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Law firm White & Case advised Mid Europa Partners on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Danube Foods Group BV and Clates Holding BV.
The value of the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2015, has not been disclosed. Mid Europa Partners (MEP) is a leading buyout investor focused on the growth markets of Central & Eastern Europe. Danube Foods Group, which achieved revenue of more than EUR400 million during 2014, is the leading branded fast moving consumer goods platform in the former Yugoslavia. It includes
Augentius, the global private equity and real estate fund administration specialist, has launched a new compliance consultancy, Augentius Compliance.
The service will support the entire alternatives sector, and marks the very first time a fund administrator has moved into compliance consultancy. Augentius Compliance will offer new customers a free ‘compliance health check’, available on request.
The move comes in response to high demand from clients. Alternatives funds today face an unprecedented, ever-expanding, and ever-changing maze of new regulatory rules and reporting obligations, the details of which differ considerably across jurisdictions. Augentius has already been assisting its clients with FATCA
Micro-fund High-Tech Employees Index, which has been established by Israel’s first secondary market platform, is the first fund in Israel to allocate capital solely for investment in securities that will be purchased from senior employees who work or worked at private Israeli high-tech companies.
Oren Harel (pictured), the Chairman of PrivatEquity.biz, says: “We see strong demand from Israeli and foreign private investors to invest in securities of senior employees at private high-tech growth companies. We intend to act for them and identify the securities of the best high-tech companies in Israel.”
PrivatEquity.biz, Israel’s first secondary market trading arena, is
Crowdfunding platform VentureFounders has helped LabMinds, a high tech British business, secure GBP2.1m of investment to fund the next stage of its development.
VentureFounders was accompanied in the raise by the Angel CoFund, who committed GBP500k to the transaction.
Founded in 2009, LabMinds is an Oxford-based business that develops and manufactures next generation solutions to address the challenges faced by laboratories worldwide, combining advanced laboratory products with cutting edge technologies.
The company’s lead product, Revo, was conceived by two doctoral students from the Biochemistry department at the University of Oxford who wanted to improve the solution preparation process. Dr Klingelhoefer
UK private equity investor RJD Partners has invested in the MBO of family-owned Burgess Marine Limited, an independent provider of marine engineering services in the UK.
RJD has committed up to GBP11m to fund the MBO and provide funds for future national growth.
Dover-based Burgess has been run by Nicholas Warren since 2008, since the retirement of his father David. With RJD’s support, Nicholas Warren will take the business forward, supported by other members of the existing Burgess management team. The transaction represents an exit for David Warren.
Burgess provides ship maintenance, repair, new-build construction and refit services from its
European private equity firm Cinven has announced the promotion of three Partners.
Maxim Crewe joined Cinven in 2006 and is a member of the Financial Services sector team. He has been involved in a number of transactions including Avolon, Guardian Financial Services and Partnership. Previously he worked at Citigroup in corporate finance within the European Retail and Consumer Group. Maxim has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.
Pontus Petterson joined Cinven in 2011 and is a member of the Nordic regional team and Industrials sector team. He has been involved in several transactions including CeramTec
Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) has appointed Westley Chapman as a Director.
Chapman will serve on the boards of investment funds, providing independent oversight on governance and compliance matters. He will also function as Director, Operational Due Diligence and will be based in New York.
As even more investors continue increasing allocations to private funds, investors and managers are spending more time on operational due diligence reviews, plus facing evaluating even more investment opportunities with less available resources.
DMS Operational Due Diligence aims to ease this burden and part of Chapman's role is to advise investors on
Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Kallidus on its management buyout, backed by a majority investment from FF&P Private Equity (FF&P).
The sale of Kallidus, a leading provider of on-demand human capital management software and services, further solidifies Mooreland Partners' position among the most active advisors to the enterprise software sector.
"The partnership between the Kallidus management team and FF&P marks the start of an exciting phase for the Company, that looks set for a period of strong growth and success," says Patrick Seely, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners.
Based in Cirencester, UK, Kallidus is recognised as one
Glennmont Partners has completed the acquisition of three operating wind farms with a total capacity of 25MW from Diamond Wind Europe and Green Power Development Holding.
The acquisition comprises three wind farms (11MW, 8MW and 6MW respectively) located in the Nord region of France. The sites are located in one of the strongest wind resource areas in the country.
The portfolio has entered into a Power Purchase Agreement with EDF and each wind farm benefits from the 15-year French feed-in tariff regime. Glennmont has signed long-term operation and maintenance agreements with reputable and experienced counterparties, and has secured long-term,
Oakley Capital Private Equity II has acquired a significant majority of the shares in the European companies owned and operated by Damovo II Sarl.
Matthew Riley, founder of Daisy Group, will be investing alongside Fund II and will lead the businesses as Executive Chairman.
The businesses that have been acquired are: Damovo’s operations in Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium and Damovo’s Global Services business (collectively, Damovo Europe).
Damovo Europe is a provider of enterprise information communication technology (ICT) services and solutions. Its core areas of expertise are Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC: IP-enabled voice communications, email exchange services, messaging,
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