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European growth private equity firm Keensight Capital has appointed David Piccoli as a Senior Analyst.
Piccoli has over three years of experience in private-equity investing within Europe, and has developed a particularly strong expertise in the healthcare sector.
He began his career in 2013 as an analyst within the Healthcare team of the 3i group and actively helped this team to become independent from the 3i group, a process which established a new entity, the investment fund ArchiMed. As a founding member of the ArchiMed team, he worked for 2 years as Senior Analyst, and had specific responsibilities for
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has supported the successful acquisition of EnServe Group by Rubicon Partners and Grovepoint Capital.
EnServe is a leading provider of infrastructure support services to the utilities sector, operating principally in the UK. It was acquired during December 2010 by Cinven and today comprises three divisions: Electricity, Utility Services and Analytics. The Group works in partnership with a large number of commercial, public and utility organisations, operating from more than 30 locations across the UK and employing 1,650people.
EnServe had a group turnover of circa GBP200 million in the year ending 30 April 2015. Its
Clearwater International has advised shareholders of education finance specialists HCS Education on its sale to Access Group.
HCSS Education provides practical and effective software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to schools. Consistently adding value through its extensive experience and knowledge of the education sector, the business’ objective is to ensure that schools, academies and local authorities have the tools, support and guidance to ensure effective financial management. Its core financial planning products are soon to be joined by a market-leading full accounting software package which will also be delivered as SaaS.
Access is a leading author of integrated business management software. Its
Investors no longer regard Central and Eastern Europe as a coherent investment area as countries in the region present increasingly different risk profiles, according to CMS’s Emerging Europe M&A Report 2015/2016, published by in conjunction with EMIS.
The report reveals that while the CEE M&A market overall was down on 2014, a number of markets saw increases in 2015 in both deal value and volume.
Helen Rodwell, Partner, CMS Prague, says: “Political changes can be seen to have a direct, and often immediate, impact on the levels of new investment and the sustainability of investments. The net result for the region
Leveraged finance partner Olivier Vermeulen has joined the Paris office of law fimr Paul Hastings as a partner and head of the Finance practice in the office.
Vermeulen joins from King & Wood Mallesons, where he was head of the Paris Finance department, and brings a team of three lawyers with him.
Vermeulen has broad experience in leveraged finance, funds financing, structured finance, debt restructuring and general lending and securitisation, advising financial institutions and private equity funds. He is recognised in Chambers Europe and Legal 500 EMEA for Banking & Finance.
“Paul Hastings is growing throughout Europe, particularly
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired Fiverun, an specialist in the mobile point of sale (mPOS) arena. Together with Vista’s December acquisition and merger of software leaders MarketLive and Shopatron, the addition of Fiverun will create a unified omnichannel commerce solutions company called Kibo.
Fiverun is best known for its experience reinventing in-store commerce through cloud-based solutions built on the most advanced technology in the world. The company provides innovative and scalable solutions to multinational retailers and brands, allowing for new features and capabilities that extend a retailer’s existing systems.
The merger of Fiverun, MarketLive, and Shopatron
Iranian investment group Turquoise Partners is predicting a significant increase in foreign investor interest in the country in the wake of the lifting of UN, EU and US sanctions.
Sanctions on Iran were lifted on Saturday 16 January paving the way for key sectors of the country’s economy, including banking, to resume commercial relations with the European Union.
Turquoise currently manages more than 90 per cent of all existing foreign portfolio investment on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The group operates across four core areas: investment management, brokerage, corporate advisory, and private equity/venture capital.
Rouzbeh Pirouz (pictured), executive
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors has appointed James K Hunt as Managing Partner & CEO of Middle Market Credit. In addition to focusing on corporate credit product development, he will work with the firm’s senior credit team based in Chicago and the junior capital team based in New York.
Those teams will continue to be led, respectively, by middle market lending veterans Ken Leonard, Al Ricchio, Andy Marek, and Doug Goodwille in Chicago and Tom Archie, John McNulty and Jenna Young in New York.
Kayne Anderson’s Middle Market Credit platform lends to US middle market companies seeking capital for growth,
Imperial Innovations Group has committed GBP24.75 million to the new UCL Technology Fund, the first investment fund that UCL (University College London) has established to commercialise its multidisciplinary research.
Over the next five years the fund is expected to invest up to GBP50 million to support ideas from academics in life sciences and physical sciences, and will be used for early-stage proof of concept funding, licensing opportunities and the formation of new spin-out companies.
As a limited partner (LP), Innovations has committed GBP24.75 million to the Fund, matched by a commitment in the same amount from the European Investment Fund.
LendInvest, an online lender for short-term property finance, has appointed its first in-house legal counsel to the company’s expanding team.
Ruth Pearson joins LendInvest from Simmons & Simmons where she was a Managing Associate in the Banking team. Ruth joined Simmons & Simmons as a trainee in 2007 and qualified in 2009. During her eight years in private practice, Ruth advised a wide range of financial institutions and borrowers on various banking and real estate finance transactions; she also spent nine months on secondment to the Real Estate Restructuring team at RBS.
At LendInvest, Ruth will work closely with
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