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Beechbrook Capital, a specialist direct lender, has completed two further investments from its most recent fund, Private Debt III.
Beechbrook managing partner Paul Shea says: “We are delighted to have added to the portfolio, investing alongside two high-quality private equity funds. Deployment continues to be on track as we approach the final close of the fund later this year.”
The fund has provided a mezzanine loan and equity co-investment to support H2 Equity Partner’s acquisition of Search Consultancy, a UK recruitment business which provides both temporary and permanent staff.
Patrick Kalverboer, managing partner, H2 Equity Partners, says:
Arma Partners has strengthened its senior team with the appointments of Mark Rodrigues and Dr Friedrich Froeschl as senior advisers in New York and Munich respectively.
Rodrigues has over 30 years’ experience in the global technology and financial services industries as an executive, investor and consultant, and currently holds several board positions with international fintech companies and advisory roles at venture capital and private equity firms focused on the sector.
Previously, Rodrigues was a global managing director and leader of strategic customers and solutions at Thomson Reuters, where he was responsible for managing the USD2.9 billion global revenue
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform TWINO has released the first ever Alternative Lending Index (ALI) in conjunction with KPMG.
The report compares lending environments across Europe over the period 2010- 2016.
The ALI uses information gathered from the European Central Bank and Eurostat, as well as the central banks of the countries outside the Euro area. The index provides a scale from 0 to 10 and is higher for countries that have a higher credit gap, lower probability of getting a loan, or more stringent loan issuance criteria – in other words, where the alternative lending market can fill
Hamilton Lane has strengthened its team in Europe, adding three senior individuals in response to a year of growth across its European client base, service lines and product offerings.
The appointments come as the firm continues to expand its footprint across Europe, with a substantial increase in its overall European client base in 2016.
Client relationships more than doubled in Switzerland as well as in Germany, a market in which the firm has plans for further expansion.
Hamilton Lane also added major clients last year in Italy and Finland. Joining the firm’s long-standing European client base is
Oakley Capital Investments’ Private Equity III is to acquire the business and operations of ZGS Verwaltungs (Schuelerhilfe), from its current majority shareholders Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG) and DBAG Fund V.
Schuelerhilfe is a provider of after school tutoring to primary and secondary school students in Germany and Austria.
Established in 1974, and headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, Schuelerhilfe provides small-group tutoring through a network of over 1,000 branches in Germany and Austria and currently tutors over 125,000 students per year.
Oakley is attracted to this sector because of the growing and non-cyclical demand from parents for tutoring services to help children meet
HIG Capital is to sell its existing stake in Surgery Partners to Bain Capital Private Equity.
In conjunction with the transaction, Surgery Partners and National Surgical Healthcare (NSH), an owner and operator of surgical facilities in partnership with local physicians, have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Surgery Partners will acquire NSH from Irving Place Capital for approximately USD760 million.
Funding for the transaction will be provided in part by Bain Capital Private Equity, who is injecting capital in exchange for preferred equity in the company.
In December 2009, HIG partnered with Surgery Partners CEO
Agilitas, a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has made several strategic bolt-on acquisitions to its portfolio company Recover Nordic, a provider of damage control, emergency response and environmental services.
In Sweden, where Recover Nordic operates under the Relita brand, the business has acquired 100 per cent of three businesses: Guja Riv & Håltagning AB; Rena Avlopp i Sverige AB; and Kungsbacka All & Spolservice AB.
The acquisition of Guja, combined with that of Rena Avlopp, significantly expands the company’s presence in Örebro and Stockholm. The addition of Kungsbacka also improves Recover Nordic’s reach in Southern Sweden.
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Accenture has acquired Media Hive, an e-commerce solutions provider with expertise in cross-channel commerce strategy, custom application development and the creation of innovative retail experiences for any device.
The acquisition will strengthen the capabilities of Accenture Interactive around Salesforce Commerce Cloud (previously Demandware) implementations and the delivery of best-in-class commerce experiences for clients.
As the Demandware 2016 North America Delivery Partner of the Year, Media Hive will bring an award-winning team of strategists, consultants, delivery and support specialists, with pexpertise in platform development, systems architecture, interactive experiences, retail innovation and digital commerce.
Media Hive has delivered commerce work for some
Mourant Ozannes’ investment funds team has established the first five Jersey Private Funds (JPF) since the new regime came into effect last month.
Introduced by the Jersey Financial Services Commission, the new JPF product has been designed to rationalise and consolidate Jersey’s private fund regimes for funds offered to up to 50 professional investors.
Mourant Ozannes partner Dan Birtwistle (pictured) says: “In a buoyant fund raising market, the new JPF regime has quickly been seized on by existing and new clients alike as an effective, streamlined and proportionate product for privately offered alternative investment funds. The speed and
The more competitive the capital raising market becomes, the more alternative fund managers are looking to get better control over the costs of this crucial exercise.
Rather than rely on traditional routes – placement agents, third party marketers, or investment banking capital introduction teams – London-based Murano gives the buy-side community the chance to take greater ownership of the asset raising cycle by bringing it back in-house.
Ole Rollag is Founder of Murano, a disintermediary that sits directly between investors and managers to help both parties make a relevant connection. By asking questions that are specific to its fund manager
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