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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
VITL, the personalised nutrition platform, has finalised a GBP550,000 round of follow on funding, led by the Angel CoFund and backed by Zoopla founder and CEO Alex Chesterman, and Bulldog founder and CEO Simon Duffy.
The company will use the investment to expand its features and products, as it aims to become the most advanced health and wellbeing platform in the world.
VITL uses advanced diagnostic technology to create tailor-made nutritional solutions based on a user’s unique profile. Users complete a short consultation in the app or on the web, which has been developed in partnership with a panel
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) is to acquire a portfolio of interests in ten UK public-private partnership projects for just over GBP400 million from Aberdeen UK Infrastructure Partners (Aberdeen). PiP will manage the interests directly.
The acquisition, by the PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF), includes hospitals, highways operations and maintenance contracts, energy from waste projects and social housing.
Over the last 18 months PiP has acquired 2 infrastructure debt portfolios, a portfolio of 31 onshore wind turbines, a portfolio of six solar energy parks, a stake in a ferry company and now 10 social infrastructure assets, bringing all of
Investec Specialist Bank (Investec) has appointed Megan Chavkin to its Corporate & Acquisition Finance team, led by Callum Bell, Head of Corporate & Acquisition Finance at Investec.
Based in the team’s London office, Chavkin will be responsible for the origination and execution of leveraged finance and private debt solutions for clients across Europe.
Chavkin had three years’ experience within the Corporate Investment Bank at Nedbank. There she was a member of the Leveraged Finance team, which focuses on leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, share-backed and sponsor-backed funding in the large-cap corporate space.
Since it was established in 2012, Investec
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, is to administer Headway Capital Partners’ fourth secondary private equity fund.
Founded in 2004, Headway is an independent investment firm providing a full range of liquidity solutions to investors seeking exits or alternatives for their private equity assets.
Investing globally with a focus on Western Europe and North America, Headway purchases limited partnership positions in private equity funds, portfolios of direct private equity investments, and minority stakes in single companies. Headway also leads and participates in tail end transactions, provision of liquidity facilities for private equity portfolios, fund restructurings and
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