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HIG European Capital Partners (HIG) has acquired Centros Único, a European provider of permanent hair removal and medical aesthetic services.
Founded in Spain, Centros Único offers diode laser technology, the most effective and lasting existing technology. Additionally, Centros Unico is a pioneer in providing medical aesthetic services, offering a wide range of non-invasive beauty treatments at very competitive prices. Centros Unico has provided its treatments to more than 300.000 customers and has a presence in Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Mexico with 156 centers, most of them located in the Iberian Peninsula.
Centros Único was
The EU Commission has confirmed its continued endorsement of Guernsey as a cooperative jurisdiction following a meeting between officials in Brussels.
This news was welcomed in Guernsey, which has a strong record in meeting international standards as a cooperative and highly transparent jurisdiction – including as an 'early adopter' of the Common Reporting Standards ahead of some European countries.
Responding to the news, Guernsey’s Chief Minister, Jonathan Le Tocq, has written to European Tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, stating: “Guernsey welcomes the Commission’s confirmation at the meeting that it considers Guernsey to be a cooperative jurisdiction. This recognises not only
Prodigy Finance, a specialist in postgraduate student lending, has raised over USD100 million from Credit Suisse, Balderton Capital and others, including institutional investors, and also private investors such as Ed Wray, the entrepreneur and angel investor.
The new investment will allow Prodigy Finance – which helps students fund their attendance at the world’s top business schools – to support more students in their studies, while delivering financial and social benefits to investors.
Prodigy Finance is a globally-accessible platform that provides funding to international postgraduate students attending top-ranked business schools (Financial Times Top 100), while also delivering competitive financial returns
A study from Amicus Finance finds that 73 per cent of institutional investors are predicting a growing institutional appetite for investing in the alternative finance market over the next two years.
Institutional investors believe that the sector will continue to offer attractive risk-adjusted returns. The research among European institutional investors reveals that they expect the alternative lending sector to grow by a quarter over the next 24 months, driven by the demand for expansion finance by SMEs.
According to the study, almost three-quarters, at 74 per cent of institutional investors believe that growth of alternative non-bank finance could increase
Private equity firm, Sequoia, has agreed to invest in Groupon India. Groupon will remain a significant shareholder.
“The potential of the Indian market is huge — our decision to bring in Sequoia is expected to provide the additional resources our India business needs to grow and become a true local commerce leader,” says Groupon CEO Eric Lefkofsky (oictured). "We look forward to watching the business grow and evolve as a continued shareholder in the company."
Groupon India will continue to operate under Ankur Warikoo’s leadership. Groupon’s Shared Service Centers in Chennai and Bangalore will remain under the sole control
Private equity investor Hermes GPE has sedured a GBP1 billion mandate from the BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) bringing the firm’s total private equity AUM to GBP4 billion (USD6 billion).
Hermes GPE is part of Hermes Investment Management (Hermes), the GBP30.1 billion manager focused on delivering superior, sustainable, risk adjusted returns to its clients – responsibly, and was set up as a joint venture between the Hermes GPE management team and Hermes.
The GBP1 billion allocation will be invested over three years, split evenly between funds and co-investments, and invested on a global basis by Hermes GPE's 16-strong investment team
Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ) has added attorney John J Mahon as a partner in the Investment Management Group, resident in the firm's Washington DC office. Mahon joins SRZ from Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP.
Mahon brings to SRZ extensive experience in advising private equity firms and other financial sector participants in a wide range of capital markets and securities law matters. He has counselled on the establishment and operation of business development companies, registered closed-end funds and other similar public and private vehicles that comply with complex regulatory structures, such as the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment
HIG Europe has completed the sale of its portfolio company AR Metallizing (ARM) to Nissha Printing Co.
ARM is the global market leader in the manufacturing of metallised paper for use in the food, beverage and consumer packaging goods industries. ARM serves its customer base from three manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Italy and the USA.
HIG acquired ARM in September 2012 and shortly thereafter the assets of Vacumet Paper (the US market leader) were acquired to create the global market leading manufacturer of metallized paper. Since acquisition, HIG and the founding ARM shareholders have assisted with the integration of
Union Group has secured a USD59m financing package for two hydropower plants in Peru from a consortium of development banks.
DEG, FMO, OeEB and COFIDE have invested in senior debt in Union Group’s El Carmen and 8 de Ogosto plants which will generate a combined 27.4 MW of capacity and be linked by a 60km transmission line to the power grid.
Union Group subsidiary Generación Andina is building the plants backed by two 20-year power purchase agreements with the Peruvian Government.
The USD88m project marks the first stage of a plan to build nine hydropower plants with 125
Ogier has acted for VSA Capital Limited in its role as financial adviser to Digital Train and its parent, NetDragon Websoft, in connection a GBP84.1 million recommended cash offer for Promethean World, a company listed on London Stock Exchange.
Promethean World is in the global education technology market with significant sales in North America and Western Europe of front-of-class interactive display. NetDragon Websoft is a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands whose shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is a leading online game and mobile internet platform developer and operator in the PRC. In recent years, NetDragon
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