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Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has made an investment on behalf of its clients into the Balko Wind project (Balko Wind), a 300MW installed capacity wind farm located in Beaver County, Oklahoma.
Affiliates of D E Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) own Balko Wind. AllianzGI provided funding to refinance Balko Wind’s existing bank financing. The transaction was executed as a “back-leverage” loan in order to tailor the solution to the structure that DESRI had in place.
This is the first infrastructure debt renewable energy investment made by AllianzGI in a project sponsored by DESRI. KeyBank, NA acted as Placement Agent and
Global law firm Reed Smith has advised Graphite Capital and Micheldever Group (MTS) on the acquisition of MTS by Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI), Japan’s sixth largest tyre manufacturer.
The sale was made for GBP215 million, 3.7 times the original investment made by Graphite in 2006.
MTS is the second largest distributor of car, 4×4 and motorcycle tyres in the UK. Graphite Capital is a leading independent private equity house focused on UK mid-market investments.
The team was led out of London by private equity partner Laura Brunnen and senior counsel Martin Bowen, who recently joined the firm’s London office from
OakNorth has completed a debt finance deal worth GBP8 million to ICP Nurseries Ltd. The OakNorth loan will be used to further support ICP Nurseries in acquiring leading nursery settings.
ICP nurseries is owned by the founder, Tracey Storey, and the private equity firm Innervation Capital Partners. Tracey has worked in senior positions within the children’s nursery sector for over twenty years. ICP Nurseries currently owns: Little Muffins in Chiswick, The Old Barn in Banstead, Childcare4U Marlow and Beaconsfield, and Little Monkeys in central Windsor and Windsor Park. In total ICP Nurseries looks after over 400 children, from 0 to
KKR has agreed to acquire Travelopia from TUI AG (TUI). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.
Travelopia, headquartered in the UK, is a specialist travel groups, providing customers with unique experiences, such as sailing adventures, tailor-made holidays, sports tours, school expeditions, private jet travel and polar expedition cruises. Travelopia has a large, international customer base of over 800,000 travellers each year and serves over 70 destinations globally through its 53 brands.
Mattia Caprioli, Member & Head of Services at KKR Europe, says: “The high-end experiential travel market is underpinned by attractive structural growth drivers. These include the growing
Alter Domus, a provider of Fund and Corporate Services to international private equity & infrastructure houses, real estate firms, private debt managers, multinationals, capital markets issuers and private clients is to acquire CARTA Fund Services in the US.
CARTA specialises in providing Private Equity focused, client driven, customisable reporting and administrative solutions for both general partner sponsors and institutional and sophisticated investors.
The firm was founded in 2013 by Michael Trinkaus as a spinoff of a Private Equity company and today counts a team of 28 experienced private equity trained professionals.
Laurent Vanderweyen (pictured), Chief Executive Officer of Alter Domus, says:
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD125 million senior credit facility to support the recapitalisation of a healthcare services company.
The Riverside Company made a simultaneous minority investment as part of the transaction.
The unnamed company is a provider of information that helps doctors improve patients’ lives, with scientific capabilities that can identify potential chronic diseases at stages early enough to make patient lifestyle and wellness improvements successful.
High Road Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of Midwest Wholesale Hardware, marking the sixth platform acquisition for High Road Capital Partners Fund II.
Founded in 1987, Midwest Wholesale Hardware is a leading value-added wholesale distributor of commercial and institutional door hardware, electronic access control and security products. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, the company also operates distribution centers in California, Florida, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Midwest provides expert customer service and offers an extensive inventory of all major brands and hard-to-find components for maintenance and repair applications within the commercial and institutional door hardware market.
“We are
Associated Continuity Teams (ACT Clean) has secured private investor backing for a GBP10.2 million management buyout – a significant deal that signals a new cycle of growth and energy for the specialist outsourcing company of kitchen porters, night cleaning and housekeeping.
Founded in 2006, ACT Clean has grown swiftly, alongside the expansion of upmarket hotels and restaurants in London, and is now the market leader in its luxury niche. Its impressive, long-term client base ranges from Michelin-starred and prestigious restaurant groups to well-known hotel marques through to the Royal Household.
Focussing on the provision of fully managed and supervised
Private equity firm TA Associates has made a minority investment in Retriever Medical/Dental Payments (Retriever), a provider of payment technology and merchant services to healthcare providers. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1993 by Frank Shiner, Retriever is one of the largest payments companies focused exclusively on the healthcare provider market, serving 15,000 physician practices, dental practices, veterinary clinics and hospitals throughout the US. Through its proprietary software, Practice Management BRIDGE, Retriever enables its clients to integrate payment processing workflow and data with the healthcare provider’s existing practice management or ERP system. Retriever also provides tools
Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona), along with Ascent Venture Partners (Ascent), has committed USD100 million to Nova Sciences Holdings (Nova), a new platform formed to acquire metering, monitoring, measurement and control instrumentation businesses.
Nova is led by highly experienced CEO Jim Barbookles and a senior management team that has worked together for fourteen years, during which time they have successfully executed several prior sector consolidations in the industrial instrumentation industry.
Barbookles will be Chairman of the Nova board, which will also include Pamplona Partner Justin Perreault and Ascent General Partner Walter Dick.
Barbookles says: “Over the last fourteen years, the Nova team
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