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Crescent Capital Group’s European Specialty Lending strategy has completed a unitranche financing to support the refinancing and recapitalisation of Interfloor Group Ltd.
Interfloor, majority-owned by Milestone Capital Partners LLP, also refinanced the mezzanine facility provided by Hutton Collins Partners LLP, which remains a minority shareholder.
This financing is consistent with Crescent’s longstanding commitment to providing access to capital for middle market companies in Europe as well as the US.
“We are pleased to have completed this unitranche refinancing with Milestone Capital in support of the continued growth of Interfloor,” says Christine Vanden Beukel, Managing Director and head of Crescent’s European
Rainbow Medical has raised USD25 million from investors in China and opened a China office to promote strategic collaborations.
“We opened the office in Shanghai to capitalise on China’s fast-growing market for our products and to foster collaborations with Chinese medical device companies,” says Efi Cohen-Arazi, Co-founder and CEO of Rainbow Medical. “These investments by leading Chinese industrial and financial entities are an expression of the high esteem with which they view our technologies and the products we are developing. There is a strong demand in the fast-growing Chinese healthcare industry for Rainbow Medical’s breakthrough technologies.”
Participants in the current
The Riverside Company has invested in German cycling e-commerce specialist Bike24, which offers bicycle components and related equipment to consumers across Europe and around the world.
Bike24 has a leading position in the German market, with a recognised brand, great reputation in the bicycle enthusiast segment, huge product offering and excellent customer support. Their easily navigated website is available in German and English and offers more than 50,000 items from more than 600 different brands.
Bike24 focuses heavily on bicycle components and meeting the needs of riding enthusiasts. An experienced customer service team of 20 bicycle experts supports customers and
Commercial and regulatory pressures mean that now is the right time for private equity investors to expand their involvement in the shipping services and technology sector, according to Moore Stephens.
Dr Adam Kent of London-based consultant Maritime Strategies International (MSI) told the recent Moore Stephens Opportunities in Shipping Services seminar in London that private equity should be looking to invest in multi-faceted companies with a good reputation, pricing power and specialist products. “Opportunities are to be found,” he says. “It’s a question of timing.”
Meanwhile, Alison Jarabo of maritime efficiency specialist Fathom Shipping told private equity investors at the
AlixPartners is to acquire the business and assets of Zolfo Cooper Europe, a provider of business advisory solutions spanning the entire corporate lifecycle including restructuring services, pensions advisory, forensic and litigation support, debt advisory and corporate finance to both companies and their stakeholders.
Fred Crawford, CEO of AlixPartners, says: “Combining with Zolfo Cooper Europe will enable AlixPartners to better serve our UK, European, and global clients from an expanded position of strength and further reinforces our position as the pre-eminent global turnaround and restructuring group. The team at Zolfo Cooper Europe is well known and highly regarded and, along with
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.
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