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Seabury Capital is to sell a controlling interest (51 per cent voting and 44.1 per cent economic) to FinTech Global.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year. FGI and the group it leads contributes to the growth and development of companies in all sectors of industry through investment banking and principal investment activities.
“We are delighted to see FGI’s strategic investment in SGI Aviation, and together with FGI, we are committed to supporting further expansion of its worldwide operations,” says Seabury Capital Chairman, President & CEO John E Luth. “Our global alliance with FGI
Following its recent acquisition of Bento Sushi (Bento), YO! Sushi (YO!) has appointed Richard Hodgson as Chief Executive Officer, commencing in December.
Hodgson was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Pizza Express, where he was instrumental in driving the internationalisation of the business.
As agreed with the Board when Mayfair Equity Partners invested in YO! in November 2015, and with the business delivering strong results and underlying like-for-like growth, Robin Rowland will step down as Chief Executive Officer but remain on the board as a Non-Executive Director. Rowland has led YO! for 18 years, taking it from three London restaurants,
Christopher J Flynn has been named CEO of both TCRD and THL Credit effective 30 November, 2017. Sam W Tillinghast, co-CEO of THL Credit alongside Flynn, will resign his position on the same date.
The current management team of THL Credit, which has deep credit, origination, and operational experience across the platform, will continue to manage the businesses under Flynn’s leadership.
“It is an honour to continue to lead our organisation alongside our executive team,” says Flynn.
The experienced THL Credit leadership team includes James Fellows, Chief Investment Officer, who manages credit in concert with Senior Managing Director
Libra, a specialist in financial software for the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, has closed a USD7.8 million Series A round led by a prominent, multi-billion dollar European family office.
Participating investors include Liberty City Ventures, leading trader and liquidity provider XBTO, Boost VC, and Lee Linden.
The funding will be used to continue building the Libra Enterprise Platform, as well as releasing new applications and data services. Libra’s platform provides institutional-grade blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem connectivity, standardisation, and delivery of data in a scalable, secure, and fully auditable solution. While the new applications and data services will provide real-time,
Stuart Gardner (pictured), a Director at EY in Transaction Advisory Services, and David Jones, Counsel at Carey Olsen, writing on behalf of the Guernsey Investment Fund Association, look at Guernsey’s role as a centre for restructuring and insolvency1…
Importance of a robust insolvency regime
The World Bank’s Ease of doing Business Index2 quite simply measures the ease of doing business in 190 jurisdictions. It takes the mean of 10 subindices to benchmark those jurisdictions. Three of those indices measure the quality of the insolvency regime including protecting investors, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Given that 30 per cent of the
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK VII Fund is to sell the Ramudden Group, a Nordic provider of work zone safety solutions, to funds managed by Triton.
Founded in 2005, Ramudden is a specialist provider of work zone safety solutions for the road, construction and industrial sectors. The service offering includes rental of road barriers, signage, traffic and road signs, concrete systems, industrial heating solutions, traffic arrangement plans, surveillance and maintenance service as well as safety education programmes.
With a presence in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Estonia through their own depots, the Company has an unrivalled ability to quickly adapt to
Kirkland & Ellis is advising a consortium comprised of funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia and CITIC Capital Holdings on its USD300 million proposed acquisition of Wall Street English (WSE), a global private English language school business, from Pearson, a leading global learning company.
In 2016, WSE served 180,000 learners and operated 70 corporate owned centres in China, 9 corporate owned centres in Italy and 321 franchised centres across 27 territories.
The Kirkland team is led by Hong Kong corporate partners Daniel Dusek and Xiaoxi Lin.
RSM’s capital markets team has advised Keystone Law Group, a UK Top 100 law firm, on its GBP50 million initial public offering (IPO).
The AIM listing will help the ambitious law firm, which was founded in 2002, to increase brand recognition and redeem outstanding shareholder loans to leave the Group debt free.
Keystone is a full service networked law firm which utilises technology to drive efficiencies and has the capacity through over 200 consultants to deliver all types of legal work to rival mid-market law firms.
The RSM capital markets team, led by partner Diane Craig with support
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has launched its second UK Infrastructure Debt Fund, which is aimed at institutional investors and will invest in core UK infrastructure assets, including primary brownfield and greenfield transactions within the transport, energy and social infrastructure sectors.
Like AllianzGI’s pioneering, first UK Infrastructure Debt Fund, this new vehicle allows a broad range of investors, including small and medium sized pension funds and institutions, the opportunity to access the long-term, high quality, stable cash flows that investments in infrastructure provide.
Adrian Jones, UK Infrastructure Debt, Director, says: “Following the success of our first UK infrastructure debt
Tikehau Capital has successfully completed the placement of a EUR300 million bond issue maturing in November 2023.
This inaugural senior unsecured bond issue has a fixed annual coupon of 3 per cent. The settlement-delivery is scheduled for 27 November 2017.
The proceeds of this issue will be used for the general corporate purposes of the Company. In addition to the firm commitments in relation to a credit facility for an amount of EUR1 billion obtained by Tikehau Capital at the end of October, this bond issue diversifies and substantially strengthens the group’s financial resources.
The bond placement was
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