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International investment bank Altium has had a strong start to 2015, advising on 26 deals worth GBP5.4 billion.
The first half has seen a team, led by CEO Phil Adams, advise on the GBP1.9 billionn sale of UK retail business New Look to South African investment company Brait. Altium also acted as adviser to CVC Capital Partners on the purchase of Douglas, Europe’s leading specialist retailer of beauty and personal care products, with revenues of circa GBP1.8 billion.
The firm’s UK offices were very active during the period, completing nine deals. Key deals in addition to New Look included
Exponent Private Equity (Exponent) is to acquire The BBI Diagnostics Group (BBI), a provider of products and technologies to the diagnostic, healthcare, research, defence and food industries, from Alere Inc for USD164 million.
Founded in 1986, BBI became a listed company on London’s AIM market in 2004, before being acquired by Alere (formally Inverness Medical Innovations) in 2008. Headquartered in Cardiff, South Wales and employing c470 people across multiple global sites, BBI has been a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading diagnostic and healthcare organisations for over 25 years. BBI was founded upon the success of the superior
Preqin’s Real Estate Online provides comprehensive information on 76 institutional investors based in Chicago that actively invest in real estate, which collectively represent over USD57 billion invested in the asset class. Nearly a quarter of all institutional real estate investors based in Chicago are foundations (Fig 1), closely followed by private sector pension funds (20 per cent), and endowment plans, public pension funds and wealth managers, which each comprise 13 per cent of the total number.
Due to the large proportions of smaller investors in terms of assets under management (AUM), such as foundations, endowments and wealth managers, 47 per
BaltCap has sold its 48 per cent shareholding in the Latvian moulded fibre manufacturing company VLT Ltd.
BaltCap invested in the company back in 2004 to finance two rounds of expansion of production capacity. While post crisis economic environment proved challenging to sustain growth of the company, the moulded fibre packaging producer maintained solid profitability, acquired new export markets and solidified its market position in Eastern Europe.
The shareholding was sold to one of the founders of the business. The parties have agreed not to disclose details of the transaction.
Private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has acquired Avalign Technologies from RoundTable Healthcare Partners.
Avalign is a manufacturer of implants and instruments, specialty instrumentation, cutting tools, and cases and trays to the orthopedic medical device and specialty surgical markets. Avalign offers its OEM partners a broad portfolio of manufacturing solutions and extensive engineering design, development, and project management capabilities from concept to launch. Avalign has an established reputation for consistent and sophisticated quality systems, flexible capacity capabilities, and superior customer service.
Matt Altman (pictured), a Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “Avalign is an established leader in the large and
Red Rocks Capital’s Global Listed Private Equity (GLPE) finished the second quarter of 2015 up 5.59 per cent, compared to 0.47 per cent for the MSCI World Index.
For the first two quarters of 2015, the GLPE index is up 11.20 per cent, compared to 2.97 per cent for the MSCI World Index, as strong performance from near-record exit activities from index constituents in Europe and North America overcame both continued Euro and Greece currency concerns as well as negative currency impacts of the a strong US Dollar.
"Listed Private Equity firms had a very strong quarter and continue
IK Investment Partners (IK) is to acquire Auxiga Group, a French and Belgian leader of pledge inventory services. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Since its establishment in 1919 in Belgium and 1975 in France, Auxiga Group has been a bank guarantee expert, drawing up structured and flexible credit facilities using inventories as collateral. The Group operates through four business units: Auxiga and Sofigarant, which are the leading providers of pledge inventory services in France, Warrant, which provides the same services in Belgium and Auxicontrol, a specialist in asset control and floor check services. The Group provides
High Road Capital Partners has acquired Cali Bamboo in what is the fifth platform acquisition for High Road Capital Partners Fund II. The transaction closed on 10 July, 2015.
Cali Bamboo is a manufacturer and direct-to-consumer retailer of bamboo flooring and sustainable building products. Based in San Diego, California, the company offers bamboo flooring, composite decking, bamboo plywood, eucalyptus flooring, bamboo fencing, and cork tiles. Bamboo is among the fasting-growing plants on Earth, making it an environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional hardwoods.
“Cali Bamboo prides itself on providing the highest-quality, sustainable building products, along with delivering an outstanding customer
Century Park Capital Partners has acquired Better Life Technology, a manufacturer, designer, marketer and distributor of vinyl flooring products and printing substrates for multiple end markets.
BLT has a diverse and customisable range of vinyl floor coverings that are used by residential consumers as well as OEMs of marine and transit products. The Company’s products are also used as a substrate in the growing graphic printing market.
BLT was founded by Don & Brett Sneed in 1998. The foundation of the BLT product line is G-Floor vinyl flooring. The original G-Floor Parking Pad was the first product created by Brett
Private equity fund manager Horizon Capital has acquired a stake in Rozetka, an e-commerce company based in Ukraine. The funding for the deal comes from Horizon Capital’s Emerging Europe Growth Fund II (EEGF II). Fnancial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Ukraine’s e-commerce recorded growth rates of over 30% for the last five years, in US dollar terms, and still retains significant upside potential as both, internet penetration and online shopping share of total retail remain substantially lower than regional peer levels.
The company, led by visionary entrepreneurs, Vladyslav and Iryna Chechotkin, is the indisputable market leader in
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