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Palatine Private Equity has added to the headcount in its Manchester office with the appointment of David Chapman as Business Development Manager.
Chapman has over 10 years’ experience in business development, with five of those working in the legal sector. He joins from Shoosmiths, where he held the position of Bid and New Business Manager for almost three years. Prior to this, he spent over two and a half years at Hill Dickinson.
In his new role at Palatine, Chapman will be working with the investment team to identify, progress and maintain relationships with potential investee management teams. As
Omnes has acquired a minority stake in the Belgian consulting firm Intys, alongside the existing management team.
Based in Brussels, Intys is one of the leading consulting firms in Belgium. As a multi-specialist player, Intys has a recognized expertise in the healthcare, energy, industrials and financial services sectors. Its 80 clients include leading companies and institutions active in Belgium and France.
Founded in 2007 by Michel Van Hemele and Philippe Metz, Intys has been historically developing through organic growth, and in recent years carried out several strategic acquisitions: Clear2Pay Services (2016), AGIR (2016), Vadis Technologies (2017), AES (2017) and
Fresh Direct Produce, a portfolio company of middle-market private equity company HKW, has acquired Emperor Specialty Foods (Emperor). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1986, Emperor is a distributor of mushrooms, pears, and other specialty fruits and vegetables. This add-on provides meaningful growth opportunities for Fresh Direct Produce, which distributes more than 1,000 domestic, imported, and organic fruit and vegetable items. Emperor is headquartered in Richmond, BC, Canada.
“With a talented management team and range of complementary products, we are confident Emperor will prove an important addition to Fresh Direct Produce, and play
CVC Capital Partners has held the final close of CVC Strategic Opportunities II (SO II) with total commitments of EUR4.6 billion, surpassing the fund’s target of EUR4 billion.
SO II’s global investor base, made up of sovereign wealth, public and private pension funds, financial institutions, foundations, endowments and family offices, diversifies the platform’s overall investor mix and reflects the growing appetite for this type of longer life vehicle.
The Strategic Opportunities platform invests in long-term capital appreciation opportunities across Western Europe and North America which fall outside CVC’s traditional private equity strategies. The platform seeks out stable opportunities with attractive
Inflexion Private Equity is to acquire Estera, a global provider of funds, corporate and trust services from Bridgepoint. Following completion of the investment, Estera will be merged with Inflexion’s existing portfolio company Ocorian, forming a global corporate service and fund administration leader of significant scale.
The combined business will operate from 18 key global jurisdictions, including Bermuda, Cayman, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey, Luxembourg and Mauritius. The businesses will have over 1,250 professionals globally, serving over 8,000 clients across the corporate service, fund administration and private client sector. Together, Ocorian and Estera, will provide a complete range of services to clients with
FundRock Partners Ltd (FP), the ACD business of FundRock Group, has appointed Michael Vareika and Eric Personne as Independent Non-Executive Directors to its Board of Directors, subject to the FCA approval.
FundRock’s Board regularly evaluates its composition to ensure it includes the appropriate skills, experience and perspective necessary to drive growth.
Vareika has over 14 years of experience as an independent director, occupying board positions for leading institutions from across the world, for a large variety of fund and company structures. Vareika, who is a Harvard Business School and INSEAD alumnus and holds a Master in Law from University
One of the biggest issues facing the global PE industry currently is allocating capital to the right investments without falling into value traps and overpaying for companies, such are the record levels of dry powder in the market.
When it comes to fundraising, roadshows are still important but according to Thomas Erichsen (pictured), Regional Director EMEA, Private Equity & Real Estate, TMF Group, “technology is beginning to play quite a big part, with some managers raising a particular amount and finding new, quicker ways to allocate the capital via technology”.
“This has changed the allocation process to some degree
Global business travel platform TravelPerk has closed its series C round at USD104m by adding an additional USD60 million from existing investors.
The investment will be used to further accelerate the company’s product innovation with the goal of giving business travellers real freedom and flexibility while providing companies with control over their travel spend. As well as continuing its European expansion, the company expects to announce major product additions in the coming weeks and months that will bring a new level of disruption to the pricing structure of an industry that is still dominated by outdated solutions that make business
Law firm Paul Hastings is adding a three-partner transatlantic private equity team from Hogan Lovells in the firm’s London and Washington DC offices.
Ed Harris, who currently leads Hogan Lovell’s Private Equity practice in London, and Leanne Moezi will join as partners in London. Adam Brown, currently a partner in Northern Virginia, will join Paul Hastings’ Private Equity practice in the Washington DC office.
“We’re continuing to grow our market-leading Private Equity practice, expanding the firm’s ability to help clients navigate increasingly complex, global transactions,” says Seth Zachary, chair of Paul Hastings. “The addition of this global team is
WHP Global (WHP), a new brand management platform led by Chairman & CEO Yehuda Shmidman has launched backed by a USD200 million equity commitment from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management (Oaktree).
WHP was founded to acquire and manage multiple global consumer brands, leveraging a shared platform to unlock competitive advantages at scale and fuel growth for each distinctive brand in its portfolio. The Company plans to deploy up to USD1 billion in capital over the next five years.
The Company also today announced its first acquisition with the purchase of global fashion brand Anne Klein from Premier Brands Group. An iconic
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