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CVC Credit Partners has acquired Northport Capital TRS (Northport) from Resource Capital Corp througgh a partnership managed by CVC Credit Partners, supported by a fund advised by Coller Capital.
This will increase assets under management in CVC Credit Partners’ global direct lending strategy to approximately USD1 billion and complement its existing European strategy. The transaction will provide significant additional primary capital for the business to maintain its historic investment approach.
Northport is a direct lender that specialises in providing credit facilities to private middle market and lower middle market companies across North America. Northport has a strong investment track
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has provided GBP37.5million of acquisition and development capital to accelerate the international growth of ByBox, a field service engineer logistics and supply chain technology solutions provider.
The transaction values the business at GBP105million.
Headquartered in Harwell, Oxfordshire, ByBox provides technology-enabled locker-based solutions to help more than 250 blue chip clients, including BT, Fujitsu, Npower, Marks & Spencer, Walmart and Vodafone to manage their engineering parts inventory and solve difficult supply chain problems.
Each year, ByBox ensures more than 20 million mission-critical parts reach the field engineers that maintain the UK’s technology, telecoms and
The number of Jersey-registered alternative investment fund managers marketing into Europe through national private placement regimes (NPPRs) under the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) continued to rise in H1 2016.
According to figures from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), as at June 2016, 115 alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) had been authorised in Jersey to market into Europe through NPPRs, up 11 per cent compared to December 2015. Over the same period, the number of Jersey alternative investment funds (AIFs) being marketed into Europe through NPPR stood at 251, representing a 9 per cent increase.
These figures
Law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised a group of German investors, led by Nordwind Capital (Nordwind) and Dr Hans Albrecht, on their participation in Iranian start-up ChapAgha.com.
WFW advised Nordwind and its fellow investors on the drafting and signing of the participation agreement, as well as on the implementation of the participation and capital increase in Iran.
Nordwind is a Munich based private equity firm specialising in acquisitions of medium-sized companies and growth capital investments. Dr Albrecht is its managing director and founder.
ChapAgha, which translates to Mr Print, offers online printing services in Iran
Omnes Capital is selling its majority stake in SVP Group to MML Capital. Omnes acquired its holding in the Group in 2011.
The transaction includes significant involvement by SVP’s management team – Olivier Lenormand, its CEO, François Laubier and Bertrand Degruson – whose holdings will increased as a result.
The SVP Group enables decision makers to leverage their ability to act on behalf of their company or organisation, and to adapt to the new situations they face in meeting their responsibilities.
Based in Saint-Ouen (93), the SVP Group supports more than 30,000 decision-makers in 10,000 client companies and
Golub Capital, as Administrative Agent and Joint Lead Arranger, has provided a senior credit facility to support the acquisition of RelaDyne by Audax Private Equity (Audax).
RelaDyne, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an industry-leading lubricant, fuel, and DEF distributor providing customers with integrated reliability management services for industrial and commercial businesses. RelaDyne's distribution platform spans more than 40 locations serving customers across the Central, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern US.
This marks the fifth transaction Golub Capital and Audax have completed together over the past year.
"We are thrilled to partner with Audax to support RelaDyne's impressive growth strategy and management," says
Deloitte has expanded its Irish investment management team with the appointment of Matthew Foley (pictured) to partner.
Foley specialises in the provision of assurance and advisory services to clients in the investment management and insurance sectors. He has extensive experience in audit, accounting, advisory and regulatory services, garnered from working with both Irish domiciled companies as well as large multinational financial services groups.
Mike Hartwell, Investment Management Leader at Deloitte, says: “Our investment management team is focused on delivering world class services to our clients along with providing insights that inform and enable them to make confident business decisions
Seventy three per cent of GPs have or would consider using some form of financing in the secondaries market despite the fact that 87 per cent view leverage as non-essential, according to a survey by Investec Fund Finance.
The poll of GPs and advisers in the secondaries market reveals that, whilst leverage is not essential on every deal, it is a widely used tool.
Gregg Kantor, Investec Fund Finance, says: “There seems to be a dichotomy between how the private equity industries views leverage and how they actually use it. While the use of debt is not appropriate in
Velocity Fund Partners has acquired the Philadelphia clinical contract research organisation (CRO) Indipharm and is relaunching the CRO as InClinica. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Velocity Fund Partners targets promising life sciences opportunities and believes InClinica is well-positioned for growth.
“InClinica’s existing global footprint and experience in early drug and device development and clinical trials, combined with Velocity’s unique experience and contacts in both healthcare and life sciences, will enable InClinica to provide companies with significant value in all clinical phases,” says Ken Melani, Managing Partner of Velocity Fund Partners and Chairman of InClinica.
InClinica
Sizmek, an open ad management company that delivers omnichannel campaigns, is to be acquired by affiliates of Vector Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm, for USD3.90 per share in an all-cash tender offer.
Vector Capital, founded in 1997, is a San Francisco-based private equity firm that partners with management teams to transform and grow technology businesses. Over its history, Vector has invested USD1.6 billion in more than 40 technology companies, including in the advertising technology space.
“We believe this transaction provides Sizmek with the resources and flexibility to execute upon our long term strategy of becoming the leading independent, global
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