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Inflexion Private Equity has promoted Mark Williams from investment director to partner with immediate effect.
Williams joined the investment team in 2011 and has been involved in a number of transactions including the firm’s investment in corporate travel company Reed & Mackay last month; the carve-out of Kynetec; and the GBP92 million buyout of Alcumus.
Williams sits on the board of all three companies.
He was also closely involved in the buyout and subsequent exit of CTC Aviation Group, one of the world’s largest independent pilot training companies, which generated a 3x return in May 2015.
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Aquila Capital is expanding its advisory board with the appointment of Daniel Just (pictured), chairman of the executive board at Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), Germany’s largest public pension fund.
Just has chaired the executive board at BVK since 2013 and previously headed BVK’s asset management division.
Under his tenure the pension fund established real asset investments as an integral part of its portfolio allocation and was one of the first signatories to the UN principles for responsible investment (UN PRI).
Bayerische Versorgungskammer is the competence and service centre for occupational and communal pension schemes. As a public authority of
Law firm Taylor Wessing has advised Rutland Partners on the sale of Millbrook Group to Spectris for GBP122 million, realising a return for investors of over six times their investment.
Taylor Wessing advised Rutland on the acquisition of Millbrook from General Motors in 2013.
The business, a test, validation and engineering service provider, owns a 665-acre site offering extensive test and validation facilities which complement over 45 miles of on and off road test tracks with a variety of surfaces, features and terrains.
Millbrook also acquired Test World in Finland in 2015, a deal on which Taylor Wessing
Ogier has appointed a new partner in its Luxembourg office to head its corporate practice.
Bertrand Geradin, whose appointment takes the firm’s 25-strong Luxembourg team to five partners, has more than 15 years’ experience with law firms in Luxembourg, Brussels, London and Philadelphia.
He specialises in corporate law advising private equity and real estate clients, asset managers as well as multinational companies.
Ogier is the only law firm with a presence in Luxembourg, Cayman, BVI, Jersey and Guernsey. The Luxembourg office was established in 2012 by founding partners Francois Pfister and Daniel Richards, and has since seen significant
Equistone Partners Europe has invested in managed service provider Apogee, a manufacturer of print and document technology and services, in a transaction valuing the company at GBP185 million.
The Maidstone-headquartered company employs in excess of 450 staff and operates from 14 office locations across the UK and Europe.
Apogee has grown run rate turnover to more than GBP120 million this year and provides organisations with document technology and managed service solutions from multiple global brands including Ricoh, Canon, Xerox, Konica Minolta and Kyocera.
Equistone is an independent investment firm which operates across the UK, France, Germany and
Private equity firm CenterOak Partners has completed a majority investment in Wetzel’s Pretzels, the second largest owner and franchisor of soft pretzel stores.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Pasadena, California, Wetzel’s Pretzels has been serving premium freshly baked soft pretzels since Bill Phelps and Rick Wetzel founded the company in 1994.
In addition to its signature hand-rolled soft pretzels, its menu includes Wetzel Dogs, Wetzel Bitz pretzel bites, fresh lemonade, granita and other beverages.
It has more than 300 company-owned and franchise locations in 28 states and six countries. Its stores
Sebastian Ehrnrooth has become managing partner at Segulah, having previously shared the role with Henrik Lif who is leaving the company.
Ehrnrooth has been with Segulah for 16 years.
Lif joined Segulah in 2014 and became co-managing partner in 2015. His responsibilities will be shared by the partner group consisting of Percy Calissendorff, Marcus Planting-Bergloo, Erik Thornell, Håkan Dahlin, Sebastian Ehrnrooth and Gabriel Urwitz.
”Henrik’s departure comes after a discussion in the partner group about the management of the firm. We appreciate Henrik’s contribution to Segulah and wish him the best of luck with future endeavours,” says Ehrnrooth.
Orrick has advised a consortium of international private equity firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, HarbourVest Partners, Innova Capital, MC Partners and Oak Investment Partners, in the sale of Slovakian telecommunications provider Benestra to private equity house Sandberg Capital.
The deal, announced one 26 May 2016, has now closed.
Lead partner Shawn Atkinson has been advising members of the consortium of investors since they first acquired the assets of telecommunications service provider GTS Central Europe in 2007.
Following over six years of investing in GTS’s growth and building the company into one of the leading telecoms providers
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Inventis Investment Holdings have agreed to establish a joint investment platform in Russia.
The platform will leverage the increasing cooperation between Russia and China from trade, economic, investment and technological standpoints.
Under the partnership agreement, the parties will jointly invest up to USD500 million, focusing on key sectors such as food and agriculture, consumer and retail trade.
Mining and processing of mineral resources, tourism, light industry, transport and infrastructure will also be primary targets.
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the RDIF, says: “This is an exciting opportunity to work with one
Team17, a games developer and publisher best known for the popular Worms franchise, has secured a GBP16.5 million investment from mid-market private equity firm LDC to fund its expansion.
With a 25-year heritage in developing games, retailing and publishing, Team17 creates and sells a range of titles worldwide through major digital distributors such as Sony, Microsoft, Steam, Apple and Google.
The business also works closely with third party developers to help bring their products to market, such as the highly-anticipated Yooka-Laylee game from Playtonic.
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Wakefield and Nottingham, Team17 is led by CEO
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