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An affiliate of Austin, Texas-based Peak Rock Capital has acquired the industrial products division of RJF International Corporation, creating ProFusion Industries.
Based in Marietta, Ohio, ProFusion Industries has established a long-standing customer base of Fortune 1,000 companies through manufacturing capabilities that provide engineered solutions under a wide range of demanding environments and conditions.
In particular, the company's product portfolio includes transit matting, protective linings, custom design specialty film products and various printing services.
Anthony DiSimone, CEO of Peak Rock Capital, says: "We are pleased to support ProFusion Industries and its employees in building a leading manufacturer and distributor
European-based Ipes and US-based Standish, providers of fund services to managers of private equity, venture capital, real estate and fund of funds, have formed a partnership.
Under the partnership, Standish and Ipes will work together to share their specialised private equity knowledge, experience and contacts in their respective US and European markets.
As a result, both firms and their clients will benefit from enhanced cross-jurisdictional capabilities and access to a transatlantic network.
Standish’s clients will be able to gain access to Ipes’ corporate services and European regulatory expertise.
The new alliance gives US-based fund managers access to
Ogier, along with DLA Piper as lead counsel, has advised online fashion retailer Boohoo.com on its corporate reorganisation and subsequent AIM listing on 14 March.
Boohoo raised GBP300m through its initial public offering and had a market capitalisation of GBP560m at the placing price.
Boohoo is one of the UK's largest pure-play online own brand fashion retailers which provides fashion to customers in over 100 countries worldwide. The company plans to extend its reach into existing and new territories including the US, Central Europe and Scandinavia. The funds raised in the AIM listing will help the company accelerate the
Global institutional trading network Liquidnet is planning to enter the fixed income market with its acquisition of bond trading platform Vega-Chi.
The partnership, subject to regulatory approval, will combine Liquidnet’s experience, scale and global reach within the institutional investment community with Vega-Chi’s corporate bond trading platform and sector expertise to accelerate efficiencies within the corporate bond market.
“There has been a massive increase in corporate bond issuance and at the same time a depletion of capital that dealers can use to facilitate trading. The result has been increasing difficulty among investment managers and dealers in accessing liquidity. To fix
Jon Moulton, via his family office Perscitus Advisers, has acquired a significant minority shareholding in Seneca Investment Managers, the new fund management firm within the Seneca Partners group.
Moulton (pictured) is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital.
In late January, Seneca Investment Managers acquired – subject to FCA approval – Liverpool-based Miton Capital Partners, a fund division of Miton Group.
The funds currently managed by Miton Capital Partners are CF Miton Distribution Fund; CF Miton Diversified Growth Fund; and the Midas Income & Growth Trust plc.
Moulton says: “Seneca Investment Managers
DN Capital and Paul Pindar, who recently stepped down as chief executive of Capita, have led a multi-million pound investment in estate agency business Purplebricks.com.
DN Capital, the UK-based technology fund with investments including Shazam, and Pindar were joined in the investment by Martin Bolland.
Purplebricks.com, the brainchild of brothers Michael and Kenny Bruce who have prior experience building and exiting UK estate agencies, is a fully interactive, round the clock property platform allowing people to oversee every aspect of their transaction as it happens, at the touch of a button, rather than waiting for an estate agent’s
The private equity (PE) market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has consolidated around key regions and settled into a new, post-financial crisis normal, according to S&P Capital IQ.
In the inaugural issue of EMEA Private Equity Market Snapshot, S&P Capital IQ provides a broad overview of the EMEA PE market in 2013, and highlights some of the most notable trends.
Specifically, the report looks at the performance of the market over the last year and its attractiveness as a target region for investment, the industry sectors that were the most successful for EMEA PE firms, and
Recent European M&A processes have seen strong interest from purely US-based private equity (PE) firms, according to mid-market investment bank Robert W Baird & Co.
Some 44 middle-market leveraged buyout (LBO) transactions have been completed since 2011, where the final buyer was a purely US based PE firm, including:
• Chicago based GTCR’s acquisition of UK based Callcredit Information Group from Vitruvian Partners in February 2014 for GBP480m
• New York based New Mountain Capital’s acquisition of UK based Alexander Mann Solutions from Graphite Capital in October 2013 for GBP260m
• Washington, D.C. based Arlington Capital Partners’ acquisition
HIG Europe has backed the management buyout of Kondor, provider of mobile and consumer electronics accessories into the UK and European retail markets.
Terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 1994 by the chairman Malcolm Bartlett, Kondor has evolved alongside the rapid growth in the smartphone and tablet market and today supplies a wide range of accessories including headphones, cases and speakers.
Global brands that Kondor partners with include Beats By Dr Dre, Skullcandy, Sony and Samsung.
Kondor supplies more than 10,000 products into more than of 11,000 stores in the UK and 7,500 outlets across Europe. UK
Novitas has acted as adviser to Equipos on the company’s sale to Simcorp A/S.
The EUR10m acquisition of the UK-based company and its subsequent full integration into the SimCorp organisation will enhance and support SimCorp’s strategy of growing the business based on its single product platform, SimCorp Dimension, while also providing selected applications as standalone solutions to investment managers.
Prior to the full acquisition, SimCorp held a 20 per cent stake in the private limited company’s share capital.
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