Deals
The former team of Plymouth Exploration has formed Triumph Energy Partners with a USD100 million equity commitment from Kayne Anderson Energy Funds and members of the management team.
Triumph is a private exploration and production company formed to pursue the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas assets with a focus towards historically productive reservoirs with identifiable upside through modern drilling and completion techniques. The Company will focus on opportunities in the Mid-Continent region. The Triumph management team is led by Jack Kueser, Joel Blake, Kyle Hill and Kerby Hunt who were previously the core senior management team of
AMP Capital and 3i Infrastructure plc (3i Infrastructure) have entered into an agreement to jointly acquire 100 per cent of Danish company ESVAGT from Maersk Group.
AMP Capital is investing approximately GBP109 million to acquire a 50 per cent interest in ESVAGT and will have an equal shareholding with 3i Infrastructure.
Headquartered in Esbjerg, Esvagt has been operating since 1981. It is a leading provider of emergency response and rescue services in the offshore oil and gas industry in Denmark and Norway, and has a growing presence in the UK and offshore wind services segments. Esvagt employs more
LSQ Funding Group has received USD40 million of capital from Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC), the largest business development company in the United States.
This USD40 million financing is in addition to the more than USD100 million investment in April led by Lovell Minnick Partners LLC, a private equity firm that specialises in the global financial services industry.
“I’m thrilled that another high-quality institutional investor is supporting our mission to simplify and streamline access to invoice financing for businesses of all sizes,” says LSQ Funding’s CEO and founder Max Eliscu. “We will use this capital to accelerate our plans, reinventing
Taliance, an analytics software provider in the alternative investment marketplace, has selected Hipercept, to serve as its channel partner for North and South America.
Taliance’s software solution, GlobalAsset, complements the technology infrastructure of alternative asset investment firms through real-time, dynamic forecasting, scenario modelling, and consolidated analytics capability for the front and middle office. Using GlobalAsset, customers in over 16 countries have demonstrably improved the performance of their international investment portfolios.
“Alternative asset investment firms worldwide have long demanded fund and asset analytics technologies that are able transcend the obvious shortcomings of home-grown spreadsheets and disparate data,” says Damien Georges
Private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners has recapitalised Stratose, a provider of healthcare cost containment solutions for medical, dental and workers’ compensation payers, third-party administrators, self-funded entities and risk-bearing providers.
The Company will be owned by affiliates of Parthenon and the existing Stratose shareholders, all of whom retained meaningful ownership stakes.
“We are excited to partner with Parthenon to pursue our growth strategy and to continue to provide market-leading solutions that help our clients achieve significant savings,” says Sean Smith (pictured), Stratose’s Co-Founder and Chairman. “We believe Parthenon’s extensive investment experience in healthcare and deep understanding of the complex
Private equity fund Evolution Capital Partners has accepted Star Mountain Capital as a strategic limited partner in Evolution Investments II LLC.
Star Mountain is a New York City-based asset management firm with a small/medium-sized private business focus and a unique strategic partnership approach to investing in private equity and private credit fund managers.
Jeffrey Kadlic, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Evolution, says: "We are thrilled to have Star Mountain Capital as not just a limited partner but as a strategic partner with tremendous resources in their network that can be brought to bear as we deliver value to
Oakley Capital Investments Limited is to dispose of Verivox to ProSiebenSat.1 (P7S1), for an initial cash consideration of EUR200 million with further consideration of up to EUR50 million dependent on Verivox’s financial performance in 2015.
OCIL will continue to hold a minority interest in Verivox, through its commitment to Fund II, as will Verivox's founders. P7S1's holding in Verivox will be 80 per cent following completion of the transaction.
The transaction is expected to generate a 15x gross money multiple for Fund I, with an IRR of 73 per cent, based on a company value of EUR200 million, increasing
A more coherent regulatory environment is needed if investors are to prevent “runaway climate change”, according to Donald MacDonald, who chairs the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).
“We have the capital, but the right policies and regulatory frameworks are not in place,” said MacDonald. “In many cases energy regulation, pensions regulation and insurance regulation are simply not integrated. The IIGCC has been engaging with the European Commission about the perverse impact that well-intentioned regulation might have, for example, on issues around energy unbundling and pension and insurance fund solvency.”
MacDonald was addressing the sixth annual Private Equity
Union Group and China Communication Construction Company, one of the biggest engineering and construction companies in the world, have signed a deal to develop infrastructure projects across the Latin America region.
The two companies form a consortium that will first tender for a Uruguay Government contract to restore and maintain a 140km railway track, involving an initial investment of around USD150 million. The contract will run for 30 years.
Union Group and China Communication Construction Company plan to finance and develop ports, railways, highways and other infrastructure across Latin America.
Union Group is a privately-owned holding company with
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners have signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in international musical and theatre group, Stage Entertainment.
Under the terms of the transaction, CVC will acquire a 60 per cent stake from the company’s founder, Joop van den Ende, who will remain a 40 per cent shareholder in the business and as co-chairman.
Founded 17 years ago, Stage Entertainment is the market leader in musical theatre in Continental Europe, responsible for globally acclaimed productions including the Lion King, Mamma Mia!, the Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, which together attract more than
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