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Enterprise Finance has acquired bridging lender West One Loans in a transaction funded by a combination of cash and equity.
Enterprise Finance is a specialist distributor focused on secured loans, bridging finance and commercial mortgages. It is backed by ISIS Equity Partners, which currently has GBP1.2bn of funds under management.
The two businesses, which are based in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, are to be integrated in the near future with both companies moving to a new, larger headquarters in the local area.
The existing Enterprise Finance board, chaired by former wealth manager David Campbell and led by CEO Danny Waters, will
NorthEdge Capital, the private equity firm focused on investing in businesses in the North of England, has backed Ramsdens Financial, the UK’s largest independent pawnbroker.
Founded in 1987 in Stockton-on-Tees, Ramsdens has 450 employees and more than 120 branches across North East England, Yorkshire, Scotland and Wales.
The investment from NorthEdge will allow the business to further develop its store portfolio and expand and grow its core products.
Andy Ball, partner and chief investment officer at NorthEdge Capital, director James Hall and investment director Tom Rowley led the deal. Ball and Hall join the board as non-executive directors.
ECI Partners has held the final closing for its 10th buyout fund, ECI 10, at the hard cap of GBP500m.
ECI launched its latest fundraising in early April 2014 with a target fund size of GBP400m.
The fund was raised predominantly from its existing institutional investors, who have contributed 80 per cent of the capital, with an average increase on prior commitments of 33 per cent. There were also five new investors.
ECI 10 comprises a total of 25 institutional investors from the UK, US, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. They include pension funds, fund of funds, insurance
Law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has hired telecommunications specialist Gordon Moir from niche international practice Webb Henderson.
Moir becomes a partner in the commercial disputes, regulation and markets team, working out of the firm’s London and Edinburgh offices, and at the offices of overseas clients. He brings with him a team of three.
In 2011, Moir set up the London operation of Australasian firm Webb Henderson. Clients included BT, Sky, Nominet and AT&T.
Highly regarded in the telecoms sector, Moir has previously worked in private practice at McGrigors and Ashurst and in-house as general counsel at BT Retail,
Pelican Point Capital Partners has appointed Marvin Miller as general counsel and managing director.
“Marvin brings with him extensive legal experience in structured finance/business transactions that will be extremely accretive to the team at Pelican for its investment activities and portfolio management,” says Ike Suri, co-CEO and co-founder.
Most recently, Miller was a corporate partner in the New York office of Winston & Strawn.
Miller has experience representing domestic and international corporate and financial institutions, hedge funds, and governmental entities in connection with a range of financing and commercial transactions, including second lien and mezzanine financings, private placements (unsecured
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Stefan Green as a partner in the firm’s advisory business.
Green will focus on providing strategic and financial advice to technology, media and telecommunications companies, and he will have broader responsibility for the San Francisco office, where he will be based.
Green comes to Perella Weinberg Partners following a 19 year career at Goldman Sachs. Named a partner in 2002, Green held a number of leadership positions, including chief operating officer and head of investment banking services for the EMEA region and head of the financial sponsors group, EMEA. In these roles, Green advised
Savant Systems has received a USD90 million investment from affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and the founder of Savant, Robert Madonna.
The funding will support Savant’s continued product innovation and company expansion.
“Savant is already an established market leader in home automation with clients including some of the most discerning public figures, entertainers and business leaders,” says William Lynch, chief executive, Savant Systems. “With this significant investment, we will bring our award-winning Savant Home experience to a broader audience of consumers worldwide.”
“Savant is positioned very well to play a leading role in defining the future of home
Zolfo Cooper has negotiated new debt facilities of GBP70 million for Acal plc, a supplier of specialist electronics with global operations.
The facilities have been used to part-finance the acquisition of Noratel, a designer and manufacturer of electromagnetic products based in Norway.
They will also be used to refinance various existing debt facilities and to support Acal’s future growth strategy.
The debt advisory team negotiated competitive terms for the new debt facilities, forming a club structure which included several international banks and a local Nordic lender. The financing package provides the business with a low cost, flexible financing
European Capital Debt Management (ECDM) has closed its new GBP100 million fund, European Capital UK SME Debt LP, a fund to provide debt finance in small and medium sized enterprises in the UK.
The fund will invest in businesses with a turnover of up to GBP100 million.
The British Business Bank is committing GBP50 million to the fund under the British Business Bank Investment Programme.
The remaining GBP50 million is being committed by European Capital Limited and its affiliates.
"We are delighted to announce the closing of our new fund, European Capital UK SME Debt LP," says
Private equity firm BV Investment Partners has completed the final closing for BV Investment Partners Fund VIII with USD487 million of committed capital, well above the fund's USD400 million target.
Vikrant Raina, managing partner of BV, says: "We would like to thank our limited partners for their support and endorsement of our investment strategy and team. We are well positioned to continue our successful strategy of partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams of innovative companies that can benefit from our operational expertise and financial resources. We are evaluating many exciting new high growth companies to add to the Fund VIII portfolio. I
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