Deals
Glennmont Partners has completed the refinancing of the Sleaford Renewable Energy Plant on behalf of its dedicated clean energy fund, Glennmont Clean Energy Fund Europe I, as part of a programme of realisations of value from the Fund.
Glennmont Partners is one of Europe’s largest fund managers focusing exclusively on investment in clean energy infrastructure. Glennmont raises long-term capital to invest in alternative power generation projects including wind farms, biomass power stations, solar parks and small-scale hydro power plants. The carefully selected, risk managed investments deliver sustained performance and predictable returns over periods of 10 years or more.
Sleaford REP is a
IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP200k invoice finance facility for Lincolnshire-based construction and maintenance firm Rubico.
Rubico sought a new finance partner to provide an injection of working capital into the business, and began working with IGF in July 2017. The facility will allow Rubico to win larger contracts across the wider retail sector, particularly within the food and beverage industry, as well as meet its future ambitions to hire more staff and expand outside of its current premises in Stamford.
Rubico began in 2015 after its founder identified a gap in the market
Global accountancy network HLB International has added Shandong Hexin CPAs LLP (Hexin) to its network in China.
Based in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province, Shandong Hexin CPAs LLP was established in 1987, as the first, and currently only indigenous firm in the province, holding the license to audit securities. Hexin has 30 partners and over 600 staff including over 200 CPAs based at its Jinan headquarters and branches in Qingdao, Weifang, Yantai and Jining.
Hexin delivers a full range of audit & assurance, IPO, M&A and specialist advisory services to listed companies, state-owned enterprises, private and family-owned
YFM has sold its funds’ investments in Harvey Jones Kitchens in a secondary buyout backed by Allied Irish Bank (GB), achieving a return over two-time on the original investment in the process.
Funds advised and managed by YFM backed the buyout of the premium kitchen manufacturer and retailer from the original founder when the company comprised of 10 showrooms primarily based in the South and Home Counties. During the time YFM funds have been invested, the business has been transformed into a national brand thanks to significant investment in people, marketing, product development and the opening of 21 new showrooms
DA Davidson & Co has acted as exclusive financial advisor to private equity firm JW Hill Capital (JW Hill) on its purchase of GKN Aerospace Bandy Machining, a subsidiary of GKN Aerospace.
The transaction closed on 11 August, 2017 and represents another successful cross-border closing for DA Davidson’s investment banking group. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“The Bandy name stands for made-in-the-USA highest quality aerospace and defense components and has been well known for over 50 years,” says Paul Weisbrich, head of Davidson’s AD&I group. “We believe JW Hill is the ideal partner for the
SecureLink has secured a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista) to accelerate its growth in the enterprise remote support software market.
Vista is the leading technology investment firm focusing exclusively on software, data and technology-enabled companies. The investment in SecureLink comes from Vista’s Endeavor Fund, focused on small cap, mission-critical enterprise software and data businesses seeking to expand their innovation and impact in the markets they serve. Vista provides these companies and their management teams the capital, expertise and support to build an operational foundation for sustainable growth and long-term value.
“For 14 years, SecureLink has been the
Blackstone is to acquire Harvest Fund Advisors (Harvest), an independent investment management firm with over USD10 billion in assets under management.
Harvest primarily invests capital raised from institutional investors in separately managed accounts and pooled vehicles, investing in public master limited partnerships (MLPs) holding US midstream energy assets. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Tony James (pictured), President and Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone, says: “Harvest is a leader in bringing institutional investors to the MLP asset class. It has generated superior long-term results for its investors. Harvest’s expertise in this area will complement our extensive energy
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors, is reinvesting in Archroma to support the Company’s ongoing initiatives to drive innovation, growth and operational efficiencies and to pursue strategic investments in both organic growth and industry consolidation.
Initially acquired by SK Capital in 2013, Archroma is a global, diversified provider of specialty chemicals serving the branded and performance textiles, packaging and paper, and coatings, adhesives and sealants end markets. The Company is headquartered in Switzerland and operates a highly integrated, customer-focused platform that delivers products in over 100 countries.
The Pracuj Group (Grupa Pracuj), a provider of Human Resources (HR) solutions that help companies recruit, retain, and develop employees in Central Europe, has secured a minority investment from TCV.
TCV provides growth equity capital for both private and public technology companies in the US, Europe, and internationally. The Pracuj Group intends to use the funding to fuel international expansion and expand its product suite. As part of the investment, John Doran and David Yuan, General Partners at TCV, will join the company’s supervisory board.
With more than 17 years of experience in the online recruitment market in Poland,
Brand Industrial Services, known as BrandSafway, is to acquire Venko Groep BV, a portfolio company of Mentha Capital. Venko will become a part of the Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services (Brand) group.
“We are very pleased to announce the agreement with Venko,” says Bill Hayes, President and CEO of BrandSafway. “Our combined customers in Europe will benefit from a broader range of solutions and greater depth of expertise in access, insulation and coatings. Bringing Venko’s highly specialised knowledge in coatings to BrandSafway will provide the expertise we need to expand our services in the offshore market worldwide.”
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