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Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, has appointed Tim Houghton as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a member of the Group Executive Board (GEB).In his new role, Houghton will oversee Alter Domus’ operations across all products and services as the global fund administrator continues its rapid expansion in US and EMEA markets. Previously, he was Alter Domus’ Head of Core Products and Group Operations.
Doug Hart, Chief Executive Officer, says: “Tim has been an instrumental part of Alter Domus’ growth for more than twelve years. From building a leading debt capital markets fund administrator
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital), a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has made a majority investment in Everest Clinical Research Corporation (Everest), alongside the company’s founding shareholders and senior management who will continue to lead the firm.”Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Everest is a leading contract research organisation (CRO) providing a comprehensive suite of mission-critical clinical research services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries across Phase I-IV trials. Throughout the Company’s history, Everest has focused on providing exceptional quality, customer service, and on-time delivery to its partners to advance life-changing research. Everest employs over
EQT Private Equity is to acquire 2,152,260 A-shares and 35,631,616 B-shares in Beijer Ref AB (Beijer Ref), for a total value of approximately USD1.1 billion, representing 29.6 per cent of the shares and 26.4 per cent of the votes, from Carrier Global Corporation (Carrier). The Company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Large Cap segment.
Founded in Sweden in 1866, Beijer Ref is a global leader within refrigeration, air conditioning and heating wholesale with strong local and global market presence across 425 branches through which it serves more than 100,000 customers. Beijer Ref is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and has approximately 3,700
BGF – the UK’s most active growth capital investor – has made a further substantial investment in the expansion of Yorkshire-headquartered bakery business, Cooplands, as the 135-year-old business looks ahead to its next chapter of growth. Three years after BGF’s initial GBP8.5 million investment, the business has grown to more than 165 stores, 12 cafes and 36 sandwich vans. Cooplands has opened seven new stores since March 2020 and plans to roll-out an additional 30 stores a year in locations such as South Yorkshire, as well as expanding further in the current geographical footprint.
BGF has supported Cooplands in building
Catawiki, a curated online marketplace for special objects, has secured a EUR150 million investment, led by Permira through its Growth Opportunities Fund.Founded in 2008 in the Netherlands, Catawiki has grown into the most-visited curated marketplace for special objects in Europe, providing a safe and reliable experience to over 10 million passionate users. Every object is carefully selected by one of its 240-plus in-house experts who are specialised in collectables, art, design, jewellery, watches, classic cars and more. Its unique business model has earned a strong vote of confidence from its users, enabling the company to earn over 80 per cent
Over half of private equity investors (LPs) will access the secondary market within the next two years, either as a buyer or a seller – or both, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer.Investors’ main motivations will be to re-focus their resources on their best private equity managers (GPs) and to re-balance their portfolios for a post-Covid world. One third of Limited Partners will face liquidity shortfalls, which they plan to remedy through asset disposals and new credit facilities. GP-led secondaries are likely to play an important role, too. Well-structured GP-led processes are overwhelmingly popular with LPs –
CVC Credit Partners (CVC Credit) has appointed John Empson as Partner and Co-Head of Private Credit, and Miguel Toney as a Partner in the Private Credit team.Empson has nearly 40 years of experience and is joining from Blackrock where he was Head of Capital Markets, EMEA. Prior to Blackrock, Empson was a Partner at KKR where he spent 11 years helping with the strategic build out of KKR’s Credit and Markets platform. Empson was also a member of the KKR EMEA private equity Investment Committee and the KKR EMEA Portfolio Management Committee.
Toney is joining from Park Square Capital where
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has completed a EUR4 million investment into Ron Dorff.Aligning Swedish functionality with French style, Ron Dorff upgrades iconic menswear must-haves of the past, whether sportswear, homewear, underwear or swimwear. The investment will provide capital to support Ron Dorff’s growth strategy and further expansion into the US over the coming years.
The brand launched its e-store, rondorff.com, in 2012 followed by the opening of its first store in Paris in 2013. It quickly expanded with two concessions in notable Parisian department stores, followed by a second store opening on the
European private equity firm PAI Partners (PAI) has acquired Apleona Group (Apleona) from EQT for a total transaction value of approximately EUR1.6 billion.Headquartered in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Apleona provides technical facility management services, complemented by infrastructural and commercial facility management as part of an integrated offering. EQT acquired the Company in 2016 through a carve-out from Bilfinger SE, a listed German industrial services conglomerate.
Under EQT ownership Apleona has been transformed into a pure-play facility management provider with an unrivalled position in DACH, partly through the divestments of its cyclical, low margin construction segment in 2017 and its UK real
Two of Foresight Group’s (Foresight) funds have made an EUR80 million investment into a portfolio of five biomethane Compressed Natural Gas (Bio-CNG) refuelling stations for HGVs, which will enable fleets to switch from diesel to carbon-neutral fuel.Foresight Inheritance Tax Fund and JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) have provided an initial funding line for a joint venture (JV) with CNG Fuels Limited (CNG Fuels), the UK’s leading developer and operator of CNG refuelling infrastructure. This injection of capital will be used to acquire existing refuelling sites enabling CNG Fuels to fund the construction of a further 14 stations on the UK’s
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