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Barbour ABI has been granted a contract extension by HM Government to continue to publish the Government Construction and National Infrastructure Pipelines through until August 2016.
Barbour ABI was originally awarded the contract in September 2012, following a formal competitive tender process, because of their proven data collection processes and their existing knowledge in researching and tracking construction projects.
Since 2011, the published Pipelines have expanded to include more data on projects and programmes across departments. The commitment to making the data more user friendly using mapping and timeline technology – as well as promoting the pipeline more widely across
AlphaPipe has launched Form ADV Change Reports a new service that delivers to investors a monthly change report of all changes made to an asset manager's Form ADV filing.
"Form ADV is publicly available and should be one of your first lines of defence in monitoring your asset managers," says West Chapman, AlphaPipe's CEO formerly of Goldman Sachs, where he served on the Liquid Markets Investment Committee, led the Risk team and built the Operational Due Diligence team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management's (GSAM) external manager businesses.
"Unfortunately, current access to Form ADV makes monitoring cumbersome to impossible. Our monthly
Private equity firm Trilantic North America, has promoted five investment professionals to partners, strengthening the firm’s senior leadership since its formation in 2009.
“I am exceptionally proud of the leadership team we have built at Trilantic North America. Each of these individuals has contributed a tremendous deal to Trilantic in building a successful private equity firm focused on the middle market that deploys capital diligently on behalf of our investors," says Charlie Ayres, Chairman and Managing Partner of Trilantic North America. “The senior leadership team has worked together for over a decade, which is a testament of their dedication to
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF), managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), is to make a GBP250,000 follow-on investment in outsource contact provider Intelling Limited (Intelling).
The business is on track to report annual revenue growth of over 60% with 2015 revenues set to exceed GBP5m.
Intelling provides a range of inbound and outbound telemarketing services, specialising in the business to consumer market for a number of blue-chip clients. It offers its clients a complete contact solutions platform specifically tailored to their business objectives, using Intelling’s contact centre for acquisition, retention, lead generation and customer care operations.
With the
An affiliate of private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to recapitalise Sterigenics, provider of contract sterilization, gamma technologies and medical isotopes, in partnership with private equity firm GTCR.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. GTCR purchased Sterigenics in 2011.
“With this new partnership between Warburg Pincus and GTCR, Sterigenics is extraordinarily well positioned to accelerate growth, invest additional capital to serve our customers and expand our global footprint,” says Michael Mulhern, CEO of Sterigenics International.
Sterigenics’ growth over the past several years has reinforced its global market-leading position in the contract sterilization services industry. In 2014, Sterigenics acquired
Formaplex is investing GBP3 million over the next year, to further increase capacity with a new 100,000 sq ft factory, expand its current manufacturing facilities and invest in new manufacturing technology.
The support of its private equity backer Dunedin has allowed Formaplex to invest a total of GBP14 million in new facilities and equipment over the last five years.
Formaplex is a Portsmouth based UK engineering company which designs and manufactures tooling and lightweight components for the automotive, aerospace, defence and motor sports markets.
Dunedin, the UK mid-market private equity house backed the management buyout of Formaplex in December
Lending Works, the first peer-to-peer lender to have insurance against borrower default risk, is introducing several new features aimed at the UK pensions market, as new pension rule changes come into effect in April 2015.
More than 52% of Lending Works’ lenders are aged 55 or older, indicating a growing inclination among later-life lenders to make peer-to-peer lending a common feature of their retirement finance plans.
From early April 2015, Lending Works will offer four brand new features that make peer-to-peer lending even more appealing to pensioners who take control of their pensions and look for simple, personal, high-interest
TerraVerde Renewable Partners, a solar and energy advisory firm, has appointed Dan Rosenberg as Director of Solar Asset Management.
TerraVerde helps schools, public agencies and private companies manage their energy portfolios. TerraVerde's advisory services cover the full range of the project life cycle, including project development, management of operational projects, PPA buyout analysis and financial reporting. TerraVerde provides technical advice and performance reporting services to ensure that energy cost saving goals are achieved throughout the generation facility's economic useful life. In addition, TerraVerde provides ongoing O&M and inspection services to protect its clients' investments.
TerraVerde Executive Vice President Ali Chehrehsaz,
Private equity firm NGP Energy Capital Management (NGP), has appointed Jeffrey A Zlotky as General Counsel effective immediately.
Zlotky joins NGP from Thompson & Knight LLP, a global law firm with deep expertise in the energy industry, where he was a partner in their Corporate and Securities practice group, with an emphasis on energy finance and private equity. Zlotky has extensive experience in the structuring and organisation of private equity funds on behalf of sponsors and investors, the investment activities of such private equity funds, and mergers and acquisitions.
Managing Partner Tony Weber says: “We are delighted to welcome Jeff
Inspired Capital has secured an additional GBP25 million debt facility through British Business Bank Investments Limited, the commercial arm of the UK Government's economic development bank.
The funding will be provided as a three year syndicated back-to-back facility with Lloyds bank, increasing the total facilities for Inspired's invoice finance business to GBP75 million. The new facility is provided on the same commercial terms as, and will rank pari passu with, the Lloyds facility.
The new facility will be utilised to fund the Group's growing invoice finance business.
Brian Cole, Chief Executive Officer of Inspired Capital plc, says: "We are delighted
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