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Knight Corporate Finance, a boutique advisor based in Warrington and London, has strengthened its team with three key appointments, following a sustained period of growth which has seen the firm’s deal count approach 90 transactions.
Neeraj Dhuna and David Middleton, both ICAEW chartered accountants, join as Corporate Finance Manager and Corporate Finance Executive respectively. Together they bring a wealth of experience to help support deals and increase Knight’s operational output.
Dhuna joins from Wilson Partners Corporate Finance where he worked on a number of deals including company acquisitions and disposals, MBOs, fund raisings, financial due diligence and strategic reviews.
LBO France has acquired Bexley, a French specialty retailer of men’s high quality footwear. The founding manager, Eric Botton, will keep a minority interest in the Company.
Founded in 1985, Bexley rapidly established itself as one of the most successful French retailers of men’s footwear positioned in the affordable luxury segment and offering excellent quality-price ratio. Since then, the Company gradually diversified its product offering with men’s clothing (shirts, polos, pullovers, pants and suits) and accessories (belts, socks and small leather goods).
In addition to its own store network, Bexley, which was a precursor in developing an omni-channel strategy,
Blick Rothenberg, part of CogitalGroup, has expanded the acquisition of audit, accountancy, outsourcing and business advisory firm Shelley Stock Hutter.
This acquisition is part of Blick Rothenberg’s growth and acquisition strategy and is another step forward for CogitalGroup and its plans to build a technology driven, international business services group. It further strengthens the group’s presence in the Owner Managed Business (OMB) sector.
Nilesh Shah, CEO at Blick Rothenberg, says: “We are delighted to have acquired Shelley Stock Hutter. They have a very good reputation in the market place and in terms of clients and people are a very good
Anchorage Capital Partners (Anchorage) has held the closing of its third institutional fund, Anchorage Capital Partners Fund III (ACP III) at AUD350 million, approximately three months after initial launch.
ACP III was considerably oversubscribed, with demand exceeding the fundraising target, attributable to continued strong support from existing investors combined with significant interest of new investors.
Anchorage maintained the strong local market support evidenced in prior fundraising, with over 40 per cent of Fund commitments sourced from Australian institutions. Offshore Limited Partners, comprising a select group of institutional investors from Asia, Europe, Middle East and the US, provided the balance
Churchill Asset Management (Churchill), a provider of senior and unitranche debt financing to private equity-owned middle market companies, has completed fundraising for Churchill Middle Market Senior Loan Fund, its inaugural fund as part of Nuveen, with over USD1.1 billion in committed capital.
“We are delighted with the strong response we received from investors across the globe to our inaugural fund offering as part of Nuveen. Our investors include over 30 leading institutions and family offices globally, and we are grateful for their confidence in us and support for our investment approach,” says Ken Kencel, President and CEO of Churchill. “As investors increasingly look
The UK continues to be one of the world’s most attractive destinations for infrastructure investment, according to the CMS Infrastructure Index: ‘A new direction’, which this year ranks 40 jurisdictions in order of infrastructure investment attractiveness according to six key criteria.
CMS commissioned the Index, in conjunction with Inspiratia, to evaluate past trends and to serve as an indicator as to which jurisdictions would be most attractive for future investment and activity.
The UK remains among the most favourable jurisdictions for sustainability and innovation, although its political stability received a low score compared to the top 10 countries, given
Fortino Capital Partners has created a second fund, Fortino Capital II Growth, with EUR200 million dedicated for investments in scale-ups and growth companies in the Benelux. Commitments worth EUR125 million have already been secured with the first closing having taken place.
The new growth fund accompanies the original EUR80 million fund, Fortino Capital I, which currently holds 13 companies in its portfolio. With the first fund, Fortino invested mainly in successful young companies active in the software and E-commerce sectors. The second fund allows Fortino the chance to expand its investments into larger and more traditional companies who commit to
European Buy & Build activity in the first half of 2017 reached its highest level on record, up 20 per cent on H2 2016, according to Silverfleet Capital’s latest semi-annual European Buy & Build Monitor.
The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European- headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified a provisional total of 320 add-ons in H1 2017 compared to 302 and 266 add-ons recorded in the first and second halves of 2016 respectively.
The average disclosed value of add-ons in H1 2017 was GBP92 million, down from the 2016 average of GBP109.5
ICG, the specialist asset manager with EUR27.2 billion of assets under management, announced earlier this month that it had raised EUR5.2 billion of dry powder to deploy in the third vintage of its Senior Debt Partners strategy.
The capital raised for Senior Debt Partners III (SDP3) makes it the largest commingled direct lending fund to date, in Europe. Such was the level of interest in the wider marketplace that USD4.2 billion was new commitments, with investors coming from a large number of jurisdictions such as Israel, Korea, Australia, the US and Europe.
One of those leading on the complex deal
KKR has held the final closing of KKR Health Care Strategic Growth Fund (HCSG), a USD1.45 billion fund dedicated to health care growth equity investment opportunities in the Americas.
KKR will be investing more than USD265 million of capital in the Fund alongside external investors through KKR’s balance sheet and employee commitments.
“The health care sector has demonstrated strong fundamentals throughout multiple cycles,” says Ali Satvat, KKR Member and Head of KKR’s Health Care Strategic Growth investing efforts. “Significant advances in medical innovation have yielded new products and services for patients, while consolidation and novel approaches to care delivery
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