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A cross-jurisdictional Carey Olsen team has advised Butterfield on its acquisition of Deutsche Bank’s banking and custody business in Guernsey, Jersey and the Cayman Islands.
Butterfield is a provider of offshore banking and wealth management services in six international locations, including Guernsey and the Cayman Islands. The acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval, would further expand Butterfield’s presence in the Channel Islands by providing a Jersey presence for the group.
Working alongside Sullivan & Cromwell LLP who were lead counsel, Carey Olsen advised on all aspects of the transaction including corporate, regulatory, employment and property matters.
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Pomona Capital, a global private equity firm, has promoted Chief Financial Officer, John Stephens, to Partner and CFO.
“John has demonstrated the experience, energy, integrity and humanity so crucial to Pomona Capital and its investors”, says Michael D Granoff, chief executive officer of Pomona Capital. “We are thrilled to have him join the Partner team and are confident he will make a significant contribution to the success of the firm going forward.”
Stephens joined Pomona in 2011 and led the Asia office for three years before becoming the firm’s chief financial officer in 2015. Now based in New York,
GPSTrackIt, a portfolio company of private investment firm Inverness Graham, has acquired Tracking Solutions Corporation & its subsidiaries (collectively, TSO Mobile).
GPSTrackIt is a leading provider of SaaS based asset-tracking and fleet management solutions across North America. The acquisition of TSO Mobile expands the Company’s reach into Latin and South America, provides an attractive fleet tracking capability in the municipal bus market and offers a high growth solution in Electronic Logging Devices.
“TSO Mobile’s diverse customer base across multiple end-markets is a great fit for GPSTrackIt,” says Michael Morrissey, Managing Principal of Inverness Graham. “Their brand, go-to-market strategy and non-US
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn served as counsel on more than 265 corporate transactions that closed in 2017, once again topping the previous year’s total and setting a firm record.
The total value of transactions came in at more than USD15.8 billion, with the number of transactions growing an impressive 12 per cent over 2016.
Honigman’s nationally-recognised Corporate department has grown rapidly over the past five years, with transaction values more than tripling, and the overall number of closed transactions nearly doubling.
“Honigman’s outstanding group of corporate attorneys, supported by talented and dedicated specialists in various legal disciplines,
Gresham House’s infrastructure & housing investment platform, the British Strategic Investment Fund, is acting as the sole outside investor in the financing of 30 megawatts (MW) of operational grid-scale energy storage assets.
The transaction is the first investment for the Fund which held a first close in 2017 with GBP150 million of commitments raised from institutional investors including Local Government Pension Schemes (“LGPS”).
The Fund has invested through a combination of senior cash paid loan notes and equity in a dedicated project company. The project involves 30MW of battery storage assets spread across three sites in Nottinghamshire, Bristol and
Four Springs Capital has hired Gregory Kammerer as Senior Vice President on its capital markets team. Kammerer will focus his efforts on representing Four Springs transactions primarily with family offices and institutional investors.
Kammerer brings nearly a decade of experience working with family offices and institutions within the real estate and private equity sectors. Prior to joining Four Springs Capital, Kammerer worked at a private equity real estate fund, working on nearly USD500,000,000 of value add real estate transactions. Kammerer rejoins Four Springs Capital where he originally started his career.
“We are pleased to welcome Greg back to the
Greencoat Renewables an Irish renewable infrastructure company, is to acquire Lisdowney, a 9.2MW wind farm situated in County Kilkenny, for a total consideration of EUR22.5 million.
Lisdowney wind farm consists of four Enercon E82 turbines. The wind farm was commissioned in November 2016 and its revenues are contracted under the REFIT 2 scheme until 2031, guaranteeing a minimum floorprice for the electricity generated. Following the acquisition Enercon will continue to manage the wind farm’s O&M contract.
The acquisition will be subject to an adjustment mechanism that will assess actual energy production over an 18 month period and the acquisition
The launch of a multi-million pound investment fund has been hailed as a significant milestone for Guernsey’s economy; signalling that the island is very much open for business.
As seed investor in the Guernsey Investment Fund, to the tune of GBP25 million, the States of Guernsey has shown its commitment to supporting and facilitating innovation, while also displaying high levels of confidence in the island’s economic outlook.
The Fund has dual objectives: to generate profits for investors; and to invest in projects and companies with a Bailiwick focus.
The Policy & Resources Committee, which has delegated authority over
Private equity firm Horizon Capital has backed the initial public offering (IPO) of Purcari Wineries (Purcari) which is now trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange under the ticker WINE.
The offering was well received, with retail investors oversubscribing more than four times over, despite heavy turbulence on global markets as the Dow recorded its two largest point-drops on record. As a result of this successful public launch, Horizon Capital, on behalf of its fund EEGF II, has sold a 40.9 per cent stake in Purcari, realising a 3.2 times gross cash-on-cash return on the sale of these shares. Horizon Capital remains an active
Bain Capital Ventures, a seed-to-growth stage investor focused on enterprise software and technology, has appointed Adam Levin as a partner in Boston, focused on growth stage investing.
Levin will be responsible for identifying and cultivating investments in enterprise software and data services companies.
Levin most recently worked as a vice president in growth private equity at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors in Los Angeles, where he focused on software-as-a-service and enterprise companies. While there, he led investments in DiCentral, Proficio, Azalea and Cryptzone (acquired by BC Partners) among others. Before Kayne Anderson, Levin was a venture associate at Crosslink Capital
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