Deals
Pamlico Capital has made a substantial investment in Becker’s Healthcare. Founder Scott Becker, along with President and CEO Jessica Cole, will maintain significant ownership in Becker’s and Cole will continue to lead the Company.
Headquartered in Chicago, Becker’s is an information and media platform that has established a thought leadership position in the “business of healthcare.” Becker’s serves more than 600 customers under four core brands targeting specific healthcare verticals – Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Spine/Orthopedics, and Infection Control & Clinical Quality. Within the core verticals, Becker’s has five industry conferences, eleven digital properties, and four magazines to engage healthcare
International law firm Proskauer is advising client GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, on its acquisition of around a 30 per cent stake in Mergermarket Group from BC Partners. The transaction is subject to standard regulatory approvals.
Mergermarket is a global financial information company specialising in corporate financial news and analysis through a range of products. It provides the advisory, corporate and financial communities with financial intelligence, analysis and data. Mergermarket subscribers include advisory firms, investment banks, law firms, hedge funds, private equity firms and corporates. The company has over 1,200 staff in 65 locations worldwide.
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ClubCorp, a specialist in private golf, country, business, sports and alumni clubs in North America, is to be acquired by funds affiliated to Apollo Global Management in an all-cash deal worth USD1.1 billion.
The Apollo funds will acquire all of the outstanding shares of ClubCorp for USD17.12 per share in cash, which represents a premium of approximately 30.7 per cent over its closing stock price on 7 July, 2017.
The ClubCorp Board of Directors, acting with the recommendation of its Strategic Review Committee, unanimously approved the agreement with the Apollo funds.
“We are pleased to reach this agreement
Gide is acting as lead counsel to Renault on its recently announced partnership with Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited (CBA), which will enable Renault to enter the growing light commercial vehicle (LCV) market in China.
Under a binding framework cooperation agreement signed by the two companies on 5 July 2017 (FCA), Renault will acquire from CBA a 49 per cent stake in Shenyang Brilliance JinBei Automobile Co, Ltd, a top player in the LCV industry in China. The resulting joint venture company will manufacture and sell LCVs using Renault’s product and technological know-how.
Gide is advising Renault on the
NewStar Financial has agreed to acquire Fifth Street CLO Management (FSCM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fifth Street Holdings, for approximately USD16 million, net of USD13 million of assumed indebtedness and will be subject to adjustment up or down based on certain working capital items as of the closing of the transaction.
The acquisition will add approximately USD726 million to NewStar’s assets under management, increasing total pro forma AUM to approximately USD7.3 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017, subject to certain investor consents and other closing conditions set forth in the purchase agreement between Fifth
Locum’s Nest, a mobile first platform founded by doctors to address the way staffing shortages are dealt with in the NHS, has completed a GBP1.1m funding round led by Albion Capital, and Oman-based IDO Investments.
The investment will be used to expand Locum’s Nest nationally and add additional functionality to the service.
Locum’s Nest revolutionises the way locum doctors are managed by NHS trusts. The cost of agency locum doctors is one of the most controversial and draining holes in the NHS budget with expensive locum agencies reaping the rewards from a cash and staff-strapped NHS. The platform, founded
AT&T has committed to investing up to USD200 million in a venture capital fund as part of its ongoing effort to develop solutions to the toughest technology challenges.
AT&T will work with Coral’s Communications Industry Platform (CIP) team to identify and invest in start-up companies focused on connected services and platforms.
“This investment is part of our push to address the needs of global service providers,” says Andre Fuetsch, chief technology officer and president of AT&T Labs. “We look forward to collaborating with Coral and other CIP members to find – and even create – startup companies to build
Funds managed by Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities are to acquire International Market Centers (IMC), an owner and operator of premier showroom space for the furnishings, home decor and gift industries, from Bain Capital Private Equity, and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management.
Fireside Investments is also expected to partner with Blackstone in the acquisition. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
International Market Centers operates 12.2 million square feet of exhibition space in High Point, NC and Las Vegas, NV.
“This marks an exciting time for International Market Centers,” says Robert Maricich,
ItalMatch Chemicals, a Global Specialty Chemical Group, with leadership in the production and marketing of performance additives for lubricants, industrial water & process treatment, oil & gas, and plastics, has acquired the French company Magpie Polymers, a startup that has developed an advanced and patented technology for selective filtration to recover precious metals.
This latest-generation technology captures metals, such as palladium, platinum, silver and gold, that would otherwise be lost.
The investment in such a highly innovative technology allows ItalMatch Chemicals to further consolidate its focus on industrial water & process treatment, thus expanding and refining the current production
KKR has sold Capsugel to Lonza for USD5.5 billion. As part of the sale, approximately USD35 million of proceeds were distributed to non-management level employees of the company, including all colleagues from the company’s thirteen manufacturing facilities around the world.
All Capsugel employees globally participated in the distribution of proceeds from the sale.
“Capsugel was a terrific outcome, not only in terms of the financial results for our fund investors, but also in the way we and the management team and all of the company’s employees partnered together to really drive a transformation of the company,” says Pete Stavros,
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