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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) have signed an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Nord Anglia Education.
Funds affiliated with BPEA are the majority shareholders of Nord Anglia and BPEA controls 67 per cent of Nord Anglia's issued and outstanding share capital.
The transaction values Nord Anglia at USD 4.3 billion, including repayment of debt.
The transaction is subject to shareholder approval and customary closing conditions.
Nord Anglia is a premium schools organisation. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nord Anglia was founded in 1972.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is continuing the expansion of its finance and private equity practices with the addition of Joshua Samis, who joins as partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
Samis, previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, has represented many of the country’s leading and most sophisticated private equity sponsors, private and public companies and commercial lending institutions.
He has broad experience in structuring and negotiating domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts, secured and unsecured financing transactions, recapitalisations and loan workouts and restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financings.
“Josh is a highly respected finance lawyer with extensive
After reaching 10,000 participants with its crowd sale raising USD4 million, Humaniq is launching a new innovation centre in Cambridge.
This expansion will enhance the capabilities of Humaniq to solve critical and chronic issues of the world by repurposing Artificial Intelligence and DeepTech for social good and enabling scientists and entrepreneurs to solve the problems facing humanity.
“This new innovation centre will provide an opportunity to be part of a lasting and growing ecosystem which has found success in many areas of innovation and which Humaniq will be able to contribute to and learn from as we grow,” says
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Paula Drake as managing director and general counsel.
Drake will oversee all aspects of HarbourVest’s legal and compliance functions across the globe.
“As HarbourVest continues to grow and expand our solutions and investment capabilities, our primary focus remains on delivering high-quality service to our clients and partners, and this includes staying ahead of changing regulatory dynamics in the global private markets,” says John Toomey, managing director, HarbourVest. “We already have robust legal and compliance functions in place, as well as a strong control environment, and with the addition of
The way that fund managers protect their data goes far beyond thinking about the four walls of their office. The way we work has revolutionised in recent times, as technology advances, especially cloud technology, redefining what the workplace actually is. With wifi, cloud platforms, and mobile phones, a hedge fund CEO could, if they wished to, run their business from a beach in Martinique. But with every upside there is always a downside. And today, that means that protecting one’s perimeter has become a far greater challenge.
The enormous flow of data between fund managers and their service providers, combined
International law firm Ropes & Gray has advised TPG Capital on the acquisition by one of its portfolio companies, Beaver-Visitec International, of Malosa Medical, a manufacturer and supplier of single-use surgical instruments, primarily for use in the field of ophthalmology, based in the UK and China.
With a portfolio of more than 400 products, Malosa equips surgeons with convenient, sterilized, single-use packs that contain all the instruments and consumables required for specific ophthalmic procedures.
The company’s cost-effective, high-quality instruments are designed for use in some of the most frequently performed procedures, including cataract surgery and intravitreal injection.
The
Investec has provided a GBP75 million debt package to support Allied Glass Containers’ growth plans.
The Yorkshire-based specialist manufacturer and distributor of glass bottles and containers to the premium spirits and food & beverage sector produces 600 million bottles per annum across 450 product lines.
Investec invested time with management and put together a bespoke debt structure comprising a mix of asset-based and cashflow lending to support the company’s long term growth, working capital and seasonality requirements.
The package incorporates a blend of evergreen revolvers against receivables and inventory as well as an amortising term loan, as opposed
Indigo Holdings, a Middle East-focused investment company that provides investors with exposure to early stage businesses, has invested approximately GBP200,000 in FMCG, a recently established online retail delivery business of Iranian convenience store chain Yaran Daryan.
Indigo has acquired a 15 per cent equity stake in FMCG at a post-money valuation of approximately GBP1,330,000.
FMCG operates a similar business model to Ocado, however it differs to Ocado’s warehousing model as its online orders will be automatically routed to the nearest Yaran Daryan store, which will then be collected by the company’s fleet of drivers and delivered to the customer’s
Hamburg-based private equity group CEE has acquired eight wind turbines in the Vormark wind farm near to the municipality Gross Pankow (Prignitz) in Brandenburg.
The seller is a consortium consisting of the Danish company European Energy A/S and the Berlin-based Green Wind Energy.
The wind farm consists of eight turbines (type Vestas V126, 3.45 MW). The hub height is 137 m, the rotor diameter is 126 m, and the overall capacity of the wind farm amounts to 27.6 megawatts (MW).
The turbines, which were commissioned on time in February and March, will supply environmentally friendly power to about
Direct lender Beechbrook Capital has completed two more investments from the UK SME Credit I Fund, which provides finance to non-private equity-backed UK SMEs.
The fund has provided financing to support the continuing growth in the subscriber base of plan.com, a business communications provider with offices in the Isle of Man and Manchester.
UK SME Credit I has also backed Infomedia, a direct carrier billing provider, whose services enable brands conveniently to charge digital purchases to customers’ mobile phone accounts. Beechbrook has provided a unitranche loan to finance the buyout of a minority shareholder and support the company’s growth
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