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Bowmark Capital has sold Law Business Research (LBR), a provider of research, news, data and insight on international business law and legal markets, to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP).
Established in 1996, LBR creates essential and unique content spanning 120 jurisdictions across its brands, serving a client base that comprises major corporations, government agencies and the global legal industry. It is a leading information provider in fields such as competition law, arbitration law, cross-border investigations and Latin American corporate law.
Since Bowmark acquired the company in 2013, LBR has more than doubled its sales and profits. It has added
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index decreased to 94.8 in December, down 1.5 points from November’s revised reading of 96.3.
The fall in sentiment was driven by a 6.2 point drop in the North American ICI to 94.9 and a 2.8 point fall in the Asian ICI to 94.8. However, the European ICI rose 16 points to 96.9.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot (pictured) and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and selling
Crédit Agricole has finalised its acquisition of Natixis’ 15 per cent stake in CACEIS. As a result, it now controls 100 per cent of the share capital of the business.
With approximately EUR2.6 trillion in assets under custody, EUR1.7 trillion euros in assets under administration and a presence in nine European countries, CACEIS is one of the industry’s leading players in Europe.
Crédit Agricole believes CACEIS will benefit from integration with its Large Customers business line and that the anticipated gradual normalisation of the interest rate environment should support the subsidiary’s activity in the coming years.
In parallel with this
Activist hedge fund Cevian Capital has agreed to sell its entire shareholding in AB Volvo (Volvo) to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding), subject to regulatory approval.
The acquisition comprises 88.47 million A-shares and 78.77 million B-shares, corresponding to 8.2 per cent of the capital and 15.6 per cent of the votes, which represents the largest ownership in AB Volvo by capital and the second largest by votes.
Nomura International Plc and Barclays Capital Securities Limited will acquire Cevian Capital’s shares in AB Volvo and then ell the shares to Geely Holding/
Cevian Capital’s co-founder, Christer Gardell (pictured), says: “Today’s announcement
ENGIE, France’s market leader in on-shore wind and solar power plants with 2.6 GW installed at the end of 2017, and Crédit Agricole Assurances, France’s leading insurance company, have just signed a new agreement allowing their joint venture, FEIH (Futures Energies Investissements Holding), to acquire nearly 500 MW of on-shore wind and solar power plants by the end of 2018. These renewable power plants have been developed and built by ENGIE.
Created in 2013 with a first acquisition of 440 MW on-shore wind farms, the joint venture FEIH held by ENGIE and Crédit Agricole Assurances will now operate more than
Drake Star Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Gambit Financial Solutions in its sale of a majority stake in the business to BNP Paribas Asset Management.
Gambit’s solutions work with a scientific approach to bring intuitive and user-friendly tools to investment advisory, delivered either through an advisory-guided or a fully autonomous customer journey. Gambit is driven by a simple but innovative ambition: placing the client at the centre of financial investment advisory with a fully digitalised experience.
In a context of tightened regulatory oversight, Gambit tools help financial institutions to better fulfil their legal obligations, while providing
Perusa Partners Fund 2, a private equity fund advised by Perusa, is backing a management buyout (MBO) at Schroth Safety Products as majority shareholder, alongside members of the existing management team in both Germany and the US.
Schroth Safety Products, a specialist in the development and manufacturing of occupant protection systems for specialised applications in aerospace, motorsports, defence, and medical transport, is made up of two businesses – Schroth Safety Products GmbH, based in Arnsberg, Germany, and Schroth Safety Products LLC, based in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Schroth specialises in technical restraint systems, passenger lap belts for all major commercial
Legal & General Capital, the principal investment arm of Legal & General Group, and SystemIQ, a purpose driven investment and advisory firm established in 2016 to tackle system failures, have co-led a Series A investment in Upside Energy (Upside).
Upside is a Manchester-based company that has developed a cloud platform that uses advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to coordinate connected devices to deliver valuable flexibility services to the energy system.
Upside has developed a powerful software platform that connects suppliers and users of energy by harnessing latent capabilities of connected devices. Capable of providing core services to transmission and
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions for alternative asset managers, has enhanced its Cash Master, Price Master, EDM, regulatory, cloud and managed services offerings.
With over USD1.5 trillion of global hedge fund AUM managed using its technology, IVP has also extended its footprint in Direct Lending, CLO, BDC, Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure and traditional asset management segments. Bringing the flexibility of the IVP solution suite to new market segments will allow traditional asset managers the ability to create operational efficiencies that traditional hedge funds have enjoyed and harnessed for years.
IVP Cash Master now features
WillScot Corporation (Williams Scotsman) has completed its previously announced acquisition of Acton Mobile (ActonMobile.com) for a cash purchase price of approximately USD235 million.
Williams Scotsman will have nearly 100,000 modular space and portable storage units serving approximately 35,000 customers from over 100 locations across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Williams Scotsman will expand the breadth and depth of its Ready to Work services to existing and incremental customers and markets.
Brad Soultz, president and chief executive officer of Williams Scotsman, says: “We are excited to complete our acquisition of Acton, and believe that it presents a compelling opportunity
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