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Palatine Private Equity has sold IT services business Selection for GBP34.8 million to AIM listed Castle Street Investment (CSI).
Selection provides fully outsourced IT solutions to over 500 organisations across the public and private sector. Clients include David Lloyd Leisure, Day Lewis Pharmacy, KPMG, Nuffield Health and Bibby Financial Services.
Palatine backed a GBP15m management buyout of the business in December 2011.
The management team, led by Managing Director Grahame Harrington, Chairman Alan Howarth and Finance Director Mark Woodall, have transformed Selection from a traditional break/fix maintenance IT support business to a fully outsourced IT managed service provider
Botify, the search marketing analytics platform, has secured a USD7.2 million series A investment by Idinvest and Ventech. The funding will be used for product development, international expansion and hiring to accelerate the company's already impressive growth.
With its strong product differentiation, Botify is a SaaS platform providing search marketers with data and intelligence to optimise their sites and structurally increase organic, social and mobile traffic. Founded in 2012, Botify has seen a huge demand for its product and currently has more than 300 customers spanning 30 countries and ranging in size from SMBs to global enterprise customers in various
Raynaud is joining Idinvest Partners as an Investment Director. He will source, analyse, and structure investments within the Private Debt and Strategy & Solutions departments, with a specific focus on asset-based financing.
Before joining Idinvest Partners, Raynaud spent four years in Qatar within the Capital Markets department of the sovereign wealth fund QIA. He structured asset-based financing, particularly in real estate, as well as investments and hedging transactions across asset classes (equity, fixed income, FX and rates). Before that, he worked for 6 years within the Strategic Equity/Corporate Equity Derivatives team of Natixis as a structurer and 2 years as
DP World and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have launched a new joint venture company targeting ports, transportation and logistics infrastructure in Russia.
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, DP World Chairman and Kirill Dmitriev, Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO, have signed a document determining the key terms and principles of the joint venture in which DP World will own an 80 per cent shareholding with the remaining 20 per cent held by RDIF.
Under the name ‘DP World Russia’, the company will target marine, dry ports and logistics infrastructure in different parts of Russia.
‘DP World Russia’ is
Maslow Capital (Maslow), a provider of development finance in the UK, and TPG Special Situations Partners (TSSP), the dedicated credit and special situations platform of TPG , have formed a joint venture to leverage their collective expertise in the real estate lending sector.
The relationship will bring together the regional expertise, relationships and deal origination capabilities of Maslow and the global strength and resources of TSSP’s investment platform.
Maslow, established in 2009, is a leader in the UK residential property development finance market, providing Senior Stretch and Mezzanine Finance to experienced developers. TSSP has extensive experience with global public
Baltic region private equity and venture capital investor BaltCap has exited its investment in a the 18MW Tuuleenergia wind farm in Estonia and the 24MW Eurakras wind farm in Lithuania. These wind farms were acquired by Lietuvos energija, the Lithuanian state-owned energy group.
“BaltCap has always believed in the future of green energy and the wind farm investments matched well our investment criteria,” says Peeter Saks, Managing Partner of BaltCap. “As a private equity investor, our task was to be engaged in these projects during the development phase which was successfully completed in 2015 when both wind farms were commissioned.
For the third year in a row, Baird has posted record results for its Global Investment Banking business.
During 2015 Baird generated record revenues following previous record revenue years of 2013 and 2014, set new firm records in virtually every M&A advisory category – total revenue, number of closed deals, number of closed sell-side deals, total transaction volume and average fee per deal – and, increased debt advisory activity by 70 per cent with unique embedded leverage process.
With an increasing focus on growth sectors, over half of Baird’s 2015 capital raising activity was in Healthcare, Consumer and Technology
Increasing investor demand for returns that are uncorrelated to the overall market is driving growing portfolio allocations to alternative investments, according to research into private equity and real estate investment processing, by Cutter Associates.
Among the firms participating in the Cutter research, more than 90 per cent are now invested in alternative assets—an increase of 11 per cent over what CutterResearch reported in the spring of 2012. And virtually all participants are planning to increase these allocations.
Real estate and private equity assets are among the alternative investments in high demand. Half of the firms participating in the Cutter
By Daren Glenister (pictured), Field CTO for Intralinks – Will 2016 be the year that businesses finally stop being their own worst enemies when it comes to data security? In 2015, incident after incident demonstrated that management and IT staff are largely oblivious to bad employee practices, such as the use of unsanctioned, consumer-grade file sharing apps. And, if they are aware of the behaviours, they’re often unaware of the associated risks.
A Ponemon Institute report found that more than 60 percent of C-level executives – including IT leaders – confessed to accidentally forwarding documents to people not authorised to
David E Barrett, a transactions lawyer with significant financial institutions experience, has joined Norton Rose Fulbright’s New York office as a partner. Barrett comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Barrett’s practice focuses primarily on acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, securities offerings and other transactions involving financial institutions and financial services businesses. His transactional experience includes significant cross-border matters and acquisitions as well as divestitures of financial services firms operating on a global scale.
Barrett represents a wide range of clients, including global universal banks, investment managers, securities and investment firms, private equity and
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