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Carey Olsen has advised the Scott family on the sale of its privately-owned car dealership to an investor grouping led by Guernsey-based investment fund Bailiwick Investments Limited.
The deal, which is subject to approval by the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority and the Jersey Financial Services Commission, includes the sale of the Jacksons and Motor Mall car dealerships in Guernsey and Jersey, St Martin's Tyres in Guernsey, Trinity Tyres in Jersey as well as the Jacksons CI group's other assets for a total consideration of GBP41.7 million.
The Scott family will retain an interest in the group with Tom Scott
Preqin examines the recent surge in European fundraising, including the growth of debt and distressed strategies and the increasing flow of international capital into the region.
European fundraising has improved dramatically over the last year, reflecting growing investor appetite for the region. Almost 90% of Europe-based fund managers believe that investor appetite has increased over the past year, with none stating they have seen a decrease in appetite. This has led to a large amount of capital focusing on Europe, and while transaction volumes are up, pricing is becoming competitive and it is now harder to find attractively priced assets,
Cabot Square Capital, the specialist financial services private equity investor, has acquired Blue Motor Finance, the car finance provider.
Blue Motor Finance will offer auto finance backed by equity investment from Cabot Square Capital and a newGBP200 million long term funding facility provided by a major international bank. The company has agreements with fifteen major dealer networks and brokers that will use Blue Motor Finance’s funding and plans on significantly expanding its introducer relationships in the coming months.
Blue Motor Finance will offer funding across the entire UK prime auto finance market, giving both dealerships and consumers a major
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed the sale of its stake in the UK’s leading average speed enforcement business Vysionics, in a multi-million pound deal with JENOPTIK AG.
Headquartered in Frimley in Surrey, Vysionics provides automatic number plate recognition (“ANPR”) traffic enforcement, access management and information systems to a wide range of private and public sector organisations both here in the UK and overseas.
The business’ diverse customer base comprises strategic highway authorities, construction contractors, local authorities, parking contractors, rail authority and police forces, and its market-leading products and services include temporary and permanent average speed systems for road
Corporate finance house Convex Capital structured and led the multi million pound sale of the UK’s largest independent brands in sports nutrition, PhD Nutrition, to UK based B&B Investment Partners (B&B).
Neil Worsley, Andrew Clarke and Gareth Lewis who structured the deal that valued the business at 10x EBITDA and delivered 83% of the consideration on completion led the transaction; Senior VP, James Edge, and Managing Partner, Neil Worsley originated it.
The transaction underlines Convex Capital’s excellence in advising sports nutrition brands and further emphasises the team’s ability to find great partners for their clients. It continues Convex’s unprecedented run
Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in financial services, has made an investment for a majority of the equity in reinsurance intermediary.
Since its founding in 1988, Beach has built a reputation as an innovative organisation with differentiated technical capabilities and understanding of complex risks. Beach has a high-quality actuarial team and is recognised for its success in working with clients to understand their risk tolerance and identify advantageous reinsurance alternatives.
“The Aquiline team shares our vision for the Company and we look forward to leveraging their insurance expertise and capital investment to strengthen our
Flowserve is to acquire TBG’s portfolio company SIHI Group BV for a consideration of approximately EUR298 million. Baird served as the exclusive financial advisor to TBG on the transaction, the firm’s 11th transatlantic deal in 2014.
Itzehoe (Germany) based SIHI is a leading provider of vacuum and fluid pumps and related engineered solutions serving the chemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage and other process manufacturing industries. Flowserve is a leading manufacturer and supplier of pumps, valves, seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical and other industries.
The Baird deal team was led by senior investment bankers Nick
Companies that listed on AIM have over the first nine months of 2014 outperformed the FTSE AIM All Share Index by a considerable margin, according to research by Cavendish Asset Management.
Peter Renton an Equity Analyst at Cavendish says: “Analysis by Cavendish reveals that, so far this year, AIM IPO prices rose by an average of 12% on their first day of trading, and had retained that 12% gain 30 days after listing.
The recent dip in the market has inevitably led to these companies giving up some of their initial gains, but on average they remain up 5%
Africa has the opportunity to quadruple living standards by 2040, but to do so it will need to find USD11.4 trillion in extra investment over that period. That’s according to a Capital Economics report commissioned by Jersey Finance.
While Africa has fifteen per cent of the world’s population, it generates just four per cent of global output. But the Capital Economics report argues that Africa is on the verge of a demographic dividend. While other continents face ageing populations, Africa’s working age population is expected to double to 1.2 billion over the next 30 years.
To support this and
An increasing proportion of investors in hedge funds are based in the Asia-Pacific region. Who are these investors and which strategies are they targeting? Preqin examines the hedge fund investor landscape within this dynamic region.
Asia-Pacific is home to just under two-thirds of the world’s population and is a burgeoning region encompassing emerging, developing and advanced economies. Rapid growth has led to immense wealth generation that has contributed to a surplus of savings from countries in the region. Given this backdrop, institutional investors based in the region have been growing in prominence over recent years. Entrusted with vast amounts of
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