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Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has made an investment in ICR, a strategic communications and advisory firm.
Investcorp is partnering with ICR, whose senior team will retain a significant ownership stake in the Company. The new partnership will focus on accelerating the Company’s organic growth, identifying complementary acquisitions and expanding the business globally.
Founded in 1998, ICR helps companies manage credibility and reputational risk to optimize shareholder value. Ranked as a top 5 independent communications firm in 2018 by O’Dwyer’s, ICR specializes in investor relations, public relations, crisis and special situations communications, digital/social media, and
Tikehau Capital today announced it has supported Apax Partners in its acquisition of Business Integration Partners (“Bip”), an Italian consulting firm with international presence.
Headquartered in Milan, Bip is a primary Italian management consulting firm providing business integration and IT / digital transformation services to support international blue chip companies in the research and adoption of technological innovation. The company, founded in 2003, has delivered strong growth over the year and posted revenues of EUR160 million in 2017. Bip has over 1,800 employees and is present in more than 11 countries.
Tikehau Capital provided Apax Partners with bespoke debt
Prince International Corporation and Prince Erachem International Corporation (Prince) have been acquired by affiliates of private equity firm American Securities. Since 2003, Prince has been majority owned by affiliates of Palladium Equity Partners (Palladium).
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Prince serves a diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets by developing, manufacturing and marketing performance-critical additives. Many of the Company’s products are custom developed for specific customer applications in a variety of industries, including construction, electronics, consumer products, agriculture, battery, automotive, oil & gas, and heavy equipment.
Under Palladium’s ownership, Prince has grown from a small, regional processor of
Online, self-storage marketplace SpareFoot is to acquire SiteLink, a provider of cloud-based software solutions for the self-storage industry.
The deal will bring together two dynamic companies and allow the combined business to accelerate investment, drive innovation and generate value for both consumers and facility operators in the USD38 billion self-storage industry.
Cove Hill Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston, will acquire a majority stake in both businesses. SpareFoot CEO Chuck Gordon will become CEO of the combined company, and Ross Lampe will remain President of SiteLink with his team continuing to serve self-storage customers. The transactions are expected to
bfinance is to conduct the manager search and selection for a new GBP250 million private debt allocation from the pension schemes of five London Boroughs – Ealing, Havering, Lambeth, Wandsworth and Merton (Five Boroughs).
This will be the Five Boroughs’ first investment in private debt, with the Ealing-led search for an asset manager commencing on 29 March 2018. All five boroughs are part of the London Pension Collective Investment Vehicle (London CIV) pool, which has not yet launched a private debt investment programme.
Specialist investment consultant bfinance is conducting the manager search and selection for this new private debt
Context Capital Partners’ latest Context Allocator Trends Report, which is based on a survey of more than 400 institutional investors and family offices, has revealed strong demand for alternative investment strategies, with 70 per cent of respondents planning to increase their allocations to alternatives in 2018, and 29 per cent planning to maintain their current allocations.
The demand for alternative investments is supported by doubts over how long the current bull market can last, with 69 per cent of institutional allocators surveyed predicting that traditional equities and fixed income markets will underperform in 2018 when compared to 2017, and an
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has PAI Partners on the structuring and fundraising of its seventh pan-European fund, PAI Europe VII, which was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap of EUR5 billion in less than six months.
PAI Partners is a major European private equity firm and is one of the largest private equity investors headquartered in Europe. PAI Europe VII will pursue investments in upper middle-market continental European companies, with a focus on PAI’s core sectors: business services, food & consumer goods, general industrials, healthcare and retail & distribution.
The Fund Formation team in Paris has previously advised PAI Partners
Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame Limited (Oregon) has completed a buy-out of its non-management shareholders, including the 15 per cent stake in the business held by its largest external shareholder group, Archangel Investors (Archangels).
The move brings to a close a near 20 year relationship between Oregon – one of the UK’s largest independent timber frame house manufacturers – and Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate.
Oregon, which was established in 1998, specialises in the design, manufacture and erection of structural timber frame packages to volume house builders and developers. The business is trading strongly and in its most recent
Foley & Lardner and Gardere Wynne Sewell have completed the combination of the two firms, effective 1 April, 2018.
The combined firm will have approximately 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices in the United States, Mexico, Asia and Europe. More specifically, Foley will now have a presence in Texas (Austin, Dallas and Houston), Denver and Mexico City – a gateway into Latin America to the benefit of clients and attorneys in transactional and cross-border matters. Similarly, Gardere clients and attorneys will benefit from Foley’s strong presence in the Midwest, the East and West Coasts and Florida, as well as Belgium and
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) platform company Alliance Source Testing (Alliance) has completed its third add-on acquisition with the purchase of Air Pollution Testing (APT).
APT provides source emission testing (stack testing) and oil & gas laboratory services to customers in the western US with offices in Denver, Salt Lake City and Anchorage.
Acquiring APT was an important next step for ACP who is actively investing in growth to build a national, best-in-class stack testing platform. Strategically, APT allows Alliance to enter two new markets in the West, while bolstering its current team in Utah.
Mike McNaughton, Co-Owner of APT,
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