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Ardenton Capital Corporation (Ardenton) has acquired Pebbles Care, a provider of residential care and education for young people across the United Kingdom. This is Ardenton’s sixth investment in the UK.
Headquartered in Leeds and Dunfermline, Pebbles currently operates 41 residential care homes and four schools, providing care and education across the North of England and Scotland for more than 100 young people.
Ardenton will work closely with the business’ management team, and the investment will support Pebbles in its roll-out of best-in-class service for young people.
The company was founded in 2003 when company director Luiz Guilherme opened Pebbles House
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global institutional investor, has acquires a 24.9 per cent stake in the public-private partnership (PPP) contract for the trains, systems, operations and maintenance of Sydney Metro, Australia’s biggest public transport project, which includes both the North West and City & Southwest lines.
The total value of the transaction is AUD167 million (CAD150 million). Other investors include MTR Corporation Limited, Marubeni Corporation, Plenary Group and CIMIC Group Limited.
The Metro North West Line opened in May 2019 with 13 metro stations in Sydney’s North West. It is being extended into the Sydney city
Fund finance lawyer Aimee Sharman has joined Mayer Brown as a partner in the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in London. Sharman was previously at Hogan Lovells.
“Aimee is a talented, established lawyer in the fund finance market, and we are delighted to welcome her to the team,” says Dominic Griffiths, London partner and co-head of Mayer Brown’s global Banking & Finance practice. “The continued expansion of our fund finance capabilities is a key priority for the firm given our strategic focus on the global finance market and financial institutions. We are investing for growth in the main markets in
Virginie Gonella in Ogier’s Luxembourg Funds team has progressed to a new role as counsel.
Qualified in Luxembourg, Gonella has a corporate background with experience in assisting institutional clients, top tier private equity houses, investment funds, small and medium-size companies and high net worth individuals.
Part of Ogier’s Luxembourg team since its inception, Virginie has played a key role in contributing to the success and growth of the office, and of the funds team in particular.
Luxembourg Practice Partner Daniel Richards, says: “Virginie has consistently provided excellent service to longstanding clients of the firm. She is hard working and technically
The Brexit-effect is taking its toll on the infrastructure sector with the UK slipping five places to ninth position by investment attractiveness, according to the 2019 CMS Infrastructure Index: Bridging Continents.
The latest report by international law firm CMS, in conjunction with inspiratia, analyses data against six criteria to create a guide to the most attractive destinations for infrastructure investment in the world. This year’s report identifies that a pivot point has been reached in the global transition towards greener, smarter and more sustainable investments.
Uncertainty caused by Brexit, together with the Labour Party’s re-nationalisation plans and delays on
Trouva, an online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world, has raised GBP17 million in further investment to accelerate international expansion.
The funding was led by Octopus Ventures, alongside C4 Ventures and Downing Ventures, with BGF and LocalGlobe also participating in the round.
Launched in London in September 2015 and co-founded by Alex Loizou, Mandeep Singh and Glen Walker, Trouva is one of the five most exciting high-growth startups in the UK (Startups 100 Index 2019). By enabling customers to discover beautiful, hard-to-find products, handpicked by the world’s best curators from Shoreditch to Stockholm, Trouva ensures they no longer miss out on
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has welcomed the Australian Government’s announcement to establish an Australian Business Growth Fund that will help boost the growth of small and medium businesses.
This is as a result of an in-principle agreement between the Government and leading banks; NAB, CBA, Westpac and ANZ, together with HSBC Australia, NAB said it was pleased to support a new way for Australian small and medium businesses to access long-term equity capital.
Welcoming the news, Stephen Welton, CEO of the UK BGF, says: “This is a huge milestone in the international expansion
Three surveys published at the ALFI PE & RE Conference 2019 in Luxembourg on 26 and 27 November reveal continued solid growth in alternative investment funds in the Grand Duchy.
The ALFI/Deloitte Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Fund Survey 2019 found that the size of the average private equity fund domiciled in Luxembourg has increased by 50 per cent since 2018, with the number of PE funds holding assets worth more than EUR1 billion doubling over the same 12-month period. Luxembourg now accounts for 4.3 per cent of the global private equity fund industry. The survey also shows unregulated
Shinhan Investment Corp (Shinhan), Samtan Co (Samtan), EIP Investment Co (EIP Investment) and KDB KIAMCO, a South Korean-based consortium of infrastructure investors, has acquired a 50 per cent ownership interest in the Utopia Pipeline (Utopia) from investment funds affiliated with Riverstone Holdings.
Originating in Harrison County, Ohio and delivering to the Sarnia petrochemical market in Ontario, Canada, Utopia is a recently-constructed 268-mile pipeline that transports ethane sourced from the Marcellus and Utica shales. In 2016, Riverstone formed a joint venture with Kinder Morgan Inc. (Kinder Morgan) to construct Utopia. Kinder Morgan will remain the pipeline’s operator and continue its ownership
In this week’s newsletter, John Stephan, head of global M&A at BDO discusses the continued growth of UK ‘take-private’ deals with Private Equity Wire’s Paul Bryant. And as Stephan points out, much of that growth has been driven by a narrowing in the gap between public and private market company valuations.
We also focus on new research from Refinitv which reveals that Q3 was the strongest quarter on record for Europe VC activity, with EUR5.9 billion invested across 296 fundraising rounds, while in deal news, we report on The Carlyle Group and T&D Holdings acquisition of a majority interest in Fortitude Re
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