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Milbank has appointed Andrej Wolf as a partner in its Global Corporate Group in London, further expanding the firm’s international private equity and M&A capabilities.Wolf has particular expertise in advising some of the world’s most sophisticated organisations on private equity and related transactions. Across a variety of sectors and geographies, he has counselled a range of global private equity houses, financial sponsor clients and their portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts and acquisitions, growth capital and minority investments, secondaries and disposals, carve-out transactions, as well as complex cross-border mergers. He has advised major private equity players, including Accel-KKR, Apax Partners, EW
London-head-quartered asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson, has acquired fund and portfolio performance specialist PERACS. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire Wolseley UK, a specialist distributor of plumbing, heating, climate control, pipe and infrastructure & utility products in the United Kingdom, from Ferguson. Through a carve-out transaction for a net consideration of GBP308 million, Wolseley will become an independent company wholly owned by CD&R funds and management.
The transaction represents the twelfth building products and industrial distribution investment completed by CD&R over the last decade. In 2020, CD&R carved-out White Cap, a leading distributor of specialty construction products, from HD Supply and completed a partnership investment in SIG plc, a UK-listed building products distributor.
Specialist lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Eight Fifty Food Group the leading multi-protein food group controlled by CapVest Partners, on the acquisition of Carroll’s Cuisine from Carlyle Cardinal Ireland, for an undisclosed consideration.Carroll’s is a producer of cooked meats and convenience food in the Republic of Ireland. The business employs approximately 300 people in its site in Tullamore, Offaly. Carroll’s will be integrated into Eight Fifty’s pork division and will further expand Eight Fifty’s presence in the Republic of Ireland following the acquisition of M&M Walshe in June 2020. Carroll’s sliced cooked meat offering will be highly complementary to
Aksia has hired Chris Thorne as a Managing Director for Private Equity & Real Assets Research in its London office, where he will be involved in all phases of the investment process including sourcing, due diligence, monitoring and assisting the Portfolio Advisory team.Thorne brings over fifteen years of experience investing capital across the European and US private equity markets, and twenty-three years of private equity experience in total including his advisory roles. Most recently, Thorne was a Managing Director and day to day responsible for European Primary Private Equity Funds and syndicated Co-investments at Temasek in London for seven years.
Private equity firm LDC has backed the creation of a new national lettings and estate agency group through a GBP100 million transaction to merge Lomond Capital and Linley & Simpson.The new group has a combined portfolio of over 22,000 properties under management and major hubs in private rental hotspots including Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Edinburgh, Hull, Leeds Manchester, Sheffield and York.
The group brings together some of the UK’s strongest high street letting and estate agency brands including Linley & Simpson, Thornley Groves, Brand Vaughan, John Shepherd, Stonehouse and Braemore.
With access to further acquisition facilities provided by LGT
Bascom Group has partnered with Capital Trust Group to acquire a Class A, 372,856 sq ft, absolute net-lease, build-to-suit research and development, manufacturing and testing facility and an adjacent 118,620 sq ft corporate office in the Milwaukee-area community of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin for USD100.0 million.JLL worked on behalf of Bascom Group to arrange the joint venture partnership with The Capital Trust Group. Additionally, working on behalf of the new partnership, JLL placed a 10-year, 65-percent, LTV, CMBS, fixed-rate USD63.7 million loan with Citigroup. This transaction marks Capital Trust Group’s first acquisition in the United States for over two decades.
The
Ciklum Group Limited (Ciklum), a global digital transformation and digital services company serving the Fortune 500 and other fast-growing enterprises, has secured a significant strategic investment from global technology investment platform Recognize Partners.Headquartered in the UK, Ciklum specialises in enabling digital transformation for some of the largest household names and platforms in the digital economy. The Company partners with its clients enabling them to achieve their true potential in the digital age; Ciklum has a strong presence across the hi-tech, fintech and consumer sectors with clients across 30-plus countries, with 3,500-plus engineers operating in digital custom software development centres across
Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, led investments of GBP16.3 million in promising Scottish start-up and early stage companies in 2020, topping its 2019 total of GBP13.4 million by 22 per cent.Across 2020, the syndicate directly invested GBP8.1 million (2019: GBP7.4 million) in companies in the tech and life sciences sectors and was lead investor on a total of 11 funding rounds.
Archangels has also appointed Maureen Kinsler to its board of directors.
Until her recent retirement from the post, Kinsler was Chair of Marks & Clerk, the international intellectual property
GED Capital, a private equity group specialised in the Iberian low middle-market segment, has invested in Comess Group through its GED VI Spain fund and a capital increase, becoming the company’s majority shareholder along with the existing partners, Manuel Robledo, president and founder of the company, and Oquendo.Founded in 1988, Comess Group operates more than 200 franchise restaurants in Spain and a dozen other countries.
In 2016, Oquendo entered the share capital of Comess Group to back the acquisition of the DonG brand and provide financial firepower. Now, following the entry of GED Capital and subsequent capital increase, the group
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