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Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has strengthened its Private Equity Performance Improvement practice with the appointment of Tania Howarth as Managing Director.
Howarth’s arrival follows that of Jason Spencer who also joins the practice as a Managing Director, bringing two decades of significant M&A experience. The latest appointments are indicative of the success of the firm’s European Private Equity Practice, which has seen the team size nearly triple over the past three years.
Howarth has over 30 years’ experience leading business transformation programmes across the FMCG and technology sectors. She spent ten years at Nomad Foods
Luxcara, an asset manager in the renewable energy sector, has increased its Scandinavian portfolio with the acquisition of one of Europe’s largest single onshore wind projects with an expected total capacity of 750 MW.
The project is part of Markbygden 1101 in Northern Sweden, a cluster that was declared by the Swedish government as exceptional in scale.
Project Önusberget has been developed by Svevind. The German-Swedish company develops, sells and operates onshore wind power projects and will continue to support the realisation of the project until connection to the grid in 2021.
“We are thrilled to invest in one of
Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking in the UK (29 April 2019) has appointed Nick Armstrong as Head of its Subscription Finance business.
Armstrong will take up the role in late April and will be based in the Bank’s UK head office in London. He will be responsible for building a portfolio of private equity business, with the aim of developing long-term relationships with these customers. Nick’s appointment furthers Bank of Ireland’s strategy of building its Corporate Banking footprint in the UK by establishing niche, industry-focused teams.
Armstrong will lead a growing team of industry experts managing a portfolio of Non-Bank
Mosaic Smart Data, a real-time capital markets data analytics company, has completed an USD9 million investment round to support its rapid product development and global expansion.
The round was co-led by CommerzVentures and Octopus Ventures and includes JP Morgan – an existing investor and client.
Daily trading activity in the capital markets generates vast quantities of raw transaction and pricing data. Institutions are increasingly looking to extract the value from this, largely untapped, data asset. Annual spending on data analytics and market data has now grown to over USD30.5 billion a year. Being able to refine this raw data
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to merge Anvil International (Anvil), a global designer, manufacturer and provider of products that connect and support piping systems, with Smith-Cooper International (Smith-Cooper), a global designer and provider of branded, high-quality pipes, valves, and fittings.
The realisation represents the second exit from OEP’s USD1.65 billion Fund VI. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Anvil, headquartered in Exeter, N.H., manufactures branded fittings, seismic bracing, struts, pipe shields and valves for US and global businesses across the industrial, mechanical, fire protection, mining and energy industries. The Company’s complete
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP5 million investment into Steamforged Games (Steamforged), a developer and retailer of tabletop games.
Steamforged was founded in 2014 by Rich Loxam and Mat Hart, both games enthusiasts who dedicated their free time to create ‘Guild Ball’, a sports-based miniature game which went on to achieve critical acclaim. Since then, the team has developed a portfolio of games based on both original and licensed IP.
Their early success led to winning licences to develop games for several renowned video games titles and in doing so, the Company has succeeded in carving out a
Burlington Capital is launching a new venture in its aqueous ozone business by merging CleanCore Technologies and O-Z Tech Water.
This new company, CleanCore Solutions, will be a much more diverse and innovative provider of environmentally safe, chemical-free cleaning technology.
“Burlington Capital, as the majority owner of CleanCore Solutions, is committed to creating industry-leading, sustainable solutions that are important to our clients throughout the United States and Canada,” says Pamela Finn, President of Business Development for Burlington Capital.
Gary Holst, President of CleanCore Solutions, adds: “CleanCore Solutions combines the innovation of both companies that will provide value to our customers
Institutional Advisory Services Group (IASG), an independent advisory firm specialising in alternative investments for institutional and high net worth investors, has launched a new company – IASG Fund Services (IASG-FS).
Incorporated in 2019, IASG-FS will offer fund services to investment managers. This new company, majority owned by the Jonkheer family, has partnered with a known operator in the fund administration business. Through this operator’s innovative SaaS platform, Seamless Solutions, IASG-FS will sell fund administration services and products to managers. These services include but are not limited to back-office, shadow accounting, investor services, cash management, cloud technology, document storage and cybersecurity.
ENDEL, a subsidiary of the ENGIE group, has opened exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of the Pierre Guérin Group.
Capzanine, a European asset management firm specialised in private equity investment, has been a minority shareholder in Pierre Guerrin since early 2017. Based in Niort, the company is a specialist supplier of stainless steel equipment and process lines (engineering, procurement and construction) for the food & beverage and life sciences industries (pharmaceuticals and biotechnology). In recent years, the Group has grown strongly in Asia (mainly China and Korea). Seventy years of experience have refined its high-quality know-how and spread its brand
Less than three months after opening an office in Boston, Morrison & Foerster has strengthened its presence in the city with the appointments of Todd Boudreau and Matt Karlyn as partners.
Boudreau joins Morrison & Foerster as co-head of its Global Private Equity Investments + Buyouts Group and as a partner in its Private Funds Group. Boudreau brings a practice centred on private equity-focused international M&A, institutional investments, and fund formation. He has represented clients across numerous industries, including technology and life sciences. Boudreau’s coming to Morrison & Foerster also underscores the firm’s continued expansion of its private equity offerings,
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