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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) have signed an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Nord Anglia Education.
Funds affiliated with BPEA are the majority shareholders of Nord Anglia and BPEA controls 67 per cent of Nord Anglia's issued and outstanding share capital.
The transaction values Nord Anglia at USD 4.3 billion, including repayment of debt.
The transaction is subject to shareholder approval and customary closing conditions.
Nord Anglia is a premium schools organisation. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nord Anglia was founded in 1972.
International law firm Ropes & Gray has advised TPG Capital on the acquisition by one of its portfolio companies, Beaver-Visitec International, of Malosa Medical, a manufacturer and supplier of single-use surgical instruments, primarily for use in the field of ophthalmology, based in the UK and China.
With a portfolio of more than 400 products, Malosa equips surgeons with convenient, sterilized, single-use packs that contain all the instruments and consumables required for specific ophthalmic procedures.
The company’s cost-effective, high-quality instruments are designed for use in some of the most frequently performed procedures, including cataract surgery and intravitreal injection.
The
Investec has provided a GBP75 million debt package to support Allied Glass Containers’ growth plans.
The Yorkshire-based specialist manufacturer and distributor of glass bottles and containers to the premium spirits and food & beverage sector produces 600 million bottles per annum across 450 product lines.
Investec invested time with management and put together a bespoke debt structure comprising a mix of asset-based and cashflow lending to support the company’s long term growth, working capital and seasonality requirements.
The package incorporates a blend of evergreen revolvers against receivables and inventory as well as an amortising term loan, as opposed
Indigo Holdings, a Middle East-focused investment company that provides investors with exposure to early stage businesses, has invested approximately GBP200,000 in FMCG, a recently established online retail delivery business of Iranian convenience store chain Yaran Daryan.
Indigo has acquired a 15 per cent equity stake in FMCG at a post-money valuation of approximately GBP1,330,000.
FMCG operates a similar business model to Ocado, however it differs to Ocado’s warehousing model as its online orders will be automatically routed to the nearest Yaran Daryan store, which will then be collected by the company’s fleet of drivers and delivered to the customer’s
Hamburg-based private equity group CEE has acquired eight wind turbines in the Vormark wind farm near to the municipality Gross Pankow (Prignitz) in Brandenburg.
The seller is a consortium consisting of the Danish company European Energy A/S and the Berlin-based Green Wind Energy.
The wind farm consists of eight turbines (type Vestas V126, 3.45 MW). The hub height is 137 m, the rotor diameter is 126 m, and the overall capacity of the wind farm amounts to 27.6 megawatts (MW).
The turbines, which were commissioned on time in February and March, will supply environmentally friendly power to about
Aurelius Equity Opportunities has sold its subsidiary SECOP to the Nidec Group headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
At a sales price of EUR185 million, this is the largest company sale in Aurelius’ history.
The transaction is subject to the approval of the competent authorities and is expected to close in the coming months.
With the sale, Aurelius increases the capital it invested in SECOP by a multiple of approximately 11x. The transaction will have a positive effect on Aurelius’ 2017 group profit of EUR100 million.
The combination of the transaction and advanced plans for further disposals in the
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a unitranche facility to support the future growth of Priority Ambulance, by private equity sponsor Enhanced Equity Funds.
Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, Priority Ambulance provides emergency and nonemergency medical transport to the communities it serves in Tennessee, Alabama, New York, Arizona, Indiana, Georgia and South Carolina.
Throughout its national footprint, Priority Ambulance operates approximately 400 emergency and nonemergency vehicles staffed by more than 1,600 licensed paramedics and EMTs. Priority’s ambulances are equipped with the latest medical equipment and technology.
Eaton Partners, a placement agent and advisory firm and wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp, has served as lead placement agent for PA Direct Credit Opportunities Fund II (PADCOF II), which held a final close of approximately USD740 million.
The fund, part of the Portfolio Advisors direct investing platform, is run by the credit investment team led by Chuck Harper and Igor DaCosta, and will primarily invest in direct junior debt instruments, with equity participation.
It will provide capital to financial sponsors that are conducting leveraged buyouts, growth financing or recapitalisation transactions for US middle market companies.
Alterity Investments, advised by MMX Retail, has sold 12/15 High Street in Winchester for GBP15.825 million.
The property is situated on the prime retail pitch of Winchester’s High Street and comprises three integrated buildings forming a single department store offering 50,612 sq ft of retail space across five floors.
The property is currently occupied by Debenhams on a 30-year lease, circa 17 years left until lease expiry, with fixed rental increases throughout the remainder of the lease. Debenhams is the only department store in the city.
Scott Mitchell, partner at MMX Retail, says: “Winchester presents an attractive opportunity for
Maven Capital Partners has completed the GBP6 million management buy-out of ProspectSoft to support the roll-out of the new cloud-based SaaS software – Prospect365.
ProspectSoft provides customer relationship management (CRM) and e-commerce software for the business-to-business (B2B) market.
Its technology can be fully integrated with clients’ existing accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages including systems such as Access Dimension, Exchequer, Pegasus and Sage.
The business will use the funding from Maven to help roll out its new Cloud-based SaaS software application Prospect365. The product was officially launched in December 2016 following several years of development and will
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