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Funds managed by The Private Equity Group of Ares Management and Harvest Partners have acquired Valet Waste from investment funds affiliated with New Mountain Capital, LLC. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Tampa, Valet Waste is a leading national provider of value-added amenity services to the multifamily housing industry. Valet Waste provides five nights-per-week doorstep waste and recycling collection for more than 400 management companies and owner groups servicing more than 665,000 units across 34 states. The company also offers complementary maintenance services to the multifamily housing industry including nightly maintenance, apartment cleaning, apartment turns and
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has appointed fund finance practitioners Michael C Mascia and Wesley A Misson as partners.
The addition continues the firm's global expansion, with nine lateral partners and their teams joining the firm to date in 2015, and builds on the firm's significant presence in Charlotte, NC.
Mascia and Misson have a globally recognised practice in subscription credit facilities (SCFs) and fund finance, representing lenders in facilities to many of the world's preeminent real estate and private equity funds. Mascia, previously Co-Head of Mayer Brown's Global Lending Practice, is the founder of the annual Subscription Credit Facility
European financial service private equity firm AnaCap’s third credit fund AnaCap Credit Opportunities III has completed the acquisition of EUR1.2 billion of non- performing loans (NPLs) from Italian lender UniCredit Group.
Under the terms of the agreement, the AnaCap fund will acquire 100 per cent of the portfolio.
The acquisition refers to the Trevi 3 portfolio, which comprises secured and unsecured bankruptcy and other enforcement claims against primarily SME borrowers. In October 2014, AnaCap funds acquired a similar portfolio of non- performing loans from UniCredit, totalling claims of EUR1.9 billion, which was the largest transaction of its kind in
KSL Capital Partners has completed the final closing of its latest travel and leisure focused private equity fund, KSL Capital Partners IV, with total commitments of USD2.677 billion, including the commitment of the General Partner.
Fund IV took less than a year to raise, with demand from both existing and new investors significantly surpassing the Fund’s original target amount of USD2.25 billion. Investors in KSL IV include a diverse group of state pension funds, corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and family offices.
“KSL IV garnered significant interest from our existing investor base and accepted
Kreditech, a leading consumer finance technology company, has raised EUR 82.5 million in Series C financing to fuel the company's growth. The round was led by JC Flowers & Co.
Peter Thiel and Amadeus Capital Partners (Amadeus) invested earlier this year in a bridge loan that has now fully converted into Series C equity. Existing shareholders Värde Partners, HPE Growth Capital and Blumberg Capital also participated in the round. The company is in advanced discussions for a final closing that could increase the Series C round to over EUR 100 million.
“We are excited to bring these world-class investors on board who
Clearwater International has advised Electranet, a supplier for the design, delivery and support of highly secure network and communication infrastructure in the UK, on its sale to Capita, a UK-based provider of digitally enabled customer and business process services.
Electranet supports high profile government and private sector customers that require secure and effective networking and communication solutions. The company handles highly secure data and is approved to sponsor its own workforce through national security vetting processes, such as the Counter-Terrorist Check and Developed Vetting. The company runs one of the UK’s few commercial sites that is approved to hold UK
Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm, has held the official close of its fifth buyout fund with USD1.3 billion in committed capital.
The fund, Accel-KKR Capital Partners V, will continue Accel-KKR's long-term focused strategy of investing in lower-middle market and middle-market software and IT-enabled services companies.
Accel-KKR says the fund received strong support from its investors in prior funds, as well as attracted a number of new investors.
Tom Barnds (pictured), Managing Director of Accel-KKR, says: "We are heartened by the support we received from our existing investors, and are quite pleased to welcome a number of
21 Centrale Partners is set to acquire Impact, the leading French independent player in operational marketing, alongside the company’s three founding partners, François Crépin, Rémi Gammal and François Lévèque, with the objective to accelerate growth.
With sales of over EUR50 million and average annual growth of over 20 per cent, Impact operates three main activities: sales force outsourcing, commercial animation in retail distribution and merchandising for large corporate clients.
Impact provides high value-added marketing and sales services in a field supported by an increasing trend of companies expanding their commercial initiatives to support growth amidst a multiplication of distribution
Omnes Capital, via its small cap funds LCL PME Expansion 2 and LCL Expansion 2, has helped Camérus with the acquisition of Square, allowing for the withdrawal of the company’s director and historic sole shareholder, François Anfrye (Chairman of Square).
Omnes invested in the company in 2013 on the occasion of a management buyout (MBO) alongside the management team made up of President Christian Liagre, Chief Executive Officers Christine Atzémis and Christophe Vilain, and Chief Financial Officer Loïc Le Bris
Founded in 1992, Camérus is one of France’s leading names in furniture hire for interior designers and event organisers
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Marie-Hélène S McAndrew has joined the Firm as a Managing Director in its Asset Management business. Based in New York, McAndrew will work with the Marketing and Client Services Team as a Product Specialist for the PWP Global Macro strategy.
PWP Global Macro strategy is a highly liquid, global macro strategy investing in equity indices, currencies, sovereign debt, credit, and commodities. The investment strategy is based on fundamental macro-economic research to establish predictive relationships between macro-economic factors and asset returns. The strategy is led by portfolio manager Maria Vassalou.
McAndrew has 20 years of
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