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Noerr has advised Inflexion Private Equity on the joint acquisition of the global animal and crop health division of the market research group GfK.
The British investor takes over this division with its global market research activities alongside with the current management under the lead of Stephen Hearn by way of a carve-out.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter 2016. It is planned that all 220 staff members will remain with the carved-out division.
The Noerr team led by the London partner Dr Thomas Schulz advised particularly in connection with the due diligence
Research from international law firm Nabarro reveals the UK remains top of the Nabarro Infrastructure Index as the most attractive country for infrastructure investment. The top five countries in the Index are rounded out by Canada, the US, Australia and UAE in second, third, fourth and fifth places respectively.
The expanded Index, commissioned by Nabarro and last conducted in 2012, now ranks twenty five countries representing all five major world regions by their attractiveness for infrastructure investment. Ranking is based on several factors including the tax environment, the availability of credit and the country’s economic stability, national stability, ‘ease of
The InfraDeals Latin America Analysis for YTD 2015 points to a sharp decline in infrastructure deal count this year after 2014’s boom. However new greenfield projects are on the rise as governments seek countercyclical investments, and foreign investors are attracted into the region because of the lack of profitable alternatives in traditional markets like Europe.
A total of 109 greenfield, brownfield, sales and refinancing deals closed in the first ten months of 2015 in Latin America, totalling around USD35.75 billion. This is a sharp decline in comparison to 2014’s USD51 billionFY total but still above the 91 deals for USD32.6
Amplience, an on-demand Big Content Platform, has secured USD8 million in a financing round led by Silicon Valley Bank and Columbia Lake Partners.
This latest financing comes on the back of impressive growth in North America. Over the last 12 months, clients including Panasonic North America, Marc Jacobs, John Varvatos, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Theory Helmut Lang have adopted its market-leading Big Content Platform. This announcement follows an earlier USD10.5 million Series B round of funding led by Octopus Ventures in March 2015.
Andrew Hunter, Director at Silicon Valley Bank, says: “Amplience continues to impress us with its drive
Stronger regulatory enforcement, tighter internal governance, and the increased risks to the transaction has led to the number of leaked M&A deals in 2014 falling to its lowest level in six years, according to Intralinks.
The fall in the percentage of deals involving a leak prior to the announcement of the deal is being attributed to the combined effects of stronger regulatory enforcement, tighter internal governance, and the increased risks to the transaction when leaking a deal.
The Intralinks M&A Leaks Report reveals that 6.0 per cent of all deals in 2014 involved a leak, compared to 8.8 per
Texas-based private equity firm Teakwood Capital, has added hree executives to the firm’s team to support current and future portfolio growth.
“The team at Teakwood is excited to have recruited such strong talent to work alongside us as we experience continued portfolio growth and plan for future investment opportunities,” says Shawn Kelly, Managing Director at Teakwood Capital. “Each of these individuals brings a different skillset and area of expertise to the table which will provide a powerful advantage and enduring value to our portfolio companies.”
With more than 20 years of banking experience, Stu Bell has been hired as
Elian has appointed an associate director with more than 10 years’ experience in auditing, banking and finance has been appointed to oversee the fund services team in the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Kathy Cheng (pictured), who was educated in Australia and Hong Kong, brings extensive fund, alternative investment and auditing experience to the role. She joins Elian from Citibank NA, where she led an experienced team of fund accountants. Prior to this, Cheng held auditor positions with a bank and at big four accounting firms.
Graham Gurney, Chief Operating Officer of Elian in Hong Kong, says: ‘Kathy is a
Alibaba Group has launched its Entrepreneurs Fund for Hong Kong, which is aimed at entrepreneurs wanting to take advantage of the resources offered by Alibaba’s ecosystem in e-commerce, logistics, mobile platforms, cloud computing and financial services.
The Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, a not-for-profit initiative, will invest in qualifying companies in the start-up, growth and expansion phases of the company life cycle. Qualifying businesses will leverage the platforms in the Alibaba ecosystem to offer products and services to mainland China and the world. HKD1 billion has been earmarked for the Hong Kong Fund.
A number of accomplished business and community
AECOM is to lead its the Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) Heat Infrastructure Development project, a GBP500k programme lasting approximately 12 months that will seek to identify the innovative solutions needed to deliver major reductions in the capital cost of heat network infrastructure and accelerate its deployment.
It will examine the technical, process and system developments needed to deliver a step change reduction in the capital costs, along with cost estimates and time frames for undertaking these developments.
District heat networks supply heat to homes and businesses through pipes carrying hot water. They have great potential to deliver CO2 emissions
The Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund (URF), a private investment fund advised by Soros Fund Management, is to acquire a significant equity stake in IT service provider Ciklum Holding Limited.
The transaction which will see URF acquires the entire stake held by Horizon Capital and an undisclosed portion of the stake held by Majgaard Holdings Ltd, is expected to close by the end of 2015.
Torben Majgaard, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ciklum, says: “Over the past 13 years, we have built Ciklum into an award-winning, innovative global IT service provider, with strong engineering capabilities and solid relationships with some
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