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Carey Olsen’s Jersey team has acted as lead counsel on the successful launch of first time fund AVI Frontier Fund I. The Fund will invest into a series of South-East Asian companies listing on the Vietnamese Stock Exchange and allows investors to handpick the companies in which they want to invest.
The Fund is structured as a Jersey limited partnership under Jersey’s popular Jersey Private Fund (JPF) regime which launched in March 2017 and offers significant streamlining advantages for the establishment of private investment funds. The Fund has appointed Viet Capital Securities as its local Vietnamese investment advisor.
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Gowling WLG has launched Smart Raise, a software platform designed to quickly, cost-effectively and automatically generate all the legal documents associated with private placements, while meeting compliance requirements across Canada.
Built on Gowling WLG’s extensive precedents database and overseen by an experienced team of legal professionals, Smart Raise enables issuers, agents and other market participants to raise capital on a greatly reduced timeline. By automating the repetitive tasks associated with document generation, Smart Raise ensures that our client’s legal spend is focused on substantive matters.
“As business practices become increasingly automated, our clients expect more efficiency and cost-certainty from
GPB Capital has acquired stakes in Joe Morea & Sons Private Sanitation, Inc and Staten Island Carting, Inc, two waste management companies serving New York City communities.
The firms will be merged into Five Star Carting, Inc, a GPB Capital portfolio company, in a move which is likely to facilitate significant synergies for GPB Capital’s waste management portfolio.
“The acquisitions of these established, income-producing companies serve as a vital next step toward our goal to strengthen our presence in the New York City waste management sector and become a larger acquirer in this space,” says David Gentile, Founder and
Private equity backed Help-Link has entered into an agreement to be acquired by international home repairs and improvements group HomeServe plc, in a move that allows HomeServe to create a new UK-wide home heating business, bringing together installations, servicing and repairs.
The deal values the Help-Link business at up to GBP22.7m.
The Leeds-based business, which is the UK’s largest independent boiler installer, has been through a period of transformation over the last two years. The collapse of the ‘ECO’ market for subsidised boiler installations, impacted immediately on the company and resulted in its reporting a loss before tax of
Investcorp Technology Partners has completed the acquisition of Impero Holdings Limited (Impero) for an enterprise value of GBP27.5 million for its fourth Technology Fund.
Impero is the UK’s No1 provider of online student safety, classroom and school network management software. The transaction marks Investcorp’s third technology deal in the lower middle market in the past nine months.
Founded in 2002, Impero has become the UK market leader in integrated safeguarding software with its comprehensive education solution that enables schools to keep students safe, improves the teaching environment and maximises efficiency for school network managers. Headquartered in Nottingham, UK, the
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD65 million senior credit facility to support the acquisition of an enterprise management vertical software company by a technology private equity sponsor.
The company develops and markets project management software designed specifically for firms in various markets worldwide.
The software enables firms to better manage project communications and documents, improve collaboration between all stakeholders, and archive information for compliance, legal and regulatory purposes.
Mourant Ozannes has advised long-standing LSE listed client, The Prospect Japan Fund Limited (TPJF), on its recommended takeover by Japanese-based Prospect Co, Ltd (Prospect).
The offer was an all-share offer of Japanese listed shares – believed to be the first of its kind in the UK – and it was completed via a Guernsey scheme of arrangement.
The transaction included various unique elements including devising bespoke settlement mechanics to comply both with the requirements of the Takeover Code and Japanese requirements and a combination of legal undertakings and post-offer intention statements (under the Takeover Code) for the benefit of
Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP) has appointed Richard “Rick” Sherlund as a Partner in the firm’s Advisory business.
Based in San Francisco, Sherlund will focus on driving the Firm’s coverage of software clients, as well as developing a broader technology franchise and working with our Advisory Partners to assist clients across all industries as digital transformation redefines their businesses.
Sherlund is a leading authority in the software industry. His background includes 25 years at Goldman Sachs where he was a Partner, Head of the Technology Research Group and a leading software industry analyst – ranked as the No1 software industry
US private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners’ UK print specialist DG3 Group (Holdings) Limited is merging its offset print operations with London-based Leycol Printers Limited.
As part of the transaction, Leycol Printers is merging into DG3 (Diversified Global Graphics Group), a Resilience Capital Partners portfolio company and global provider of digital and print marketing document management services and compliance solutions.
Founded in 1978, Leycol Printers is an independent provider of high-end offset and lithographic printing services to numerous clients in the financial and commercial print market. Gary Wilson, who privately owns Leycol Printers, will serve as Director in a
Kevin Davis has joined Gardner Capital as Manager of Asset Management. He will administer the firm’s portfolio of existing housing and solar projects and ensure compliance with regulatory programs.
“Kevin will be an extraordinarily valuable addition to Gardner Capital. As we continue to increase our capacity to build more quality, affordable housing and clean energy projects for more families nationwide, it becomes increasingly important that we have highly capable people managing our existing assets. Kevin is well-equipped to meet the challenge, and we are delighted to have him,” says Michael Gardner, President of Gardner Capital.
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