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Intertrust has been appointed as fund administrator to the UK’s first female founded, specialist private equity firm, Vaultier7 (V7).
Intertrust will provide V7 with a full suite of fund administration, reporting and regulatory services. V7 focusses on the beauty, wellness and lifestyle sectors and will invest in companies with revenues between GBP3 million and GBP15 million, providing a growth capital investment of between GBP2 million and GBP10 million.
V7 will benefit from Intertrust’s proven track record in guiding emerging fund managers. Intertrust has been appointed by the firm for the depth of its asset class expertise and ability to
Maples and Calder has appointed Adrian Francis, formerly a barrister at Three Stone in London, as a partner in the firm’s BVI Litigation and Insolvency practice.
Francis has extensive experience working in large cross border teams on high value, complex international disputes. He was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1988 and has also been called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI).
Following the passage of Hurricane Irma in early September, a number of Maples and Calder’s BVI team members have temporarily relocated to the firm’s Cayman Islands office. Francis will also
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has appointed Steve Harrison as Portfolio Director. Based in the Leeds office, Harrison will be focussed on actively managing YFM’s growth and buy-out investments as part of the portfolio team led by David Bell.
With over 19 years’ industry experience, Harrison joins from Santander Corporate Bank, where he was a Director in Santander’s Growth Capital team for five years. There, he launched the bank’s GBP200 million Growth Capital Fund across the North of England, was responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities, structuring bespoke funding packages and leading all aspects of the investment process. He also provided
Research has been conducted into middle market companies across a wide range of industries about near-term plans for M&A, and perceptions of the prospects for their businesses under the Trump administration.
Results show that ninety five per cent of CEOs and senior business leaders of privately held, high growth companies are interested in M&A over the next three years, according to a new survey conducted by Harris & Co and Inc.
This compares with 81 per cent who were considering M&A when the survey was last undertaken back in 2015.
A 65 per cent majority also said they
Avignon Capital, a European property investment firm and asset manager, has launched Platinum Property Management in a joint venture with McCafferty Asset Management.
Avignon Capital has formed a strategic partnership with McCafferty Asset Management, a European asset and property manager, after identifying a gap in the market for a high-quality Pan-European property management service.
Platinum Property Management will offer a flexible and tailored approach and will act as the link between landlord and tenant to improve services by building stronger relationships and providing an all-encompassing real estate solution. Platinum’s services will build on McCafferty’s strong accountancy knowledge and will
Red Deer, a next-generation financial technology company dedicated to enhancing the performance of active investment managers, has announced that alternative investment fund manager Cheyne Capital Management has selected Red Deer’s MiFID II solution to manage its research consumption, valuation and inducement requirements across its investment business, in advance of the 3 January 2018 MiFID II deadline.
“Red Deer demonstrated a fully flexible solution for MiFID II research unbundling that should allow us to manage all our inducement, research consumption and valuation requirements with minimum disruption to the front office. It should also allow us to attribute, forecast and manage budgets
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) is to appoint former Allergan executive Anish Mehta as CEO of the international women’s health assets portfolio which CVC Fund VI agreed to acquire from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Teva) on 17 September 2017.
The appointment is subject to regulatory approval.
Mehta will join from Allergan Plc, where he was Head of International Business Development, leading a team responsible for corporate development and licensing activity in support of the international business. While there, he led the USD40.5 billion divestment of the Actavis Global Generics business to Teva. Prior to this, Anish had responsibility for the European
Bain Capital Private Equity has, through its investment in Diversey, reached agreement on the terms of a recommended final cash offer for Zenith Hygiene Group, a UK manufacturer of cleaning and hygiene chemicals and related products.
Based in Hertfordshire, Zenith Hygiene offers a wide, high quality range of products serving customers in the healthcare, food service, hospitality, leisure and facilities management, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage processing industries. The company employs more than 500 people and generated net sales of £67M in the fiscal year ending February 2017.
Bain Capital completed the acquisition of Diversey from Sealed Air in
Growth capital investor Avedon Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Altendorf GmbH, manufacturer of saws for craft processing of wood, metal and plastics, located in Minden, Germany.
The ambition is to extend Altendorf Group´s premium position for machines and services in wood, metal and plastics processing with innovative products and technologies to sustainably capture new customer segments and markets through accelerated organic growth and by realising external growth potential.
In the course of this succession solution with Avedon entering as new majority shareholder, the existing managing directors Jörg F Mayer (43) and Wolfgang Ruhnau (48), both active
New Mountain Capital has completed its acquisition of DRB from Prairie Capital (Prairie Capital), a Chicago, Illinois-based private investment firm. Financial details have not been disclosed.
DRB’s technology-enabled devices and software unlock significant value for car wash operators, creating opportunities for substantial outperformance in both top line and bottom line results and delivering a high return on investment. Configurable and scalable, DRB’s offerings are a critical enabler of connectivity across multi-site operations. The company also offers its customers unparalleled customer service and ongoing support.
New Mountain, which manages more than USD20 billion in assets, seeks to acquire the highest
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