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Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair) has acquired a majority stake in converged ICT services provider GCI. Mayfair’s investment also includes the formation of a new strategic fund worth over GBP60 million, providing GCI with significant financial firepower to finance future strategic acquisitions.
As part of the transaction, Mayfair has purchased the majority of the equity held by Chairman Wayne Martin, who will remain on the GCI board, and the full minority stake held by BGF, which has backed the business since 2012.
The investment in GCI comes at an exciting time for the company. Over the last two years GCI
Corporate attorney Michael Weinsier has joined Pryor Cashman’s New York office as co-head of the Private Equity practice. He joins as a partner, having previously been with Troutman Sanders.
With more than 30 years of experience, Weinsier specialises in complex corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, auction bids and sales, joint ventures and co-investments, among others.
“Michael is an important addition to our growing corporate practice,” says Ronald Shechtman, Pryor Cashman’s Managing Partner. “We’ve seen increased demand from private equity clients who require sophisticated deal counsel with expertise in cross-border transactions. Michael’s superior knowledge
Inflexion Private Equity has backed the management buyout of Independent Transition Management Limited (ITM), a provider of specialist data services to the pensions and financial services markets.
Founded in 2003, ITM specialises in technology-led data audit, management administration and migration services, working with pension funds, providers, trusts and administrators as well as other generalist financial institutions. The company utilises proprietary software and specialist expertise it has built over 15 years to provide critical and complex data services for its blue-chip clients in the private and public sectors, including Aviva, Legal & General, Cabinet Office and BT. Headquartered in London, ITM
Harris R Eisenberg has joined Honigman as a partner in the Corporate department and Private Equity practice group in the firm’s Chicago office. His arrival follows on the heels of private equity partner Norbert Knapke, who joined the firm’s Chicago office last month from Kirkland & Ellis.
Eisenberg’s practice focuses on representing middle market private equity funds, family offices and other investors in acquisitions and dispositions, recapitalisations, joint ventures and other complex transactions. He joins Honigman from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he concentrated on private equity and mergers and acquisitions.
“Harris is well respected in the industry, and
David Disneur, previously Head of Sales at Verrazzano Capital and Director at BlackRock, has joined Ferox Capital as Sales Director.
Working alongside Paul Sansome, he will be responsible for accelerating sales and marketing efforts across Europe.
The boutique investment manager specialised in Convertible Bond strategies currently manages USD1.7 billion, mainly for UK, US and selected European investors. The firm has ambitions to increase and broaden its penetration particularly in continental Europe significantly over the next three years.
Paul Sansome, Partner and Head of Research at Ferox Capital, says: “We are delighted to welcome David to Ferox. This hire
Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Bosco Yiu as a partner in the firm’s private equity practice in Hong Kong.
Yiu’s appointment follows the recent relocation to Hong Kong of private investment funds partner Greg Barclay, and last year’s arrival of leading private equity lawyers Douglas Freeman and Victor Chen.
Yiu has vast experience representing private equity firms, investment banks and public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and general Hong Kong corporate regulatory and compliance advice. He has particular expertise with Hong Kong takeovers, privatisation, private
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) has provided a credit facility to support the continued growth of Eco-Site, a North Carolina-based wireless tower and infrastructure company.
Varagon served as administrative agent and lead arranger on the deal, which included MSouth Equity Partners, a long-time financial partner of Eco-Site.
Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, Eco-Site builds, owns and operates wireless towers and infrastructure sites in the most desirable areas. Founded in 2012 by wireless industry executives with extensive carrier and infrastructure experience, the company provides superior real estate solutions for network densification and expansion. Eco-Site offers single-point access to a nationwide pool
Elaghmore Partners, the UK-focused private equity firm, has acquired McPhee Bros (Blantyre) Limited (McPhee Mixers), a leading UK designer and manufacturer of truck-mounted concrete mixer units, known as McPhee Mixers, for an undisclosed multi-million-pound sum.
Founded in 1971, McPhee Mixers is well-established as one of the leading UK suppliers of mixers to the construction and quarrying industry.
McPhee Mixers designs, manufactures and supplies its mixers from its headquarters in Blantyre, Glasgow. It offers its customers, including some of the largest multinational businesses in the construction and aggregate industry, a unique product range of mixers tailored to their requirements. McPhee Mixers
Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has appointed Vincent M Buffa as an Operating Partner.
Buffa was most recently President and Chief Executive Officer of Data Device Corporation (DDC) – a former Behrman portfolio company – until its USD1 billion sale in 2016.
As an Operating Partner, Buffa will serve on the Boards of current Behrman Capital portfolio companies Corfin Industries and ILC Dover, and share his extensive expertise with their management teams. Behrman Capital and Buffa will also work together to identify future investment opportunities in the defence and aerospace
Cathay Capital and Bpifrance are to acquire a majority stake in global financial software company NeoXam from BlackFin Capital Partners.
The deal comes off the back of a sustained period of growth for NeoXam, a provider of data management and transaction solutions to financial institutions. Over the past two years, the French based firm’s (EUR62.5 million) revenue has increased by +25 per cent and it has signed more than 32 deals and hired over 150 employees.
In close liaison with BlackFin, the executive committee at NeoXam chose Cathay Capital due to its resources and ecosystem developed in Europe, China
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