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Independent petrol forecourt and convenience retail operators Euro Garages and European Forecourt Retail Group (EFR) are combining their businesses.
A new holding company named Intervias has been established, with a small corporate office in London.
EFR and Euro Garages will continue to operate under their own names with their current CEOs and senior leadership teams.
The merged group will be a leading independent petrol forecourt retailer in Europe, with around 1,450 locations and 8,500 employees. Euro Garages and EFR together will be serving more than six million customers a week through the management and operation of retail brands
Trowers & Hamlins has advised Austrian investment company AVenture on the acquisition of Imagination Technologies' Pure DAB digital radio business.
The deal allows AVenture to exercise an option to acquire Imagination's property at Concept House in Kings Langley, the current headquarters of the Pure business.
Trowers & Hamlins corporate partner Nick Harrisingh, who led the deal team, says: "It's been exciting to work on this transaction. The acquisition will provide a great platform for the business to grow and flourish with the support of the new owners. We look forward to continuing our work with AVenture and Pure in
An affiliate of New Water Capital has acquired The Worth Collection, a direct-to-consumer women’s fashion apparel company, from private equity firm L Catterton.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Worth Collection was founded 25 years ago by Caroline Davis, Richard Kaplan and Jay Rosenberg. Rosenberg remains an active member of the management team and will continue to serve as chief merchant.
Headquartered in New York, Worth Collection designs, supplies and distributes luxury and contemporary women’s apparel through an omni-channel approach via its stylist network, by-appointment showrooms, online and retail outlets.
“Our partnership with New Water
Independent North Asian buyout company MBK Partners and TPG, a global alternative asset firm, are to acquire through a newly established and jointly owned special purpose vehicle Wharf T&T from The Wharf.
The transaction values Wharf T&T at HKD9.5 billion.
Wharf T&T is Hong Kong’s largest purely enterprise-focused telecom service provider, with an extensive fibre optic network covering approximately 90 per cent of the commercial market. The company offers a portfolio of local data connectivity and a full suite of ICT services complemented by leading system integration capabilities.
Teck Chien Kong, partner of MBK Partners, says: “We are
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has completed the EUR500 million final close of the BNP Paribas European SME Debt Fund, attracting a range of European institutional investors.
The fund finances small and medium sized enterprises in Europe through a solution combining bank lending and fund financing.
Strong demand has resulted in the fund reaching its target of EUR500 million at first close, offering institutional investors, including insurers and pension funds, access to an innovative way to diversify their credit exposure.
Included in the investors are AG2R La Mondiale, BNP Paribas Cardif, CNP Assurances, l’ERAFP, Federal Finance Gestion (on behalf
Transaction activity in the infrastructure remains healthy, with 289 deals worth an aggregate USD75 billion, a slight drop in the number of deals and combined deal value for a second successive quarter.
Preqin says this drop is due to the high levels of activity seen in the first half of the year; 318 deals were concluded in Q2 for a total of USD99 billion, while Q1 was a record quarter with 437 deals financed for an all-time high USD103 billion.
Nonetheless, deal activity remains on par, or higher, than most quarters seen in the past four years despite concerns
Keg Logistics has acquired Birmingham, Alabama-based Atlas Keg Company, a provider of kegs to the rapidly growing US craft brewing industry.
This combination creates a new leader in the keg management sector, with over 1,000 high-growth brewery and cider customers across the US and UK.
The acquisition deepens Keg Logistics’ domain expertise. With a combined 60 years of management experience in the brewing, distribution and keg management supply chain arena, the company is positioned to provide a one-stop-shop solution for its customers. The acquisition also significantly enhances Keg Logistics’ coverage across the US and its ability to provide keg
Shore Capital Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has sold ClearPath Diagnostics, a provider of laboratory diagnostic services in the north-eastern US, to Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp).
Shore Capital partnered with ClearPath’s founding pathologists, Dr Michael Jozefczyk and Dr Michael Mazur, to drive the company’s expansion beyond the local Syracuse, New York market.
Together, Shore Capital and ClearPath executed a growth strategy that extended the company’s geographic reach to four states and expanded the service menu to include new cutting-edge tests.
The growth was driven by organic initiatives as ClearPath expanded the sales force from one professional
The Riverside Company has completed fundraising for its first-ever growth lending fund – Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) – which is designed to fuel the growth of enterprise software companies with flexible, non-dilutive capital.
As a long-term partner, RAC also intends to support its companies with follow-on equity investments, and will leverage the substantial resources and experience of The Riverside Company.
The fund hit its USD50 million fundraising target and has already made several investments.
RAC is designed to provide growth capital to software businesses without altering ownership or control dynamics. This provides strategic options for companies that have
Omnes Capital is selling its majority stake in SIMP to the HCP Packaging group, owned by Baring Private Equity Asia.
HCP is a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of prestige primary packaging for the cosmetics, skincare and fragrance industries.
Omnes acquired a stake in SIMP in 2011. The deal involves keeping the management team in place, with Alain Blondel as chairman and Eric de Bardonnèche as commercial and development director.
Founded in 1949 in the Paris region, SIMP is a pioneer in plastic and rubber injection moulding. It designs and manufactures small precision industrial components produced
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