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Macfarlanes has advised specialist investment firm Circularity Capital on the raising of its debut fund, Circularity European Growth Fund I LP, which has exceeded its GBP50 million target and closed at its GBP60 million hard cap.
Investment commitments came from global financial institutions, family offices, private investors and strategic corporate investors with funds being used to invest in growth stage European SMEs in the circular economy.
The Macfarlanes team was led by investment management partner Stephen Robinson with assistance from senior solicitor Harriet Miller. Tax expertise was provided by tax partner Mark Baldwin.
Stephen Robinson, says: “We are
Paul Hastings has represented North Technology Group, a global market leader in sails and spars, and its private equity investor Oakley Capital, on its acquisition of MBrands International BV, operating under the watersports brand, Mystic.
Mystic is a specialist in kiteboarding, wakeboarding and windsurfing apparel and equipment. The Paul Hastings team included corporate partners Anu Balasubramanian and Garrett Hayes, tax partner Arun Birla, and associates Aimée Fabri, Steven King, and Hannah Gray.
Van Doorne advised on the Dutch law aspects of the transaction.
This is Paul Hastings’ first transaction for Oakley Capital, following the arrival of Anu Balasubramanian at the firm in June 2018.
Gabriel Yomi Dabiri has joined Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli in New York as a Shareholder, Practice Co-Leader for the firm’s Direct Lending and Alternative Finance practice, and Practice Co-Leader for the firm’s Cross-Border Finance practice.
Dabiri is a dual-qualified attorney, admitted to practice law in New York and in England and Wales. He advises clients on a variety of sophisticated finance transactions, debt restructurings and bankruptcies.
“We are very happy to have Gabriel on board in New York to enhance our direct lending, alternative finance and cross-border finance capabilities,” says Dan Flanigan, the Managing Partner of Polsinelli’s New
RSK Group, a UK-based integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, has acquired design, property and construction consultancy Pellings.
This is the ninth acquisition that RSK, a privately owned company with 36 international offices, more than 2700 staff and an annual turnover of GBP200 million, has made in the financial year 2018/2019.
Pellings employs around 125 people with an annual turnover of GBP12.5 million and four offices in London and the South East of England. It provides surveying, architecture, planning and project management and facilities management services for housing, education and healthcare projects. It has recently worked on a
BGF has exited its minority investment in Petrotechnics, a provider of software solutions for hazardous industries, following its acquisition by US-based Sphera Solutions Inc.
BGF invested GBP6 million in the Aberdeen-based company in 2013 to support the development of Proscient – the first software enterprise platform for operational excellence in hazardous industries.
The funding was also used for geographical expansion, with the company’s software now being used by more than 80,000 people from some of the biggest businesses in the oil and gas, rail and petrochemical sectors, across 22 countries. Since BGF’s investment, the company has invested over GBP15m
Buy and Build strategies have historically shown a higher return on capital than standalone deals, with 2018 seeing the multiples paid by private equities for this kind of deal hit record levels.
That’s according to new research by management consultancy and private equity specialist CIL which examines 2,700 sectors to assess opportunities for buy and builds going forward.
The analysis focuses on five European regions – the UK & Ireland, Germany, France, the Nordics and Iberia, and identifies attractive opportunities for a Buy and Build strategy, and considers three key factors:
Size – target sectors need to be
Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in FIBER-LINE, a high-performance fibre manufacturer headquartered in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
The company was purchased by PolyOne Corporation, a provider of specialised polymer materials, services and solutions.
Founded in 1987, FIBER-LINE is a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of high-tech fibre products for a growing range of industries and applications. With five manufacturing locations in North America, Europe and Asia, FIBER-LINE provides material science and polymer formulation expertise to engineer specified performance characteristics for fibre.
“FIBER-LINE has doubled its size from our initial investment. Under the leadership of CEO Dale Outhous, the company
Growth buyout specialist Keensight Capital has appointed Stanislas de Tinguy as Senior Director and Jan Kinsky as Analyst.
De Tinguy has over 15 years of experience in Corporate and Investment Banking, with a strong expertise in the Telecom Media and Technology (TMT) sector. He joins Keensight Capital from BNP Paribas CIB where he held the position of Managing Director and Co-Head of the TMT Investment Banking team for the Asia Pacific region. Based in Hong-Kong, he developed and ran a team of 15 professionals in Hong Kong and Singapore with a scope across Asia, from Greater China, Japan and India
Mesirow Financial has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Disc Graphics (DISC) on its sale to Oliver Printing & Packaging Company (Oliver), a portfolio company of Pfingsten Partners.
DISC is a manufacturer of folding carton packaging, micro-fluted corrugated boxes and pressure-sensitive labels, serving the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, consumer products, and healthcare markets. Headquartered in Hauppauge, NY, DISC will continue delivering innovative packaging solutions from its current facility as part of the Oliver platform.
Donald Sinkin, chairman and chief executive officer of DISC, says: “Mesirow Financial was instrumental in securing a very positive outcome for DISC’s customers, employees
Natixis has appointed Douglas Lenart as Head of Portfolio Management, Americas in its Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business.
Lenart reports globally to Anne-Christine Champion, Global Head of Distribution and Portfolio Management, CIB and locally to Benjamin Sirgue, Head of Strategic Sectors & Distribution, Americas, CIB. He is responsible for the management of the Americas portfolio in the firm’s Strategic Sectors, as well as Corporate, Leverage, and PE Secondaries, and will oversee the continued regional implementation of Natixis’ global strategy of active management of its CIB loan portfolio.
Prior to joining Natixis, Lenart spent over 10 years at Société
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