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The Montreux Healthcare Fund’s Operating Company (Fund), Active Assistance (Active), has secured a GBP95 million debt package from BlackRock, one of the largest institutions in the financial sector.
The transaction augments Active’s ability to finance its pipeline acquisitions for the foreseeable future, which it will seek to purchase with a mixture of equity and debt.
The terms of the Senior Facility Agreement, which will allow the replacement of an existing bridging facility, are preferential to those secured on the Fund’s previous asset pool during its last cycle in which it achieved more than a 110 per cent return over
International private equity firm, Cinven, is to acquire Partner in Pet Food (PPF), a European pet food manufacturer, from Pamplona Capital Management for an undisclosed amount.
Headquartered in Hungary, PPF has nine manufacturing operations across Europe. PPF supplies pet food to more than 250 customers in Europe, including traditional retailers, discounters, speciality pet retailers and online specialists. Its product range covers the main categories of dog and cat food including wet and dry food including single serve products. Established in 1999, the company employs more than 1,400 people and produces more than 450,000 tons of pet food per annum, distributed
Alven, an independent venture investment firm based in France, has selected Ipreo’s iLEVEL platform for the monitoring and management of its fast-growing portfolio.
iLEVEL has become widely-accepted as the platform of choice for private market investors globally, enhancing portfolio data integrity, streamlining operations, and elevating performance across the entire investment lifecycle. Several hundred GPs and LPs worldwide, across all private asset classes, now rely on iLEVEL for data collection, portfolio monitoring, reporting and analytics, investor reporting, valuation and audit, and fundraising.
“With a proven track record of investments, we’re growing quickly, and we want to make sure that we
Law firm Akerman has added experienced corporate partner Ted Rosen to its M&A and Private Equity Practice in New York.
Involved in complex transactions for more than three decades, Rosen joins the Corporate Practice Group from Fox Rothschild, where he served as administrative partner for the New York Corporate and Public Companies Practices and as co-chair of the Private Equity Practice Group. Rosen advances Akerman’s longstanding capabilities dedicated to mergers and acquisitions, private equity funds, international transactions and venture capital transactions.
“Ted is highly regarded for his consummate ability to meet client objectives in complex transactions and he adds
BGF has exited its minority investment in Brownhills Glass, an independent UK’s glass merchant and processor.
BGF invested GBP2.9 million in the Walsall-headquartered company in 2015 to support the acquisition of Durham-based Peterlee Glass, helping extend its presence into the North East. The funding has also supported investment in a new manufacturing site for Peterlee, expanding its capacity. Brownhills will now continue its growth strategy with new investment from Duke Royalty, a provider of alternative capital solutions.
Brownhills Investments serves trade customers, architects, interior designers, construction professionals and private home owners throughout the UK. Its products and services range
Crocus Technology, a supplier of disruptive Tunnel Magneto-Resistance (TMR) sensors, has secured USD35 million in funding through a combination of debt and equity from internal investors and external sources.
The funding will enable Crocus Technology to accelerate its revenue growth by expanding its operations and go-to-market resources and by investing in the continuous development of innovative products to serve the demand of existing and emerging markets.
Crocus’ proprietary MLU(TM) technology enables its TMR sensor products to have high magnetic sensitivity with minimal variation over a wide temperature range, coupled with ultra-low power consumption, which makes them ideal sensing solutions
PGGM Private Real Estate, an investment division of the second largest Dutch pension fund service provider, has established a joint venture with Redevco, one of Europe’s leading retail real estate investment managers.
The EUR550 million Urban Retail Ventures will invest in the most desirable and favourable shopping and leisure complexes in Europe, using a research-driven methodology to select those cities that are thriving as quality retail locations.
“Our PGGM private real estate fund investment strategy has EUR11.5 billion in AUM, which we invest globally and we continue to expand that portfolio,” says Mathieu Elshout, Senior Director Private Real Estate, PGGM.
Geospatial Insight, a specialist in visual intelligence derived from geospatial big-data, has secured a GBP3.5 million growth equity investment from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and VenturesOne Investments.
The financing will be used to expand Geospatial Insight’s machine learning capabilities as well as fast-tracking additional product streams and visual intelligence customer solutions.
The capital injection follows a Series A investment by VenturesOne, growth equity investors, completed in July 2017 and seed funding by Midven, the Birmingham based venture capital company, through the Exceed Partnership Fund in December 2014.
Using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics and
New research from CEPRES shows how first-time private equity funds (ie first generation funds aka “Emerging Managers”) outperform later generation funds on a risk adjusted basis. By comparing the returns and loss rates of buyout deals invested by different generations of funds, CEPRES was able to see clear patterns of behavior linked to the maturity of the Manager.
The research was conducted on CEPRES’ award winning PE.Analyzer4.0 platform encompassing detailed performance of USD17.5 trillion of PE-backed companies across 4,888 private capital funds. The analysis shows whilst second generation funds deliver the strongest gross IRR returns in their deals, it is at
UK bookseller Waterstones has been acquired by funds managed by activist hedge fund manager Paul Singer’s (pictured), Elliott Advisors.
Waterstones operates a chain of 283 bookshops located across the UK and Ireland, and in The Netherlands and Belgium, and had sales of over GBP400 in the year to end April 2017.
Lynwood Investments, controlling shareholder of Waterstones since 2011, will retain a minority stake.
Founded in 1977, Elliott is one of the oldest and largest private investment organisations globally, with funds under management of approximately USD35 billion. The Elliott funds’ investors include pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments,
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