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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,
FF&P Private Equity (FPE), has backed the management buy-out of the human capital management software business, Kallidus Holdings Limited (Kallidus).
FPE has invested alongside the existing management team and will take a majority stake in the business.
Kallidus is an award winning provider of SaaS software solutions that helps organisations to recruit, assess, evaluate and develop employees of mid-cap firms across Europe employing between 500 and 10,000 people. The business operates in a large (over $9Bn) global and fast growing (over 20%) market. As an established and high growth player in the human capital management market, Kallidus offers a
WestBridge Capital has completed its first exit from the WestBridge SME Fund, releasing its 34 per cent stake in software company Kallidus Holdings Limited (formerly e2train) via a secondary buyout to FF&P Private Equity.
The deal achieves a 3.7 multiple return for WestBridge investors, and an IRR of 32 per cent over five years.
Kallidus, which is headquartered in Cirencester, supplies human capital management software to mid-market European companies and public sector organisations.
WestBridge Capital supported a management buyout of the company in October 2009 and has provided its trademark mix of financial and management support ever since. WestBridge
Connection Capital has completed a GBP5.2m growth capital investment to back established cinema operator, The Light.
The commitment from Connection Capital clients, which is expected to be EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) eligible, is supported by GBP4.5m of funding from Santander which, through its Breakthrough programme is committed to providing up to GBP200 million in growth capital to businesses in the UK.
The investment will be used to acquire a successful, nine screen multiplex cinema in the centre of Cambridge from UK market leader Cineworld. The cinema is part of Land Securities’ Cambridge Leisure development.
The investment will also fund the
Aequitas Capital Partners (ACP), a division of Aequitas Capital's wealth management platform, has hired four new regional directors.
"For ACP, 2014 was a year of notable accomplishments, including the successful launch of our unit, followed by an overwhelming response from the growth-oriented RIA marketplace. To date, 43 firms have adopted our platform and become members of our network, with three qualifiers to our exclusive, invitation-only Quarter Club," says Bob Jesenik, Aequitas CEO.
"That growth is a testament to how much our services resonate among RIAs. We have now doubled our staff to provide additional support and resources to RIAs and
Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) and Natixis have closed the debt financing for Seabras-1, a new subsea fibre optic cable system between the commercial and financial centres of Brazil and the US.
Natixis acted as sole Structuring Bank, Underwriter, and Mandated Lead Arranger for the senior debt facilities. Given the involvement of the French export credit agency Compagnie Française d’Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur (COFACE), Natixis also acted as COFACE Agent for the transaction. Seabras-1 was developed by Seaborn, with equity being provided by Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, as announced in January 2015. Natixis also acted as exclusive
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