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Jamie Grant has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn’s real estate and infrastructure practice as a partner.
Grant joins the firm’s Glasgow office from MacRoberts where, for the last 23 years, he has been a partner.
Grant has decades of experience and in-depth expertise in property and environmental law (in particular in contaminated land) honed from advising clients in energy and renewables; infrastructure; ports and harbours and hotels and leisure.
His projects have included onshore wind and hydro schemes, bio-mass and anaerobic digestion schemes, a tidal scheme and advising a landfill operator in the largest mineral ownership dispute to come
Albion Ventures’ fourth Albion Growth Report finds that nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of small businesses with over five employees plan to grow dramatically or moderately over the next two years and only 5 per cent think they will shrink or wind down.
Based on interviews with 1,000 SMEs, the fourth Albion Growth Report sheds light on the factors that create and impede growth in post-Brexit Britain. The report finds that finding skilled staff is the biggest challenge.
With 50 per cent of small businesses with over five employees planning to grow their headcount over the next two years,
Hamilton Lane, a private markets asset management firm, has invested in and formed a strategic partnership with Bison (Boston Illiquid Securities Offering Network), a company focused on creating analytical systems for the private markets industry.
The investment represents a continued commitment from Hamilton Lane to support breakthrough technologies, enhanced data transparency and more robust analytics for the private markets.
Hamilton Lane and Bison have released Cobalt, an analytics platform designed to meet the evolving needs of all private markets constituents – both limited partners and general partners.
The Cobalt LP product, exclusively distributed by Hamilton Lane, offers enhanced
Dragoneer Investment Group is to acquire New Mountain Capital’s 35 per cent stake in AmWINS in a deal which values the company at approximately USD2.6 billion.
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) will own 30 per cent and more than 440 AmWINS employee shareholders will own the remaining 35 per cent. Other terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, AmWINS is a specialty insurance broker placing in excess of USD13 billion in premiums through its relationships with more than 20,000 retail brokerage firms and over 1,000 insurance markets.
AmWINS’ expertise
Antares Capital is serving as administrative agent and joint lead arranger on a USD121.6 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Del Real Foods by a private equity fund affiliated with Palladium Equity Partners.
Founded in 2002 and based in Mira Loma, California, Del Real offers authentic, clean label, traditionally prepared Mexican cuisine, including prepared meats, specialty items (tamales and pupusas), fire roasted salsas, and side dishes (rice and beans).
The company has developed long term customer relationships with market players across diversified sales channels, including club stores, ethnic grocery stores, traditional grocery stores and food
Crestbridge in Luxembourg will act as the manager for the first platform to be launched under Luxembourg’s recently introduced Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF) regime.
Following the approval of the RAIF law in July 2016, the launch of the first RAIF platform is expected to prove attractive for a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, real estate and hedge funds.
It offers non-EU and EU managers a fast, cost-effective, simple and robust way to access European investor capital.
Under the new RAIF regime, the regulatory focus lies with the Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) rather than
Seacoast Capital has added Tom Ley as a principal in the firm’s investment team.
Ley has more than 20 years of experience in private equity headlined with his time leading the West Coast offices of Lincolnshire Management, HIG Capital and Guggenheim Partners.
“We’ve known Tom for many years and are excited to have him on the Seacoast team,” says Seacoast Partner Jeff Holland. “Tom will be based in San Francisco, but will be focused on expanding Seacoast’s relationships and deal flow nationwide.”
Prior to joining Seacoast, Ley opened and ran the San Francisco offices for private equity firms
Private equity firm Doughty Hanson’s Doughty Hanson & Co III and Doughty Hanson & Co V have agreed to sell their stakes in LM Wind Power, a manufacturer of wind blades, to GE for an enterprise value of EUR1.5 billion.
The acquisition is valued at 8.3 times 2016 forecast EBITDA. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2017 subject to regulatory approvals.
Originally founded in 1940 as a furniture manufacturer, LM Wind Power has evolved into one of the leading players in the production of blades for wind turbines. LM Wind Power has a global
Vistra has played a key role in the acquisition of Thomson Reuters' IP and science business by Baring Private Equity and Onex Partners for USD3.55 billion.
All 64 Vistra offices were involved across 41 distinct jurisdictions. Vistra was able to help overcome complexity and provide integrated corporate secretarial and governance assistance during the transaction.
Arjan Schaapman, group managing director international expansion/corporate and private clients, says: “Vistra was delighted to assist with such a significant transaction. The co-operation between the 64 offices in 41 different jurisdictions allowed us to fit the individual needs of our clients irrespective of the scale
Recruitment financing provider Sonovate has raised GBP14 million in a Series B funding round led by Global Founders Capital, the investment vehicle of Rocket Internet, and supported by Dawn Capital.
Comprising GBP9 million in equity and GBP5 million in debt funding, this round of investment follows the GBP20 million funding round announced in February this year in a Series A round led by Dawn Capital with debt funding provided by Shawbrook Business Credit.
Richard Prime and Damon Chapple, former directors of a FTSE 250 recruitment agency, launched Sonovate in 2014 as an alternative to the traditional invoice finance on
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