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Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), a division of Macquarie Group, has held the final close of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners IV (MIP IV) after reaching its USD5 billion hard cap in December 2018.
MIP IV is MIRA’s fifth North American focused unlisted infrastructure fund and follows the investment strategy of its predecessor fund, MIP III, which closed at its hard cap of USD3 billion in commitments in 2014.
The close of MIP IV brings MIRA’s global capital raising to USD29 billion over the past two years. MIRA is one of the world’s leading alternative asset managers, with more than
Palatine Private Equity has made four promotions across its UK business following one of the firm’s most successful and active years.
Andy Strickland, who is based in the London office, has been promoted to Senior Investment Director. He’s been with the firm for five years and has been involved in transactions such as Cyberfort Group, EPI, John Charcol and Wren Sterling.
Richard Thomas has also been promoted to Senior Investment Director. He joined Palatine in 2015 to help set up the Midlands office. Since then, he has acted on three deals, including TTC, CET UK, and Westleigh Partnerships, which
Takeaway.com, an online food delivery marketplace in Continental Europe, has successfully placed 8.35 million new ordinary shares of the Company, representing approximately 19 per cent of its outstanding share capital.
The company raised approximately EUR430 million through an accelerated bookbuild offering at an issue price of EUR51.50 per New Share, as well as a concurrent offering of convertible bonds in the aggregate principal amount of EUR250 million due January 2024. After launching the Capital Increase of approximately 6.5 million ordinary shares, investor demand enabled the Company to upsize the Capital Increase to 8.35 million ordinary shares.
The gross proceeds
AT Kearney, a leading global management consulting firm, has acquired Cervello, an elite business analytics and data management consultancy.
Operating as ‘Cervello, an AT Kearney company’, Cervello’s team of renowned data engineers, data scientists, and developers will work closely with AT Kearney client service teams worldwide to power client performance improvement and transformation programs with expert technology consulting, agile analytics, and data-driven insights.
“Winning with data, that is what it’s all about. Cervello’s deep, hands-on knowledge of big data, cloud, and data platforms will help us jointly develop more robust tools and customised solutions for our clients’ most difficult
BBF, a UK manufacturer of own-label, licensed and branded ambient cakes and desserts, has secured a new GBP40 million financing facility with Wells Fargo Capital Finance (WFCF) to support future growth plans.
BBF serves all the UK’s most recognisable food retailers such as Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda, M&S, Aldi and Lidl. With manufacturing facilities in Blackburn, Bradford and Poland, BBF last year complemented the Group’s facilities with the acquisition of Greencore PLC’s ambient cake and chilled desserts division headquartered from a large, modern bakery in Hull.
As a result of the acquisition, annual Group revenues have risen to over GBP150
UK moulded foam products manufacturer Moulded Foams is focusing on further expansion after securing investment from BGF.
Moulded Foams produces a range of 98 per cent air products which protect food, goods and insulate buildings. With properties including temperature resistance, shock absorption, acoustics and light weight load bearing, the foams supplied by the business help preserve energy and protect the longevity of goods for both export and domestic markets.
The company operates from bases at Cumbernauld near Glasgow, Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Blackwood in South Wales, and Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire.
Managing director John Thornberry led a management buyout of the
Guernsey-based Pula Aviation Ltd, parent company of Centreline AV Ltd, has acquired ASG Ltd, a Guernsey-based operation which specialises in business and general aviation maintenance and executive ground handling, and the sale and acquisition of business aircraft.
Together with Centreline AV, ASG Ltd will form part of a new group holding company, Pula Aviation Services Ltd, offering aircraft management and charter, maintenance, aircraft sales and executive ground handling, supported by a 100-strong workforce.
Announcing the latest acquisition today, Colin Pickard, Director of Pula Aviation Ltd, says: “This is an important strategic step for us, and we are delighted to
Scout Clean Energy (Scout), a portfolio company of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook) has closed construction financing and tax equity commitments on the 300MW Ranchero Wind Farm (Ranchero) located in Crockett County, Texas.
The Ranchero project is expected to be operational by year-end 2019 and has been developed from inception by the Scout team. Ranchero will utilise 120 of the latest generation GE 2.5MW wind turbines with 127m rotors and has secured a 10-year Proxy Revenue Swap with Allianz Global & Specialty, Inc.’s Alternative Risk Transfer unit (Allianz), in partnership with Nephila Climate. REsurety provided the risk analytics supporting the PRS
Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI), the global investment bank, has added Christian Keller and Ann Sharkey to the firm’s European Financial Sponsors Group.
These appointments follow the recent arrival of Leon Gillespie, who joined the team in London in October to focus on UK private equity clients. He joined from Canaccord Genuity, where he was Head of Financial Sponsors Coverage.
“As part of the ongoing expansion of Houlihan Lokey’s footprint in Europe, we continue to grow the European Financial Sponsors Group and now have six dedicated senior officers across the region,” says John Mavredakis, Global Head of the Financial Sponsors Group.
Indus Valley Partners, a provider of technology solutions to the buy side, has launched a new CAT module for its global regulatory reporting platform, IVP RAPTOR.
Designed to assist funds in complying with FINRA’s proposed consolidated audit trail (CAT) initiative, IVP’s CAT module enables users to streamline daily regulatory obligations in an effectively managed and timely manner.
CAT, which will go live in November 2019, is a single, consolidated central repository that collects information on trade origination, order reporting, cancellations, modifications and executions for all exchange-listed equities and options throughout the US National Market System (NMS).
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