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Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co's private equity specialists have advised LDC, a UK regional mid-market private equity house, on its GBP42 million buy-out of Eley Group.
Midlands manufacturer Eley Group makes .22LR rounds for the target shooting market which are used by Olympic-standard athletes at all major global tournaments.
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co advised LDC on the terms of Eley Group's acquisition from Birmingham-headquartered global engineering business IMI plc, as well as on the negotiation of the bank facilities with HSBC.
The team comprised experts from private equity, transaction services, real estate and banking, including partner Jeremy
IK VII Fund is to invest in Evac Group, a provider of integrated water and waste management solutions for the marine, offshore and building industries.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1975, Evac designs and markets environmentally friendly waste and wastewater collection and treatment systems for the marine, offshore and building industries. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, with a presence in more than 40 countries around the world.
The company employs approximately 190 people and its total revenue for financial year 2014 is close to EUR70 million. IK VII Fund is
Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in software, data and technology-enabled companies, has completed fundraising for Vista Equity Partners Fund V.
The fund closed at USD5.775 billion in limited partner commitments and was substantially oversubscribed.
This brings Vista's total cumulative capital commitments to over USD14 billion.
At USD5.775 billion, Fund V is Vista Equity Partners’ largest private equity fund to date.
“We are pleased by the tremendous demand for our flagship fund. The oversubscription is an acknowledgment of the Vista's strategy,” says Robert F Smith, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity
Following industry debates that the leveraged buyout market has all but dried up, Preqin examines whether or not buyouts and, in particular, public-to private transactions are still attractive to the investment community.
In recent years, trillions of dollars have been spent on private equity-backed buyout deals and they remain the most favoured private equity strategy among investors and fund managers. Public-to-private transactions constitute a very small quantity of buyout deals, but have historically represented a disproportionately large amount of overall buyout value. This article will examine if there has been a shift in the overall private equity buyout landscape, and
Metric Capital Partners (MCP), a European private capital group, has invested in James Grant Group, a provider of management and professional services to TV, music, literary and sport clients.
Established over 25 years ago, London-based James Grant offers a range of services to its clients, who are some of the leading individuals in the broadcast, music, literary, social and sports sectors.
The group provides bespoke advice on a complete range of areas from career management and planning through to royalty payments and accounts preparation. The group’s finance business arranges funding to production companies and sports institutions, whilst the
Sand Oak Capital has partnered with Carl Marks & Co, a New York-based merchant bank, to acquire privately held industrial companies.
Sand Oak teams with existing ownership or management by investing USD10 million to USD50 million of equity and providing strategic and operational support to companies across the US with a particular focus on the US Rust Belt, the region spanning New York to Wisconsin.
“The US Rust Belt is an extremely attractive area for investment,” says Jeremy Schwimmer, partner at Sand Oak. “With a rise in families looking to transition business ownership combined with asset-heavy barriers to entry,
Investec has expanded its investment banking business with the appointment of Christian Hess as head of its newly created financial sponsor transaction group.
Hess brings a wealth of experience having advised private equity clients for 20 years, including as a founder member of the UBS Financial Sponsor Group and with various M&A execution and senior management roles during his 16 years at UBS. He was a member of the UBS European Investment Banking Department Executive Committee (2007-2012) and head of EMEA Investment Banking Department Coverage (2010-2012).
Hess then founded Hess & Co Capital Advisors and was one of seven
EISER Infrastructure Partners, an independent global infrastructure asset manager, has opened an office in Johannesburg, headed by Richard Onyango.
The new office will be used to support EISER’s role as an investment advisor for Green Africa Power (GAP), which is an initiative of the Private Infrastructure Development Group Trust (PIDG) to offer mezzanine finance and contingent lines of credit to privately-owned renewable power generation projects in the most under-developed countries in Africa.
Onyango’s new role is to lead EISER’s team in the region and will work closely with the London office to originate and execute renewable energy transactions that will
A growing interest by large limited partners (LPs) to either co-invest or directly invest in corporate equity financings has led private equity (PE) firms to respond by facilitating investments in deals outside these managers' primary funds.
The trend reduces the overall average management and carry fee percentages paid by large LPs, but allows PE firms to maintain or increase overall investment levels, according to Fitch Ratings.
As the PE sector further grows its total assets under management, Fitch believes that permitting large LPs greater investing flexibility and lower fees is an unsurprising result, and overall a neutral impact to
Connexus Equity Management Partners has closed a series A investment in H3 Financial Services, a SaaS financial services provider of credit, billing and payment solutions for the veterinary and dental markets.
As the lead investor in this round of financing, Connexus will have a seat on the board of directors and will provide strategic advisory services to help H3 achieve its short and long term growth objectives.
“Connexus is excited to be a part of this early stage company that has developed a robust software and payment solutions platform to enable a range of high value services to its
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