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Kirkland & Ellis is advising an investment company managed by Vestigo Capital Advisors on the acquisition of Accentro Real Estate AG from ADLER Real Estate AG. The purchase price is approximately EUR180 million.
The investment company advised by Vestigo Capital will acquire approx. 80 per cent of stakes in Accentro and 92 per cent of the convertibles 2014/2019 issued by Accentro. This represents a total of 82 per cent shares on a fully diluted basis.
The takeover agreement between Vestigo Capital and ADLER provides for a first payment by the buyer at closing, and successive tranches over the next 12
A new study by Intertrust, a leading global provider of high-value fund, trust and corporate services, has revealed that demand for greater transparency and increasingly complex reporting requirements has prompted General Partners (GPs) to adopt data management technology and digital reporting services.
The study, based on 142 private equity investors, has identified that almost three-quarters of investors (72 per cent) require GPs to provide enhanced levels of transparency around fee structures while over half (54 per cent) are seeking greater clarity on the performance of the underlying assets in individual portfolio companies.
The research highlights an increasing investor demand
Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, has expanded its senior investment team with the addition of Eric A Shuey as Managing Director. Shuey will be responsible for new investment sourcing, transaction execution and post-investment monitoring and oversight.
“We are very excited to have Eric join Revelstoke as a Managing Director. He has the rare blend of a strong track record in both direct investing and successfully managing and operating businesses. We look forward to him delivering that expertise and judgement to our existing and future portfolio of companies,” says Simon Bachleda, Managing Partner at Revelstoke.
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Quad-C Management (Quad-C), a middle market private equity firm has formed a financial partnership with AIT Worldwide Logistics (AIT Worldwide), a specialist in air and sea freight, ground distribution, warehouse management and custom supply chain solutions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1979, Chicago, Illinois-based AIT Worldwide employs nearly 1,000 dedicated logistics professionals. With global headquarters in Amsterdam and Hong Kong, AIT has more than 50 offices worldwide.
Quad-C is partnering with AIT’s executive management team, who are maintaining significant ownership in the Company. The partnership allows for AIT to reinvest capital to grow the
Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm targeting high-growth European SMEs in the circular economy, has made its maiden investment in Winnow Solutions (Winnow).
Headquartered in London, with offices in Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore, Winnow has developed a solution for designing out food waste in commercial catering facilities. The business has operations in 29 countries working with thousands of chefs and cooks to reduce food waste. Sites using the solution typically see food waste cut in half within 12 months from point of installation, resulting in an increase in gross margin of 2 - 6%.
The technology is being
As part of a dedicated build-and-build strategy, funds managed by Alpina Partners (Alpina) have invested in Syncos.
Founded in 2014 as a spin-off from innotec Systemtechnik, Syncos offers its “Mittelstand” customers in the manufacturing sector holistic MES solutions (Manufacturing Execution Systems). The software covers production and machine data acquisition (“PDA” / ”MDA”), advanced planning and scheduling (”APS”), track-and-trace as well as computer-aided quality assurance (”CAQ”). The current version of the software combines production and quality management in a highly integrated, modular system.
Alpina invested in Syncos via a holding company, which already holds shares in ERP companies oxaion and
KKR has appointed David Lang as a Member in the Sydney office, effective early 2018.
Lang joins KKR from Pamplona Capital Management, a USD10 billion global private equity fund where he was a partner and founding member. With 20 years of industry experience, he has successfully invested across a diverse range of sectors – from consumer staples and retail, to industrials and infrastructure.
“We are thrilled to have an Australian of David’s impressive calibre and experience join our team in Sydney,” says Scott Bookmyer, Member & Head of KKR Australia. “After spending the past 15 years in Europe and
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) is making a GBP3million investment in Altra Consultants Limited (Altra) to fund the growth of its Lloyds of London registered insurance brokering subsidiary, Parker Norfolk & Partners Ltd (PNP).
Following its acquisition of PNP, Altra obtained all requisite FCA approvals to enable it to use PNP’s Lloyds brass plate thereby delivering significant advantage to Altra’s service offering, enabling the firm to generate revenues via a mixture of direct sales to corporate entities and wholesale insurance from other insurance brokers.
Altra will initially offer Structured Trade Credit insurance broking services, which is the shareholders’ main area
Scalable Capital is offering BlackRock employees in the UK streamlined access to its technology-driven investment management service.
This agreement follows BlackRock’s strategic investment in Scalable Capital earlier this year, which brought the company’s total funding to EUR41 million.
This is one of many recent agreements that Scalable Capital has entered into as it continues to roll out further partners across Europe.
Adam French, Co-Founder and CEO of Scalable Capital, says: “When it comes to digital innovations, BlackRock acts exceptionally quickly and decisively. We are very pleased that BlackRock embraces the benefits of digital investment management and that we
Private Equity for Puerto Rico, formed by a group of leading private equity firms, including Clearlake Capital Group, Valor Equity Partners, StepStone Group, Palladium Equity Partners, and MoonSail Capital; along with the Kwanza Jones and José E.Feliciano Supercharged Initiative, has reached its first major milestone of USD1 million in donations since its launch on 11 October.
All donated funds are immediately provided to the Foundation for Puerto Rico, a vetted non-profit organisation on the ground in Puerto Rico that is focusing all of its efforts and resources on relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts on the island.
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