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Bosham Capital Advisors (BCA) has completed its first deal on behalf of British Country Inns (BCI), which is selling its portfolio of 16 traditional pubs.
Liberation Group has bought two freehold pubs for an undisclosed sum. Both pubs are located in Somerset: the Lime Kiln Inn, Knole and Beambridge, Sampford Arundel.
The BCI group consists of four companies originally financed via the EIS by Smith & Williamson. Chairman of the companies Martin Sherwood is senior partner of Enterprise Investment Partners (EIP), a specialist small cap corporate finance boutique with particular focus on the tax-efficient market, which provides management and
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Related Companies has made an investment in Ladder Capital, purchasing USD80 million of Ladder stock from certain pre-IPO shareholders of Ladder, including affiliates of TowerBrook Capital Partners and GI Partners.
In connection with the investment, Ladder has granted Related a right of first offer with respect to certain horizontal risk retention investments in which Ladder intends to retain an interest.
The investment was made by Related Real Estate Fund II, an opportunity fund, with equity commitments of over USD1 billion.
Justin Metz, managing principal of Related Fund Management, says: “Ladder’s strong and seasoned management team operates a disciplined
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Cortland Capital Market Services, a Chicago-based global investment servicing company, and its wholly owned UK subsidiary, Cortland EMEA Limited, have launched a global asset-based lending (ABL) platform.
Cortland's ABL Servicing focuses on serving investment managers, commercial lenders and commercial finance companies throughout the US and Europe.
Cortland has appointed industry veteran Ellen Cook to lead ABL Servicing Operations.
"Asset-based lending is an area in which many of our existing and prospective customers would like to participate," says Joanna Anderson (pictured), head of Cortland's credit services group. "We have the systems, processes and expertise in place to provide clients a
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Catapult has sold portfolio business Silver Lining Solutions, a Midlands-based provider of employee performance optimisation software, to US-based Genesys.
Silver Lining Solutions is a developer of employee optimisation solutions that help improve employee engagement and performance enterprise-wide, enabling organisations to sell more, serve customers better, increase operational effectiveness and reduce costs.
The company has offices in Asia Pacific and the US and employs more than 20 people.
“Silver Lining Solutions has been a valued Genesys OEM partner since 2009, so this acquisition is a logical step toward increasing our commitment to joint customers, while offering additional workforce optimisation
- 28/02/2017
Almost a year ago to the day, the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes, took to the stage at SuperReturn International and gave us a fairly gloomy outlook on what 2016 had in store.
She talked about how a confluence of geopolitical insecurity, weak economic growth and rising populism risked becoming a snowball that would put the liberal world order at risk.
"I argued that time was running out for the pro-globalisation centre and that there was a very real possibility of events that, just a year before, would seem unthinkable," she reminisced.
"I said "imagine a Donald Trump
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The mid-morning session on Monday's Energy & Natural Resources Summit at SuperReturn International in Berlin, delved into the question of energy investing – from the perspective of LPs. Where were the opportunities, and what were the challenges?
Renewable energy
Paul Manias, Managing Director at OMERS Strategic Investments, felt that the trend on renewable development would continue despite its challenges: "The fact is that the whole utility sector needs to figure out how to integrate renewables onto the grid," he said.
Maurice Gordon, Head of Private Equity at The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America said that, in spite of its challenges,
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K&L Gates has appointed James CH Lee as a partner in the private equity practice in the firm’s New York office.
He joins K&L Gates from Goodwin Procter.
Lee has extensive experience advising private equity funds, venture capital funds, private investment firms, high-net-worth family offices, and their respective portfolio companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, alternate vehicle investment structure transactions, recapitalisations, reorganisations, divestitures, and debt and equity security investments.
He represents clients across a range of industries, such as healthcare, technology, industrial technology, manufacturing and distribution, financial services
- 28/02/2017
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has launched Uni-Global – Alternative Risk Premia, an actively managed strategy to provide investors with cost-effective and liquid sources of returns modestly correlated to equity and bond returns.
It complements Unigestion’s existing line of direct alternative offers, including the Uni-Global – Cross Asset Trend Follower, Uni-Global – Alternative Equities Compass World, the Unigestion Long/Short Global Opportunities fund and the Uni-Global – Absolute Return.
The launch of this strategy addresses three major concerns for investors and the asset management industry.
Firstly, expected returns for traditional investments are not very attractive, as bond yields remain at
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Preston Hollow Capital has completed a USD39.37 million bond financing for Blue School, an independent pre-primary, primary and middle school located in New York City.
The transaction will facilitate the school’s continued growth and extension of its curriculum to older children.
Blue School began as a parent run playgroup in 2006 before establishing successful pre-primary and primary programmes in 2009, with the founding goal of creating a more complete, balanced and exuberant approach to education.
PHC’s financing will enable Blue School to continue this approach to extend from early childhood through eighth grade, effective in the 2017-2018 academic
- 28/02/2017
Noerr has advised Oddo Seydler Bank on a capital increase with subscription rights at Deutsche Konsum REIT-AG.
The Noerr team, led by the Frankfurt-based capital market specialists Laurenz Wieneke and Stephan Schulz, also took a leading advisory role in drafting the prospectus for the client.
As a result of the transaction, Deutsche Konsum REIT-AG will be listed in the prime standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The company’s share capital is to be increased by issuing up to 4.65 million new shares. The gross proceeds of some EUR39.6 million are intended to fund the further growth of the
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