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Livingstone has advised the shareholders of ENRA Group, including Livingbridge, on its sale to Exponent Private Equity.
ENRA Group is a provider of mortgage finance.
This is the fourth transaction the Livingstone team has advised ENRA on, previously introducing exiting chairman David Campbell on his investment in 2013, raising growth capital from Livingbridge in 2014 and its subsequent acquisition of West One Loans, also in 2014.
ENRA lends and brokers short-term bridge mortgages as well as distributing specialist second charge and buy-to-let products. The business has enjoyed strong growth on the back of its bespoke manual underwriting process
Despite the uncertainty created by the UK’s Brexit vote, the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region is showing the strongest growth globally in early-stage merger and acquisition (M&A) activity at 13 per cent compared to the same period last year.
This is according to the latest Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor report released by Intralinks Holdings.
It also predicts that the global number of announced deals in FY 2016 will be around 3 per cent higher than FY 2015. This would make 2016 the new peak for the number of global deal announcements, surpassing the previous peak year of
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets has completed, on behalf of AXA Germany and AXA France, and in joint venture with Crédit Agricole Assurances, the acquisition of a 42 per cent stake in Atlandes, the concession-holder of the A63 motorway in South-West France.
The vendor, InfraRed Capital Partners, an investment manager in Infrastructure and Real Estate, acting on behalf of InfraRed Infrastructure Fund III, has disposed of the entirety of the fund’s stake.
The remaining 58 per cent of Atlandes is held by a consortium of industrial partners and financial investors.
The A63 is a 104 kilometre motorway
Private equity fund managers and institutional investors in Europe have joined forces to develop portfolio company-focused due diligence guidance for responsible investment, in a new initiative launched by trade association Invest Europe.
As environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations become increasingly important to global institutional investors, Invest Europe – the trade association for European private equity, venture capital and their investors – has published an ESG Due Diligence Questionnaire for Private Equity Investors and their Portfolio Companies.
Laying out all the essential questions, it gives fund managers a framework for assessing ESG factors at the companies they own or
The World Bank Group and Ithmar Capital, a Moroccan sovereign investment fund, are to establish a Green Growth Infrastructure Facility for Africa (GGIF), the first pan-African fund dedicated to green investment in the continent.
GGIF will be structured as private capital fund and its objective is to attract private investors with interest in Morocco or Africa who are looking for responsible and green investment opportunities.
Its aim is to work as a catalyst for the transition of Africa into a green economy by supporting low carbon infrastructure such as clean energy, low carbon transportation and the efficient utilisation of
Guernsey has introduced a Private Investment Fund (PIF) regime designed to provide fund managers with greater flexibility and simplicity.
The PIF, which was developed in response to market demand by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) in consultation with the island’s GBP247 billion funds industry, recognises that certain investment funds are characterised by a relationship between management and investors that is closer than that of a typical agent.
The PIF dispenses with the formal requirement for information particulars such as a prospectus in recognition of that relationship, significantly reducing the cost and processing time of launching of a fund.
Northleaf Capital Partners has launched a global private credit programme, with more than USD1.4 billion in capital raised from a core group of Canadian pension plans.
Northleaf’s global private credit strategy provides investors with diversified exposure to private credit investments and offers flexible debt financing solutions to privately held companies.
Northleaf’s global private credit fund, Northleaf Private Credit I, held a successful first closing and will provide investors with diversified exposure to private credit investments including senior, unitranche, second lien, mezzanine and subordinated loans in North America, the UK, Western Europe and Australia, with a primary focus on private
Foresight Group has invested GBP3 million from the Foresight Regional Investment Fund into the Merseyside-based healthcare business Med Imaging Healthcare.
This is the third investment made by the fund following the recent investments in UDP and Euxton Group.
Established in 1995 by Tim Dickinson, ex-Siemens healthcare engineer, Med Imaging provides servicing, reactive maintenance, repair and sale of a range of diagnostic imaging equipment for the NHS, private health sector and dental markets. It has grown to become one of the leading independents, working with the majority of NHS trusts throughout the UK.
Foresight’s investment facilitates a partial buy-out
FFL Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, is to acquire Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) from Brockway Moran & Partners.
CPI specialises in crisis prevention, non-violent physical intervention and dementia care training for education, healthcare and corporate customers. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, CPI provides mission critical training in de-escalation of aggressive behaviours for duty of care providers at schools, hospitals, mental health clinics, long-term care facilities, juvenile detention centres, and other organisations.
“With more than 9,000 customers globally – some they have served for over
European buy and build activity in the first half of 2016 reached its highest level since 2008 with the largest number of deals in the UK and Ireland, according to Silverfleet Capital’s latest semi-annual European Buy & Build Monitor.
The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified a provisional total of 325 add-ons in the first half of 2016 compared to the 204 and 250 add-ons recorded in the first and second halves of 2015 respectively.
In the first half of this year the average disclosed value
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