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The Coaching Inn Group has secured a further GBP10 million investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to support a planned GBP50 million expansion across the UK.
The Boston, Lincolnshire headquartered business currently operates 12 coaching inns and will use the capital to increase the size of its portfolio to 25 properties by March 2019.
The GBP10 million injection follows an initial investment of GBP4.5 million from BGF in March 2015, which helped the group to purchase and operate an additional six properties.
The Group, which doubled its EBITDA in the first six months of this year and reported
Two thirds of limited partners (LPs) say there would be a negative impact on the EU from a ‘hard’ Brexit – a separation of the UK from the EU involving significant restrictions on the UK’s access to the EU single market and strong immigration curbs.
That’s according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer which reveals that fully three quarters of LPs think a hard Brexit would damage the UK, while well over a third (37 per cent) of LPs think a hard Brexit would also lower their overall returns from European private equity.
In addition, one third
OrthoSpace, a specialist in shoulder implants, has closed on a USD7 million equity financing round.
The funds will be used to support the ongoing US Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) FDA Study, build out the company's commercial activities in Europe, South America and Asia, and provide working capital.
Existing investors HealthpointCapital, Smith & Nephew and TriVentures participated in the round, alongside a new investor, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC.
The company's product, InSpace, is an orthopedic biodegradable balloon system that is a simple, minimally invasive method that addresses unmet clinical needs in rotator cuff repair. InSpace is marketed in
Amundi Private Equity Funds (PEF) has launched the first investment programme in non-listed European SMEs/mid-sized businesses benefiting from at least one of the five “megatrends”: technology, demographics, globalisation, the environment and societal changes.
The programme targets French and European investors seeking diversification and reaching out for yield in an environment of low interest rates. Amundi PEF aims to raise EUR250 million.
In recent years, megatrends have been acting as disruptive forces and shaking up the global economy in all sectors. Amundi PEF’s team has noted that despite the sluggish economic environment in Europe, many SMEs and mid-sized businesses are
Northleaf Capital Partners is to acquire a 33.3 per cent equity interest in Northwest Parkway, a toll-road located in the Denver metropolitan area of Colorado.
Northleaf is part of a consortium alongside DIF Infrastructure IV and HICL Infrastructure Company which has conditionally acquired a 100 per cent equity interest in Northwest Parkway from Brisa, a Portuguese toll-road operator.
Northwest Parkway has 90 years left on its 99-year concession to operate and maintain a 14km section of the beltway system extending around Denver. The road, which opened in 2003, has strong traffic history and connects with several toll and non-toll
Italian corporate and financial law firm Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners has advised Francesco Trapani on the acquisition of a 9 per cent equity stake in Tages Holding by means of a dedicated capital increase, to be approved by Bank of Italy.
Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners team was composed by partners Bruno Gattai and Alessandro Dolce, senior associate Federico Michelini and associate Diletta Camicia.
Tages Holding current shareholders – Panfilo Tarantelli, Sergio Ascolani, Salvatore Cordaro e Umberto Quadrino – were assisted by Anna Di Vilio from Studio Galante e Associati.
Tages Holding controls three subsidiary companies: Credito
Detroit-based private equity firm Rockbridge Growth Equity has sold Purchasing Power, an e-retailer offering a voluntary benefit to companies and membership organisations across the US, to private equity firm Flexpoint Ford.
Founded in 2001, Purchasing Power is one of the fastest-growing voluntary benefit companies and the leader within the purchase programme industry offered through employers.
Along with a financial wellness platform available at no cost to its customers, Purchasing Power offers an employee purchasing programme for name brand consumer products and services using convenient payroll deduction.
Available to millions of people as a voluntary benefit at organisations with
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has realised its investment in plastic extrusion manufacturer Nenplas, generating a return of more than 5x for investors.
The exit from Ashbourne-based Nenplas follows a sale of a controlling interest to German company Döllken-Weimar, part of the German quoted group Surteco, in a transaction that also included the sale of the entire share capital of Nenplas Property.
The Maven VCTs first invested in 2006 to support the management buyout of Homelux Nenplas. That business experienced rapid growth during the period of Maven's involvement, including the completion of a complementary acquisition and an increase
The EQT VII Fund is to acquire AutoStore from Jakob Hatteland Holding AS and other minority owners.
AutoStore is an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) which uses robotics for collecting stored goods in a warehouse.
From the origin of the idea by Ingvar Hognaland in the Hatteland Group in the 1990s and delivery of the first commercialised system in 2005, AutoStore has experienced strong growth and is today a leading automated material handling solution.
AutoStore provides improvements in capacity, performance and cost and represents an optimal solution for meeting the growing demands for automated and efficient warehousing.
FS Investments’ business development company (BDC) direct lending platform committed approximately USD988 million in senior secured loans and other debt and equity financing to middle market companies in the third quarter of 2016, bringing its year-to-date total originations to more than USD2.2 billion.
New directly originated investments during the quarter were made in support of nine portfolio companies headquartered in seven US states.
“Our ability to customise financing solutions to a company’s specific needs delivers a unique value to those businesses and, ultimately, our investors,” says Michael C Forman, chairman and chief executive officer of FS Investments. “In several
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