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Lancaster Pollard has hired Chad Elliott as managing director of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group. Elliott will lead the firm’s national efforts in sell-side and buy-side advisory services for seniors housing and care properties.
“We could not be more excited to have Chad as part of our team,” says Kass Matt, president of Lancaster Pollard. “He has an impressive background in investment banking and private equity, including significant experience in M&A, capital formation and deal structuring.”
Lancaster Pollard helps health care, senior living and housing providers expand and improve their services by delivering a full range of investment
Octopus Investments has completed an investment in Healthcare and Services Technology Group (HST), owners of Care Monitoring 2000 (CM2000) and Ezitracker, specialists in the provision of remote workforce management software solutions.
Founded in 1999, CM2000 has become a global supplier of patented, telephony based monitoring, scheduling and management information services to the health and social care sectors. CM2000’s innovative services are unique, monitoring both the time spent with Service Users and patient wellbeing. The company’s services are used extensively by homecare providers throughout the UK and in the United States, helping them to save money, improve quality of service and
PwC has strengthened its financial restructuring offering to corporates with the appointment of a new partner. Alistair Dick (pictured) joins PwC from Rothschild and will lead PwC’s corporate financial restructuring team.
Dick, who will be responsible for helping to grow PwC’s restructuring offering to corporates, was most recently head of Rothschild’s debt advisory and restructuring practice in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He also spent over six years in Rothschild’s European debt advisory and restructuring team based in London and has a background in natural resources project finance and acquisition finance.
Heather Swanston, head of PwC’s refinancing
Dutch venture capital firm Forbion Capital Partners has invested in Laboratoris Sanifit (Sanifit), a Spanish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, as part of Sanifit’s EUR36.6 million (USD41 million) Series C financing round.
Sanifit is focused on the development of SNF472, an experimental drug for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases linked to calcification in patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) undergoing haemodialysis.
Forbion invested alongside a substantial syndicate of investors, led by Ysios Capital, and including Lundbeckfond Ventures, Gilde Healthcare, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, “la Caixa” and Baxter Healthcare. Existing shareholders also supported the series C round.
This round
European private equity firm Cinven has agreed to sell AMCo, a niche specialty pharmaceuticals group to TSX/Nasdaq-listed Concordia Healthcare Corp for an enterprise value of GBP2.3 billion.
The deal will comsist of a combination of cash, common shares of Concordia, and a maximum performance-based earnout of approximately GBP145 million over the next 12 months.
Cinven created AMCo, which focuses on the sale of niche prescription off-patent products, in 2012 through the transformative merger of Mercury Pharma (‘Mercury’) and Amdipharm, both of which were acquired in bilateral transactions, in August and October 2012 respectively.
Cinven’s Healthcare team identified the
WHP Group, a mobile telecoms services provider, has acquired Paragon Telecoms as the company looks to increase market share and broaden its offering in the fast moving telecoms industry.
Founded in 1988, Warrington-based WHP employs over 300 staff and is the longest established provider of professional and network support services to the UK wireless telecoms sector. The company has experienced sustained growth with turnover increasing from GBP17m in 2012 to almost GBP40m this year.
The acquisition of Paragon Telecoms follows the firm’s secondary buyout backed by Manchester-based Palatine Private Equity. It will enable the business to significantly enhance its mobile
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has achieved a 7.1x total return multiple on exit from Newhaven based point-of-sale (POS) cash management specialist Cash Bases Limited, following its merger with US company APG Cash Drawer (APG).
Maven clients funded the MBO of Cash Bases in 2004, and the Maven team later helped senior management to complete a key strategic acquisition which helped expand the business into new markets. Cash Bases has been developing cash management solutions for over 30 years and is now established as one of the world's leading manufacturers of high quality cash drawers and other POS
Using information from the recently released Preqin Investor Outlook: Alternative Assets H2 2015, Preqin explores institutional investors’ objectives, satisfaction with returns and activity within the real estate asset class in this extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight.
Investor objectives for real estate
A diverse range of institutional investors choose to invest in the real estate asset class, each with their own set of objectives. Fig 1 shows that there are a multitude of reasons that surveyed investors place above returns as their main motivation. The diversification benefits of real estate were cited by the largest proportion of respondents,
Save, a start-up founded in 2013 by Damien Morin to repair smartphones and touch tablets, has announced a EUR15 million round of capital raising from the investment funds Idinvest Partners and 360 Capital Partners and business angels including Xavier Niel.
This injection of funds will enable Save not only to grow its presence in France, where it plans to have more than 120 points of sale open by the end of 2015, but also to develop its business internationally. Save already operates in Switzerland and Sweden, and is looking to expand to the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain and Portugal by
Togethera, the private photo and messaging platform aimed at families and close friendship groups has successfully closed a GBP220,000 crowd-funding round with Crowdcube.
The app – started by TrustedPlaces founder, Sokratis Papafloratos and former Facebook staffer Matt Dempsey – has seen a surge in sign-ups over the last year as users look for alternatives to other platforms seen increasingly as either insecure or simply cluttered and invasive.
Togethera is used by families and close-knit friendship groups looking for a private space online and on mobile where they can share photos, videos and updates without the worry of who's looking at
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