Managers
Online, self-storage marketplace SpareFoot is to acquire SiteLink, a provider of cloud-based software solutions for the self-storage industry.
The deal will bring together two dynamic companies and allow the combined business to accelerate investment, drive innovation and generate value for both consumers and facility operators in the USD38 billion self-storage industry.
Cove Hill Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston, will acquire a majority stake in both businesses. SpareFoot CEO Chuck Gordon will become CEO of the combined company, and Ross Lampe will remain President of SiteLink with his team continuing to serve self-storage customers. The transactions are expected to
bfinance is to conduct the manager search and selection for a new GBP250 million private debt allocation from the pension schemes of five London Boroughs – Ealing, Havering, Lambeth, Wandsworth and Merton (Five Boroughs).
This will be the Five Boroughs’ first investment in private debt, with the Ealing-led search for an asset manager commencing on 29 March 2018. All five boroughs are part of the London Pension Collective Investment Vehicle (London CIV) pool, which has not yet launched a private debt investment programme.
Specialist investment consultant bfinance is conducting the manager search and selection for this new private debt
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has PAI Partners on the structuring and fundraising of its seventh pan-European fund, PAI Europe VII, which was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap of EUR5 billion in less than six months.
PAI Partners is a major European private equity firm and is one of the largest private equity investors headquartered in Europe. PAI Europe VII will pursue investments in upper middle-market continental European companies, with a focus on PAI’s core sectors: business services, food & consumer goods, general industrials, healthcare and retail & distribution.
The Fund Formation team in Paris has previously advised PAI Partners
Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame Limited (Oregon) has completed a buy-out of its non-management shareholders, including the 15 per cent stake in the business held by its largest external shareholder group, Archangel Investors (Archangels).
The move brings to a close a near 20 year relationship between Oregon – one of the UK’s largest independent timber frame house manufacturers – and Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate.
Oregon, which was established in 1998, specialises in the design, manufacture and erection of structural timber frame packages to volume house builders and developers. The business is trading strongly and in its most recent
Foley & Lardner and Gardere Wynne Sewell have completed the combination of the two firms, effective 1 April, 2018.
The combined firm will have approximately 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices in the United States, Mexico, Asia and Europe. More specifically, Foley will now have a presence in Texas (Austin, Dallas and Houston), Denver and Mexico City – a gateway into Latin America to the benefit of clients and attorneys in transactional and cross-border matters. Similarly, Gardere clients and attorneys will benefit from Foley’s strong presence in the Midwest, the East and West Coasts and Florida, as well as Belgium and
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) platform company Alliance Source Testing (Alliance) has completed its third add-on acquisition with the purchase of Air Pollution Testing (APT).
APT provides source emission testing (stack testing) and oil & gas laboratory services to customers in the western US with offices in Denver, Salt Lake City and Anchorage.
Acquiring APT was an important next step for ACP who is actively investing in growth to build a national, best-in-class stack testing platform. Strategically, APT allows Alliance to enter two new markets in the West, while bolstering its current team in Utah.
Mike McNaughton, Co-Owner of APT,
Emre Akcakmak, Portfolio Adviser at emerging and frontier markets manager East Capital, comments on the implications of Saudi Arabia’s inclusion in the FTSE Russell EM Index…
Saudi Arabia’s inclusion into various emerging markets indices is no surprise to us, as investors who have been witnessing significant efforts by the regulators, especially over the past two years. Next, and perhaps a more important step, will be an EM inclusion by MSCI which is tracked by a larger pool of assets.
With a USD500 billion market capitalisation that is comparable to South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia and Russia, some 2.5 per cent
Rasmala Group’s Rasmala Trade Finance Fund has crossed the USD250 million threshold in assets under management. The Fund has generated an annualised return of 4.45 per cent since its inception in September 2014.
Rasmala said that heightened demand from asset managers to access genuinely uncorrelated investment products has seen the Fund grow significantly in just the last year. The Fund is proving to be popular among institutional investors and family offices seeking uncorrelated returns.
It added that it expects this trend to continue following the correction in the bond market, as institutions continue to diversify their portfolios beyond equities
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has teamed with management to acquire OrthoD Group from The Riverside Company.
OrthoD is a specialist manufacturer and distributor of medical products and implants for joint reconstruction, sport medicine, surgical products and infection control applications. Financial details have not been disclosed.
Apposite Capital sees significant potential in supporting management in further building OrthoD’s export channels and in further commercialising OrthoD’s sport medicine products. In conjunction with its investment, Apposite has introduced Oern Stuge, MD, as Non-Executive Chairman. Oern brings over 25 years’ experience in the medtech industry
Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP) has made an investment in Sigma Retail Solutions (Sigma), a provider of outsourced solutions to blue chip retailers across the UK, Europe and Australia.
The Company offers a wide range of services from procurement to project delivery and supply chain solutions of various specialist fixtures and fittings.
Sigma was founded in 2007 by Jonathan Haigh and is led by CEO Craig Bennett along with a team of highly experienced divisional directors. The Company is a leading GNFR (Goods Not For Resale) solutions provider, delivering consistently outstanding service and cost savings to its clients.
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