Managers
James Briggs, an independent UK-based aerosol and speciality chemicals manufacturer, has acquired the business and assets of Premiere Products, a manufacturer of branded and private label janitorial cleaning products.
James Briggs can trace its roots back to 1830 and Premiere has a similarly strong heritage in the UK having been supplying products into both the commercial and consumer cleaning sectors since 1924. Premiere is one of the most respected and trusted names in the industry distributing its products widely in the UK and Ireland, but also enjoys strong export sales across Europe and the Middle East, as well as into
Materne-Mont Blanc, a provider of fruit purees and dessert creams sold at ambient temperature in supermarket food departments, backed by LBO France since 2010, has successfully completed a seven year EUR230 million refinancing.
Pom’Potes is the group’s flagship brand for fruit purees sold in pouches, with a leading position among children in the snack segment. The brand developed a first mover advantage in the US, under the name GoGoSqueez.
BNP Paribas acted as Mandated Lead Arranger and Bookrunner of the new EUR230 million tranche B senior financing. The structure includes an additional EUR10 million revolving credit facility as well as
Turner & Townsend, the global programme management and construction consultancy, has acquired Australian project management specialist Thinc, creating a combined company with more than 400 expert staff based in ten locations across Australia.
The acquisition is a key part of Turner & Townsend’s ambitious expansion strategy for Australia, and follows a period of continuous organic growth across the business.
Turner & Townsend is an independent professional services company with 87 offices in 36 countries. Its Australian clients include National Australia Bank, Brisbane Airport, and Transport for NSW, Canberra University and Woolworths.
Thinc has a strong track record of providing strategic
Rural Physicians Group has formed a strategic investment partnership led by Sorenson Capital with additional support from Leavitt Equity Partners.
This partnership will leverage Sorenson Capital’s extensive experience in accelerating growth of high performance companies and Leavitt Equity Partners’ expertise in healthcare, better positioning Rural Physicians Group to dramatically expand its reach and ability to support rural healthcare throughout the United States.
“Rural Physicians Group has a very innovative and thoughtful approach to improving rural healthcare, and we look forward to putting our extensive experience to work in helping the company find new ways to unlock its full potential.”
Rural
OpenFin, a provider of HTML5 runtime technology for the financial industry, has raised USD3.0 million in additional financing.
The round was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures, Pivot Investment Partners and Nyca Partners, with participation from 20 senior financial industry executives including Cris Conde, former CEO of SunGard and Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters. The funds will be used for product development and engineering team expansion in both New York and London.
"Eleven of the world's largest banks and trading platforms are already using OpenFin to run high-performance, multi-window HTML5 applications on sell-side and buy-side desktops," says Mazy Dar,
Investment management sector technology specialist RFA (Richard Fleischman & Associates) has launched a new data governance solution for the alternative asset industry.
The data governance service extends the full functionality previously only offered by enterprise level data governance services to the alternative asset industry at a significantly lower price point.
The RFA Data Governance service reports on permission structures and monitors and logs data access, and generates real time alerts based on the criteria set by the client. Clients located in the United States and the United Kingdom will be able to access the new service in a subscription format
Investors’ plans for future activity in the private debt space are revealed in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Debt, Q1 2015.
Investors surveyed by Preqin in Q1 2015 conveyed a strong appetite for exposure to private debt funds, with 57 per cent of respondents expecting to increase their allocation within the next 12 months (Fig. 1). An even larger proportion (65 per cent) expects to increase their allocation to private debt in the longer term, while only 8 per cent expect to decrease their exposure. It is clear that institutional investors are becoming increasingly familiar with the
Law firm Paul Hastings is representing Fosun International, the largest private-owned conglomerate in China, on its participation in the acquisition of Cirque Du Soleil.
Fosun is a member of the buyer consortium backed by American buyout fund, TPG Capital. The consortium signed definitive agreements with the owners of Cirque Du Soleil and the consummation of the acquisition is subject to customary conditions.
Cirque Du Soleil is a globally renowned performance troupe and is the world’s largest theatrical production company.
B Riley Financial has formed Great American Capital Partners (GACP) with an anchor investment from Corporate Capital Trust, a business development company advised by CNL Financial Advisors Company and KKR Credit Advisors (US) LLC.
GACP will focus on providing asset-based debt opportunities targeting lower middle market companies. It will utilise the wide array of diversified financial and business advisory services provided by the B Riley Financial platform, which includes a network of over 200 finance professionals for proprietary deal flow sourcing and in-house valuation and appraisals expertise. GACP is led by John Ahn, President, and Stuart Armstrong, Chief Investment Officer.
Representatives from PwC, Coller Capital, Dexion Capital, Baring Vostok, Hermes GPE and Metric Capital have been added to the roster of speakers for the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015.
It has already been announced that Guy Hands, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s forum and that it will be moderated for the sixth successive year by ITV News anchor, Alastair Stewart OBE.
The annual event is this year titled ‘Achieving stability in a world of change’ and takes place on Thursday 14 May in London. It is
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