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Direct lender Beechbrook Capital has provided a mezzanine loan to funds managed by HIG Capital, to support its acquisition of a majority interest in Beinbauer Group. RM Secured Direct Lending PLC, a specialist in tailored debt solutions, acted as co-investor to Beechbrook.
Beinbauer Group is a leading provider of complex machined metal parts for the European on- and off-highway commercial vehicle industry, mainly serving leading original equipment manufacturers. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Büchlberg near Passau, Germany, it has four production sites across Germany and over 700 employees. With HIG’s investment, Beinbauer will look to grow organically within the
Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has strengthened its restructuring team with the appointment of Phil Reynolds as partner based in the firm’s London office.
Reynolds has 23 years’ restructuring experience gained within a number of ‘big four’ professional services firms both in London and internationally.
Reynolds has a focus on providing advisory and insolvency services to both corporates and their lenders principally within the mid-market and has deep experience in the retail, technology and leisure sectors. He has also more recently been closely involved with the charities and wider not-for-profit sector, having undertaken restructurings to resolve pensions issues, or
UK private equity-owned companies are driving growth against a backdrop of uncertainty as they boosted revenues by 12 per cent in the last year, according to research by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.
BDO reveals that the UK’s private equity-owned companies (from a sample of 902 portfolio companies where private equity firms together own between 50.01 per cent and 100 per cent) have seen revenues increase by 12 per cent from GBP37.4 billion to GBP42 billion in the last year.
These private equity-owned companies are also boosting the UK labour market. Now employing 311,833 people in the UK,
Maranon Capital, an alternative investment management firm focused on private credit investments in middle market companies, has appointed Laura Albrecht as Managing Director and Partner.
“Laura’s promotion reflects her increasing leadership roles within Maranon in addition to her outstanding contributions underwriting and managing investments and her overall dedication to Maranon’s success,” says Tom Gregory, Maranon’s Co-Founding Partner. “We are deeply committed to the development and advancement of experienced investment professionals and are excited to have Laura as our Partner in the continued growth of Maranon.”
Laura earned an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an investment firm focused on middle-market debt and equity investments, announced today that Todd Kushman joins as a principal and head of capital markets. Kushman is based in New York.
Kushman will lead the firm’s capital markets initiatives, which includes optimising and identifying new alternative investment product offerings.
“Todd’s deep experience in structured finance at leading financial institutions is additive as we look to further optimise the financing options for our investment vehicles,” says Richard Levy, CEO and Founder of VPC. “We have confidence that his leadership in capital markets will assist the firm in expanding our
The Tages Helios Fund is to acquires a portfolio of more than 51 MW comprising 35 plants distributed throughout Apulia, Sicily and Emilia Romagna effective from SECI.
The plants in the portfolio use first-rate technology and were built directly by Enerray, a company managed by SECI Energia – the market leader in Italy. The acquired portfolio generates around 74 GWh a year, which is an energy output capable of meeting the electricity demand of 27,000 families and results in an annual saving of 30,000 tonnes of CO₂ from being released into the atmosphere.
With this latest acquisition, the entire
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook), a global investment manager specialising in lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure, has acquired a 223 Megawatt (MW) operational wind power portfolio from subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources.
The well-diversified wind portfolio has more than 10 years of operating history and contracted power sales to multiple investment-grade utilities. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
The acquisition was made by GlidePath Power Solutions LLC (“GlidePath”), a Quinbrook portfolio company acquired by the Quinbrook Low Carbon Power Fund in 2017. GlidePath is a developer of distributed power solutions across the US spanning wind, solar, distributed gas and
Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP), a private equity firm specialising in the financial and business services sectors, has made a series of leadership team and new Partner appointments designed to further evolve its management and governance structure and to address continued firm growth over the long-term.
Steven Pierson and Robert Belke have been named Managing Partners of LMP, with responsibility for managing the business day-to-day, overseeing finance, operations, and investor relations, and continuing to grow the team and resources over time. Pierson will Chair the newly-created Management Committee that includes Partners Robert Belke, John Cochran and Spencer Hoffman. Belke has been
Lancaster Pollard has hired Adam Zeiger as a managing director with the firm’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) group. Zeiger will lead business development efforts for the firm’s growing sell-side and buy-side advisory services for seniors housing and care properties.
“We could not be more excited to have Adam as part of our team,” says Chad Elliott, also a managing director in Lancaster Pollard’s M&A group. “His impressive career track record, as well as his plethora of strong relationships in the seniors housing and care industry, will substantially contribute to, among other things, our ability to deliver outlier results with enhanced
Financial services private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap) is to acquire a portfolio of seasoned, performing UK unsecured personal loans from Secure Trust Bank (STB) via AnaCap Credit Opportunities III.
The portfolio is highly diversified, covering more than 10,000 individual loans geographically spread across the UK, with an average seasoning of almost two years, thus providing strong and stable cash flow from the outset.
This is the Fund’s second investment in the UK and follows-on from a number of similar investments in performing consumer loans made by AnaCap predecessor funds, further developing the firm’s investment strategy addressing performing
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