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Michael P Gallagher has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the firm’s Philadelphia office.
Gallagher enhances the firm’s corporate and securities capabilities in Philadelphia, nationally and internationally. He joins Duane Morris from Pepper Hamilton.
Gallagher concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate finance, private equity, family businesses, securities, mergers and acquisitions, workouts, exit planning and general corporate matters. He has represented issuers and underwriters in private and public offerings of debt and equity securities, as well as financial and strategic buyers and sellers in stock and asset acquisitions.
Gallagher has significant experience advising clients in a
Alterity Investments, advised by MMX Retail, has sold 12/15 High Street in Winchester for GBP15.825 million.
The property is situated on the prime retail pitch of Winchester’s High Street and comprises three integrated buildings forming a single department store offering 50,612 sq ft of retail space across five floors.
The property is currently occupied by Debenhams on a 30-year lease, circa 17 years left until lease expiry, with fixed rental increases throughout the remainder of the lease. Debenhams is the only department store in the city.
Scott Mitchell, partner at MMX Retail, says: “Winchester presents an attractive opportunity for
CIL has appointed Tabitha Elwes as a partner to head its new media practice.
Elwes joins from Prospero Strategy Consultants, which she helped to build as a partner from 2011; previously she was partner in charge of media at Spectrum Strategy Consultants.
Elwes has a long track-record of advising clients in the media, digital and tech sectors internationally. She also has extensive M&A experience and has advised on deals totalling over EUR6 billion.
Sebastian Chambers, managing partner at CIL, says: “We are delighted that Tabitha is joining us to lead our focus on media. CIL has extensive expertise in many
Private equity firm Blackford Capital has invested in Indiana-based Ellison Bakery, a manufacturer of cookie, snack bar, crunch and inclusion product, and other products for the industrial market, food service industry, and retail and private label space.
Generational Capital Markets served as the exclusive financial adviser to Ellison on the transaction. Debt financing was provided by Comerica Bank.
The transaction is the ninth by Blackford's Michigan Prosperity Fund, which invests primarily in Michigan companies, as well as neighbouring states.
Founded by Donald Ellis in a family garage, Ellison Bakery began in 1945 supplying baked goods to restaurants and
By Matt Mulry, Dillon Eustace – Cayman has seen a healthy increase in private equity funds year on year over the past decade. The popularity of Cayman private equity funds has been fuelled by both the evolution of hedge fund managers’ businesses into the private equity fund space and by the increased use of private equity funds to pursue distressed asset investments.
The Cayman exempted limited partnership (ELP) structure is the most commonly used entity for Cayman private equity funds and is internationally recognised as a flexible, tax-neutral, low-cost fund vehicle. ELPs do not have their own legal personality and their
Omnes Capital had made its first investment in a Portuguese start-up by participating in a EUR4 million financing round for 360imprimir alongside local venture capital firm Pathena.
The funds raised will mainly be used to accelerate the start-up’s international expansion and to further enrich the product offering.
360imprimir is a one-stop-shop of marketing goods and services (leaflets, cards, large format, etc.) for companies based in Spain and Portugal, as well as in Brazil and Mexico.
360imprimir was founded in Lisbon in 2013 by six young entrepreneurs and primarily targets micro-businesses with less than 10 employees.
360imprimir offers
Tikehau Capital, a pan-European listed alternative asset management and investment firm, has appointed Peter Cirenza as head of its London operations, effective 24 April 2017.
Cirenza will be responsible for helping develop the firm’s private asset strategies – private debt, real estate and private equity.
He will be running the London operations alongside chairman Lord Peter Levene.
Cirenza has been a member of Tikehau Capital’s advisory board since 2005. In this role, he has been supporting the company’s leadership team providing his insight as an outside expert in principal investing, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions.
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Clayton Euro Risk, a provider of risk analysis on mortgage and asset finance, has appointed Maurice Wijmans (pictured)to the newly-created role of senior manager – business development for the Netherlands.
Based in The Hague and working across the country, Wijmans takes up his role with immediate effect, reporting to Clayton Euro Risk’s strategic delivery director Simon Collingridge.
His primary focus will be to build relationships across a range of markets including commercial real estate, consumer, shipping and corporate finance in the Netherlands to ensure that Clayton’s services deliver value and fully meet the needs of its clients.
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Cairngorm Capital has appointed Amit Thaper as investment director, extending the firm’s capacity for new investments.
Thaper joins from HIG Capital, a global private equity investment firm, where he was a vice president in the Boston office. Thaper was involved in acquiring and advising value-orientated, lower middle-market companies with high-return outlooks.
Prior to HIG Capital, Thaper worked as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company, both in Boston and London. At Bain, he advised clients across a range of industries including healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, as well as conducting due diligence studies for private equity and hedge funds.
BGF has provided GBP5 million of long-term funding for Renegade, a London headquartered business which is developing a major whiskey project on Ireland’s south-eastern coast.
The funding will be used for continued development and production of single malt whiskey at Renegade’s Waterford distillery in Ireland.
Renegade’s founders – Mark Reynier, Sir John Mactaggart and John Adams – are veterans of the drinks industry having previously acquired the disused Bruichladdich Distillery on Islay off the West Coast of Scotland in 2002. They rebuilt the distillery and brand, before selling the business to Remy Cointreau in 2012 for GBP58 million.
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