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UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has made a senior appointment to its investment team in the South of England with Luke Matthews joining the firm as an Investment Director.
Matthews has two decades’ experience in investment and corporate finance, helping potential high-growth businesses access finance.
This appointment further strengthens Maven’s SME offering and illustrates its commitment and ability to invest in companies across the UK regions. Luke will be responsible for growing Maven’s presence in the region, including increasing assets-under-management, sourcing VCT opportunities and MBO investments and deploying capital in high quality businesses.
Prior to
An affiliate of private equity investment firm CenterGate Capital (CenterGate) has made an investment in Naumann/Hobbs Material Handling (“Naumann/Hobbs”), a material handling equipment platform with a comprehensive suite of products and services.
Established in 1949 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Naumann/Hobbs serves a wide customer base across the southwestern United States, providing a robust product portfolio including class I-V forklifts and related equipment as well as comprehensive service via its large technician fleet. The company also provides distribution operations and systems solutions nationwide. CEO Tom Hobbs will continue to lead Naumann/Hobbs and serve on its Board of Directors.
“We
Busy Bees, a child care provider in the UK, has made two child care group acquisitions taking the business into the US and Italian markets for the first time.
Busy Bees has taken its first step into the US market with the acquisition of Educational Playcare, a child care provider which operates 19 centres in the state of Connecticut. Separately, Busy Bees has acquired bilingual child care provider Doremi, providing Busy Bees with its first presence in the Italian market.
Educational Playcare, founded in 1986, provides care for up to 4,300 children and offers spaces from the age of
Growth private equity firm TA Associates has completed a minority investment in MISA Joint Stock Company (MISA), a software provider in Vietnam. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1994, MISA provides accounting, financial, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business management software to enterprises, government and individuals across Vietnam. The Company serves more than 70,000 government sector clients and 100,000 small and medium-sized enterprise (“SME”) clients across the country. MISA has more than 1,500 employees throughout its offices in Hanoi, Da Nang, Buon Ma Thuot, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho.
“MISA is among
By James Williams & Paul Bryant – Capital is flowing into ESG investments with many private equity GPs now on the case. But to stay ahead, they will need credible evidence of impact, not just slick marketing.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is fast becoming a juggernaut. In European ESG-oriented funds, AUM grew 40 per cent to EUR684 billion between 2015 and 2018, with 290 ESG-oriented funds launched in 2018. In the US, AUM doubled over the same period, reaching almost USD90 billion.
“To be (green) or not to be. That is the question!” states Frederique Duval (pictured),
Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services to corporate, institutional and private investors, has made three senior additions to its management team in Luxembourg – Susana Carvalho – Associate Director, Head of Funds Operations, Emmanuelle Poret – Head of Client Onboarding, and Rachel Aguirre – Head of Luxembourg Operations.
Managing Director and Head of Luxembourg and The Netherlands, Jean-Marie Bettinger, says: ‘We are delighted that Susana, Emmanuelle and Rachel have joined us at such an exciting time for the Luxembourg office. Their impressive experience and expertise will help us to continue to offer a high-level of client service and will also help
Vistra, a global trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, has appointed Jervis Smith as Country Managing Director of Vistra Luxembourg, effective 17 September 2019.
Smith will be responsible for leading Vistra’s Luxembourg office and growing the business, together with the Vistra office in The Netherlands, in order to maximise joint opportunities between the two offices, which share a mutual base of clients and culture. Based in Luxembourg, he will report to Vincent Bremmer, Regional Managing Director, Europe, Vistra.
Commenting on the appointment, Bremmer says: “Emerging as a jurisdiction of choice for corporations, institutional investors and private individuals amid
Alternative investment fund management company REDSIDE has appointed Petr Dudycha as a Marketing & Public Relations Manager.
Prior to joining REDSIDE, Dudycha was employed at the Prague office of a global law firm White & Case where he served as a Business Development and Marketing Coordinator. In this role, he was responsible to support lawyers and partners from Bank and Finance and Financial Restructuring and Insolvency practice groups in their business development and marketing activities as well as in event management.
Dan Ledvinka, Group Head of Business Development and Marketing in ASB Group, says: “I am pleased to welcome
Muzinich & Co. has appointed Peter Andersson (picture) as Head of Nordics.
Based in London, Peter will focus on developing the firm’s presence in the Nordics in both the institutional and wholesale segments of the market.
Peter has over two decades of industry experience, and has spent the last 10 years at Legg Mason, most recently as Managing Director, Head of Nordics and New Markets (EMEA).
“Muzinich has a breadth of expertise in both the public and private credit markets and a long history managing innovative fixed income strategies,” said Peter. “The firm is ideally placed to work
Law firm Paul Hastings has represented private equity firm Oakley Capital on an investment Italian homeware business, Alessi.
Alessi is an iconic design brand with over 100 years of heritage and globally recognised products created alongside some of the world’s leading architects and designers.
The Paul Hastings team included corporate partner Anu Balasubramanian and corporate associates David Prowse and Aimée Fabri from the London office and Juljan Puna and Giulia Fiorelli from the Milan office. Gatti Pavesi Bianchi advised on the financing aspects of the transaction.
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