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Recovery in southern Europe’s markets and stronger performance by manufacturing exporters have delivered for Quaero Capital’s value-driven European Smaller Companies strategy in recent months.
Corporate confidence indicators have continued to improve across Europe as the fears of political risk have given way to the resurgence of the political mainstream, supporting manufacturing exporters which are more sensitive to the economic environment.
With family ownership being particularly prevalent in the ‘Mittelstand’ exporters of Europe, the strategy’s sectoral exposure is well suited to this ‘Goldilocks’ scenario of firmer growth without inflation, according to the managers.
Quaero’s European Smaller Companies Team, writes:
HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with approximately USD22 billion of equity capital under management, has sold its portfolio company Albertville Quality Foods (Albertville) to OK Foods, a subsidiary of Industrias Bachoco.
Albertville is among the largest independent further processors of protein based products. The Company focuses on the development and production of customized center of the plate products that meet the demanding specifications of national and regional restaurant chains and other foodservice channels. The Company operates two facilities in Albertville, AL.
HIG acquired Albertville in 2010 and subsequently completed the strategic add-on acquisition of Sunrise
Noerr has accompanied Italian DiaSorin on the German-law aspects of the acquisition of the international micro-titre based ELISA immunodiagnostic business portfolio from Siemens Healthineers and affiliated companies (Siemens Healthineers).
The publicly listed medical diagnostics specialist was advised by a team headed by Hamburg partners Björn Paulsen and Dr Stephan Schulz.
Upon completion of the transaction, DiaSorin and certain of its affiliates will acquire the business portfolio and related tangible and intangible assets. The acquired assets include in particular the customers´ sales and distribution contracts, the installed base of instruments and the relevant intellectual property. In the context of the
Multilateralism has been a key trend in the global mergers and acquisitions space over the last year, borne out of wider changes in the international tax landscape, such as the implementation of the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative.
That’s according to Tax advisor Taxand’s new 2017 Global Guide to M&A Tax, which provides guidance on the M&A tax climate across 37 jurisdictions.
In addition, the guide shows the potential for US tax reform to provide a further shake-up to the global M&A landscape, not least in relation to corporate inversions.
Amongst other trends, the guide
Financial regulators across the globe are cracking down heavily on cases of individual misconduct, according to the 5th annual Global Enforcement Review published by the Compliance and Regulatory Consulting Practice of Duff & Phelps.
Regulators in the UK, USA and Hong Kong brought a total of 1,761 cases against individuals in 2016, equivalent to almost seven cases for every working day of the year, as enforcement actions against individuals outnumbered those against firms four to one.
Of the six global regulators assessed across three continents (the UK’s FCA and PRA, the US’ FINRA, CFTC and SEC and Hong Kong’s
Kynetec, a provider of data analytics and market research for the animal health and agricultural sectors, is investing in product development and expanding its global footprint following a refinancing from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.
Headquartered in Newbury, Kynetec conducts research in over 70 countries and has staff in 21 countries worldwide spanning Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific region. The business is a market leader, with its clients including some of the leading players in the animal health and agricultural market.
Kynetec helps its clients make key business decisions through the annual delivery of over 30 syndicated subscription based
Ardian, the independent private investment company, has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with UniCredit for the acquisition of a EUR300 million portfolio of limited partnership interests in European infrastructure private equity funds.
Closing of the transaction is expected in Q3 2017 subject to the approval and rules of the fund manager. This deal represents one of the largest secondary infrastructure transactions in 2017 and confirms Ardian’s leadership in secondary infrastructure Funds of Funds.
UniCredit is a simple successful Pan European Commercial Bank, with a fully plugged in CIB, delivering a unique Western, Central and Eastern European network to
I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment manager, has signed an agreement, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II, to acquire a 100 per cent interest in Hutchison Global Communications Investment Holding Limited (HGC) from Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (HTHKH) for approximately HKD14.5 billion.
The transaction is expected to close by October 2017.
HGC is a leading fixed-line service provider to fixed and mobile carriers, OTT service providers, corporate and business, residential and data centres in Hong Kong and around the world. Its over 1.4-million-kilometre fibre network connects to over 14,200 buildings and it is also
By George Ralph, RFA – Outsourcing IT is a viable option for many private equity firms who are looking for high quality, enterprise grade technology without the headache of managing it in house.
The last Deloitte global outsourcing survey in 2016 indicated that the market for outsourced services would almost certainly continue, but outsourced service providers would need to change and adapt to meet the needs of customers, who expect innovation, and want to see their businesses enhanced and improved by service providers.
Increased regulations and changes to compliance legislation have not dented the trend for outsourcing, as ISG report in
Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) has acquired MDSL, a specialist in Technology Expense Management (TEM) solutions.
SEP, which also owns TEM provider Telesoft, is planning to combine the two companies. SEP has owned Telesoft for nearly one year and believes the combination of the firms will increase scale and global delivery capability.
The two companies will be coming together under the MDSL brand. MDSL’s management team will be comprised of Chairman Ben Mendoza, CEO Charles Layne, CTO Simon Mendoza, CFO Tamara Saunders, COO Daman Wood and Chief Architect Thierry Zerbib.
“MDSL has been succeeding in winning world-class enterprise customers.
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