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AMP Capital is to provide a USD190 million term loan to EQT Infrastructure-owned Synagro, a US provider of residuals management solutions.
Founded in 1986 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, Synagro is a core infrastructure company with an asset-based business model delivering an essential service to more than 600 municipal customers in 37 states and the District of Columbia. The company owns or operates 21 dryers, incinerators and compost facilities that help customers beneficially reuse their biosolids. The company is also the largest US player servicing municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Synagro relies on relationships stretching back 20 years and its
Albion Capital, an independent investment manager, has invested GBP5 million in The Evewell, a fully-integrated centre of medical excellence dedicated to caring for and protecting all aspects of fertility and gynaecological health.
The centre, which opened on Harley Street in London this month, focuses on both gynaecology and reproductive health to ensure that fertility patients receive the most appropriate treatment and advice to maximise their prospects of conceiving. It offers a fully integrated suite of women’s health services that differentiates it from other clinics. The clinic is equipped with the latest technologies for screening and treatment, and is set in
Citco has launched Æxeo Treasury, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that allows alternative fund managers to manage treasury functions through a new tool running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Citco says Æxeo Treasury adds value by improving operational efficiencies and workflows, and provides a secure, centralised module for treasury operations.
Æxeo Treasury is a stand-alone solution that enables firms to centralise their treasury functions, including funding investments, settling OTC trades and margin, making transfers between accounts or paying invoices, and other transactions through Citco’s SWIFT Service Bureau functionality.
Additionally, this new platform offers unprecedented flexibility and utility by:
WestBridge Capital has appointed chartered accountant James MacLeay from Kingston Smith, where he qualified before joining the firm’s corporate finance team.
During this time, MacLeay worked on many deals including the sale of Freightex to UPS; the readmission to AIM of Live Company Group plc; the investment in Axel Arigato by Vaultier7; and the acquisition of Good Eating Company by Sodexo.
At WestBridge he will work closely with the partners, assisting on deal origination, execution and portfolio management.
MacLeay says: “This is a very exciting time to join WestBridge. As well as a growing reputation for successful investment, the
Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC), a UK fund manager and social enterprise, has added to its team with the appointment of Gilly Orr as Fund Development Director.
Orr joins the team designing, developing and raising investment for new products that SASC plans to launch in the near future, including a fund that will set a benchmark in how capital is made available for meeting housing needs in the charitable sector.
Orr brings extensive experience of large-scale project management in the public, private and third sectors to the SASC team. Prior to joining, she worked in youth services and helped
Reed Smith has advised Munich-based MIG Fonds, one of Germany’s leading venture capital investors, as well as other shareholders such as GA Asset Fund, on the sale of all shares in Siltectra to Infineon Technologies AG.
The purchase price amounted to approximately EUR124 million.
Siltectra, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Dresden in Germany, specialises in the development of wafering technologies and related process equipment for the splitting of semiconductor materials. With a patent portfolio of more than 50 patent families, Siltectra has developed a process that allows crystalline materials to be separated with minimal material loss compared
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to sell the operating subsidiaries of Sonneborn Holdings, a manufacturer of specialty hydrocarbon chemicals, to a subsidiary of HollyFrontier Corporation (HFC), an independent petroleum refiner and marketer, for USD655 million.
The transaction is expected to close in 2019, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
Founded in 1903, Sonneborn manufactures highly purified white oil, petrolatum, microcrystalline wax, sodium sulfonate and compressor lubricants for personal care, pharmaceutical, food, polymer and metal working applications of 500-plus global customers. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ and employs approximately 360 people
ODDO BHF Private Equity has successfully completed the first closing of ODDO BHF Secondaries Fund with total commitments above EUR160 million, including a dedicated mandate for an institutional investor.
Fundraising for the strategy started in July 2018.
Commitments are mostly from French and German institutional clients. As an anchor investor, the ODDO BHF Group has made a significant investment in the fund.
Nicolas Chaput, President of ODDO BHF Private Equity, says: “We are proud to receive such a strong support both from our historical partners as well as new investors that consider the secondary Private Equity market as
Private equity firm New Water Capital’s portfolio company, Myotek, has acquired Amptech, a value-added manufacturer of electronics and electrical assemblies based in Manistee, Michigan.
Founded in 1980, Amptech designs, engineers and manufactures circuit boards and other electronic assemblies for customers in automotive, utility and other industrial end markets and applications. The acquisition will allow Myotek to provide its customers with domestic production capabilities for its automotive lighting products. Amptech’s Lee Wyatt will continue to serve as president of the company.
New Water views the addition of Amptech as a way to expand the capabilities of Myotek, a leading transportation
Monroe Capital acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD56 million senior credit facility to support the recapitalisation of Nova Wildcat Amerock (Amerock) by a private equity sponsor.
Founded in the 1920s and based in Huntersville, North Carolina, Amerock is a leading designer and supplier of decorative and functional hardware and related accessories for kitchens, baths, and bedrooms.
The company has a large installed base and has created brand loyalty over Amerock’s 90 plus year history, creating consistent demand for replacement hardware as homeowners repair and remodel existing homes.
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