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Hayfin Capital Management (Hayfin) has announced a record period of deployment through its Direct Lending strategy, having invested EUR3.7 billion in 2020.
Hayfin reached a final close on the commingled Hayfin Direct Lending Fund III and its related separately managed accounts in 2020, raising in excess of EUR5 billion to deploy into performing loans to European middle-market companies. During this record period of activity, the firm bolstered its investment team, business development function and back-office operations with 35 new hires.
Within its Direct Lending strategy, Hayfin focuses on the provision of senior-secured loans that exhibit strong returns relative to
Francisco Partners, a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses, is to acquire BARBRI Inc (BARBRI) from Leeds Equity Partners (Leeds Equity). Terms of the transaction have not been announced.
BARBRI is specialist in technology-enabled legal education, offering a comprehensive product suite across the complete legal education lifecycle. For decades, BARBRI has helped tens of thousands of test takers each year prepare for and pass the Bar exam. More recently, BARBRI has leveraged its technology platform to develop test preparation offerings in the UK with the SQE, in professional education with Paralegal and eDiscovery certification, and in
Digital 9 Infrastructure, which invests in digital infrastructure assets, has now completed its first acquisition, of 100 per cent of Aqua Comms DAC for cGBP160 million.
Aqua Comms owns and operates some 14,300km of trans-Atlantic sub-sea fibre systems, representing the very “backbone” of the internet.
Aqua Comms’ assets are established, fully operational, and benefit from a long established customer base, particularly comprising the FAANGs, and other global content providers. D9’s investment manager, Triple Point Investment Management LLP (Triple Point or the Investment Manager) believes the platform has in-built further growth potential.
D9 is a London Stock Exchange listed
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co has acquired AutoRestore from Belron International Limited (Belron). AutoRestore, the UK’s leading provider of mobile accident repair services, will complement AURELIUS portfolio companies Rivus Fleet Solutions (Rivus) and Pullman Fleet Services (Pullman) which have offerings for commercial fleets focussing on light commercial vehicles (LCV) and heavy goods vehicles (HGV), respectively.
Headquartered in Rushden, Northamptonshire, AutoRestore which traded as Autoglass BodyRepair under Belron, is the UK’s leading provider of mobile body repair services nationwide. Established as a division of Belron in 2010, AutoRestore currently operates a fleet of over 130 mobile repair vans, providing over
Blackfinch Ventures has completed on 12 new investment deals totalling in excess of GBP11 million ahead of the tax-year-end deadline in a move which ‘significantly increases’ the number of technology and tech-enabled companies within its portfolio.
Familiar names such as Cadidate.ID, Staffcircle and Kokoon make up the seven companies to have received follow on investment in totals ranging from GBP430,000 through to GBP1.09 million.
Whereas a further five new companies – including digital vendor management platform Brooklyn Vendor Assurance, global client engagement platform Clientshare, embedded integration platform Cyclr, real-time market research company OnePulse, and hyper-realistic text-to-speech platform LSTN – also
Arrowpoint Advisory has advised BasePower on its GBP50 million five-year framework project funding agreement with SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc (SEEIT).
BasePower develops and operates on-site power generation projects for commercial and industrial clients in the UK utilising a range of energy efficiency and carbon reducing technologies including Combined Heat and Power (CHP), solar photovoltaic (PV) and microgrid projects.
The agreement will allow BasePower to accelerate the delivery of sustainable energy projects, having already developed award-winning energy centres for some of the UK’s largest food and automotive manufacturers seeking to reduce their energy costs and carbon footprint.
3i Infrastructure has agreed to invest cEUR182 million to acquire a 60 per cent stake in DNS:NET and to provide additional funding for the future growth of the business.
DNS:NET is an independent telecommunications provider in Germany. 3i Infrastructure is buying its stake from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG’s (DBAG), DBAG ECF, a private equity fund managed by DBAG, and Founder and CEO Alexander Lucke, with the latter reinvesting alongside 3i Infrastructure to retain a 40 per cent stake. Completion is expected to take place in June 2021.
Established in 1998, DNS:NET owns the largest independent fibre-to-the-cabinet network in the Berlin area,
PSG, a specialist growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies to help them navigate transformational growth, has signed a definitive agreement to sell Pineapple Payments, a payments technology provider, to Fiserv, Inc (NASDAQ: FISV), a global specialist in payments and financial services technology solutions.
Pineapple will join the Global Business Solutions division of Fiserv as part of the Partner Solutions business unit. Founded in 2016, Pineapple Payments provides payment processing, proprietary technology, and omni-channel payment acceptance solutions for integrated software vendors (ISVs) and small and medium businesses (SMBs). After partnering with PSG in 2017, Pineapple
PineBridge Investments (PineBridge), a private, global asset manager focused on active, high-conviction investing, has appointed Kate Faraday as Global Head of Corporate Responsibility.
In this newly created role, Faraday will report directly to PineBridge’s CEO, Greg Ehret. Her primary responsibilities will be to work closely with PineBridge’s Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee, which oversees the firm’s subcommittees. Those subcommittees are dedicated to ESG Investment, Diversity & Inclusion, Stewardship and Company Responsibility. Ms. Faraday will play an active role in each of these functions, ensuring alignment, collaboration and sharing of best practices across PineBridge.
In this new role, Faraday will oversee
Kirkland & Ellis is advising TDR Capital LLP, a private equity firm, on the recommended offer for the entire issued, and to be issued, ordinary share capital of Arrow.
As part of the offer, shareholders of Arrow have the opportunity to elect to receive a share alternative in lieu of the cash offer. The acquisition will be implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement and values Arrow at approximately GBP563 million.
Arrow was founded in the United Kingdom in 2005, with the aim of identifying, acquiring and managing secured and unsecured loan and real estate portfolios from
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