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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
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a minority investment in WAG payment solutions, (Eurowag), a provider of payment solutions for freight and passenger carriers across Europe and Turkey. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Serving international trucking companies, small haulers and operators of delivery and personal vehicle fleets, Eurowag offers a portfolio of cards for vehicle fuelling, as well as toll payment solutions that provide a unified system of electronic toll payment across a number of European countries. The company serves over 4,000 customers with more than 120,000 active fuel cards, has over 9,500 fuel card acceptance points in
A fund advised by SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement mbH, has acquired puracon's business operations from the insolvent predecessor company.
Based in Rosenheim, puracon is a packaging specialist focused on the sterile assembly and packaging of medical devices and implants in GMP certified cleanrooms. The range of services that it provides its globally active customers also includes consultancy with regard to all regulatory issues as well as conducting the required testing, certification and validation in compliance with the respective national directives. Puracon realigned its business in light of increasingly stringent regulatory requirements in 2013/2014.
"With its business model, Puracon is
Rubicon Partners and Grovepoint Capital have cquired EnServe Group Limited from European private equity firm Cinven for an undisclosed amount.
EnServe is a provider of infrastructure support services to the utilities sector, operating principally in the UK. EnServe 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 1,650 people.
EnServe comprises the following three divisions:
The Electricity division incorporates Freedom Group, which provides engineering design,
Exponent Private Equity has announced a number of changes to its team as part of the company’s succession planning strategy.
Richard Lenane has been appointed as Managing Partner with effect from 1 January 2016 in succession to Hugh Richards who will retire from the firm after its AGM at the end of June. Elsewhere in the team, Carl Lavin and James Gunton have been made Directors, while Partner and Finance Director Craig Vickery’s role will be broadened to encompass responsibility for the firm’s operations.
The changes follow a successful year for Exponent, which in April saw the firm raise
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