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JLM Financial Partners and Eagle Merchant Partners have created the largest Planet Fitness franchisee, United PF Partners, with 59 operating clubs in nine states.
The joint-venture partnership is aiming to capitalise on the USD30 billion fitness club industry, in which health club memberships increased from 41.3 million in 2005 to 54.1 million in 2014, or 17 per cent penetration of the US population.
Planet Fitness, home of the Judgement Free Zone, with more than 1,200 clubs and over 8.7 million members, targets the remaining 83 per cent of the population by focusing on customer experience and value.
The equity investments from
Investec Specialist Bank has added new hires to its fund finance team, led by Simon Hamilton, global head of fund finance.
Based in the team’s London office, Nick Rusling, Alan Macdonald, Ian Weise and Oliver Bartholomew will play a key role in the development of the fund finance team as an innovative and agile financing provider.
Rusling joins from Barclays’ debt finance team. In his previous role as Director, he created a number of innovative financing structures provided by Barclays and handled the management of the sales process of a book of debt to Ares in December 2015.
IK Investment Partners is to sell Axtone Group, a manufacturer of components for railway industry, to ITT, a US manufacturer of components and technology solutions for the energy, transportation and industrial markets.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Axtone is a European manufacturer of buffers, draw-gear devices, railway springs as well as other shock absorption and safety components for rail and metro vehicles and rail infrastructure. With over 200 product certificates and customers across the globe, the company’s solutions fulfil the requirements of European, UIC, Russian GOST and Chinese TB/T technical standards.
Axtone is headquartered
IBID Group, an investment firm focused on buying and investing in internet based companies with high growth potential, has acquired Dalberry, an all-in-one technology provider for secure online payments.
Dalberry launched last year with a mission to fix the broken journey for merchants frustrated with existing clumsy and bureaucratic systems.
Dalberry generates real time actionable management data and includes ongoing training and support for merchants.
Its team of specialists come from online merchants and from the global payments industry. Its platform has already won the support of banks and merchants during its soft launch.
IBID will help
Maitland, the global advisory and fund administration firm, has carried out a major organisational restructure of the leadership team of its institutional client services arm.
The management team will now reflect the five fund services products on offer – traditional fund services, transfer agency, hedge fund services, private equity and real estate fund services, and ManCo services.
The entire institutional product offering will be led by Jim Clark, who joined Maitland in May 2014 from State Street and brings over 30 years of industry experience to the role.
The traditional fund services team will be led globally by Rob Leedham,
Tikehau IM, a European asset manager, has arranged a EUR30 million add-on to the existing senior facilities provided by Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group (GSSLG) for Oasis Group.
The add-on will be used by Oasis Group to finance its external growth strategy, mostly focused on Western Europe.
Founded in 1999, Oasis is one of the fastest growing companies in the records and information management (RIM) industry. Based in Dublin, with offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and a team of 300 employees, Oasis offers a complete RIM service platform. Oasis serves 4,700
Meketa Investment Group has appointed Daniel Green as a senior director in the firm’s London office and as a member of Meketa’s private markets group.
He will focus on private equity and real asset investment opportunities in the EMEA regions, in addition to business development in Europe.
“The hiring of Daniel is a key milestone for the firm as we look to further expand upon our investments in EMEA,” says John Haggerty, managing principal and director of private markets investments, Meketa Investment Group. “We are pleased to have Daniel on board and look forward to benefiting from his valuable
Equistone Partners Europe and SL Capital Partners have sold their stake in specialist lender Together (formerly Jerrold Holdings) for circa GBP288 million in addition to proceeds received during the life of the investment.
The sale is to the founders of the business, which was established in 1974.
Equistone invested GBP115.2 million from Equistone Partners Europe Fund II for a 30 per cent stake in September 2006 and subsequently syndicated GBP20 million to funds managed by SL Capital Partners. Both organisations have been supportive partners of the company since their initial investments.
The Cheshire-headquartered company, which offers short-term finance,
Edge Investments, a specialist investment house focused on the creative industries sector, will invest up to GBP10 million in the UK television production industry.
The UK television production industry is buoyant, with a pipeline of new entrants and a supportive creative environment in Great Britain driving the growth and evolution of this flourishing sector.
This week marks 80 years of British television, since the BBC first broadcast sound and vision into the nation's homes.
Television is a major contributor to the UK creative industries economy. Annual revenues for independent television were at an all-time high of GBP3 billion
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners are to acquire Anchor Glass Container Corporation in partnership with BA Glass, a European manufacturer of glass containers.
Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Anchor Glass focuses on the growing, premium specialty segment of the glass packaging market. Anchor Glass has long-standing relationships with blue chip companies across the beer, liquor, food, beverage, ready-to-drink and consumer end-markets.
The company operates six manufacturing facilities located in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, New York and Oklahoma, in addition to an engineering and spare parts facility in Illinois and a mould design and manufacturing facility in Ohio. The company’s
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