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Shoosmiths’ Birmingham corporate team has advised MML Capital Partners on the sale of Virginia-based Cableform Inc to Hubbell Inc.
This is the fourth consecutive deal completed by Shoosmiths on behalf of MML within the last ten months, having simultaneously advised on the sale of Rotary Precision Instruments to German manufacturer, Huber Diffraktionstechnik GmbH & Co. KG.
Shoosmiths advised on the sales of subsidiaries ZEAG and Zodion in 2011, bringing present total deal value to around £35m.
The latest deal involved the disposal of Cableform – a manufacturer of large DC motor controls for mining, steel, and transportation industry customers worldwide
Les Laboratoires Nutrition & Cardiometabolisme have successfully completed their second funding round totaling EUR3.5 million. This round was led by Seventure Partners accompanied by a group of investors from South-Western France (IRDI, GSO Capital, Aqui-Invest) and LNC’s historical shareholder EPI.
LNC designs and develops Medical Nutrition products, tailored to meet the specific needs of patients suffering from metabolic diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular disease).
"Coming from the pharmaceutical industry, LNC managers are convinced that patients with these chronic condition benefit from a comprehensive health care offering. This offer comprises the assembly of drugs, disease-specific nutrition products and services. What are the objectives
High Street Capital has partnered with the TLC Companies’ CEO Tim Coughlin and other members of the management team plus Cohesive Capital Partners, to fund the TLC’s growth plan and provide liquidity for its owners.
High Street Capital will be working closely with the management team to acquire additional clients, expand TLC’s service offering and grow the company through a combination of organic initiatives and add-on acquisitions.
TLC, headquartered in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is the nation’s largest provider of outsourced human resource services for the transportation industry. TLC’s service offering includes payroll processing benefits administration, workers compensation and unemployment claims
Maven Capital Partners has provided a GBP3m funding package in support of the MBO of Cat Tech International from US environmental services business Clean Harbors Inc.
Operating from offices in UK, Bulgaria, Sweden, China, Singapore and Thailand, Cat Tech is a leading provider of industrial services to oil refineries and petrochemical plants across several major international markets.
The company specialises in servicing equipment containing chemical reaction catalysts and introducing processes to improve catalyst handling operations where the ability to maintain operational efficiency is critical and there is an increasing focus on health and safety issues.
Operating in a sector with
Private Equity firms invested about USD1,886 million across 90 deals during the quarter ended March 2012, according to a study by Venture Intelligence.
The investment amount was almost half that was invested in the same period last year (USD3,614 million across 107 transactions) and represents the third consecutive quarter of deceleration in PE investments in the country. The immediate previous quarter had witnessed USD1,470 million being invested across 120 transactions. There were six reported PE investments worth over USD100 million (and none above USD200 million) during Q1 2012 compared to nine such transactions in the same period last year (which
New York Life Capital Partners, a private equity affiliate of New York Life Investments, has successfully closed of its third mezzanine fund. NYLCAP Mezzanine Partners III, LP held its final close on 30 March, 2012, with total commitments of USD980 million, more than a 20 per cent above its predecessor fund.
"We are very grateful for the show of support we received from investors and are confident that our strategy of investing in the middle market, with longstanding sponsor relationships, will continue to deliver strong results" says Thomas Haubenstricker, CEO of New York Life Capital Partners.
The Fund will maintain
Royal Bank of Canada is to acquire the 50 per cent stake that it does not already own of the joint venture RBC Dexia Investor Services Limited (RBC Dexia) from Banque Internationale à Luxembourg SA (BIL) (formerly Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg SA) for a total consideration of EUR837.5 million (CAD1.1 billion) in cash. Following the closing of the transaction RBC will own 100 per cent of RBC Dexia.
RBC Dexia is a top 10 global custodian that serves a diverse base of institutional investors through a wide range of advice and services including global custody, fund and pension administration,
Business Growth Fund (BGF), established to help the UK’s fast growing smaller and medium sized businesses, has made its first investment in the North West, with a GBP3.25 million investment in award-winning Mexican street food chain, Barburrito.
This is BGF’s fifth deal in three months, making it currently one of the most active investors of long-term growth capital in the UK and bringing its total investment in fast growing companies to GBP37 million to date.
Founded in 2005 by Manchester based entrepreneurs, Morgan Davies and Paul Kilpatrick, award-winning Barburrito is a chain of fast-casual Mexican restaurants that offer healthy food to
Markit has acquired Data Explorers, a provider of global securities lending data, from mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital.
Data Explorers’ data set, which covers USD12 trillion of securities in the lending programmes of over 20,000 institutional funds, provides a comprehensive view of short interest data and institutional fund activity across all market sectors. It is used by beneficial owners, custodians, agent lenders, prime brokers and asset managers to help inform investment decisions, manage risk and produce independent benchmarks.
This acquisition comes as the new regulatory environment is changing the dynamics of the securities financing markets. By combining Data
Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners, in collaboration with High Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Estag Capital, has taken a financial stake in GameGenetics (www.gamegenetics.com), as part of a series-A financing round.
The financial investment is in the seven-digit Euro figure, and will support the Berlin-based aggregator and distributor of free-to-play online games in its planned expansion into the UK and US markets.
GameGenetics GmbH enables game developers and publishers to market more effectively and to speed up their global growth. The company also supports traffic and media partners across the globe with a first-class line of games. GameGenetics works with
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