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Mesa West Capital has provided an affiliate of The EMMES Group of Companies a USD130 million in first mortgage debt to recapitalise 1 Columbia Place, a 556,000-square-foot Class A office complex in Downtown San Diego.
A majority of the proceeds from the five-year, non-recourse loan will be used to refinance the CMBS loan Emmes assumed when it acquired the 27-story high rise in 2012. Funds have also been earmarked for additional leasing costs and to continue EMMES’s capital improvement program that will complete a USD20 million renovation and repositioning of the re-named Columbia Center located at 401 W A Street.
Monadnock Resources has secured a USD100 million equity commitment from Kayne Anderson Energy Funds and members of the firm’s management team.
Monadnock is being formed to target the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas assets in North America.
Monadnock is a newly formed independent oil and gas company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The Monadnock management team is led by Matt Gentry, President and CEO; Adam Howard, Vice President of Engineering; David Williamson, Vice President of Geoscience; and Kelli Roach, Vice President and General Counsel. Management has extensive technical and operational experience across several North American basins. Prior to
HIG Middle Market is to acquire HelpSystems from current investor Summit Partners. The completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory and anti-trust approval.
Headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN, HelpSystems is a leading provider of system & network management, business intelligence, and security & compliance solutions. With over 9,000 customers across a broad range of industries, HelpSystems is the market leader within system & network management for the IBM-i operating system and is rapidly expanding its presence on the Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms.
Fraser Preston (pictured), Managing Director at HIG, says: “We are excited to partner with Chris Heim,
Convertible bonds were prominent among the 203 newly listed securities on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) during the first half of 2015.
The number of new listings is up 14.7 per cent on the same time last year and takes the total number of listed securities on the CISE to 2226 at the end of June 2015.
Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), Chief Executive Officer of the CISE, says: “It has been a strong start to the year for the CISE and it is especially encouraging that we have developed a new pipeline of business in convertible bonds.
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DW3 Products Group has provided an additional GBP2m in funding to Window Widgets and Solidor to help scale up production capabilities.
The new funding has been split evenly across new plant and machinery and the development of new and original product lines.
Window Widgets was founded in 2004, and has become the first port of call for key components for the fenestration sector, while Solidor is best known for its original door designs.
In addition to this, DW3 has also invested heavily in new premises, with new 28,000 sq ft sites opened in Gloucester and Stoke. As a
CIT Healthcare Finance served as Joint Lead Arranger in a USD135 million senior secured credit facility to support Arlington Capital Partners’ (Arlington Capital) acquisition of Avalign Technologies (Avalign).
Arlington Capital is a Washington, DC-based private equity firm. Headquartered in Lake Forest, IL, Avalign is a premier, full-service, precision manufacturer of implants and instruments, specialty instrumentation, cutting tools, and cases and trays to orthopaedic medical device and specialty surgical markets. Financing was provided by CIT Bank, the principal bank subsidiary of CIT.
Matt Altman, a Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “Avalign is an established leader in the large and growing
WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc (WuXi) has entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger with New WuXi Life Science Limited (Parent) and WuXi Merger Limited (Merger Sub), a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Parent will acquire the Company for cash consideration equal to USD5.75 per ordinary share of the Company (each, a "Share") and USD46 per American Depositary Share of the Company, each representing eight Shares (each, an "ADS"), or approximately USD3.3 billion in aggregate cash consideration. This represents a 16.5 per cent premium over the closing price of USD39.50 per ADS as quoted by
Restoration Partners, the London-based technology-focused merchant bank, has secured start-up funding for We Are Briqs. A member of the Restoration Alpha Angels network, who is an experienced and successful investor in Fintech companies, has provided the backing.
We Are Briqs delivers white-label, plug-and-play solutions for retail banking. Their products create safe and rich personal experiences, and allow for more meaningful brand engagement. Solutions include digital identity verification, a micro-charity donations platform and digital "jam jars" to encourage financial planning and saving.
Lee Travers, CEO, We Are Briqs, says: "We are operating in an extremely fast-moving environment and we need
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