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Manulife Investments is introducing the Manulife International Equity Private Trust and a Series F for the Manulife Dollar-Cost Averaging Fund (DCAF).
The Manulife International Equity Private Trust will be part of the Manulife Private Investment Pools, which now has a lower minimum entry point of USD100,000.
Launched in December 2012, Manulife Private Investment Pools offer investment pools spanning a range of asset classes.
The portfolios are managed by asset managers at Manulife Asset Management and Mawer Investment Management. The Manulife International Equity Private Trust is invested primarily in equity securities of companies located outside of Canada and the
Noerr has advised the Chinese company Shenyang Blue Silver Group (SBS Group) on a strategic investment in Germany, with the engineering and machinery company expected to acquire 85 per cent of the shares in the Dürr Ecoclean Group at the end of the year.
With annual sales of around EUR200 million, Dürr Ecoclean specialises in surface processing systems for industrial parts.
SBS will acquire the shares via its listed subsidiary Shenyang Blue Silver Industry Automation Equipment Co. The industrial group has sales revenues of EUR200 million and a workforce of 700.
The transaction is still subject to approval
A waste management firm operating across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset has received a GBP2 million investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) alongside an additional GBP1.75 million of funding from HSBC to pursue growth.
The capital will be used to support the continued geographical expansion of Drainology across the South West.
Drainology, which carries out expert drain repair and surveys, is owned by Wales Environmental. Wales Environmental was founded in 1980 and provides liquid waste removal and drainage services to commercial and domestic customers. The business generates revenues close to GBP7 million and employs more than 80 people across the
Andrew Mertz has joined JMP Securities as a managing director in its equity capital markets division.
Based in the firm’s New York office, Mertz (pictured) assists publicly traded and privately held companies in the structuring and execution of equity offerings and equity-linked transactions.
“Andy has spent over 25 years in equity capital markets roles at some of Wall Street’s top growth-oriented investment banks,” says Mark Lehmann, JMP Securities’ president and head of equity capital markets. “His expertise and perspective will be hugely valuable to JMP’s corporate clients as they develop their financing strategies and seek access to institutional investors
The first half of 2016 has seen an overall shift towards larger private equity deals with total deal value up 2 per cent and volume slipping by 17 per cent, according to SL Capital’s Q2 2016 Private Equity Barometer.
The number of European private-equity-backed deals declined by 8 per cent in the second quarter of 2016 from 381 transactions in Q1 to 350. Combined deal value improved in the second quarter, rising by 66 per cent.
The aggregate value of buyouts in the year to Q2 2016 (EUR107.4 billion) was down a nominal 0.2 per cent on the previous 12
Funds affiliated with private equity firm Warburg Pincus have agreed to make a minority invesyment of USD255 million in BlueGrace Logistics, a private third-party logistics provider based in Tampa, Florida.
BlueGrace intends to use the funding to fuel the rapid growth of the business, including hiring 500-700 new employees, accelerating its national expansion plans and pursuing strategic acquisitions.
BlueGrace is presently building out the remainder of its 55,000 square feet of headquarters space in Riverview, Florida, and is scouting for more space across Tampa Bay. BlueGrace expects to significantly increase employment in Tampa, Chicago, Boston and other markets.
Data visualisation and analysis specialist PlanetRisk has acquired Analytic Strategies, a provider of enterprise analytics services to the federal government.
With this acquisition and the addition of Analytic Strategies’ expertise in enterprise analytics, data system management, operations research, supply chain management and intelligence analysis, PlanetRisk expands its suite of analytic capabilities.
“At the core of this acquisition are highly valuable data analytics capabilities that will allow PlanetRisk to further expand its robust services in big data engineering, advanced analytics, geospatial business intelligence, social network analysis and enterprise risk modeling,” says Paul McQuillan, president and CEO of PlanetRisk. “The addition
Steven A Levy has joined Cowen’s investment banking team as managing director, head of financial sponsors.
Levy is based in New York and reports to Kevin Raidy, Cowen’s head of investment banking.
“As head of financial sponsors coverage, Steve will play a key role in enhancing Cowen’s market presence across our core investment banking sectors,” says Raidy. “Steve’s experience as both an investment banker and business operator provides him with the perspective that allows him to connect with the sponsor community and their clients on a deeper level. We look forward to Steve’s successes in advancing our equity, debt
Nuveen has teamed with Artivest, a technology-driven alternatives investment platform, to bring alternative investments capabilities to RIAs, family offices, private banks and other financial advisers serving qualified high-net-worth investors.
Advisers will now be able to use investment tools, education materials and a client service team to access Nuveen and parent company TIAA’s alternative investment solutions, which currently comprise assets exceeding USD140 billion in aggregate, including real estate, agriculture, infrastructure, timber, agribusiness, private equity, as well as alternative credit-based, long/short, and special sector investment strategies.
Nuveen says alternative investments are playing an increasingly important role in building successful and diversified
Press Ganey, a healthcare performance improvement company, is to be acquired by EQT Equity fund EQT VII, part of the global private equity group EQT.
Under the terms of the agreement, EQT will acquire all of Press Ganey’s common stock.
Shareholders of record will receive USD40.50 in cash per share of Press Ganey common stock, resulting in an enterprise value of approximately USD2.35 billion.
The offer price represents a 20 per cent premium to the year to date volume-weighted average price and a 62 per cent premium to the initial public offering price for the common stock.
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