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LBO France has appointed Franck Abadia as Director within the firm’s operating team which is composed of former CEOs and operational managers who offer portfolio companies the benefit of their experience and networks.
They assess the company’s potential for creating operational value on the basis of three criteria – strategic feasibility, management quality, and reliability of operational plans – measured at each key point in the cycle – entry, management and exit.
Franck joins Etienne Colas, a former Senior Director at AlixPartners, Guy Latourrette, former CEO of La Redoute and Devanlay-Lacoste and Gilles Taldu, Partner and Member of LBO
The climate for IPOs in Germany has considerably improved, according to the IPO sentiment indicator jointly developed by Deutsche Börse and TU Munich.
The indicator climbed from 30.1 points to 34.2 points, reflecting buoyant sentiment among investors, companies and underwriters in the primary market.
The indicator is based on surveys of market participants’ attitudes towards the current IPO climate as well as calculations based on quantitative input, such as volatility, share prices, price/earnings ratios and subscription gains.
Volatility in German blue chip stock prices, i.e. the expected fluctuation of the share prices in trading, has increased overall over the past
Archangels, alongside Scottish Enterprise’s investment arm, Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), has completed additional rounds of funding totalling over GBP3.3m for three growing Scottish businesses.
All three businesses are now competing on a global stage and have received support from Archangels from early stage. The capital raised will enable all three Scottish entrepreneurial initiatives to fund further growth.
Around 60 of Archangels’ investor members chose to participate in these funding rounds.
PowerPhotonic Ltd which, from its Dalgety Bay base, designs, manufactures and supplies high value optics that manipulate the light from lasers for customers in a range of sectors
Private equity firm Agilitas' waste management portfolio company, Impetus Waste Management, has acquired a further waste transfer station and processing facility in the North East of England.
The consideration for the acquisition of T Shea Limited, based in Leeds, is not being disclosed.
Impetus is one of the largest waste management companies in the North East of England. Following the investment by Agilitas in December 2013, the company has built Europe’s largest commercial and industrial waste processing facility at its site in Teesside. The facility has capacity to process over 500,000 tonnes per annum of commercial, industrial and municipal waste, which
CORESTATE’s Luxembourg-based subsidiary CORESTATE Capital Fund Management has obtained a license to operate as an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) from the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission (CSSF).
Going forward, this will permit CORESTATE to design and manage regulated investment products as well as to sell them to investors anywhere inside the European Union.
The AIFM Directive governs the licensing, ongoing operation, and transparency of companies that manage alternative investment funds within the European Union.
Pricing tops the list of challenges facing private equity firms in 2015, according to the sixth annual PErspective Private Equity Study by BDO USA.
Forty-two per cent of fund managers say it will be the primary challenge facing their firm during the next 12 months, marking the second year in a row that private equity professionals identified pricing as their most significant pressure point. The identification and quality of targets came in second, with 27 per cent of fund managers saying it represented their top challenge in 2015.
"We're coming off of a strong year for private equity activity across
GE Antares is serving as administrative agent on a USD145.6 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Lazer Spot by Greenbriar Equity Group.
GE Capital Markets served as co-lead arranger and co-bookrunner on this facility.
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Atlanta, Lazer Spot is a leader in a comprehensive range of outsourced yard management services including trailer spotting and shuttling. Lazer Spot operates 260 sites for more than 80 blue chip customers across the consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, pulp and paper, retail and other industrial sectors.
“Certainty of execution and speed are attributes we
Millennium Trust Company, a provider of alternative asset custody solutions to institutions, advisors and individuals, has made two promotions within its Alternative Solutions Group.
The firm has named Jeremy Christensen, Director of Private Fund Custody and Matt Nitschke, National Director of the Alternative Solutions Group.
Prior to his new role, Christensen had been acting manager of Private Fund Custody (PFC), Millennium Trust's fastest growing business line. In addition, he managed Registered Investment Advisor relationships and new business development for the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region with focus on custody solutions for hedge funds, private equity, managed futures and other alternative investments.
"When we
Peer-to-peer secured business spending platform ThinCats has partnered with ESO Capital Group to underwrite a regular series of large deals on the ThinCats platform.
The deal will initially involve GBP20m-GBP50m being deployed on the ThinCats platform but both partners expect this figure to rise significantly over the next few years.
Kevin Caley, CEO of ThinCats, says “We are delighted to be partnering with ESO. As a specialist in large, secured loans we are confident that ESO’s underwriting commitment will help us further strengthen our position as one of the leading players in the sector. This partnership will also allow
Halesowen-based Vacuum Furnace Engineering (VFE) has secured a substantial funding package from banking group Santander and private investment firm SEA Equity.
Prominent West Midlands businessman, Roy Kishor, has taken the role of Chairman and will lead the management team in growing the GBP10 million turnover firm in the longer term, seeing a big opportunity to expand its contract servicing and repair business, develop the next generation of vacuum furnaces and set up a new apprenticeship scheme in addition to its current business.
The Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking, Cornwall Street, Birmingham, team provided a growth capital loan, senior debt
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