Managers
Equistone Partners Europe and SL Capital Partners have sold their stake in specialist lender Together (formerly Jerrold Holdings) for circa GBP288 million in addition to proceeds received during the life of the investment.
The sale is to the founders of the business, which was established in 1974.
Equistone invested GBP115.2 million from Equistone Partners Europe Fund II for a 30 per cent stake in September 2006 and subsequently syndicated GBP20 million to funds managed by SL Capital Partners. Both organisations have been supportive partners of the company since their initial investments.
The Cheshire-headquartered company, which offers short-term finance,
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners are to acquire Anchor Glass Container Corporation in partnership with BA Glass, a European manufacturer of glass containers.
Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Anchor Glass focuses on the growing, premium specialty segment of the glass packaging market. Anchor Glass has long-standing relationships with blue chip companies across the beer, liquor, food, beverage, ready-to-drink and consumer end-markets.
The company operates six manufacturing facilities located in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, New York and Oklahoma, in addition to an engineering and spare parts facility in Illinois and a mould design and manufacturing facility in Ohio. The company’s
Arcis Capital Partners, an investment advisory, investment banking and investment management firm, has acquired Greston Partners, a real estate investment advisory and asset management.
Greston principal Mohaymin ‘Mohi’ Monem will be joining ArcisCap as a partner and head of its real estate and hospitality investments business.
He will be based out of ArcisCap's recently established Atlanta office.
Monem is a real estate and hospitality executive with breadth of experience that spans advising and working for multiple institutional investors as well as real estate operators, developers and advisers.
He previously led the hospitality investment platform at State General
Fund managers have gathered in London to hear from the Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA) about the opportunities in the country as an investment destination.
Held in conjunction with international law firm King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services, and the Bank of Cyprus, the event discussed Cyprus’ position following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, led by senior panel members from all organisations.
Cyprus is fast becoming a location of choice for many promoters and fund managers, as evidenced by the existing 162 internationally recognised fund serviced providers already
Boston-based Audax Private Equity has acquired Mobileum, a provider of roaming and big data analytics solutions to telecoms companies.
Previously known as Roamware, Mobileum was founded in 2001 and has since sold its roaming and analytics solutions to over 600 mobile operator customers worldwide.
In 2014, Mobileum added a suite of analytic-driven solutions to its product portfolio to broaden its reach and value outside of roaming.
Mobileum’s entire leadership and management team will remain with the organisation.
“Audax is an ideal partner for Mobileum at this stage in our growth and the partnership places us securely at
A fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets has completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent interest in an operational wind project in the UK from innogy.
The 18-megawatt Batsworthy Cross wind farm is located in Devon and is now fully operational.
The project benefits from Senvion technology with a long-term Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement in place. REG Power Management has been appointed to undertake the operational management of the project.
Following the investment in Batsworthy Cross, funds managed by BlackRock Real Assets own over 40 renewables projects in the UK across onshore wind, offshore wind and
Asset management firm Barings has acted as co-lead arranger of a unitranche facility to support Bridgepoint Development Capital's acquisition of Inspiring Learning.
Barings' role in the buyout marks the third transaction for the former European private finance group of Babson Capital Management since Babson consolidated its operations with the former Baring Asset Management and rebranded the new firm under the Barings name in September 2016.
Inspiring Learning is a UK provider of residential learning activities and travel programmes for school-aged young people, operating 10 residential activity centres in the UK and France.
"We are very pleased to support
IK Investment Partners’ IK VIII Fund is to acquire ZytoService Group, a compounder of pharmaceuticals for patient-individualised infusions, from the founders and Capiton.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2002, ZytoService is based in Hamburg, where it runs a compounding facility.
“We are delighted to be working with IK going forward. ZytoService operates in an industry in which IK has extensive expertise, and with their support we will be well placed to further expand our competence and provide the best service to our customers,” says Enno Scheel, co-founder of ZytoService.
“We firmly
Offshore global law firm Carey Olsen has retained its tier one position in Guernsey and Jersey for both its financial and corporate and investment funds advice in International Financial Law Review 1000 (IFLR1000).
IFLR1000 rankings are based on independent research over a 12-month period and serve as a definitive guide to the world’s leading financial law firms.
Clients said of Carey Olsen: “The best offshore law firm both in terms of service and for technical capability and drafting”, “very fast, strategically helpful advice” and "responsive, technical and excellent to deal with”.
A total of 20 Carey Olsen lawyers
All of NatWest’s business and commercial customers can now access an expanded panel of alternative lenders to which they can be formally referred if borrowing directly from the bank is not possible.
The panel, called Capital Connections, builds on NatWest’s existing partnerships to signpost small business customers to alternative sources of finance.
The panel now enters its final full launch phase, following a pilot which introduced the wider panel of all five lenders to commercial customers with a turnover of up to GBP25 million in South West England, Wales and Scotland earlier this year.
Capital Connections includes two
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
