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Golding Capital Partners, an independent asset manager for alternative investments, has strengthened its investment team with the appointment of Abhik Das as the company’s new Head of Private Debt.
As Managing Director, he is responsible for GCP’s overall private debt investment activities. His role comprises the selection of primaries, secondaries and co-investment opportunities for GCP’s institutional investment programmes and managed accounts. In this function, he reports to Dr Matthias Reicherter, GCP’s Chief Investment Officer.
By hiring Das, GCP has significantly strengthened its investment competence and transaction expertise in the private debt asset class. Abhik Das can draw on more
Kirkland & Ellis is advising Toys’R’Us on the sale of its stores in the DACH region to Irish-British toy retailer Smyths. The transaction volume was not disclosed.
In September 2017, the US toy retail chain Toys’R’Us filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In March 2018, the company announced it would close stores in the United States and the United Kingdom and seek a buyer for its stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Toys’R’Us entered the German market in 1986 and is one of the largest toy retailers in the German-speaking countries.
Smyths Toys Superstores operates more than
Nonantum Capital Partners has closed its inaugural private equity fund at its hard cap of USD350 million in limited partner capital commitments, concluding a fundraising process that launched in January.
Formed by a group of experienced private equity and management executives as a spin-out from Charlesbank Capital Partners, Nonantum focuses primarily on investing in family businesses, corporate carve-outs, and complex situations where opportunities exist to partner with management teams to transform businesses.
Over nearly two decades, the team has successfully invested in dozens of family businesses and corporate carve-outs in the consumer, industrial, and business services sectors. Nonantum will
The Finnish credit information company Asiakastieto Group (Asiakastieto) listed on NASDAQ Helsinki, is to acquire UC AB (UC) in a deal worth EUR340 million.
Nordea owns 26.1 per cent of the shares in UC and will receive 2,303,315 shares in Asiakastieto, equivalent to 9.6 per cent of the shares in the company after completion of the transaction, and approximately EUR26 million in cash.
The transaction results in a capital gain amounting to approximatle EUR86 million for Nordea, expected to be recognised in the result in the second quarter of 2018, based on Asiakastieto’s share price as at 23 April
Sky9 Capital has completed the final closing of Sky9 Capital Fund III, with total capital commitments of USD200 million.
With support from a strong group of world-class institutional investors, family foundations and entrepreneurs, the fund invests mainly in China-based businesses with a focus on early-stage companies in the internet, enterprise, and deep technology sectors. Ron Cao, Founder & Managing Director, has over 18 years of extensive experience in venture capital and a track record of investing and growing successful China-based companies.
The Sky9 team includes an experienced group of technologists, entrepreneurs and investors who have participated previously in
Magnaghi Aerospace Group (MAG), a provider of landing gear systems and composite aerostructure components to helicopter and medium-sized aircraft platforms, has completed the acquisition of US-based Blair-HSM (Blair) with the support of Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP).
MAG was founded in 1936 as a provider of landing gears to the Italian air force, and has diversified significantly over time under current owner and CEO, Paolo Graziano. Today the group manufactures landing gears, hydraulic components and actuators to the rotary and fixed wing markets globally, composite aerostructure components, and Sky Arrow, a carbon fibre aircraft with multiple applications across law enforcement,
Vista Equity Partners, an investment firm focused on software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has invested in Allocate Software (Allocate), a provider of healthcare workforce management software.
The investment will support the company’s next phase of development product innovation and global expansion.
With over 800 customers and one million staff rostered daily, Allocate serves the largest public and private healthcare institutions around the world by supporting the operational and administrative needs of professionals across all healthcare settings. Allocate’s best-in-class solutions enable the delivery of safe and effective care at optimal cost by helping healthcare organisations have the right people in the right place at the
Renaissance Capital, an emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has appointed Ivan Kachkovski as an Equity Research Analyst covering the banking sector and finance institutions in Russia, as well as in frontier and emerging markets across the CIS and emerging Europe.
Kachkovski will be based in London and report to Daniel Salter, Head of Research, Eurasia, at Renaissance Capital.
Daniel Salter, Head of Research, Eurasia, says: “We are pleased to welcome Ivan to the team. He is an experienced and professional analyst, well recognised by corporates and clients alike for the strength of his analysis. We believe Ivan’s longstanding expertise
SANNE has promoted Sean Murray to Managing Director, Alternative Assets for its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Based in SANNE’s Luxembourg office, Murray (pictured), has been with SANNE for just over a year. In his new position he will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the EMEA Alternative Assets platform, which includes Private Equity, Private Debt & Capital Markets, Real Estate and Hedge.
Murray had joined the firm from Orangefield in Luxembourg, where he was Managing Director and a member of the global alternative investments management board. He also sat on the board and management team
The rated global infrastructure sector has experienced essentially uninterrupted growth over the past 20 years, according to a new report by S&P Global Ratings, with the majority of the sector rated ‘A’ or ‘BBB’ by the company.
However, the proportion of speculative-grade ratings has increased in the past decade.
The report – 25 Years of Rated Infrastructure Corporates and Project Finance – reveals that default rates were highest for infrastructure during the 1990-1991 US recession and again during the 2000-2003 period. The first period saw a broad contraction across most industries, while the second was largely due to the
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