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Unigestion has appointed four investment experts to its private equity team, as it looks to strengthen its European team with a particular focus on secondary and direct investment activities.
Pieter-Jan Frederix was appointed investment director within the private equity team in December 2015. Frederix joined from the Antenna Group where he was responsible for direct investments and has extensive experience through previous roles at KPMG Corporate Finance, Bear Stearns and private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
In May 2016, Unigestion also appointed Andreas Georgiades as an investment manager. He jouned from Nomura International where he focused on M&A.
LGT Capital Partners has raised in excess of USD2.5 billion for Crown Global Secondaries IV (CGS IV), its fourth dedicated secondary fund.
The fund is expected to be oversubscribed and hold its final closing at the hard cap of USD 2.8 billion in the coming months.
Tycho Sneyers, managing partner at LGT Capital Partners, says: “The CGS IV investor base so far consists of 89 institutions, including pension funds, endowments, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and financial institutions in Europe, the US, Canada, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Our platform benefits from a large
KKR has closed two direct lending transactions which will provide financing for Roompot, an operator of holiday parks, and Exterion Media, an outdoor advertising company in the UK and Europe.
The two transactions will deliver over USD275 million in financing and add to the track record of KKR’s European direct lending platform which provides funding for medium-sized companies across Europe in need of customized funding solutions beyond traditional bank lending.
Since 2014, the platform has deployed more than USD1 billion across companies in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal and the Benelux and sectors including industrials, consumer, retail and
Align Capital Partners (ACP), in partnership with management, has completed an investment in Alliance Source Testing (AST), a provider of source emissions (or stack) testing services to industrial facilities in the US.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
AST provides source testing solutions for utility, aluminium, midstream energy, specialty chemical and other types of industrial facilities for permitting and compliance in accordance with mandates from local, state and federal regulatory bodies. The company services customers’ facilities on a repeated basis, with the frequency determined by regulations for each industry.
“We are excited to partner with AST’s
Policymakers must remove the barriers to investment faced by private infrastructure funds in order to help achieve the EUR2 trillion of vital European infrastructure investment needed by 2020, according to a report by Invest Europe.
The trade association’s Investing in Infrastructure briefing is published to coincide with the launch of Invest Week, a series of events spearheaded by Invest Europe which focuses on the European investment and growth agenda.
With an ageing population placing demands on healthcare, a global and rapidly digitising economy requiring more complex supply chains, and environmental and social sustainability necessitating new energy and transport systems,
GLAS, an independent provider of finance administration services, has appointed Xavier Poussardin as head of capital markets business development (EMEA).
Poussardin will be responsible for expanding GLAS’ services beyond direct lending and entering new geographies.
His appointment supports GLAS’ continued growth in the industry. As banks face increased challenges to provide agency and trustee services due to compliance and regulatory requirements, demand for independent firms has increased.
Poussardin was previously vice president at Deutsche Bank where he spent the last seven years in the global transaction banking team. Before this, he worked at Bank of New York as
Omnes Capital has acquired a stake in Ducatillon as part of a buyer-in-management-buy-out (BIMBO) deal worth a total of EUR7.6 million.
Omnes Capital’s small cap fund, with the support of Bpifrance, is accompanying the handover of the company’s management and shareholding from chairman Thomas Delecroix to buyer Jean-Marc Bernard.
Founded in 1997, Ducatillon is France’s market leader in distance selling of hobby farming and hunting equipment and outdoor leisure goods. The company, which offers over 22,000 items, has a multi-specialist positioning in France spanning hunting attire and accessories, livestock equipment, gardening products, kitchen goods, canine accessories and fishing equipment.
CVC Credit Partners and the EQT Mid-Market Credit Fund’s European Private Debt businesses have jointly provided a GBP110 million unitranche facility to Paymentsense.
As Europe’s largest merchant services provider, Paymentsense specialises in providing fast, affordable and reliable card processing services to over 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses processing GBP5bn of transactions per annum.
Chris Fowler, managing director in CVC Credit Partners’ direct lending business, says: “UK businesses are constantly looking for alternative ways to financially support their growth plans, and now so more than ever. Paymentsense is a very exciting company, with a differentiated business model, an entrepreneurial management
YFM Equity Partners has sold its investment in GO Outdoors, the outdoor clothing and equipment retailer, to JD Sports Fashion in a GBP130 million deal.
The sale, together with the partial realisation in 2011, means that YFM has achieved close to 40x its original investment, with a GBP23 million total return.
When YFM originally invested alongside the founders Paul Caplan and John Graham, there was just one store in Sheffield generating GBP2 million in sales.
YFM helped GO Outdoors to professionalise the board and to manage its growth supporting the introduction of the membership store discount card and
Pan-European private equity firm IK Investment Partners has raised aggregate commitments totalling EUR1.85 billion for its eighth mid cap fund, the IK VIII Fund.
Fundraising commenced in March 2016, and has seen strong demand from both existing and new investors.
The fund exceeded its EUR1.6 billion target and secured commitments of EUR1.85 billion from an institutional investor base with a geographical spread across North America (37 per cent), Europe (52 per cent), Middle East (5 per cent) and Asia (2 per cent).
The fund will continue to execute the same strategy applied to previous IK funds, making majority
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