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Palmarium, through its subsidiary VIEO, has acquired Lebara Group and the Lebara Trademark Companies.
Since its inception in 2001, Lebara is recognised as one of the fastest growing pan-European mobile companies and aims to offer inclusive and accessible products and services.
Through its 275 thousand outlets, Lebara has a unique reach to its growing customer base of over 3.5 million. Lebara’s culture is driven by innovation and business successes and has a diverse workforce and best-in-class customer service with numerous industry awards.
Palmarium gives Lebara strong backing and expertise to grow and drive the digitalisation of the business.
After five years at the firm, CVC Credit Partners chairman Stephen Hickey is standing down from his role for personal reasons. He will be succeeded by Hamish Buckland.
Since Hickey joined in CVC in 2012, assets under management have grown from USD8.1 billion to USD17.9 billion.
Buckland (pictured), is joining CVC from Triton, having previously spent 25 years at JPMorgan, where his most recent role was Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking business. Before that he ran JPMorgan’s European Leverage Finance business from 2001 to 2008. In addition, he has acted as Advisor and Board Director at HM Treasury’s
By George Ralph, RFA – Everything is virtual these days. From virtual teams, spread across the globe, which can perform better than traditional on-site teams, to the virtual offices they work in, at home, in the coffee shop, in shared office space. If the right technology is in place, people can work anywhere.
To take advantage of virtual services, the right technology has to be in place. For a virtual team to work effectively, there needs to be a collaboration tool which allows everyone to ask questions, or share ideas and seek approval or input. There also needs to
AMP Capital has appointed Tim Smith to the newly-created role of Head of Distribution, North West Region, based in New York.
Smith joined AMP Capital on 11 September and reports to Boe Pahari, Director of the North West Region and Global Head of Infrastructure Equity. He will be responsible for leading AMP Capital’s distribution team across key markets including North America, the UK, Europe and the Middle East, and his appointment cements AMP Capital’s commitment to further build its international distribution capabilities and deliver greater levels of service to clients globally.
Smith has more than 25 years’ experience and
Costanoa Ventures, a boutique venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise technology startups, has closed its third fund capped at USD175 million to sustain a focus on early stage company formation to Series A.
This brings the total capital under management in excess of USD500 million and comes as the firm celebrates its fifth anniversary.
“We appreciate the support from our community for our strategy to focus on high conviction, early stage investments, and help founding teams build solid foundations for efficient growth. We’re also thrilled to welcome some wonderful new LPs for Fund III,” says Greg Sands, Founder
Alternative credit investment firm Crescent Capital Group’s European Specialty Lending strategy has provided a unitranche financing for the acquisition of Armitage Pet Care by Rutland Partners.
Armitage is the largest independent manufacturer and supplier of premium-branded pet treats and accessories in the UK. The business’s strong brand portfolio includes “GoodBoy”, a leading premium dog treats brand. From its manufacturing and distribution base in Colwick, near Nottingham, Armitage supplies over 2,000 products across the dog, cat, small domestic pet, bird and fish categories to a broad customer base including the major supermarkets and pet specialist retailers.
“Armitage is a leading
TrueCommerce, a global provider of trading partner connectivity and integration solutions, has acquired Datalliance, a provider of technology and services to support collaborative replenishment programs such as vendor managed inventory (VMI) and related business needs.
This addition complements the TrueCommerce portfolio of offerings by providing a strategic technology service that extends its commerce network into the collaborative replenishment, inventory management and demand forecasting markets.
Omni-channel enablement changed the traditional ordering process by requiring more visibility and collaboration. VMI aligns business objectives and streamlines supply chain operations for both suppliers and their supply chain partners. Trading partners focused on collaboration
CIFC, a US private debt investment manager specialising in US corporate and structured credit strategies, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) to form CIFC CLO Strategic Partners II, a new capitalised manager-owned affiliate of CIFC (CMOA II).
CMOA II intends to purchase the majority equity positions of CIFC’s future, new issue Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLOs) to comply with US and EU risk USD75 million. CIFC has issued a total of USD2.9 billion in new CLOs, making the Firm the largest issuer by assets this year. CMOA II is expected to support approximately
Goldman Sachs has joined Sagamore Development Company’s Port Covington redevelopment effort as an equity investor, committing USD233 million to the project, the largest single private equity investment made by the firm’s Urban Investment Group to date.
Port Covington is a 235-acre master-planned, mixed-use redevelopment project, with a prime location on the waterfront in Baltimore, and is expected to create thousands of new jobs, build new residential housing, attract new businesses, and provide new opportunities for Baltimore City residents and its workforce.
“This is tremendous news for Baltimore City and our workforce,” says Baltimore City Mayor Catherine Pugh. “Baltimore is
Monomoy Capital Partners (Monomoy), a New York private equity fund focused on constructive investing and business improvement in the middle market, has successfully completed the acquisition of West Marine, at a price of USD12.97 per share or a total of approximately USD337 million.
The transaction was originally announced on June 29, 2017, and West Marine’s stockholders approved the acquisition on 12 September, 2017.
West Marine is the largest specialty retailer of boating supplies and accessories in the United States, with 249 stores located in 37 states and Puerto Rico. The company carries more than 175,000 aftermarket products, ranging from
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