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Aurelius Mittelstandskapital (Aurelius), the SME focussed investment arm of Aurelius Group, has acquired the privately owned company, Emsdetten-based ARBAprocessing Group for an undisclosed sum.
ARBAprocessing Group is a leading European manufacturer of containers and collection vehicles for the dairy industry. Long-serving Managing Director and majority shareholder Reinhold Barlian will step down with immediate effect. The transaction is subject to the completion of regulatory clearances.
The ARBAprocessing Group consists of two operating units:
Schwarte and Milfor brands – This unit engineers, designs and produces storage and process containers for the dairy, food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals industries. Working out of five locations
Mid-market private equity house LDC has exited its investment in oil and gas engineering business Bifold Group to Rotork.
Bifold is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of valves and pumps to the oil and gas sector with sites in Manchester and Taunton, as well as Houston and Singapore. The GBP125m transaction delivers a 2.4x money return for LDC.
In 2014, Bifold moved into new ‘state-of-the-art’ 30,000 sq ft manufacturing facilities in Oldham, Greater Manchester, to increase capacity and its technical capabilities. It completed the acquisition of Orange Instruments, which offers the business access to a range of specialist control system
MagicCube announced has raised USD2.2 million in a seed round of funding from Azure Capital, Epic Ventures, as well as Bialla Venture Partners and private investors.
MagicCube’s software-only technology secures digital transactions on any mobile device, independent of its hardware or operating system, stopping digital transaction fraud where most vulnerabilities can be found today – at the endpoint.
“Commerce is rapidly evolving and migrating to digital channels. As innovation continues to accelerate, the traditional approach of securing devices with hardware-based solutions has become impractical and costly for the entire ecosystem,” says Sam Shawki (pictured), CEO and co-founder of MagicCube.
InfraVia Capital Partners (InfraVia), a French investment fund, has agreed to purchase Coillte’s portfolio of telecommunications assets for an undisclosed sum.
The portfolio consists of approximately 300 telecommunications masts and equipment locations across Coillte’s estate. A number of the masts were built by Coillte in recent years and certain locations include optical fibre connectivity. Ireland’s leading mobile network operators are the primary customers of the portfolio.
A new Irish based company which shall trade as “Cignal” has been formed to own and manage the business. Cignal will be chaired by Donal O’Shaughnessy who has extensive experience in the telecoms
An affiliate of KSL Capital Partners Credit Opportunities Fund has provided a first mortgage to finance the acquisition of the Ventana Inn & Spa by an affiliate of Geolo Capital II LP and Wanxiang America Real Estate Group.
The 59-room luxury resort overlooks the Pacific Ocean from its location directly off of Highway 1 in Big Sur, California. Amenities include a luxury spa, the Restaurant at Ventana with an outdoor deck overlooking the ocean, 8,745 square feet of meeting space, two outdoor swimming pools, Japanese hot baths, and a recently opened, 78-site campground located within a redwood grove.
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Noerr has advised the US investor Wellspring Capital on establishing a new packing group. As part of the takeover of the packing specialist Ampac Holdings, Wellspring has merged this enterprise with the portfolio company Prolamina Corporation.
Noerr advised Wellspring with a team led by the Frankfurt corporate law and M&A partner Dr Till Kosche on the German law aspects of the transaction. Already in 2012, Noerr had assisted Wellspring, which is one of the leading private equity investors in the mid-cap sector with more than three billion US dollars under management, in the takeover of ThermaSys Corporations.
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD19.25 million senior credit facility to support the recapitalisation and growth of an online travel company.
The company is a leading provider of online advertising and booking services for vacation rental properties located throughout the United States, Caribbean and Mexico. The company’s websites generate more than four million unique visitors annually.
This transaction is representative of Monroe Capital’s extensive capabilities in its technology vertical.
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central Europe and Turkey, with over EUR4 billion of funds advised or managed, is to acquire a 100 per cent shareholding in Customer Management Center (CMC).
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and is expected to be completed in Q4 2015.
Established in 2000, CMC is the largest independent outsourced call centre and customer management services provider in Turkey. The Company operates four call centres in Istanbul, Malatya and Şanlıurfa, and provides both inbound as well as outbound services to blue chip corporate customers operating in various industries.
The number of Jersey funds marketing into Europe through national private placement regimes (NPPRs) under the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) broke through the 200 barrier in June.
Net asset values under administration in the island’s alternatives sector are up 15 per cent on the previous year.
According to latest figures (June 2014) from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), 205 Jersey funds are now being marketed into Europe through private placement regimes, an increase of 10 per cent on December 2014, whilst 84 fund managers have now received private placement authorisation, up 40 per cent over the
Palamon Capital Partners has completed an innovative funding transaction resulting in five top-tier investors purchasing stakes in prior Palamon funds from a number of existing limited partners.
In addition, the investors have committed capital to a new vehicle investing alongside Palamon Auxiliary Partnership 2013.
The investor group includes Adams Street Partners, Goldman Sachs AIMS Private Equity Group, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, Dutch pension fund service provider PGGM and the Rothschild Merchant Banking Group.
In the first quarter of 2015, Palamon mandated Credit Suisse Asset Management Limited acting through Credit Suisse Private Funds Group (“Credit Suisse”) to organise a
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