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Segulah IV Futurum Utvikling AS and minority shareholders have signed an agreement to sell 100 per cent of Øglænd Industrier to family-owned Hilti AG.
Øglænd Industrier develops, manufactures and sells multidiscipline support solutions, cable trays and cable ladders world-wide to the oil & gas, infrastructure, ship building, wind power, water treat- ment and clean room industries. These solutions deliver added value through reduced installation time, maximised volume utilisation, weight reductions, enhanced life-time integrity and improved safety performance. In 2016, the Company had sales of MNOK 1,483.
Øglænd was acquired in March 2014 by Segulah IV from the Norwegian families
Hamilton Lane has held the final closing of Hamilton Lane Secondary Fund IV, a global and diversified private equity secondary fund.
Originally targeting USD1.25 billion, the Fund received strong demand from the institutional investor community and exceeded its target to close on USD1.9 billion, the firm’s largest secondary fund to-date. The Fund consists of a diverse base of more than 110 investors from around the globe, including Taft-Hartley pension plans, corporate and public pensions, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, endowments, foundations and other financial institutions.
“As the secondary market evolves, LPs are increasingly looking for differentiation among secondary firms.
Alternative investments have become increasingly mainstream in recent decades, but particularly since the financial crisis, the industry has placed renewed emphasis on transparency and governance when it comes to hedge, private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and other alternative funds.
Working with the Economist Intelligence Unit, Northern Trust asked 200+ alternatives managers and institutional investors for their views. Highlights from the new survey are outlined in a new infographic.
6 out of 10 respondents cite transparency as the most important factor in alternative investing
Regulation and risk management drive the need for transparency
Despite its importance, there remains little consensus
Union Investment has successfully completed the subscription phase of the private equity fund of funds PE-Invest 3. EUR 312 million has been raised in the last three months from institutional investors to be invested in unlisted companies. PE Invest 3 will invest globally in private equity funds and add secondaries and direct investments for diversification and return purposes.
The fund will focus on private equity funds specialising in small and mid-caps in the US and Europe. It will also invest in Asian companies, venture capital, and turnaround equity stories. PE-Invest 3’s goal is to achieve attractive, risk-weighted and long-term returns
APS Delta, part of the group of APS Holding a.s. companies (APS), has acquired a portfolio of non-performing loans (NPLs) with the total gross balance sheet exposure of EUR 448 million as of 30 April 2017.
The portfolio has been acquired from Zagrebačka Banka following authorisation by the Croatian National Bank.
The acquisition includes secured and unsecured corporate and retail loans. The largest volume consists of corporate distressed debts followed by retail unsecured and secured distressed debts. The acquisitions add to APS’s existing credit funds under advisement, which include 77 NPL portfolios with a total nominal value exceeding EUR5.1
Clearwater International has advised the shareholders of Imtech UK and Ireland (Imtech), including Endless, on the sale of the business to EDF Energy Services. a joint venture between EDF Energy and Dalkia.
Imtech is a leading engineering services company and one of the largest providers of technical services to construction, industrial, commercial and public sector clients in the UK and Ireland.
Imtech employs over 2,100 people, generating revenues of over €450m per year delivering mechanical and electrical engineering services, technical operation and management of facilities, and the integration of digital control solutions.
Backing and expertise from the EDF
Sun Hung Kai Financial (SHKF) announced it has closed on its acquisition of 100 per cent of UK specialist brokerage and research firm North Square Blue Oak Limited (NSBO), following strategic cooperation between the two parties that started in early 2016 and with approval from UK regulators.
Subsequently, NSBO has been renamed Sun Hung Kai Financial (UK) (SHKF (UK)). Through the acquisition, SHKF will now have the ability to conduct institutional brokerage, specialist research and corporate finance businesses in the UK.
Established in 2003 and headquartered in London with an office in Beijing, SHKF (UK) is a member of
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an opinion which sets out general principles on supervisory approach in relation to relocations of entities from the United Kingdom (UK) to the remaining 27 EU members states (EU27).
ESMA has issued its Opinion in response to increased requests from the financial market participants seeking to relocate to the EU27 and addresses concerns raised by national regulators that some EU member states could allow for the creation of letterbox entities in order to attract UK based asset managers. These concerns are especially relevant where UK based entities may seek to relocate to
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has completed the annual Service Organisation Control (SOC) 2 Type II and Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 16 Type II audits.
Conducted by an independent auditor, the certifications verify that the system architecture and security controls across the Options platform continue to provide a highly secure, available and private cloud service offering.
Introduced in 2011 as the financial industry standard for private cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service firms, SOC 2 Type II and SSAE 16 Type II assessments provide third-party assurance about a provider’s internal operating practices
By Ian Kelly, CEO, Augentius – When it comes to data, the headlines in recent weeks have understandably been dominated by the global WannaCry ransomware attack, but that’s not the only data issue that should be on the agenda of private equity fund managers and investors. In a year’s time, the General Data Protection Regulation will come into force, extending the scope of the EU data protection law to all foreign companies who process data that could identify living EU residents.
This new framework, the General Data Protection Regulation, is to be backed by strong enforcement and puts individuals in control
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