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Mesirow Financial has acted as the exclusive financial adviser to Ingenious Packaging Group (Ingenious) on its sale to Resource Label Group (Resource Label), a portfolio company of First Atlantic Capital and TPG Growth.
Located in Toronto, Canada, Ingenious services customers across the food, beverage, health and beauty, spirits, nutraceutical, distribution, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. Ingenious is fully equipped with flexographic, digital and offset printing capabilities and the ancillary finishing assets to offer a full breadth of pressure sensitive, cut and stack and in-mould labels as well as shrink sleeves and branding products.
David Bowyer, chief executive officer of Ingenious,
PWP Growth Equity, the middle market private equity group of Perella Weinberg Partners, has completed the sale of Western Window Systems to PGT Innovations for USD360 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
The sale of Western Window Systems (WWS), a premier door and window manufacturer, is the first exit from PWP Growth Equity’s Fund I, which closed in October 2014. PWP Growth Equity acquired Western Window Systems in August 2015 in partnership with Scott Gates and the WWS management team.
David Ferguson and Chip Baird, Co-Heads of PWP Growth Equity, says: “We are proud to
Reed Smith has appointed Moshe J Kupietzky, formerly a member of Sidley Austin LLP’s Los Angeles Corporate and Finance practice, as senior counsel in its Century City office.
Kupietzky previously served as head of Sidley’s Los Angeles Corporate and Finance practice for more than 20 years, and he was its Los Angeles office managing partner from 2003–2009.
“Because so many of today’s complex transactions involve both M&A and finance, Moshe’s combined acumen will provide an exceptional and much-needed resource for our clients,” says Cisca M Mok, Managing Partner of the firm’s Century City office. “His decades of experience in
Luxcara, a European asset manager focused on renewable energy investments, and MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re and ERGO, have initiated and structured a project bond to finance a wind farm in Norway.
A lower three-digit million euro amount of projects bonds has been privately placed with investors of the Munich Re group. Equity is provided by a renewable energy fund for institutional investors, which is advised by Luxcara.
The financing of the construction and commissioning of the wind farm Eikeland-Steinsland, which has a capacity of 155.4 MW, is based upon a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with
The global law firm Jones Day continues to expand in Europe’s key financial centre with the appointment of partners Lee Federman and Ewen Scott, who will both join the Firm’s Banking, Finance & Securities Practice in the firm’s London Office.
The arrivals of Federman and Scott follow that of Ben Fox, who recently joined Jones Day’s Banking, Finance & Securities Practice in Amsterdam, and Michael Fischer who recently joined the Practice in Frankfurt.
“Adding Lee and Ewen, along with Ben and Michael, to our global team sends a very strong message that Jones Day remains committed to providing our
Private equity fund distributions have outweighed capital calls by a significant and striking degree over the past five years.
Data from eFront, the world’s leading alternative investment management software and solutions provider, shows that since the start of 2013, distributions from private equity funds have remained at historically high levels, while capital calls have fallen steadily to their lowest level on record, when measured as a proportion of committed capital.
Cash flows are of particular importance in private equity, as they provide an unbiased perspective on the dynamics of the sector. While the balance has shifted between capital calls
Bridges Fund Management (Bridges), the specialist sustainable and impact investor, has acquired a majority stake in Medwood Holdings (Medwood), via the Bridges US Sustainable Growth Fund.
The existing management team is also re-investing in the business as part of the recapitalisation.
Medwood, through its operating subsidiaries, provides administrative and management support services to a network of primary care and family medicine physician practices located in New York City, which collectively support more than 40,000 visits annually. The primary care and family medicine practices that Medwood services are providing low-cost, high-quality care within medically underserved communities.
Practice management
Argonaut Private Equity, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based private equity fund, has held the initial closing of Argonaut Private Equity IV, with commitments totalling over USD230 million.
Argonaut will continue to leverage its established record of disciplined investing across the energy services, industrials and manufacturing industries in Middle America.
“We are extremely pleased with the results of our first close, which includes both returning and new limited partners,” says Steve Mitchell, CEO and Managing Director of Argonaut. “Our growing team continues to pursue unique, off-market opportunities that we believe can create significant value for both our partners and our investors.”
Ancor Capital Partners, a Dallas private equity firm, has sold WellSpring Pharma Services to ANI Pharmaceuticals.
Terms of the sale, which was finalised on 6 August, have not been disclosed.
WellSpring Pharma Services provides pharmaceutical manufacturing services for virtually all non-sterile finished dosage form products, including solids, semisolids, and oral liquids and suspensions, as well as primary and secondary packaging in a variety of presentations.
When Ancor, along with co-investor Sentinel Capital Partners, acquired the WellSpring business in 2011, it consisted of three separate business operations – prescription drugs, consumer health care and over-the-counter products, and contract manufacturing
Fund administrator Apex Group (Apex) and Genstar Capital have jointly acquired Custom House, a global hedge fund administrator delivering services to alternative investment managers across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The acquisition adds a further USD24 billion in assets under administration to the Group’s portfolio and is a strong strategic and cultural fit given its independent business model and focus on delivering a personal approach customer service. The addition of the Custom House business bolsters Apex’s existing hedge fund service arm. With offices in Beijing, Chicago, Dublin, Geneva, Hong Kong, Malta, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sofia, and Sydney, Custom House
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