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Aquis Technologies, the financial and regulatory technologies services arm of Aquis Exchange, has been appointed to supply trading technology to Estates and Infrastructure Exchange (EIE).
EIE will take Aquis’ complete suite of exchange technology including the Aquis Matching Engine (AMS), its state-of-the-art Aquis Market Surveillance (AMS), as well as operations tools and assistance in the post trade environment.
EIE, which is aiming to become a Registered Investment Exchange, is the world’s first infrastructure trading platform to create a bridge between the billions of underinvested capital and the thousands of globally unfunded projects. EIE was launched in mid-2017 and works
Investcorp has acquired KSI Trading Corp (KSI), a supplier of aftermarket auto body parts in the US.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1984, KSI is an industry-leading distributor of quality replacement auto body parts servicing over 10,000 collision repair shop customers across 25 locations in 14 states. In addition to top quality products, KSI has succeeded in providing superior customer service, rapid order turnaround and competitive pricing over the last three decades. Headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey, KSI has over 600 employees across the US.
KSI will be led by Christopher
A company backed by Private equity firm Permira has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Exclusive Group, a specialist in value-added services and technologies (VAST) for cybersecurity and cloud migration, for an undisclosed value.
Selling equity holders include former majority owner Cobepa and Andera Partners (formerly Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners).
The investment secures substantial new funding to fuel the next stage of the Company’s development. The Exclusive management team led by CEO Olivier Breittmayer will maintain a significant equity stake in the firm and continue to lead the company in their current roles.
Established in 2003 and
White Oak Global Advisors, on behalf of its institutional clients, has partnered with C2FO to offer new receivable financing options to C2FO’s extensive network of businesses throughout the US.
Established in 2008, C2FO is an industry leader in true dynamic discounting for businesses around the world. The C2FO “Name your rate” model lets businesses improve cash flow by offering their customers a discount they determine in exchange for early payment of invoices.
With the White Oak partnership, C2FO can provide businesses access to additional funding options when early payment is not available from out-of-network customers. In addition to this
Good Returns Group has secured USD1 million of funding from Inverdale Capital Management, an asset management firm focused on alternative investments.
The capital will enable Good Returns to serve the needs of its larger clients and strategically grow its impact programs.
This backing from one of Dallas’ leading asset managers highlights the significant potential of Good Returns’ approach to funding the growth of “impact organisations,” those that address social challenges using financially and operationally sustainable models. It also demonstrates a higher level of engagement from North Texas individual and institutional investors in the impact investment movement.
“Good Returns’ vision
Frontier Capital has made a majority growth equity investment in Agreement Express, a SaaS-based digital on-boarding platform provider focused on streamlining and enhancing the client experience for wealth management, payments, and insurance providers.
Frontier Capital is a Charlotte-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business services companies.
The Agreement Express end-to-end digital on-boarding platform aims to take the complexity out of the first crucial touchpoint of the customer lifecycle.
The investment is intended to support Agreement Express as it seeks to accelerate growth through expansion of sales and marketing operations, furthering technology innovation, and extending
George Ralph, Managing Director of RFA, recently chaired a breakfast briefing on Operational Due Diligence for private equity firms. With a knowledgeable and varied panel he debated the growing importance of being absolutely shipshape and watertight when it comes to investor due diligence around operations and talked about how GDPR will affect everyone and what can be done to make sure firms are not only meeting ODD requirements, but exceeding them too.
The ODD landscape
It has been a record year for private equity funds raised, and the total assets stand now at £2.83 trillion. The hedge fund space is
The offer volume in the German market for public takeovers reached another peak last year. This development was driven by the exchange offer made to the Linde shareholders regarding the merger with Praxair, as law firm Noerr revels in its Public M&A Report.
Another important finding in the report is that management and supervisory boards of target companies are increasingly acting more cautiously. Their statements on takeover offers are increasingly accompanied by several fairness opinions. In addition, the number of “neutral statements” also increased compared to the previous year.
According to the statistics of the German Federal Financial Supervisory
Mobeus has made a GBP14 million investment in Geotech backing the roll-out of the company’s patented soil stabilisation system, which delivers compelling cost savings and environmental benefits to infrastructure projects.
Geotech is a specialist in ground stabilisation services for construction and infrastructure projects. Its unique and patent-protected “Geobind” system strengthens ground for temporary and permanent works in a fraction of the time of traditional methods.
As a result, Geobind delivers significant environmental, cost and programme benefits to main contractors which are rapidly adopting it as a preferred solution for the construction of access roads, highways, car parks and commercial
Kirkland & Ellis International has been ranked first for European M&A by deal value and first for European Buyouts by deal count in Q1 2018, according to the latest legal advisor league tables released by Bloomberg and Mergermarket, respectively.
Kirkland advised on 18 announced European deals with a value of USD37.5 billion to top the Bloomberg table, whilst Mergermarket listed the Firm as advising on eight European buyouts in a busy first quarter.
These rankings follow on from Kirkland’s first position for UK M&A by deal value in the Mergermarket full year 2017 tables, advising on 60 deals with a
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