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Senior finance lawyer Jennifer J Kafcas has joined law firm O’Melveny & Myers’ London office as counsel and a member of the Corporate Finance Practice.
Kafcas’ practice focuses on general corporate and leveraged finance transactions. She has extensive experience advising borrowers and lenders on complex cross-border transactions in Europe and the United States, including bond offerings, asset-based financings, derivatives, restructurings, and M&A transactions. Having guided clients in refinancings and debt restructurings for more than 15 years, Kafcas has strong insight into the leveraged finance market and in-depth knowledge of UK, European, and US insolvency procedures and syndicated merger financing, acquisitions,
Pascal Menges (pictured), Manager of the Lombard Odier Global Energy Fund comments on Royal Dutch Shell’s offer for BG Group…
This shows that Big Oil’s growth strategy over the last ten years is bust. Having bet enormous sums on eye-wateringly expensive oil production from oil sands, ultra-deep water and arctic fields the supermajors are now ill-placed to cope with a low oil price.
What next? Shell’s purchase of BG Group heralds a scrabble by big oil to ‘high grade’ – improve the overall quality – of their portfolios. It didn’t have to be this way. Low oil prices in the early 2000s
Private equity placement agent BerchWood Partners has formed a joint venture with JTP Capital, an investment advisory firm which provides capital advisory solutions for a small number of well selected real estate investment platforms.
Mitchell B. Sikora, JTP Capital’s founding member, and Henry J Delicata, a senior advisor, will be working with the BerchWood team on placement activities.
Sikora has more than 20 years of experience in the investment banking, investment and real estate professions and has been involved in raising private equity specifically for real estate funds since 1999. Just prior to founding JTP Capital in 2012, Sikora
TIAA-CREF has launched Churchill Asset Management, a new majority-owned subsidiary focused on originating, underwriting and managing senior loan investments, primarily in US middle-market companies. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Churchill adds to TIAA-CREF’s existing fixed income capabilities by expanding its private credit platform. It also supports the firm’s long-term strategy to offer investors a diversified array of investment options and help clients build financial well-being. Churchill will operate as a standalone business, led by industry veteran Kenneth J Kencel, and seeks to raise investment funds from institutional and qualified individual investors who are increasingly looking toward middle-market
JTC has been granted a registration status by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) as a company service provider pursuant to Article 5 of the Company Service Providers Act, 2013.
The firm can now provide professional services to third parties including corporate entities from the jurisdiction.
As a recognised ‘Company Service Provider’, and as one of the first service providers in Malta to be granted that status, JTC (Malta) Ltd. is now authorised to provide and perform a range of services to support Malta’s growing image as a strong European and international financial centre.
As well as allowing JTC to
Lion Capital is to acquire Spence Diamonds, a direct seller of custom-made engagement rings in Canada.
Lion Capital is partnering with IVEST Consumer Partners, a Vancouver-based retail investor and operator, who will bring seasoned operating executives George Jones and Jim Schneider to lead the business. IVEST will make a minority investment in Spence, as will current CEO Sean Jones, who will also remain on the board. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1978, Spence Diamonds carved out a distinctive position within the retail jewellery industry by giving its customers a unique and personalised purchasing experience
Oil and gas private equity firm EnCap Investment has closed EnCap Energy Capital Fund X with USD6.5 billion of limited partner capital commitments.
Fund X, which reached its USD6.5 billion hard cap and was significantly oversubscribed, provides growth capital to proven management teams focused primarily on the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry in North America.
EnCap is led by its four founders, managing partners David B Miller, Gary R Petersen, D Martin Phillips and Robert L Zorich; and three additional managing partners Jason M DeLorenzo, E Murphy Markham IV and Douglas E Swanson, Jr. Since its inception in
American Capital has sold Mirion Technologies, a provider of radiation detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring products and services to the nuclear power, medical, military and homeland security markets to Charterhouse Capital Partners for USD750 million.
Mirion was created in December 2005 through the merger of portfolio companies synOdys, Global Dosimetry Solutions (GDS) and Imaging and Sensing Technology (IST). Following the merger, the three companies were realigned into the current five business segments: the Sensing Systems Division, the Imaging Systems Division, the Radiation Monitoring Systems Division, the Dosimetry Services Division and the Health Physics Division. Headquartered in San Ramon, CA, Mirion
ALPS, a DST Company that provides products and services to the financial services industry, is to acquire asset manager Red Rocks Capital, a leader in listed private equity and other private asset investments.
The purchase price of up to USD65 million will consist of a combination of up-front cash consideration and performance-related contingent consideration. The transaction will be funded using a combination of cash and short-term borrowings on revolving credit lines.
The closing of the transaction is expected to occur in the second half of 2015.
Red Rocks, founded in 2003 by Adam Goldman and Mark Sunderhuse, is the first
Over two-thirds (68%) of intermediaries believe the economic recovery has made smaller businesses an attractive investment opportunity, according to new research from Albion Ventures.
The research shows adviser optimism for smaller businesses is shared by their clients: almost a third (31%) of IFAs has reported an increased number of enquiries over the past year from clients looking for investment opportunities in smaller, entrepreneurial businesses and 37% said they had received more client interest in opportunities to invest in firms that are well placed to capitalise on the stronger performing UK economy.
The contribution of UK SMEs to the economy as
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