’s market leader in on-shore wind and solar power plants with 2.6 GW installed at the end of 2017, and Crédit Agricole Assurances, France’s leading insurance company, have just signed a new agreement allowing their joint venture, FEIH (Futures Energies Investissements Holding), to acquire nearly 500 MW of on-shore wind and solar power plants by the end of 2018. These renewable power plants have been developed and built by ENGIE.
Created in 2013 with a first acquisition of 440 MW on-shore wind farms, the joint venture FEIH held by ENGIE and Crédit Agricole Assurances will now operate more than
Drake Star Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Gambit Financial Solutions in its sale of a majority stake in the business to BNP Paribas Asset Management.
Gambit’s solutions work with a scientific approach to bring intuitive and user-friendly tools to investment advisory, delivered either through an advisory-guided or a fully autonomous customer journey. Gambit is driven by a simple but innovative ambition: placing the client at the centre of financial investment advisory with a fully digitalised experience.
In a context of tightened regulatory oversight, Gambit tools help financial institutions to better fulfil their legal obligations, while providing
Perusa Partners Fund 2, a private equity fund advised by Perusa, is backing a management buyout (MBO) at Schroth Safety Products as majority shareholder, alongside members of the existing management team in both Germany and the US.
Schroth Safety Products, a specialist in the development and manufacturing of occupant protection systems for specialised applications in aerospace, motorsports, defence, and medical transport, is made up of two businesses – Schroth Safety Products GmbH, based in Arnsberg, Germany, and Schroth Safety Products LLC, based in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Schroth specialises in technical restraint systems, passenger lap belts for all major commercial
Legal & General Capital, the principal investment arm of Legal & General Group, and SystemIQ, a purpose driven investment and advisory firm established in 2016 to tackle system failures, have co-led a Series A investment in Upside Energy (Upside).
Upside is a Manchester-based company that has developed a cloud platform that uses advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to coordinate connected devices to deliver valuable flexibility services to the energy system.
Upside has developed a powerful software platform that connects suppliers and users of energy by harnessing latent capabilities of connected devices. Capable of providing core services to transmission and
WillScot Corporation (Williams Scotsman) has completed its previously announced acquisition of Acton Mobile (ActonMobile.com) for a cash purchase price of approximately USD235 million.
Williams Scotsman will have nearly 100,000 modular space and portable storage units serving approximately 35,000 customers from over 100 locations across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Williams Scotsman will expand the breadth and depth of its Ready to Work services to existing and incremental customers and markets.
Brad Soultz, president and chief executive officer of Williams Scotsman, says: “We are excited to complete our acquisition of Acton, and believe that it presents a compelling opportunity
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