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Omnes Capital is selling its majority stake in SIMP to the HCP Packaging group, owned by Baring Private Equity Asia.
HCP is a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of prestige primary packaging for the cosmetics, skincare and fragrance industries.
Omnes acquired a stake in SIMP in 2011. The deal involves keeping the management team in place, with Alain Blondel as chairman and Eric de Bardonnèche as commercial and development director.
Founded in 1949 in the Paris region, SIMP is a pioneer in plastic and rubber injection moulding. It designs and manufactures small precision industrial components produced
Global advisory and fund administration firm Maitland has appointed Martina Swart to the newly created role of group head of governance services.
Swart (pictured) joins from Orbis Investment Advisory, where she was a senior adviser to the business, covering governance matters.
Previously, Swart held the position as global head of prime service legal advisory at Barclays in New York and prior to that, she held senior legal roles at major global financial institutions, including Citigroup, Citadel Investment Group and Credit Suisse.
Swart’s 15 years of experience in investment banking and fund management, has included management of legal, risk and compliance
NVM Private Equity has backed a management buy-out (MBO) at Presteigne Broadcast Hire, a specialist in the broadcast equipment hire sector in the UK.
The business hires a selection of specialist equipment predominantly to outside broadcast companies with a particular focus on the live sport and event sector.
Founded by industry veteran Mike Ransome, Presteigne invests in the latest products and emerging technologies. Headquartered in Crawley and with additional facilities in Warrington, Presteigne has supported many global sporting events. More recently these have included the supply of equipment and services in connection with the Rio 2016 Olympics and this season’s
SME lender iwoca has closed a GBP21 million Series C equity financing round led by Prime Ventures, a growth capital firm dedicated to investing in technology.
The new round brings iwoca’s total equity funding to GBP38 million.
All series A and B investors participated in the round including Acton Capital Partners, CommerzVentures, Global Founders Capital and Redline Capital.
In parallel iwoca also raised a GBP25 million secured debt facility via a syndicate led by Shawbrook Bank which increases its available debt facilities to GBP40 million.
The investment will be used to further develop iwoca’s proprietary technology and
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets has appointed Mark Gilligan as head of infrastructure equity, effective from 3 October.
Based in London, Gilligan (pictured) will report to Ruulke Bagijn, global head of real assets private equity at AXA IM – Real Assets, and will have responsibility for the infrastructure equity team.
Gilligan has over 20 years’ experience in the infrastructure and resources sectors and joins AXA IM – Real Assets from UBS Global Asset Management where he has been since 2007. At UBS, he was head of European infrastructure and was both responsible for undertaking and managing infrastructure investments
Seyfarth Shaw has appointed Gregory A Markel as a partner in the firm’s litigation department based in New York.
Markel joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York.
Markel’s practice focuses on high-stakes litigation regarding securities and antitrust issues, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and directors' and officers' defence. In addition, he handles high level internal investigations involving complex financial issues and is often retained by corporate boards of directors to handle serious internal matters.
Markel is one of only 50 lawyers in the US to have been named to the Lawdragon 500 in each of the
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised FLSV Fund Administration Services (FAS) and its owners on its disposal to Sanne Group for a total consideration of USD65.8 million subject to customary adjustments.
The transaction is expected to complete by the end of November 2016.
FAS is a New York-headquartered business offering fund administration and reporting services to private equity institutions and alternative asset managers, primarily in North America.
Paul Hastings has advised FAS and its owners for a number of years.
Sanne Group is a provider of outsourced corporate and fund administration, reporting and fiduciary services.
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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed David Marshall as a partner in London.
Marshall joins the firm from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain where he was a partner.
He has over 15 years’ experience of advising clients on UK and cross-border private equity and venture capital transactions with a focus on acquisitions, disposals, buyouts, investments and joint ventures. He advises a wide range of clients including private equity and venture capital houses, family offices and management teams across all major industry sectors and asset classes. He has been recognised for his work in private equity in the latest editions
Law firm Goodwin has elected 15 lawyers, including London-based private equity specialist Gemma Roberts, to the partnership with effect from 1 October.
Roberts, who becomes Goodwin’s 12th partner in London, advises on private equity transactions with a particular focus on the middle market and corporate mergers and acquisitions. She represents private equity and venture funds, management teams, corporates, financial institutions and entrepreneurs. Her practice spans leveraged buyouts, corporate restructurings, management incentive schemes, as well as general corporate matters and portfolio work. She is a member of the firm’s private equity group.
“We are delighted to welcome Gemma to the partnership,”
Bryan, Garnier & Co, a pan-European investment bank focusing on growth companies, has appointed Gary Lilley as managing director of its European sales desk in New York.
With over 30 years of institutional equity sales experience in both London and New York, Lilley will take on the commercial follow-up of the US accounts, as well as help Bryan Garnier Securities to leverage its footprint within the institutional community.
Before joining Bryan Garnier Securities, Lilley managed the European sales desks at both UBS and Morgan Stanley, which he left in 2011 to become the head of sales at Nomura Securities.
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