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International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed Toby Parkinson as a partner in the firm’s European Infrastructure Group, based in London.
Parkinson began his career at Clifford Chance’s London office in 2006, and worked in the firm’s Infrastructure and Private Equity practice for ten years, where he specialised in infrastructure transactions and cross-border M&A. During this time, he also spent three years in the firm’s Tokyo office, advising on M&A transactions in the infrastructure and energy sectors.
In 2016, Parkinson joined OMERS Infrastructure in London as Director, Legal where he provided legal advice and support on new investment opportunities,
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led the management buyout (MBO) of CMS Window Systems (CMS), an end-to-end provider of window and door solutions.
The transaction includes the largest equity cheque written by Maven as well as debt funding from Clydesdale Bank led by its Corporate and Structured Finance team, and additional equity from the Scottish Investment Bank. Exiting investors include mid-market private equity firm, LDC.
CMS specialises in designing, manufacturing and installing energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly products, including PVCu and aluminium, windows, doors and curtain walling systems. Established in 2006, CMS operates from its 15-acre,
Entertainment Partners (EP), an end-to-end provider of production workforce management and automated production software and services to the entertainment industry, is to be acquired by TPG Capital, the private equity platform of global alternative asset firm TPG.
EP’s management team, led by Mark Goldstein, President and CEO, will continue in their roles.
Goldstein says: “We’re thrilled to have found a partner that is excited about our strategic vision as we support the evolution of the entertainment industry. Through decades of hard work and dedication by our talented team, and through a rewarding collaboration with the experts – our clients –
Sandaire, an international multi-family office, has launched an enhanced private equity business – Sandaire Private Equity – which will aim to meet the diversifying needs of existing and prospective clients.
This launch supports Sandaire’s long-term growth strategy by broadening its offering to clients, and closely follows the launch of Sandaire Corporate Finance earlier this month.
Sandaire Private Equity will provide clients with the opportunity to invest in unquoted businesses across the spectrum of growth to buyout, through funds, co-investments, direct and underwriting investments.
James Fleming, Chief Executive of Sandaire, says: “Private Equity is a key component of the
JTC, a provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services to institutional and private clients, has acquired Exequtive Partners, a Luxembourg-based specialist provider of corporate and related fiduciary services.
Exequtive Partners’ 28 employees, including the five principals, will all join the existing Institutional Client Services team at JTC, which this year marks its tenth anniversary of being in Luxembourg, with immediate effect. As well as expanding JTC’s jurisdictional presence, the acquisition also builds on its corporate services capabilities, complements its funds offering and creates greater opportunities for future growth.
JTC is fully committed to Luxembourg, and the industry, and
Allen & Overy (A&O) has appointed Tim Watson as a restructuring partner in its London practice. Watson re-joins the firm from a global institutional investment management firm with assets under management in excess of USD30 billion, where he has spent the past four years working closely with and advising the distressed investment desk on transactions across Europe and Asia Pacific.
Prior to this he was a senior associate in A&O’s restructuring team.
Ian Field, head of the global restructuring group, says: “Tim has developed an excellent reputation in the funds and distressed debt world. Funds and asset managers
Private equity funds lawyers Daniel Quinn and Aleksander Bakic are to join Akin Gump in London as partners.
Quinn and Bakic focus on private equity secondary transactions, institutional investor representations and private equity fund formation. They will come to Akin Gump from O’Melveny & Myers in London. They will join the firm’s investment management practice and transactional platform in London and will work closely with established teams across the United States and Asia.
Their considerable secondary transactions experience includes advising on highly sophisticated and complex general partner-led fund restructurings as well as more traditional portfolio sales. Their institutional investor
Turenne Santé has held the first closing of its FPCI (Professional Private Equity Fund) Capital Santé 2, with commitments of EUR 100 million.
Building on the solid track record of Capital Santé 1 and its dedicated team of healthcare experts, the objective of Capital Santé 2 is to invest throughout the healthcare value chain to support the growth and buyout transactions of SMEs and mid-market companies in the sector: healthcare delivery operators, suppliers to the healthcare ecosystem and operators in the Quality of Life and Wellbeing segments.
The healthcare industry and related services are a value-creation sector composed of
Frontier Capital (Frontier), a growth equity firm focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business services companies, has made a significant equity investment in Clearwave Corporation (Clearwave), a provider of digital check-in, insurance eligibility, and patient payments solutions to health systems and physician practices.
Clearwave’s solutions are utilised by an array of healthcare organisations, including hospitals, health systems, over 30 specialities, urgent care, family, and multi-speciality providers to improve operational efficiency. Clearwave accelerates and increases point-of-service collections, offers real-time insurance eligibility verification, reduces patient check-in times, and significantly lessens data errors thereby reducing claims rejections. By replacing the paper-based processes that
A company which has developed a new glass coating that protects against the sun has set up its headquarters in Nottingham, following a GBP250,000 investment from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund.
Solaris Technology’s coating blocks unwanted solar heat gain and the sun’s damaging rays without reducing natural light. Called SolarBlock, the technology, which can be applied to commercial and domestic living spaces, protects against the heat emitted from ultraviolet and infra-red light. The coating can provide substantial savings to air conditioning usage – reducing a
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