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Park Square Capital Partners has launched its third subordinated debt fund, securing EUR1.2 billion of investor commitments with advice from Carey Olsen's investment fund specialists.
The fund, Park Square Capital Partners III, will continue the strategy of investing in the debt of high-quality levered companies backed by leading private equity sponsors across Europe and the US. The fund is able to use leverage taking its total investable capital to EUR1.5 billion. The predecessor fund, Park Square Capital Partners II, which is a 2010 vintage fund, closed at EUR850 million.
Carey Olsen partner Andrew Boyce (pictured) and senior associate Alex Mauger
Oresa and entrepreneur Cristian Amza have acquired La Fantana Group from Innova Capital. Completion of the transaction is subject to the customary approvals, and the price of the transaction has not been disclosed.
La Fântâna is a provider of home and office water solutions in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) and the second largest provider of water solutions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In 2015 the La Fântâna Group posted consolidated revenues of over EUR 42 million and served more than 50 thousand customers.
The Group led by Cristian Amza has effectively shaped the Romanian and Serbian water solution markets and
The plastics industry is seeing continued strength, with segments outperforming the broader industrials market, according to the Plastics & Packaging Insider, an industry report by Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL).
The BGL report documents continued strong private equity interest in the plastics space, with differentiated businesses in high demand, supported by findings from a roundtable survey of equity sponsors with investments in the industry. The fragmented landscape is conducive to acquisitive growth, with sponsors aggressively pursuing synergistic buys that bring technology and capability expansion and access to new markets.
"Of particular interest is a focus on complex parts and
Audax Private Equity has partnered with management to acquire HALO Branded Solutions (HALO). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Sterling, Illinois, HALO is a distributor in the USD20 billion per year promotional products industry. The company has a nationwide sales force and expects to continue its profitable growth by offering innovative client solutions, priced competitively, and supported by world-class operations and award-winning marketing.
Geoffrey S Rehnert, Co-CEO of Audax, says: “We are impressed with HALO’s leadership position in an industry that is positioned for strong growth. The loyalty of their sales team, passion of their support
Aleph Venture Capital has appointed Aaron Rosenson as partner, the first not to have been part of the firm’s founding team.
Rosenson joins Aleph as its third equal partner effective immediately, three years after Eden Shochat and Michael Eisenberg founded the fund. He joins the fund from Insight Venture Partners where he was an associate responsible for identifying some of Insight’s most promising investments, including deals such as Docker, HelloFresh, Moat, Gainsight and Illuminate Education.
“We are thrilled to welcome Aaron as our third partner,” says Shochat. “Aaron shares Aleph’s core values and hallmark qualities: a tireless work ethic on
The managing directors of tax and business advisory firm True Partners Consulting have purchased all of the interests in the company previously owned by private equity firm Waud Capital Partners.
Twenty-five Managing Directors located in Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Long Island, Los Angeles, Manhattan, San Jose and Tampa make up the ownership group and together, they will continue the growth supported by their private equity sponsor for the past ten years.
“We are extremely excited to be taking this next step in the evolution of the firm,” says Cary McMillan, CEO. “We’ve had a great relationship with the Waud Capital team
Petainer UK Holdings has signed a binding agreement with KKR Credit for a 100 million debt and equity investment. The funding from KKR Credit will be used to refinance the Company’s capital structure and also finance the implementation of the Company’s growth strategy.
Next Wave Partners (Next Wave) will remain the majority shareholders and KKR Credit is taking a substantial minority shareholding. The transaction is expected to complete later in April 2016.
Petainer is a global provider of packaging solutions to a diverse range of consumer food and beverage end markets, including beer, wine, cider, carbonated soft drinks (CSDs), water
Andrew James Lom, an investment management lawyer, has joined the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright’s New York office as a partner.
Lom (pictured) comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. He represents global asset managers, investors and private companies in a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters.
In his asset and wealth management practice, Lom advises clients on fund formations, private equity transactions, SEC and related regulatory matters, corporate issues and tax matters. In addition, he assists family offices and other financial investors with investment due diligence, private equity transactions and holding company structuring and
Hedge fund and private equity firms are dominating office leasing in core areas of London among the financial services sector (excluding banks), with latest figures revealing strong demand, according to research out from Cushman & Wakefield.
In the first quarter of this year, take-up of office space from non-banking financial services firms was around 240,000 sq ft with hedge funds accounting for approximately a quarter (23 per cent) and private equity nearly a fifth (18 per cent). These figures are slightly down on overall comparisons to 2015, which was an extremely buoyant period for financial services companies according to the
London specialist consultancy firm, Compliance and Risk Consultancy (CRC), has formed strategic partnership with Berlin and Brussels-based company Idox Compliance.
Idox Compliance is a leading of compliance solutions in Europe, providing compliance training expertise to corporate and public sector customers across all sectors and sizes.
The collaboration will enable both partners to add complementary services to their existing offering, assisting clients to better meet their increasing compliance needs and regulatory requirements. CRC is the only UK company involved in this type of collaboration with Idox.
In addition to serving their existing clients, as part of the collaboration, CRC and Idox
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