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European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital is to acquire a majority stake in the aerospace division of Avingtrans Plc, a UK precision engineering components manufacturer for the commercial aerospace sector.
Sigma is being bought for an enterprise value of GBP65.0 million and its existing management, led by its founding CEO, Mark Johnson will acquire a minority interest. Completion of the transaction is subject to Avingtrans Plc shareholder approval and regulatory approvals from the German and Austrian competition authorities.
Sigma operates from four sites in the UK and two sites in China employing approximately 750 people and serves global aerospace
Hamilton Lane, a global private markets asset management firm, has promoted Vesna Sipp and Richard Hope to Managing Director.
Sipp joined Hamilton Lane 10 years ago and has been instrumental in developing strategic client relationships throughout the EMEA investor community. Previously a senior member of Hamilton Lane’s Fund Investment team, Vesna has also been integrally involved in sourcing, evaluating and monitoring primary fund opportunities across the EMEA region.
A member of Hamilton Lane’s Global Investment Team, Richard leads the firm’s Secondaries and Co-Investment activities in EMEA and actively participates on a number of prominent Private Equity Fund advisory boards.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges (Weil) is advising Bain Capital and Advent International on the EUR1.1 billion acquisition by Mercury UK Holdco Limited, the current majority shareholder of Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane’s (ICBPI), of Setefi Services (Setefi Processing) and Intesa Sanpaolo Card (ISP Card) from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo.
Setefi Processing, based in Milan, is a payment processing platform of Intesa Sanpaolo in Italy, one of Europe’s leading banking groups and Italy’s number one commercial bank. ISP Card is the payment processing platform of Intesa Sanpaolo’s CEE business and operated in nine countries including Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Croatia.
Private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo has completed its sale of InfoVista, a specialist in service performance assurance solutions for IP-based network and application services, to Apax Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“The sale is a tremendous outcome for both our investors and InfoVista, and empowers the company to continue its successful growth trajectory,” says Robert Sayle, a partner at Thoma Bravo. “It serves as the culmination of a complex take-private transaction on a European exchange, the execution of two major acquisitions, and a deep partnership with management to accelerate the company’s organic growth. I
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior secured credit facility to support the refinancing of Solterra Recycling Solutions (Solterra), a portfolio company of Roark Capital.
Based in Ewing, New Jersey, Solterra provides non-hazardous solid waste, organic waste and recycling collection and hauling services. The company serves over 30 municipalities, 400,000 residential households and 2,000 commercial customers throughout central and north New Jersey and in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Nir Regev’s Regev Group, which is based in Missouri, has joined DFPG Investments, a national independent broker-dealer and RIA.
"We are very pleased that Nir identified the fit with our firm," says DFPG's CEO, Mike Bendix. "Nir brings a lot of value to DFPG, not the least of which is his stellar reputation and respect from so many industry peers and partners."
Nir Regev (pictured) says: "Part of the draw to DFPG was the established expertise they provide relating to alternative products, which I consider important to my practice. But the tipping point for me was DFPG's people. I recognised
Private equity funds managed by Baird Capital have invested in investment consultancy bfinance. Current CEO David Vafai (pictured) will continue to lead bfinance. He will be joined on the board by Andrew Ferguson, managing director at Baird Capital, and CFO Mark Brownlie, as directors.
Also joining the board as chairman is highly experienced financial and investor relations professional Tim Trotter, who founded public relations group Ludgate, co-founded Citywire, the information service for the global fund management industry and is a non-executive chairman at a number of financial services and asset management related blue-chip companies.
The collective expertise and experience of
CDC International Capital has named Joanna Hislop as an independent administrator and member of the company’s investment committee.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Sciences Po in Paris, as well as a holder of an MBA from Harvard Business School, Hislop started her career in 1995 at Goldman Sachs in London, where she was Managing Director within direct alternative investments, the department in charge of the bank’s private equity funds and private debt.
Following this, she spent six years as a partner and investment committee member at Park Square Capital, a European investment fund based
Antares Capital is serving as administrative agent, lead arranger and bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of SambaSafety by ABRY Partners.
Headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, SambaSafety provides driving and fleet safety solutions and motor vehicle records to every industry across the US.
“Antares’ flexibility and strong presence in the technology space made them a great partner on this transaction,” says Nathan Ott, principle for ABRY Partners.
“We’re pleased to have supported ABRY on this transaction,” says Sean Sullivan, managing director for Antares Capital. “SambaSafety’s experienced management team and innovative approach together with ABRY’s expertise is
WorldQuant Ventures, an angel investment firm focused on disruptive companies in technology, with a particular focus on data and finance, has invested in Certrax Risk Compliance Solutions, Inc.
Certrax is a state-of-the-art application and service that allows real estate owners, property managers and service providers to manage third-party risk by electronically tracking, managing and storing contracts and insurance certificates. As part of the agreement, Steven Lau, Managing Director at WorldQuant Ventures, will join Certrax’s Board of Directors.
The application’s cutting edge technology, along with its superior leadership, including Certrax’s Chief Executive Officer Brian O’Keefe and Chief Operating Officer Robert Mitchell,
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