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Private equity firm Agilitas' waste management portfolio company, Impetus Waste Management, has acquired a further waste transfer station and processing facility in the North East of England.
The consideration for the acquisition of T Shea Limited, based in Leeds, is not being disclosed.
Impetus is one of the largest waste management companies in the North East of England. Following the investment by Agilitas in December 2013, the company has built Europe’s largest commercial and industrial waste processing facility at its site in Teesside. The facility has capacity to process over 500,000 tonnes per annum of commercial, industrial and municipal waste, which
GE Antares is serving as administrative agent on a USD145.6 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Lazer Spot by Greenbriar Equity Group.
GE Capital Markets served as co-lead arranger and co-bookrunner on this facility.
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Atlanta, Lazer Spot is a leader in a comprehensive range of outsourced yard management services including trailer spotting and shuttling. Lazer Spot operates 260 sites for more than 80 blue chip customers across the consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, pulp and paper, retail and other industrial sectors.
“Certainty of execution and speed are attributes we
Peer-to-peer secured business spending platform ThinCats has partnered with ESO Capital Group to underwrite a regular series of large deals on the ThinCats platform.
The deal will initially involve GBP20m-GBP50m being deployed on the ThinCats platform but both partners expect this figure to rise significantly over the next few years.
Kevin Caley, CEO of ThinCats, says “We are delighted to be partnering with ESO. As a specialist in large, secured loans we are confident that ESO’s underwriting commitment will help us further strengthen our position as one of the leading players in the sector. This partnership will also allow
Halesowen-based Vacuum Furnace Engineering (VFE) has secured a substantial funding package from banking group Santander and private investment firm SEA Equity.
Prominent West Midlands businessman, Roy Kishor, has taken the role of Chairman and will lead the management team in growing the GBP10 million turnover firm in the longer term, seeing a big opportunity to expand its contract servicing and repair business, develop the next generation of vacuum furnaces and set up a new apprenticeship scheme in addition to its current business.
The Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking, Cornwall Street, Birmingham, team provided a growth capital loan, senior debt
An investor group led by Siris Capital Group has completed the acquisition of commerce-as-a-service solutions provider Digital River.
The execution of a definitive merger agreement outlining the terms of the transaction, which is valued at approximately USD840 million, was initially announced on 23 October, 2014. In the transaction, all outstanding shares of Digital River common stock (subject to certain exceptions) were converted into the right to receive USD26 in cash per share.
Digital River’s stockholders approved the acquisition on Thursday, 12 February, 2015. Based on a tabulation of the stockholder vote, approximately 99.6 per cent of all votes cast, which
As at 31 January 2015, 46 Guernsey Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) have used the isand’s National Private Placement (NPP) regime to market Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) into Europe.
The figures, which solely reflect marketing into Europe by Guernsey AIFMs and do not include European Economic Area (EEA) AIFMs, reveal that the 46 managers promote investment funds into one or more EEA Member States. These cover 15 of the 27 jurisdictions with whom Guernsey signed bilateral cooperation agreements in July 2013 ahead of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) coming into force. The UK remains a key market for
tru Independence has launched an elite investment platform offering both traditional and alternative investment solutions for independent registered investment advisers.
"It's all about our advisor teams and their clients receiving access to best-in-class institutional managers across the entire spectrum of asset classes," says Craig Stuvland, President and Chief Executive Officer of tru Independence. "These portfolios are typically only available to the most sophisticated investors, including ultra-high-net-worth families, foundations, endowments and pension plans."
tru is committed to building out their investment platform by offering sophisticated, flexible and customizable solutions including tru's Separately Managed Account (truSMA), Unified Managed Account (truUMA) and Alternative
Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to private equity and real estate firms, multinationals, private clients and private debt managers, has launched a new Regulatory and Compliance Service.
This new service was created in response to the growing needs of our clients in managing the growing complexity in legislation and compliance requirements from international regulators.
Laurent Vanderweyen, CEO of Alter Domus, says: “Assisting our clients to face these new challenges, notably in the areas of Know Your Client, FATCA and AIFMD Reporting, is critical to them as they focus on their own core business. Alter Domus has
Trina Solar Limited has signed a framework investment agreement with PingAn Trust Co and Jiangsu Jiuzhou Investment Group to jointly develop selected photovoltaic power plants in China, with a total capacity of 500MW-1,000MW over the next three years.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Investors will enter convertible loan arrangements with Trina Solar to support the development of downstream projects in China. The Investors are entitled to convert the loans into minority stake in the project companies at pre-determined time. The investors are also entitled to participate in the potential capital operation of the holding vehicle in the future.
Carrick Capital Partners has closed its second growth equity fund, Carrick Capital Partners II at USD275 million.
Carrick's first fund closed two years ago with USD180 million, and the closing of Fund II brings the growth equity firm's total capital raised to nearly half-a-billion dollars.
Carrick takes an operational approach to growth equity investing, bringing to bear a distinctive combination of operational and investment expertise to help entrepreneurs and management successfully scale their businesses. Consistent with the investing strategy for Fund I, Carrick will apply the same investment strategy, approach and sector focus for Carrick Capital Partners II, with the
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