Deals
After working with their M&A Team on a substantial number of cross-border deals US-based Equity Risk Partners Global have asked Vista Insurance Brokers Ltd to lead their network for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
With more and more mid-market businesses establishing a local presence in jurisdictions outside their traditional home locations and with the volume of cross-border deals rising, Gavin Ruben, Managing Director at Vista explains that: “There has been an increasing demand for insurance due diligence and portfolio servicing support to mirror this growing international presence.
“For Vista and our Private Equity clients the strengthening of
Stephen Lansdown, co-founder of FTSE100 financial services group Hargreaves Lansdown, is becoming a partner and shareholder in creative investment group Edge Investments through the private equity arm of his family office.
Lansdown, who has in the past invested in a number of Edge’s funds, is taking a 10 per cent stake in the firm and will work alongside David Glick, Edge’s founder and Chief Executive as he expands the business. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Last week Edge announced the launch of its GBP40 million Edge Creative Enterprise Fund, its largest fund-raising to date, with backing from
Law firm Howard Kennedy and its regulated London Stock Exchange sponsor, Howard Kennedy Corporate Services, have advised a new entrant to the VCT market – Hazel Targa VCT.
Hazel Targa VCT PLC brings together Hazel Capital, an established investment adviser in the VCT market, and investment advisers Welbeck Capital Partners LLP to launch a new and genuinely innovative VCT focusing on convertible loan notes. The new VCT will look to raise GBP20 million under this offer.
The Howard Kennedy team was led by partner Keith Lassman, with support from senior associate Ian Scott and solicitor Sian Thomas.
Lassman
The InfraDeals Latin America Analysis for YTD 2015 points to a sharp decline in infrastructure deal count this year after 2014’s boom. However new greenfield projects are on the rise as governments seek countercyclical investments, and foreign investors are attracted into the region because of the lack of profitable alternatives in traditional markets like Europe.
A total of 109 greenfield, brownfield, sales and refinancing deals closed in the first ten months of 2015 in Latin America, totalling around USD35.75 billion. This is a sharp decline in comparison to 2014’s USD51 billionFY total but still above the 91 deals for USD32.6
AECOM is to lead its the Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) Heat Infrastructure Development project, a GBP500k programme lasting approximately 12 months that will seek to identify the innovative solutions needed to deliver major reductions in the capital cost of heat network infrastructure and accelerate its deployment.
It will examine the technical, process and system developments needed to deliver a step change reduction in the capital costs, along with cost estimates and time frames for undertaking these developments.
District heat networks supply heat to homes and businesses through pipes carrying hot water. They have great potential to deliver CO2 emissions
Morgenthaler Private Equity (MPE) has recapitalised B&E Group which is comprised of two distinct business units, an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) group, which manufactures complex, machined components used in commercial aerospace, military and space applications, and a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) group, which repairs commercial aerospace engine components. The Company is headquartered in Southwick, MA and Fort Myers, FL.
MPE partnered in the transaction with B&E Group's existing shareholders and senior management team, including Chief Executive Officer John Wilander and Chief Operating Officer Paul Tobias, both of whom will serve as members of the Company's Board of Directors.
Ultroid Technologies has retained Armor Capital Management to provide M&A advisory services on all aspects of acquisitions, sales/divestitures, private equity transactions and finance raising, as Ultroid looks to expand its operations in the US and global markets.
The company’s flagship product is the Ultroid Hemorrhoid Management System, a non-invasive, low cost treatment Hemorrhoidal Disease (HD). Physicians perform the painless, 15 minute procedures in their office, without anesthesia, and experience exceptional patient outcomes.
Inflexion Private Equity is to carve out GfK’s animal and crop health business, a provider of agricultural data and market information, from the Frankfurt-listed global market research organisation.
GfK’s animal and crop health business delivers innovative, data driven market information to the agriculture and animal health markets, providing detailed insights into their customers’ key growth requirements. The business, led by its Global Director Stephen Hearn, has grown rapidly since inception and delivered sales of USD40 million in 2014. Employing around 220 people in 18 countries, GfK’s animal and crop health business serves a wide range of long standing, blue chip,
Gravitas Technology Services is to provide alternative investment manager Mill Hill Capital with cloud hosting, archiving, network support and failover capabilities across its trading, investment, portfolio management, finance, and operations functions.
Mill Hill Capital relies on proprietary valuation, cash flow models and vast amounts of market data to perform its investment analysis and trading activities, there by requiring a chief provider of infrastructure support for on-site servers, cloud storage, backup recovery and archival.
“We have created a scalable institutional platform and first-class infrastructure at Mill Hill and partnering with Gravitas allows us to deliver a best in class hosting
108 Partners, a middle market business advisory firm led by James Bergeron, has completed the recapitalisation of Levementum, enabling the CRM and digital services specialist to fund the next stage of its growth.
Levementum provides management consulting, system integration and value-added resale of cloud-based CRM and digital solutions, serving more than 1,000 customers across a wide variety of industries that include consumer packaged goods, high-tech, financial services, energy, telecommunications and manufacturing.
108 Partners began advising the Levementum executive team in April 2013 with James Bergeron providing CEO Coaching services and serving as a member of the company's Advisory Board.
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