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Zenith American Solutions has been acquired in a transaction led by Chicago-based Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company (BPOC).
BPOC acquired the company from Water Street Healthcare Partners, LLC, a strategic investor focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, which grew Zenith American into the nation’s largest independent third-party administrator of benefits to Taft-Hartley trust funds during its more than nine years of ownership.
Zenith American Solutions is the largest independent third party administrator in the nation focused on delivering innovative services to Taft-Hartley trust funds, trade associations, government entities, and corporate employers. BPOC is a healthcare private equity firm, focused
Dalmore Capital (Dalmore) and GLIL Infrastructure LLP (GLIL) are to acquire, on a 50/50 basis, a 15 per cent interest in Anglian Water Group (AWG) from 3i.
AWG manages water and water recycling services in the East of England and Hartlepool, and is the largest water and sewerage company in England and Wales by geographic area. Measured by Regulated Capital Value (RCV) it is the fourth largest water company.
AWG supplies and services circa 2 million households and 124,000 business connections, delivering approximately 1.1 billion litres of water every day as the primary source. Its network includes thousands of
FRP Advisory has boosted its national Corporate Finance team with the appointment of Adrian Alexander as partner based in the firm’s Brighton office.
The appointment forms part of FRP Advisory’s strategy to create a national corporate finance offering to complement the other advisory activities of the firm. FRP Advisory now has dedicated, specialist corporate finance advisors across five of the firm’s 18 locations: Brighton, Bristol, London, Birmingham and Manchester. Adrian will handle corporate finance advice and transactions across the south-east of England.
Adrian’s arrival is a response to client demand for corporate finance advice from companies and private equity
Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management have completed the placement of EUR135 million of debt secured against a majority stake in Eolia Renovables de Inversiones SCR (Eolia) with Brookfield’s infrastructure debt business.
The transaction was used to finance a dividend recapitalisation to Oaktree and cover transaction costs. The debt raised represents the largest transaction of its kind performed on a pure-play Spanish dedicated Renewables IPP, highlighting the attractive credit characteristics Eolia offers the broad International investor community. The debt would be transferrable to prospective investors in Eolia in the event of a future exit of Oaktree.
Ian Simes, Senior
Voting for the Private Equity Wire Awards 2018, which recognise the best private equity managers, investors, consultants, advisers and service providers during 2017 in a range of categories covering the entire private equity space, closes on Friday, 15 December.
Uniquely, our awards are based on a ‘peer review system’ whereby our readers are invited to elect a ‘best in class’ in a series of categories via an online survey.
Please make your nominations by completing the survey.
Managers and service providers are welcome to nominate their own funds/firms – with relevant justification – and can participate in more than one
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has appointed private equity expert, Gavin Hayman, as a Director in their Guernsey office.
Hayman will form part of the team responsible for developing and leading the delivery of the Aztec Group’s private equity fund services’ client proposition in Guernsey. Day-to-day he will ensure the effective management of client relationships for both the Guernsey office and across the firm’s other jurisdictions. As a new member of the local executive team, Hayman will support the leadership team in shaping the Group’s strategic direction.
Hayman joined the Aztec Group from Ipes, where
GSV Asset Management has secured a strategic investment from a group led by HMC Capital (HMC), a Latin American advisory and investment firm.
While terms of the deal have not been disclosed, the investment will result in a minority ownership interest for the HMC-led group in GSV Asset Management. Proceeds will be used to enhance GSV’s ongoing investment activities, as well as to accelerate its strategic expansion into new business areas and geographies.
“We are very excited to partner with HMC Capital, a multi-billion dollar asset manager that brings a range of complimentary capabilities to GSV Asset Management,” says Michael
Maven Capital Partners has appointed Steve Lewis and Jonathan Lowe as Investment Directors leading the Maven – MEIF Debt Fund team in the West Midlands and East and South-East Midlands respectively.
Based in Birmingham, Lewis has responsibility for new MEIF investments across the Midlands, as well as managing portfolio investments. Steve joins Maven following a 30 year career in SME investment and banking, most recently with Handelsbanken in Wolverhampton. Steve has spent most of his career supporting business customers, large and small, whilst working for a number of UK-based banks. He has extensive experience of commercial banking having worked at
Private equity firm Silverfleet Capital is to acquire a majority stake in the 7days group (7days), a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of medical workwear. Terms of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, have not been disclosed.
The founders will reinvest alongside Silverfleet Capital and remain with the Company.
Founded in 1999 by Marc Staperfeld and Ulrich Doelken and based in Lotte, Germany, 7days is a vertically integrated online and mail order business, which supplies clothing and accessories to the healthcare industry, specifically medical practices and dentists.
The Company offers a comprehensive product portfolio designed exclusively
iCapital Network has closed its acquisition of the US Private Equity Access Fund Platform from the Asset Management division of Deutsche Bank. iCapital now services more than USD5 billion in investor capital and nearly 10,000 investor accounts.
The US Private Equity Access Fund Platform is comprised of 33 fund families representing 53 onshore and offshore vehicles and USD2.8 billion in capital across more than 7,200 domestic and international investor accounts. iCapital has assumed management of the fund portfolio and iCapital’s end-to-end technology solution will be leveraged to streamline and automate the ongoing administration of the funds and provide operational support
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