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Baird, an employee-owned, international financial services firm, has appointed Terry Huffine (pictured) as a Managing Director in the firm’s Global Consumer Investment Banking group in London.
With extensive transaction experience across several different Consumer sector verticals, Huffine will further expand Baird’s Global Consumer Investment Banking coverage in Europe and strengthen its comprehensive, capital markets industry platform.
Huffine was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Consumer at DC Advisory where he established and built out its fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) investment banking business. Prior to DC Advisory, he was a senior banker at ABN AMRO/Royal Bank of Scotland
Swarm64 AS, a data acceleration company from Oslo and Berlin, has raised a total of up to EUR7.1 million from lead investors Alliance Venture, Target Partners and Investinor. The funds will be used for market entry, building out the team and to set up operations in the US market.
Swarm64 has been developing a hardware and software solution that scales databases in size and speed past their current limitations. Swarm64’s Scalable Data Accelerator (SDA) and its database extensions will contribute to the professionalisation of open source databases. The SDA resolves the known trade-off in databases between transaction heavy and analytics
Omnes Capital has invested EUR9.5 million in Capcom, a company specialising in the deployment, installation, maintenance and sale of fibre optic and cable network services, on the occasion of a primary owner buy out (OBO) alongside management.
Founded in 2001, Capcom provides telecoms operators with deployment, installation and technical maintenance services for their high speed and fibre optic telecommunications networks. The company performs 1,400 client services each day and manages 1 million households, providing round-the-clock maintenance. It generated sales of EUR50 million in 2014.
The company recently signed partnership agreements with the main telecoms and energy operators (Orange, Numéricable-SFR,
Inflexion has completed a Partnership Capital, minority investment, in Mobica, a software development and integration services company.
Founded in 2004 by the current Chairman, Mobica is a rapidly growing provider of leading edge software engineering expertise. With a team of more than 800 people across the UK, Poland, Mexico and the USA, the company focuses on multi-billion pound market verticals including semiconductor and automotive. Mobica has established itself as the development partner of choice to some of the world’s leading technology companies by delivering innovative, cost-effective software solutions at the forefront of technological advances.
Inflexion’s Partnership Capital investment will
Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners are to acquire Ascensus Inc. from JC Flowers & Co. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, following regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Ascensus, the nation’s largest independent service provider of retirement and college savings plans, was founded more than 30 years ago and has since expanded into new markets within the financial services industry to offer a comprehensive suite of defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plan solutions, benefits education, 529 college savings plan recordkeeping, and IRA and health savings
M&A deal value is at its highest level since 2007, but Europe's executives are adopting a more cautious outlook on European M&A, according to research carried out international law firm CMS, in partnership with Mergermarket.
The report’s respondents comprise 230 key M&A stakeholders across all European geographies, including CEOs, finance directors, bankers, M&A heads, private equity investors and sector specialists. Each respondent gave their views on the areas for growth, economic and political pressures and key players in the M&A market producing a rounded macro- and microeconomic outlook for the next year.
The research showed that deal value has risen
International investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Chris Hebble as a Managing Director in the firm’s Capital Markets Group. He is based in Los Angeles.
Hebble joins from Cerberus Capital Management (CCM), where he was a Managing Director responsible for origination, underwriting, portfolio management, and investment exits for a broad range of private finance transactions. Prior to CCM, he was a Principal at Caltius Mezzanine Partners in Los Angeles, a fund focused on providing junior capital financing alternatives to privately held middle market companies. Hebble was a Vice President at Houlihan Lokey from 2000–2004.
“As alternative sources of financing
Richard Bloom, Dennis Cancellarich, Ira Cooperman, Jerome Devillers, Pierre-Marie Lagnaud, George Parker and Anthony Stranix have been named Equity Partners at WeiserMazars while Debra Bornstein has been named Equity Principal.
“WeiserMazars continues to experience strong growth and these promotions demonstrate our recognition of the talented team that are key contributors to our success,” says Victor Wahba (pictured), WeiserMazars Chief Executive Officer. “On behalf of the Partnership, I am pleased to congratulate them on this career milestone and to thank them for their leadership and dedication to excellent client service. I am particularly pleased to welcome new Partners Ira Cooperman, Dennis
London-based investor Impax Asset Management,has completed a PLN181.5 million (EUR43 million) refinancing for the 42 MW Kisielice wind park in Poland.
The new facilities provided by a syndicate led by Raiffeisen Bank Polska with Raiffeisen Bank International, and Alior Bank were used to refinance loans and hedging provided by Caixa Bank for the original 18 MW wind farm that was acquired by Impax funds in March 2013. The new facilities were also used to refinance a 22 MW expansion of the project that was commissioned in late 2013 which was funded by Impax.
Impax was advised by Norton Rose,
Audax Private Equity completed its 500th acquisition on 21 September when portfolio company Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery (ADCS) acquired the assets of Dermatology of Northern Colorado, a dermatology practice in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Dermatology of Northern Colorado is ADCS’s 31st acquisition since Audax acquired the platform in October of 2011.
Geoffrey S Rehnert (pictured), Co-CEO of Audax Group, says: “I am proud of the team at Audax Private Equity for reaching this remarkable milestone. Buy & Build is the central theme of our investment strategy. The completion of deal number 500 is a testament to the hard work
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