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IW Capital has successfully facilitated a GBP626,000 loan to Discovery Yachts to support the company’s acquisition of Southerly Yachts – a manufacturer of cruising yachts based in the UK.
Discovery Yachts was founded in 1998 in a bid to create a superior cruising yacht that boast luxurious high-end furnishings. Nearly 20 years later, Discovery Yachts is a thriving business that has sustained an impressive rate of annual growth – the company currently has over 70 employees ranging from designers to expert craftsmen.
The acquisition of Southerly Yachts is an important milestone for the company, cementing its position as one
Law firm McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Armando X Ramirez as a partner in the Firm’s growing Corporate & Transactional Practice Group in New York.
Ramirez rejoins his long-time colleague Jeffrey W Meyers, who arrived at McDermott in April. Ramirez and Meyers will work together to further expand McDermott’s global corporate and transactional practice in the energy sector, with a focus on the sale and acquisition of interests in energy businesses and facilities and the development and financing of international and domestic energy projects. Together, they bring a wealth of experience advising the owners of and lenders to power
Callcredit Information Group, backed by private equity firm, GTCR, has acquired the Spanish Confirma group of companies, comprising Confirma Sistemas and Soluciones Confirma, which specialise in fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) software solutions.
The strategic acquisition, sees Callcredit take a majority shareholding in the Madrid-headquartered business which is a leader in Spain in what is an increasingly technology-led and rapidly growing market. Callcredit entered the Spanish market in 2015 and has been developing its business and expansion plans following this initial success.
The acquisition, which will form part of the Callcredit Spain operation, establishes a firm market presence
EnteroBiotix, a privately held Scottish biotechnology company focused on using the body’s own microorganisms to prevent and treat disease, has raised GBP500,000 in an oversubscribed seed round of investment.
The financing was led by Equity Gap and supported by the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise.
EnteroBiotix is developing orally-delivered encapsulated microbial therapeutics for use in a medical treatment called Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (also known as FMT or a stool transplant). The investment will be used to further develop the company’s product pipeline and grow its manufacturing and research team. The seed round includes GBP100,000 in
IGF has delivered a GBP650k combined invoice discounting and asset based lending facility to specialist publisher, The History Press.
The Gloucestershire-based firm recently underwent a management buyout from its previous owner, private equity firm Octopus Investments. Following its acquisition by The History Press’ management team – managing director Gareth Swain, publishing director Laura Perehinec and sales director Jamie Kinnear – the business sought a new finance partner to fund the MBO activity and provide the organisation with working capital once the deal was finalised.
IGF’s facility will allow The History Press to focus on business productivity and further improve
Investment manager James Excell, who joined the London team at private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) in April 2016, has been promoted to investment director.
Excell has been working alongside investment partners Mike Fell and Philip Duquenoy at KCP’s London office to source and deliver investment opportunities as part of the deployment of its latest fund.
On 15 May, the team announced that it had made an GBP8.65 million investment to acquire a majority stake in rapidly growing online retailer of building materials, Plymouth-based Construction Materials Online Ltd (CMO), which operates retail websites supplying DIY builders and small
Omnes Capital announces the final closing of its Capenergie 3 fund for a total amount of EUR245 million. The third-generation fund, dedicated to European renewable energy infrastructure investments, has exceeded its target size of EUR200 million.
Omnes Capital received support from its historic investor base as well as new French and foreign institutional investors, such as the European Investment Bank (first EIB equity investment made within the context of the European Juncker plan), La Banque Postale, CRPN, Le Fonds de Réserve des Retraites, Ircantec, PRO BTP, SWEN Capital Partners and several Crédit Agricole Group entities.
Capenergie 3 follows in
Permira Debt Managers’s (PDM) direct lending funds Permira Credit Solutions II (PCS2) and Permira Credit Solutions III (PCS3) are acting as sole senior secured lenders to finance the acquisition of Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, a UK headquartered aircraft tire company, by Liberty Hall Capital Partners.
The acquisition is supported by long term senior debt provided and arranged by PCS2 and PCS3 as well as a revolving credit line provided by Royal Bank of Scotland.
Dunlop is the only pure-play specialist aircraft tyre manufacturer in the world. Headquartered in Birmingham, UK, Dunlop operates three facilities located in Birmingham, Mocksville, NC, and
Private equity investment firm Sverica Capital Management, along with Ross Beattie and Gerry Lawless, has acquired iWave Information Systems (iWave) from Jamie Hill of Charlottetown PEI.
This acquisition marks Sverica’s third investment made from its fourth fund. iWave is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that offers fundraising intelligence to healthcare, education, and non-profit organisations.
Based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, iWave provides access to data and proprietary analytics to help prospect researchers, fundraisers, and other development professionals determine which donor prospects to ask, how much to ask for, and when to ask. For the past five
Luxembourg is one of the world’s leading onshore domiciles where, over the last 30 years, it has become the default option for managers wishing to establish UCITS funds. It is, by size, the world’s second largest fund centre after the US, and, from a funds expertise perspective, offers managers everything they need; not just for UCITS funds but also unregulated or regulated alternative fund structures under AIFMD.
Through February 2017, total Assets under Management (AuM) for Luxembourg funds had risen 13.6 per cent year-on-year to EUR3.86 trillion, according to the latest statistics by the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry.
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