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Mourant Ozannes has represented BGH Capital (BGH) as to Guernsey law in the raising of its first private equity fund with a focus on investment in Australia and New Zealand.
The fund, which held its final closing with commitments at around AUD2.6 billion (approximately USD2 billion), is the largest ever first time fund focused on investment in Australia and New Zealand.
BGH was founded by Ben Gray and Simon Harle (formerly partners of TPG Capital) and Robin Bishop (formerly head of Macquarie Capital in Australia and New Zealand).
The Mourant team was led by Guernsey Partner, Frances Watson
Auth0, a specialist in Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS), has secured USD55 million in Series D funding, bringing the company’s total financing-to-date to more than USD110 million.
This round is led by Sapphire Ventures, and includes investment from World Innovation Lab, as well as from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, and K9 Ventures. The funds will be used to continue innovation of the company’s Universal Identity Platform, accelerate go-to-market programs, and drive global expansion.
The funding represents another major milestone for the company, following a banner year in 2017 that included a doubling of overall customers and more than 100 per
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has sold ipan Group, a providers of IP management services and software, to Castik Capital.
Since its acquisition by Warburg Pincus in 2014, ipan has added over 100 new customers and more than tripled its revenues. This strong growth has been driven by ipan’s expansion into new locations in the US, UK, France, the Nordics and Benelux. With the support of Warburg Pincus, ipan has been been actively growing its services offering via the acquisitions of software providers Unycom and IPSS as well as the acquisition of a minority
Peer-to-peer business lender Assetz Capital has announced its first ever rate rise across its access accounts.
The rate increase, which takes effect from 1 May 2018 until further notice, will take target interest rates for the Quick Access Account and 30-Day Access Account from 3.75 per cent to 4.10 per cent and from 4.25 per cent to 5.10 per cent respectively.
Both new and existing investors will benefit from the target interest rate boost, and it applies to both ISA-wrapped and non-ISA accounts.
Stuart Law, CEO at Assetz Capital, says: “Since we launched our access accounts we’ve kept
Private investment house Ardian has raised more than USD800 million for its first infrastructure fund dedicated to the US and other OECD American countries. The fund marks Ardian’s continued expansion into the American market.
The fundraising, which was completed in less than six months, attracted a substantial number of North American institutional investors within a diversified global mix that also included commitments from European and Asian pension funds, insurance companies and other institutions. This successful fundraising confirms the continued regional appetite for Ardian’s infrastructure investment and asset management strategies.
The fund will provide investors with opportunities to invest in
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MeetingZone Limited on its sale by GMT Communications Partners and its management to LoopUp Group PLC.
MeetingZone is a UK-headquartered conferencing and UC services provider with approximately 6,000 customers worldwide and international operations in Germany, Sweden and North America. MeetingZone provides audio conferencing services, Cisco’s WebEx, Spark collaboration services and value-added audio services based around Microsoft Skype for Business.
With this acquisition, LoopUp will add significant scale and materially enhance earnings. The acquisition will constitute a reverse takeover under the AIM Rules for Companies.
This transaction further highlights Arma
Manna Development Group (Manna) has acquired 38 Panera Bread cafés in Colorado, expanding its operating footprint to over 130 Panera Bread outlets across seven states.
CapitalSpring, a leading private investment firm focused exclusively on the branded restaurant industry, structured and led the acquisition financing and recapitalisation, while Owl Rock Capital served as co‐lender and lead arranger.
Manna has grown continually from its inception in 2003 when Paul Saber and Patrick Rogers opened their first Panera café in San Diego. Through aggressive new store development and the successful integration of 6 additional acquisitions, Manna has grown to become one of
EQT funds, owners of Sivantos, and the Tøpholm and Westermann families, owners of Widex, have agreed terms to merge the two companies.
The ‘strategic merger of equals’ will create a major player in the global hearing aid market generating combined revenues of approximately EUR1.6 billion and employing more than 10,000 people worldwide. The transaction values the combined entity at an enterprise value of more than EUR7 billion.
The merger aims at accelerating growth, strengthening market penetration and enhancing efficiencies to enable additional investments into R&D and supply chain. This will allow the merged company to expand access to hearing
Hermes Investment Management (Hermes), the GBP33.0 billion manager, has launched the Hermes European Direct Lending Fund, which is managed by Patrick Marshall, Head of Private Debt & CLOs.
The European Fund follows the successful launch of the UK Direct Lending Fund in 2016.
The Fund offers access to the stable, low-correlated returns from high-quality, senior-secured loans to a diverse range of middle-market businesses in the UK and Europe, with a focus on Scandinavia, Germany, Benelux and Ireland.
Senior-secured transactions are originated through co-lending partnerships with Danske Bank, DZ Bank and KBC Bank, which sit alongside the existing UK
Idinvest Partners has held the final closing of its fourth direct lending Fund (Idinvest Private Debt IV), at EUR715 million, surpassing its initial target of EUR600 million. More than 60 per cent of the investors are from outside France.
Since its launch in 2016, the Idinvest Private Debt IV fund has invested 60 per cent of its total commitments across 17 companies, of which more than 40 per cent are based outside France.
Focusing on the European lower mid-market segment (enterprise value of between EUR35m and EUR250 million), Idinvest’s Private Debt team arranges primarily unitranche financings for tickets ranging
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