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Post Holdings, a consumer packaged goods holding company, is to acquire Weetabix from Shanghai-based state owned enterprise Bright Food Group and an investment fund advised by Barings Private Equity Asia, in a deal worth GBP1.4 billion.
Baker McKenzie acted for Post Holdings. The Baker McKenzie team is led by London corporate partner Charles Whitefoord, supported by senior associate James Adams and associate Anna Scott together with partners Bill Batchelor (Brussels) and Regine Corrado (Chicago) and associate Daniel De Deo (Washington DC).
The Baker McKenzie team worked alongside Lewis Rice (Tom Zook and Alfred Ludwig) who advised Post on the US
Carey Olsen's corporate team in Guernsey has been the first to establish a Guernsey Private Investment Fund (PIF) since the new class was introduced.
Partner Christopher Anderson (pictured) led the Carey Olsen team advising specialist private investment firm Cairngorm Capital Partners on the GBP107.5 million final closing of its second fund, Cairngorm Capital II.
Cairngorm II is the first Guernsey fund to be established as a PIF since the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) licensed and registered PIFs class was introduced on 16 November 2016.
The team, including senior associate John Scanlan and associate Colin Calvert, advised on
Waleed El-Amir has joined Evercore’s investment banking business as a senior adviser for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.
Evercore expects to open a new office in Dubai early in the second quarter of 2017.
El-Amir has over 20 years of experience in international finance, having held senior leadership positions in North America, Europe and the Middle East across corporate banking, investment banking and treasury and has been involved in helping raise over USD200 billion in the equity and debt capital markets for his clients.
Most recently, El-Amir was head of group finance at UniCredit, where he was
Investment company Fortino Capital has appointed Filip Van Innis as investment manager.
Van Innis will focus both on sourcing and realising deals and on following up on and supporting the portfolio.
Van Innis worked for five years at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), from associate up to project leader. His focus there was primarily on corporate development, telecom and financial services.
During a secondment period of one year with BNP Paribas Fortis, Van Innis worked on innovative opportunities in retail banking.
Duco Sickinghe, managing partner at Fortino Capital, says: “With Filip joining our team, we have even
Travers Smith has advised long-standing client Patron Capital, the pan-European real estate private equity fund, on the sale of neuro disability care provider The Badby Group to Elysium Healthcare, a mental healthcare provider backed by BC Partners.
The Badby Group, led by healthcare specialists Tim Street and Daniel Kay of Patron Capital, has four facilities across the country and has grown from 68 beds to 316 beds over a five-year period.
Tim Street, senior adviser at Patron Capital, says: "Patron has a proven track record for investing in award-winning healthcare businesses that create and deliver quality outcomes, and this
Latvia-based Alfa Finance Group has invested EUR2 million in launching a new peer-to-peer lending platform, DoFinance.
Available in all EU and EEA countries, DoFinance is a P2P platform for private individuals to invest in consumer loans without any intermediaries, with access to investments at any time.
With the total investment volume reaching EUR2 million, DoFinance is part of the Alfa Finance Group – an online lending and investment management company operating in Europe, Transcaucasia and Asia. Since its launch in 2015, the Alfa Finance Group has attracted more than 150,000 registered clients and over EUR16 million in loans issued
UK private equity investor LDC has backed the management buyout of Hill Biscuits.
Following the transaction, the 150-year-old business plans to kick-start a multi-million-pound capital investment programme to expand its production capacity and develop new products in order to take advantage of rising demand from current and new customers.
Manchester-based Hill, which has annual sales of GBP20 million, will be seeking strategic acquisitions to build further scale and diversity, as well as implementing a new international sales strategy to accelerate growth in overseas markets.
Originally founded as a small shop in Dukinfield, Manchester by John and Sarah Hill
European growth private equity investor Keensight Capital has promoted Magdalena Svensson to partner.
Svensson has 17 years of experience in the private equity industry. Having started her career in 1998 in Sweden at Swedbank, she joined the Paris office of ABN Amro Capital in 2000 where she was involved in over 20 investments.
She subsequently joined XAnge Private Equity in 2004, following its acquisition of ABN Amro Capital’s activities, first as investment director and then as partner from 2012. In the context of her different positions, Svensson has acquired specific know-how in various sectors, including technology and healthcare.
Private equity firm IK Investment Partners has opened an office in Amsterdam.
Located at UNStudio, 13th floor, Gustav Mahlerlaan 350, 1082 ME Amsterdam, the office will be led by partner and head of Benelux, Remko Hilhorst who has been with IK since 2001.
In addition to the existing mid cap team, consisting of a total of six investment professionals, IK is extending its small cap strategy and establishing a Benelux-dedicated team.
Together, the two Amsterdam-based teams will focus on investments with enterprise values of up to EUR500 million, partnering with entrepreneurs who are looking for support to help
Due diligence company Castle Hall Alternatives has expanded its OpsMonitor due diligence monitoring platform with a range of new features, accessed through the firm’s DueDiligenceProfessional online app, include detailed financial statement and ADV reviews, dashboards and analytics.
“Diligence monitoring is the foundation of any effective due diligence program,” says Chris Addy (pictured), Castle Hall’s president and CEO. “However, many aspects of manager monitoring are challenging to implement. The financial statement review process, for example, is time compressed, the workload can be voluminous, and spreadsheets are inflexible and cumbersome as reporting tools. Above all, how does the diligence team validate that
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