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HIG Europe (HIG) has acquired Fågelviksgruppen (FVG), a Nordic taxi services provider, which through its well-known and trusted brands and technology serves taxi firms in all the major cities in Sweden and Norway.
FVG has over 30 years built up a market leading position in all market segments – consumer, corporate and public contracts. It pioneered new technology such as apps and B2B process integration and expects to reach nearly SEK5,500 million turnover in the current financial year.
HIG will partner with the existing management team which will benefit from HIG’s operational, strategic and financial know-how as it continues to
Prosper Marketplace has secured a USD165 million Series D financing, led by Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, part of Credit Suisse Asset Management.
Additional participants included JP Morgan Asset Management, SunTrust Banks, a subsidiary of USAA, BBVA Ventures (BBVA’s representative office in San Francisco), Neuberger Berman Private Equity Funds, Passport Capital, Breyer Capital, and others. The latest funding will support the company’s continued growth, expansion, and development of a national brand as it builds new products and services for the marketplace’s borrowers and investors.
The funding comes on the heels of a record quarter, with nearly USD600 million in loans originated
Natixis has arranged a EUR350 million equity bridge financing transaction for funds managed by Antin Infrastructure Partners – the first transaction that is AIFMD compliant, in terms of leverage constraints.
The transaction provides the funds with a performance management tool, while complying with their debt constraint, managing capital calls from investors in an efficient and flexible manner by optimszing cash management.
Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Collection Localisation Satellites (CLS) on its acquisition of Horizon Marine, a provider of metocean forecasting services to the Gulf of Mexico offshore energy industry.
Based in Toulouse, France, CLS is a leading global operator of satellite systems for positioning, data collection, ocean observation, and surveillance.
"This transaction demonstrates how Mooreland successfully works with European companies that are looking for buy-side M&A advisory services in connection with their North American growth strategies," says Stephen Schweich, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners.
Founded in 1986, CLS is majority-owned by the French space agency, CNES, but
LBO France has entered exclusive negotiations with Roger Zannier to acquire IKKS, one of the leading French ready-to-wear brands with a unique position in the “casual chic” segment.
The IKKS Group has a portfolio of three complementary brands – IKKS, One Step and I.Code – offering creative, contemporary and wearable collections.
Starting in kids wear and renowned for its high quality, IKKS has successfully diversified into women’s and men’s fashion. The group covers all distribution channels including a wide retail network of 526 boutiques, primarily located in prime areas in city centres, 218 department store corners as well as
Pascal Menges (pictured), Manager of the Lombard Odier Global Energy Fund comments on Royal Dutch Shell’s offer for BG Group…
This shows that Big Oil’s growth strategy over the last ten years is bust. Having bet enormous sums on eye-wateringly expensive oil production from oil sands, ultra-deep water and arctic fields the supermajors are now ill-placed to cope with a low oil price.
What next? Shell’s purchase of BG Group heralds a scrabble by big oil to ‘high grade’ – improve the overall quality – of their portfolios. It didn’t have to be this way. Low oil prices in the early 2000s
Private equity placement agent BerchWood Partners has formed a joint venture with JTP Capital, an investment advisory firm which provides capital advisory solutions for a small number of well selected real estate investment platforms.
Mitchell B. Sikora, JTP Capital’s founding member, and Henry J Delicata, a senior advisor, will be working with the BerchWood team on placement activities.
Sikora has more than 20 years of experience in the investment banking, investment and real estate professions and has been involved in raising private equity specifically for real estate funds since 1999. Just prior to founding JTP Capital in 2012, Sikora
TIAA-CREF has launched Churchill Asset Management, a new majority-owned subsidiary focused on originating, underwriting and managing senior loan investments, primarily in US middle-market companies. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Churchill adds to TIAA-CREF’s existing fixed income capabilities by expanding its private credit platform. It also supports the firm’s long-term strategy to offer investors a diversified array of investment options and help clients build financial well-being. Churchill will operate as a standalone business, led by industry veteran Kenneth J Kencel, and seeks to raise investment funds from institutional and qualified individual investors who are increasingly looking toward middle-market
Lion Capital is to acquire Spence Diamonds, a direct seller of custom-made engagement rings in Canada.
Lion Capital is partnering with IVEST Consumer Partners, a Vancouver-based retail investor and operator, who will bring seasoned operating executives George Jones and Jim Schneider to lead the business. IVEST will make a minority investment in Spence, as will current CEO Sean Jones, who will also remain on the board. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1978, Spence Diamonds carved out a distinctive position within the retail jewellery industry by giving its customers a unique and personalised purchasing experience
Oil and gas private equity firm EnCap Investment has closed EnCap Energy Capital Fund X with USD6.5 billion of limited partner capital commitments.
Fund X, which reached its USD6.5 billion hard cap and was significantly oversubscribed, provides growth capital to proven management teams focused primarily on the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry in North America.
EnCap is led by its four founders, managing partners David B Miller, Gary R Petersen, D Martin Phillips and Robert L Zorich; and three additional managing partners Jason M DeLorenzo, E Murphy Markham IV and Douglas E Swanson, Jr. Since its inception in
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