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Seward & Kissel has promoted Lancelot (Lance) King, a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group in Washington DC, from associate to counsel. The promotion is effective 1 April, 2019.
King’s practice focuses on a broad range of regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters affecting investment companies and registered investment advisers. His experience includes counselling clients in the establishment, registration, and operation of registered investment companies; developing and reviewing compliance programs for investment companies and investment advisers; and counselling clients undergoing regulatory examinations.
“Time and time again, Lance has gone above and beyond in servicing our clients,” says Seward & Kissel Managing Partner Jim
Funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight) are to acquire a 26 per cent stake in Latécoère from funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, an affiliate of investment funds managed by Monarch Alternative Capital (Monarch), and CVi Partners.
Searchlight is paying a total of USD106.8 million, equivalent to EUR 3.85 per share.
The Agreement provides for a top-up provision in the event Searchlight files a tender offer on Latécoère at a higher price within 12 months following closing and such tender offer is consummated.
This transaction is still subject to usual regulatory clearances, including CFIUS and certain antitrust
Quilam Capital, a provider of both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has announced its seventh investment since it launched late 2017.
Quilam has made a multi-million-pound investment into Propensio Finance Limited, a technology-led niche consumer finance platform, which provides unsecured loans to home owners to fund home improvements. The business has a strong network and relationships with home improvement product providers throughout the UK.
Propensio was founded and run by Dave Hindle who has significant experience in the sector having been lending to the home improvement market for over twenty years. The business
MJ Hudson has advised Maven Capital Partners on the final closing of Maven UK Regional Buyout Fund, its debut institutional private equity buyout fund, securing total commitments (including co-investment vehicles) of GBP100 million.
The Fund’s investment strategy is to target management buyout opportunities in UK companies with an enterprise value of GBP10 million to GBP40 million, aiming to invest between GBP5 million and GBP15 million in each transaction.
The Fund has already deployed close to GBP30 million in three transactions, supporting the MBOs of John McGavigan Ltd, UAP Ltd and Acton Banks Ltd, with equity investments of GBP10.25 million, GBP8.6
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organisation, announced new investments totalling USD117 million in 14 disruptive technology startups at the Intel Capital Global Summit on Monday.
The 14 companies joining Intel Capital’s portfolio are creating powerful artificial intelligence (AI) platforms; new ways to see and analyze materials for the built world and our bodies; more efficient and greener manufacturing technologies; and disruptive new approaches to chip design.
“Intel has driven disruption for the last 50 years, changing the way we live by making compute ubiquitous. Intel Capital is continuing that legacy of disruption with these investments,” says Wendell Brooks, Intel
Specialist private equity investor Hg has opened a new US office in New York.
Hg is one of the the most active European-based investors in software and services, having led over 100 investments in the sector in the last 25 years. On an aggregated basis, Hg’s portfolio represents the third largest and fastest growing technology company headquartered in Europe.
The firm has 170 people representing the largest technology investment team in Europe, with funds under management of USD13 billion and a portfolio representing a combined enterprise value of USD25 billion. Hg’s investment teams have a flexible investment approach, investing
Growth Capital Partners (GCP”) has made an investment in Infinity Works Consulting Limited, partnering with the founder management team to support significant additional scale and reach and help increase its share of the multi-billion-pound market for IT services.
Infinity Works is a software consultancy with a full stack offering from infrastructure to front-end delivery. Services include project and product delivery, technology consulting, organisational optimisation, training, cloud migration and strategy and managed services.
The founders left well-paid jobs in the Leeds technology sector to launch the business in 2014 with two short contracts with NHS Digital and a desk in a
ARQIS has advised the TRIGO Group, an international provider of operational quality management solutions for the manufacturing industry, on the acquisition of the business operations of QSSL Industrieservice, a provider of quality assurance services to the automotive industry, from its insolvency administrator Ilkin Bananyarli (PLUTA) as part of a transferring reorganisation.
Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
Services provided by QSSL Industrieservice include quality control of parts and components as well as other industrial services such as assembly and logistics services. The current TRIGO locations in Stuttgart and Berlin will benefit from the successful acquisition,
Arma Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm focused exclusively on the global Communications, Media & Technology sector, has appointed Broor Spahr van der Hoek as Partner and Co-Head of its Private & Growth Capital team.
Broor will be based in Arma’s London office and will further enhance the firm’s deal origination and execution capabilities in this strategically important area. This appointment follows a period of record activity for Arma, with the firm having advised on 30 transactions valued at approximately USD12 billion in aggregate since the beginning of 2018, including raising nearly USD300 million across five transactions for fast-growing
Argand Partners, a New York and San Francisco Bay Area-based middle market buyout firm, has promoted Joyce Schnoedl to Partner, Dino Sawaya to Principal, and Janel Maki to Operations Manager.
“Joyce provides important leadership across our firm in sourcing and executing complex deals. Her ability to identify and generate opportunities by navigating complexity and continually expanding relationships is a significant asset,” says Tariq Osman, Partner of Argand. Schnoedl has most recently been a Principal at Argand and has worked with several portfolio companies, including Sigma Electric Manufacturing Corp, Brintons Carpets, Ltd, and Concrete Pumping Holdings. Earlier in her career, Schnoedl
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