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Quilvest Private Equity has teamed up with Bpifrance to acquire French communications networks installation and systems integration specialist Sogetrel from Equistone.
Founded in 1985, Sogetrel partners with major public and private operators and local authorities, particularly in the rollout of ultra-high broadband networks. Sogetrel is also involved in communicating solutions (electronic security, connected objects, and machine-to-machine applications) including the recent rollout of the Gazpar smart meter for Grdf (Engie Group).
With an estimated turnover of more than EUR250 million in 2015 and a sharp increase compared with the previous year, Sogetrel employs a staff of 2,200 at 40 sites
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Bruce H Mendelsohn as a Partner in the firm’s Advisory business. Based in New York, Mendelsohn will lead the Firm’s restructuring practice, working closely with Partner Kevin Cofsky and the other members of the restructuring team.
Mendelsohn has more than 25 years of restructuring experience. He was most recently at Goldman Sachs where he was Head of the Americas Restructuring Group and part of the Leveraged Finance Team. During his 17 year career at Goldman Sachs, he established an impressive track record running Goldman’s restructuring advisory and rescue financing business where, since 2008, he focused
FS Investment Corporation IV (FSIC IV), a new business development company sponsored by Franklin Square Capital Partners (Franklin Square), has registered for public sale in a continuous offering up to 250 million shares of common stock.
FSIC IV is a publicly registered, non-traded business development company (BDC) focused on investing primarily in the senior secured debt of private middle market US companies, with the investment objective of generating current income and, to a lesser extent, long-term capital appreciation. It is one of the first BDCs to launch with a commission structure that is responsive to FINRA Regulatory Notice 15-02, lowering
NCR Corporation is to sell its Interactive Printer Solutions (IPS) division to Atlas Holdings. Financial terms of the transaction, which is exoected to close in the second quarter of 2016, have not been disclosed.
NCR’s IPS division is a provider of innovative consumable products and solutions for transactions, logistics and business processes in the retail, financial, hospitality, e-commerce, warehousing, distribution and manufacturing industries. The division provides a comprehensive suite of solutions including stock and custom colour-printed paper receipt rolls, pressure-sensitive label solutions, impact inking and thermal transfer ribbons, as well as other transaction related consumable products.
Atlas Holdings LLC
Independent institutional and private client service provider JTC has extended the capabilities of its Cayman Islands office to offer a broad range of fund administration services, following the completion of its acquisition of GAM’s Cayman Islands fund administration business.
Having announced the acquisition in October and with full regulatory approvals from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority now granted, JTC believes it is strongly positioned to provide a full spectrum of fund administration services, adding to the private client services it already offers from the jurisdiction, where it has had a presence since 2013.
With all 14 staff in the Cayman
Middle-market private equity firm Highlander Partners has acquired 60 per cent majority stake in QFG, a Polish convenience food producer. QFG will use the proceeds to invest in increasing its production capacity.
Following Highlander Partners’ acquisition, the founders of QFG have retained ownership of a 40 per cent stake. The capital increase will be invested in the company’s production ability, including the development of QFG’s third plant in central Poland, and an additional investment in innovative technologies for the production process.
"We are amazed by QFG’s expansion up to date. It stems from the company's unique openness to customer
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced that corporate and
TMT partner Dr Bernd Meyer-Witting has joined law firm Paul Hastings’ Frankfurt office as a partner as of 1 January 2016. Meyer-Witting joins from Clifford Chance, where he was a corporate partner and head of the German TMT practice.
Meyer-Witting advises domestic and foreign corporate clients from a wide variety of sectors (particularly Telecommunications, Media & Technology, Renewable Energy and Industrials) on a broad range of legal issues, in particular on M&A, joint ventures and commercial contracts.
“Bernd will be a great asset to the Frankfurt office,
Millennium Trust Company has launched the Millennium Alternative Investment Network (MAIN), a centralised online service dedicated to simplifying the custody of alternative investments.
MAIN aims to deliver an efficient end-to-end solution for individuals and advisors looking to hold alternative investments within either IRAs or taxable custody accounts. Through MAIN, investors can link to the growing number of investment platforms offering access to an increasing range of alternative investments. After completing their research and selecting an investment via a platform, investors can complete Millennium's required documents to open and fund an account and direct their investments entirely online.
Further, MAIN
The number of unlisted infrastructure funds being marketed to investors at the start of 2016 is at a record 181, up 25 per cent from the 145 funds being marketed at the start of 2015, according to figures released by Preqin.
These funds are targeting a combined USD125 billion, which represents an increase of 37 per cent on the USD91 billion being targeted at the start of last year. Two funds, Brookfield Infrastructure Fund III and Global Infrastructure Partners III, are targeting USD12.5 billion each. If they meet those targets at close, they will be the largest unlisted infrastructure funds
BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) and Orion Partners have formed a strategic partnership that brings together an Asia-focused alternative investment firm specialising in real estate and private equity, and an asset management specialist.
Under the terms of the transaction, BNPP IP – through its alternative and incubation specialist BNP Paribas Capital Partners (BNPP CP) – will acquire a minority stake in a new partnership based in Hong Kong. Orion Partners will continue to operate under its existing leadership and remain independent in all its businesses and investment decisions.
Going forward, BNPP CP and Orion Partners plan to develop
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