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Boodle Hatfield has promoted Rahul Thakrar to Partner. The promotion takes effect from 1 May 2016.
Thakrar is a Partner in Boodle Hatfield’s Corporate team. His clients include investors, entrepreneurs and private businesses in a variety of sectors ranging from real estate to technology. He has a particularly strong practice in advising on corporate real estate M&A transactions and joint ventures.
Boodle Hatfield’s Corporate team has for the past four years been ranked by the independent research directory The Legal 500 as a ‘top tier’ firm for M&A deals (up to GBP50 million). Clients of the team include family offices,
Nordic Capital Fund VII has sold its remaining shares in Thule Group AB (Thule). Following the sale, Nordic Capital Funds no longer hold any shares in Thule, after a nine-year holding period under which Thule has been transformed and developed into a consumer-oriented global leader in products for an active and mobile lifestyle.
“It has been rewarding to follow and support Thule’s journey to the modern and international consumer company it is today. Through support during rough patches and a strategy that has involved both investing in new business areas and divesting others, Thule is now a strong, profitable and
Growth in UK early-stage M&A activity has slowed to just 3 per cent year-on-year compared to over 14 per cent in the last quarter of 2015 due to uncertainty surrounding the results of the forthcoming EU referendum.
That’s according to the latest Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP) report released by Intralinks Holdings, a provider of software and services for managing M&A transactions. The findings of the Intralinks DFP are also reflected in the results of the latest Intralinks Global M&A Sentiment Survey, which polled 1,500 global dealmakers, including 135 in the UK, in April 2016. Seventy seven per cent of
UK private equity has made a slow start in the first quarter of 2016, following the highest number of buy-outs since 2007, according to figures published by the Centre for Management Buyout Research (CMBOR) at Imperial College Business School.
The latest research, sponsored by Equistone Partners Europe Limited, shows that after positive growth in 2015, buy-outs in the UK were negatively affected by the turmoil in global markets at the start of this year. The first quarter reached the lowest total value since the end of 2009.
In 2015 there was GBP21.1 billion invested in UK buy-outs – the
The recovery rate for private equity transactions – the proportion of capital recovered in any deal where some loss has occurred – continues to maintain record levels of around 80 per cent, according to figures released by CEPRES.
The results come from the new Loss & Recovery Benchmarking in PE.Analyzer, the first platform to benchmark private equity deals, portfolio companies and funds. The analysis is based on investments in 34,743 portfolio companies across 2,235 private equity funds and USD1.5 trillion of capital. The new Loss & Recovery Benchmarking is now available with PE.Analyzer together with performance benchmarking.
“With concern of
An investment subsidiary of Investindustrial is to acquire Valtur Group from its current owners, Sofia which belongs to the Ljuljdjuraj family, who used to control the Valtur Group and will retain a minority shareholding.
The acquisition of Valtur represents the first step of a global project aimed at creating a leading Mediterranean resort operator with Italian roots. The strategy is to consolidate Valtur’s leadership position through the strengthening of its brand presence in the Mediterranean, and by promoting the Italian resort style internationally to increasing numbers of in-bound tourists.
Today Investindustrial has signed two other agreements: with Prelios SGR SpA
Infosys, a specialist in consulting, technology and next-generation services, has partnered with Trifacta to provide a data wrangling solution for the Infosys Information Platform (IIP) and Infosys’ other platforms and offerings.
Infosys clients can now leverage Trifacta’s intuitive self-service solution for exploring and transforming data—a critical step in any analytics process. Business analysts and data scientists can integrate large, complex data sets, transform and filter the results and share valuable insights, all from data stored and processed within the IIP platform.
“Trifacta’s market-leading technology will enable Infosys clients to bring together diverse and disparate data into a more digestible
BlueVine, a leading online provider of everyday financing to small businesses, has secured a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. Financial terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Citi Ventures' investment will support BlueVine’s growth as it continues to scale its cloud-based working capital financing platform for small businesses and expand into new market segments. Citi Ventures makes strategic investments in dynamic startups and partners with its portfolio companies and Citi's global businesses to accelerate their growth and ability to scale. This represents a follow-on investment to BlueVine’s USD40 million Series C financing in January 2016.
“With a portfolio that
BGF (Business Growth Fund) continues to grow its investment team covering the North of England with the appointment of Ben Barker, who will be based across BGF’s offices in Manchester and Leeds.
Barker has more than 13 years’ experience of equity funding gained, most recently, as a director at Caird Capital where he worked on a number of transactions including the sale of Tuffnells to Connect Group plc and the investment in and subsequent IPO of McColl’s Retail Group. Barker began his career at HSBC and held senior roles at Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance, where he worked for eight
PRA Group, a specialist in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, has completed its public tender offer to purchase shares of Warsaw-based DTP SA (DTP) on 26 April, 2016.
Some 99.73 per cent of the shares in DTP have been tendered at PLN 4.90 per share (approximately USD1.26 per share), for an aggregate purchase price of PLN 174.5 million (approximately USD45.0 million). PRA has received all approvals and has filed all notices required for the completion of the tender.
“The DTP acquisition further strengthens PRA Group’s position within the competitive marketplace and provides a fully integrated platform for continued growth in
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