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American Infrastructure MLP Funds (AIM), a private investment firm, has committed up to USD130 million of capital to StoneMor Partners, including acquiring an indirect majority interest in the company’s general partner.
As part of the commitment, AIM will purchase USD55 million of four-year, non-cash common units to fund near term acquisitions, and will make available up to USD50 million of additional capital contributions to fund growth.
AIM invests in companies that qualify as master limited partnerships and manages over USD1.5 billion in assets.
"This investment commitment gives us a well-capitalised general partner," says Lawrence Miller, StoneMor's president and chief
Private equity firm MarginXL Capital Partners has been accepted into the SAS Alliance, a programme that seeks to establish relationships with key industry, solutions and specialised implementation partners of SAS software and solutions.
MarginXL Capital seeks to address a sizeable gap in middle market operational private equity investing, namely to harness and exploit the explosion of data and to generate insights from that data to improve profits and investment returns.
"We are thrilled to be announcing our new relationship with SAS today," says George Stelling, managing partner at MarginXL Capital Partners. "We've used SAS software extensively in our careers as
Ultra-low interest rates are encouraging a rebound in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with premiums on deals for small and medium-sized companies far outstripping larger transactions, according to Allianz Global Investors.
Companies, buoyed wider-spread optimism of an improving economy, are looking to put cash to work externally while business valuations are still attractive.
Improved sentiment means more corporates are likely to embrace M&A and capital expenditure compared to the organic growth and deleveraging that prevailed after the crisis.
Between 2001 and 2013, US buyers were willing to pay an average M&A premium of 25 per cent for small caps
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to the shareholder of Geo Networks, a London-based dark fibre provider, on the company’s sale to Zayo Group, an international provider of bandwidth infrastructure.
Founded in 2002 by Jonathan Watts and Chris Smedley, Geo owns and operates a high capacity fibre network in the UK, providing managed networks, dark fibre and co-location services to a variety of high-bandwidth sectors including media companies, service providers, financial services, data centres and gaming organisations. Geo is the only company in the UK to focus solely on the design, build and operation of bespoke dedicated fibre
Talis Capital has made another addition to the Project Blueline fleet, with the acquisition of a 2010 built, 24,000 DWT handysize bulk carrier.
The second vessel acquisition of 2014 brings the Blueline fleet to a total of five vessels with over 67,000 deadweight tonnage.
The addition of this larger vessel provides further diversification for the underlying investors, who are benefitting from a mid-double digit unlevered yield, paid on a quarterly basis.
Drawing upon over 17 years of shipping experience, Talis Capital is working in close partnership with INTRESCO Ltd. As one of the leading full service ship management
Propel Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing and creating value in consumer brands, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Summit Products.
The assets of Summit Products, which include Backyard Safari, Zillionz, Covert Force, Test Pilot and Stink Bugzzz brands, will be incorporated into the Alex Brands family of toy brands.
In a separate transaction, Propel Equity Partners has also acquired CitiBlocs, a line of precision cut wood construction blocks. CitiBlocs will also be incorporated into Alex Brands. CitiBlocs builds upon the presence of Alex Brands in the construction category, which already includes Ideal Frontier
MBA & Company has raised GBP800,000 from existing investors MMC Ventures and Piton Capital, taking the company’s total funding to over GBP2m.
MBA & Company’s service is an alternative to traditional hiring of interims and consultancies, by providing a marketplace that connects businesses of all sizes to a vetted pool of high quality project professionals.
This taps into the USD30bn global market for short-term strategic and operational project work, and takes advantage of industry leaders’ desire to find an alternative to the slow and expensive management consultancy model.
With 20,000 consultants in its network, MBA & Company has
PlaySight Interactive has completed a USD3.5 million investment round from high-profile private investors including Novak Djokovic, Billie-Jean King and Wall Street legend Bill Ackman alongside D5 Capital.
The new capital will fund a global roll-out of PlaySight’s SmartCourt technology for recreational and elite tennis, as well as research and development on applications in other popular sports beyond tennis.
“We are very proud to have such a powerful group of investors who share our vision of bringing elite player technology to the grassroots and club level,” says Chen Shachar, PlaySight CEO. “When we developed this technology we saw an opportunity
Actis, the pan-emerging market investor, has realised its investment in Egypt’s Commercial International Bank (CIB).
Actis has sold its remaining 6.5 per cent to add to the 2.6 per cent sold to international investors in March 2014.
Actis invested in CIB in July 2009 in a transaction that made Actis the largest single shareholder. Since then, the bank has grown significantly despite a period of political instability since the Arab Spring of 2011. Actis has sold its remaining 6.5 per cent to Fairfax Financial Holdings.
Paul Fletcher, executive chairman at Actis, says: “It’s been a privilege to work
Private equity firm Actis has sold a substantial stake of Ugandan electricity distributor Umeme Ltd for USD85.5 million.
The shares were bought by over 20 new and existing blue-chip institutional investors in a heavily oversubscribed secondary offer through the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) and the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE).
Investec Asset Management and Uganda’s National Social Security Fund (NSSF) join Actis as cornerstone institutional shareholders in Umeme. Actis will shortly make additional shares available to local retail investors and to Umeme’s directors and management team, retaining a significant minority stake for at least two years.
This transaction is
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