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With the successful closing of the acquisitions of the global Darex Packaging Technologies business and the Sonderhoff Group, Henkel has strengthened its Adhesive Technologies business and technology portfolio with the successful closing of the acquisitions of Darex Packaging Technologies and the Sonderhoff Group.
Darex is based in Cambridge, MA, USA and supplies high-performance sealants and coatings for the metal packaging industry around the world. It serves various global customers producing beverage, food or aerosol cans. The acquisition was announced at the beginning of March. The purchase price amounted to 1,050 million US dollars (around 919 million euros) on a cash
Leading mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in The Creative Engagement Group (TCEG) in a strategic trade sale to Huntsworth plc, an international healthcare and public relations communications group. The deal is at an enterprise value of GBP25 million.
TCEG is a group of three creative agencies – WRG, The Moment and Just Communicate – that provide experiential marketing, including events, digital marketing, virtual and augmented reality. The group serves an international client base of blue chip companies and has significant expertise in the healthcare sector, along with professional services, banking, leisure and tourism.
LDC originally
Ogier has advised Emperor International Holdings Limited (Emperor) in Luxembourg on the acquisition of Soho’s Ampersand Building.
Emperor, a Hong-Kong based investment holding company, which is principally engaged in property investments, property development and self-run hotel, purchased the building for GBP260 million.
Partners Fabien Debroise and Bertrand Geradin led the Ogier teams in Luxembourg, working alongside Mayer Brown LLP, English and lead counsel to Emperor, on the transaction.
MPC Capital AG, a global investment manager for real assets, has launched MPC Renewables Panama, based in Panama City, Panama.
MPC Renewables Panama will support the development, management and further expansion of the company’s renewable energies projects throughout Central America and the Caribbean.
MPC Capital also announced that Fernando Zúñiga has been appointed as MPC Renewables Panama’s Regional Director for Central America and the Caribbean.
“Central America and the Caribbean is a key region for the growth of our renewable energy business,” says Dr Roman Rocke, Management Board Member, MPC Capital AG. “Having an office in Panama City,
Investment firm Octopus Titan Venture Capital Trust intends to raise GBP200 million when it opens towards the end of the summer, making it the biggest VCT fundraise ever.
Alex Davies (pictured), CEO and founder of Wealth Club, the online investment platform for High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) says: “This is the biggest VCT raise ever and reflects the fact VCTs are becoming an increasingly mainstream investment option. With cuts to the pension allowances, restrictions on buy to let investing and more onerous taxation we expect demand to be greater than ever.”
In the 2016/17 tax year, VCTs saw the
By Gaurav Marwah, Technical Director, and Hugh Stacey, Executive Director, Investor Solutions, Augentius – Sustained top performance means continued evolution and change. Technology became ever more accessible in the 1990s when personal computers began appearing in every home. But if you’re a tech-savvy person today, you’re not using a dial-up connection on a desktop computer. Everyone knows you can’t be successful today using 1990s technology.
Similarly, private equity players can no longer use a 1990s-era rulebook to structure funds. The world is a more complex place than it was two decades ago. There’s a different playbook now, and LPs and
LDC-backed contact centre technology and services group Connect Managed Services (Connect) has today completed the acquisition of PC-1 for an undisclosed sum.
Connect provides round-the-clock availability and pain-free transformation of business-critical contact centre and UC (unified communications) environments for global clients from financial services firms such as Barclays to household names including Tesco.
Mid-market private equity investor LDC previously backed the multi-million pound management buyout of Connect in April 2014. The acquisition of PC-1 forms part of Connect’s strategy to broaden its practice areas of expertise with market leading technologies, expand its reach and build scale in its chosen
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF) has invested GBP440,000 in School Lettings Solutions (SLS), an outsourced lettings management service that hires out school and college facilities to local community clubs and organisations.
The funding package will support SLS’s continued expansion into new schools across the UK, enable the business to meet the demand of its sales pipeline and develop a proprietary facilities booking system. The investment will safeguard around 55 jobs with an anticipated additional 10-20 roles to be created over the next two years.
Founded in 2012 by directors Scott Warrington and Paul Andrews, SLS manages the process
Much like a brooding teenager, cash has become a high maintenance asset class as a result of events over the last few years. Whether it is finding liquidity to put to work for new investment strategies (or, for that matter, support existing ones in terms of collateral management) or looking for ways to invest cash to improve investment yield, traditional approaches to liquidity management have become increasingly problematic.
This ‘liquidity conundrum’ has made it more important than ever that investors have solutions in place to find the right balance of how and where to invest cash. Northern Trust detailed this earlier
Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa), a private equity investor in Central and South Eastern Europe, has listed its portfolio company, Waberer’s International (Waberer’s) through an initial public offering (IPO) on the Budapest Stock Exchange.
Waberer’s shares will start trading on 6 July 2017.
Waberer’s IPO values the Company’s equity at nearly EUR300 million and is the largest on the Budapest Stock Exchange since 1998. The stock will be included in the BUX, Hungary’s top index, and will be its 5th largest constituent.
Through the Offering, the Company will raise EUR50 million of new capital, which will be used
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