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Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Collection Localisation Satellites (CLS) on its acquisition of Horizon Marine, a provider of metocean forecasting services to the Gulf of Mexico offshore energy industry.
Based in Toulouse, France, CLS is a leading global operator of satellite systems for positioning, data collection, ocean observation, and surveillance.
"This transaction demonstrates how Mooreland successfully works with European companies that are looking for buy-side M&A advisory services in connection with their North American growth strategies," says Stephen Schweich, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners.
Founded in 1986, CLS is majority-owned by the French space agency, CNES, but
LBO France has entered exclusive negotiations with Roger Zannier to acquire IKKS, one of the leading French ready-to-wear brands with a unique position in the “casual chic” segment.
The IKKS Group has a portfolio of three complementary brands – IKKS, One Step and I.Code – offering creative, contemporary and wearable collections.
Starting in kids wear and renowned for its high quality, IKKS has successfully diversified into women’s and men’s fashion. The group covers all distribution channels including a wide retail network of 526 boutiques, primarily located in prime areas in city centres, 218 department store corners as well as
Pascal Menges (pictured), Manager of the Lombard Odier Global Energy Fund comments on Royal Dutch Shell’s offer for BG Group…
This shows that Big Oil’s growth strategy over the last ten years is bust. Having bet enormous sums on eye-wateringly expensive oil production from oil sands, ultra-deep water and arctic fields the supermajors are now ill-placed to cope with a low oil price.
What next? Shell’s purchase of BG Group heralds a scrabble by big oil to ‘high grade’ – improve the overall quality – of their portfolios. It didn’t have to be this way. Low oil prices in the early 2000s
Private equity placement agent BerchWood Partners has formed a joint venture with JTP Capital, an investment advisory firm which provides capital advisory solutions for a small number of well selected real estate investment platforms.
Mitchell B. Sikora, JTP Capital’s founding member, and Henry J Delicata, a senior advisor, will be working with the BerchWood team on placement activities.
Sikora has more than 20 years of experience in the investment banking, investment and real estate professions and has been involved in raising private equity specifically for real estate funds since 1999. Just prior to founding JTP Capital in 2012, Sikora
TIAA-CREF has launched Churchill Asset Management, a new majority-owned subsidiary focused on originating, underwriting and managing senior loan investments, primarily in US middle-market companies. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Churchill adds to TIAA-CREF’s existing fixed income capabilities by expanding its private credit platform. It also supports the firm’s long-term strategy to offer investors a diversified array of investment options and help clients build financial well-being. Churchill will operate as a standalone business, led by industry veteran Kenneth J Kencel, and seeks to raise investment funds from institutional and qualified individual investors who are increasingly looking toward middle-market
Lion Capital is to acquire Spence Diamonds, a direct seller of custom-made engagement rings in Canada.
Lion Capital is partnering with IVEST Consumer Partners, a Vancouver-based retail investor and operator, who will bring seasoned operating executives George Jones and Jim Schneider to lead the business. IVEST will make a minority investment in Spence, as will current CEO Sean Jones, who will also remain on the board. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1978, Spence Diamonds carved out a distinctive position within the retail jewellery industry by giving its customers a unique and personalised purchasing experience
Oil and gas private equity firm EnCap Investment has closed EnCap Energy Capital Fund X with USD6.5 billion of limited partner capital commitments.
Fund X, which reached its USD6.5 billion hard cap and was significantly oversubscribed, provides growth capital to proven management teams focused primarily on the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry in North America.
EnCap is led by its four founders, managing partners David B Miller, Gary R Petersen, D Martin Phillips and Robert L Zorich; and three additional managing partners Jason M DeLorenzo, E Murphy Markham IV and Douglas E Swanson, Jr. Since its inception in
ALPS, a DST Company that provides products and services to the financial services industry, is to acquire asset manager Red Rocks Capital, a leader in listed private equity and other private asset investments.
The purchase price of up to USD65 million will consist of a combination of up-front cash consideration and performance-related contingent consideration. The transaction will be funded using a combination of cash and short-term borrowings on revolving credit lines.
The closing of the transaction is expected to occur in the second half of 2015.
Red Rocks, founded in 2003 by Adam Goldman and Mark Sunderhuse, is the first
Technology investor Mark Pearson is launching Fuel.Ventures EIS Fund 1, an open-ended venture capital fund investing in the e-commerce sector.
The fund will target super-early seed, seed and A-stage investments in the rapidly growing European e-commerce sector. European mobile commerce sales are expected to grow from EUR17.3bn to EUR113.3bn between 2013 and 2018. Fuel.Ventures will invest in a variety of high-growth, sector-agnostic technology based transactional businesses from incubation and inception (super-early seed), to seed and post launch (late seed), as well as series A businesses showing exceptional signs of growth.
To date, Pearson has invested in 10 e-commerce businesses, achieving
Spire Capital Partners has held the final closing of Spire Capital Partners III, a private equity fund with approximately USD333 million in capital commitments.
Spire III's committed capital surpasses its previous fund, Spire Capital Partners II, which was a USD319 million 2007 vintage fund.
Spire III's limited partners consist of existing Spire II investors as well as new investors representing leading pension funds, endowments, fund of funds, family offices, insurance companies, financial institutions and executives from the areas of Spire's investment focus. Spire III's investment focus targets lead and control investments in the business services, information services, media, education/education technology
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