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Thames Valley and South Coast accountants and business advisers James Cowper has strengthened its corporate finance team with the appointment of Caleb Lewington.
Lewington joined the team in August.
With over eight years’ experience in the corporate finance market, Lewington joined from Serco's commercial finance team where he worked across high profile bids, M&A projects and developing commercial propositions across a range of sectors including defence, transport, healthcare and home affairs business units.
Prior to this, he was manager at Grant Thornton’s corporate finance team in Southampton.
Nick Rogers, partner and head of corporate finance, says:
DN Capital has raised USD200 million (EUR144 million) for its third venture capital fund, GVC III, a three time increase on its previous fund.
The fund is dedicated to investing in early and growth stage companies in northern Europe, particularly the UK, Germany, and the Nordics with an allocation for US companies expanding into Europe.
The investment strategy is focused on supporting dynamic entrepreneurs to global category leading companies – in software, mobile applications, digital media and e-commerce – and in expanding out of their home markets.
Investors include family offices, large institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.
Nenad Marovac,
The Solina group, a food ingredients supplier, has completed the refinancing of its debt with the partial reimbursement of its shareholder loans.
Supported by its majority shareholder, IK Investment Partners, the company has delivered strong organic and acquisition-lead growth and has reached a turnover of more than EUR200 million in 2013.
This strong performance has enabled the company to deleverage significantly since the acquisition by IK in 2011, refinancing its debt structure supported by its current banking pool for a total amount of EUR166 million.
Dan Soudry, partner at IK Investment Partners, says: “The acquisition lines structured at
Glennmont Partners has closed its second fund, Clean Energy Fund II, having raised EUR500 million, the maximum amount permitted, exceeding its target of EUR450 million.
The life of the fund is ten years and the fundraising has been supported both by existing and new investors, including the European Investment Bank (EIB) which invested EUR50 million, the single largest clean energy equity investment it made in 2013.
With its second fund, Glennmont has attracted capital from new territories and now has investors in its funds based across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia.
Glennmont managing partner Joost
Castle Hall Alternatives, an operational due diligence specialist focused on hedge funds, private equity funds and long-only funds, has teamed up with ReportLab to launch the OpsDiligence platform.
The hosted platform provides clients with access to a detailed live database and in-depth PDF reports, often 50+ pages long. Reports can be generated directly from the database, allowing clients to pull down a publication-quality document seconds after updates to any of the content.
Castle Hall Alternatives specialises in operational due diligence on hedge funds, private equity and long only funds.
“We came to ReportLab for the document creation technology,
Dr Thomas Schulz will take over as the head of German law firm Noerr’s London office from 1 September 2014 succeeding Dr Hans Radau.
Radau, who established and built up the office since its opening in 2010, will return to Munich.
The change also involves an increasing focus for Noerr London on advising financial service providers, funds and companies in the regulated industries.
The office has, since its establishment, contributed considerably to the internationalisation of Noerr’s business. Cross-border M&A transactions and restructurings, investors’ projects (in particular in the BRIC states) and banks, insurance companies, financial service providers and
In fiscal year 2015 the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will be set at USD116.20 per million dollars.
The securities laws require the Commission to make annual adjustments to the rates for fees paid under Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 13(e) and 14(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
The Commission must set rates for the fees paid under Section 6(b) to levels that the Commission projects will generate collections equal to annual statutory target amounts. The Commission’s projections
Nexxus Capital, through Taco Holding and a group of co-investors, has invested in three restaurant chains in Mexico.
The chains are El Farolito; Taco Inn; and Nuny’s Yogurt.
Taco Holding is a portfolio company of Nexxus Capital IV Trust and Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund V.
After closing these investments, Taco Holding’s retail locations total 470 mainly in Mexico, 398 of which are company owned stores and 72 are franchises, among its nine different quick service restaurant concepts: Krispy Kreme (bakery), El Farolito (tacos and Mexican food), Taco Inn (tacos), Sbarro (Italian food and salads), Arrachera House (Mexican
3i Group has agreed to acquire A&A Manufacturing, a manufacturer of engineered, mission critical protective equipment made from a variety of materials ranging from composites to exotic metals.
The products are designed to protect and elongate the life of valuable equipment while promoting worker safety by keeping crucial equipment functioning properly.
3i is investing approximately USD110 million (GBP66m). The enterprise value of the transaction, which is subject to customary conditions, is USD202.5m.
Since its establishment in 1945, A&A has grown to be a global manufacturer of niche engineered protective and safety equipment, primarily for various industrial applications. The
New York-based private equity fund Monomoy Capital Partners II is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Cobra Electronics, a designer and marketer of mobile communications and navigation products, at USD4.30 per share in cash.
Under the terms of the agreement, an affiliate of Monomoy will commence a tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of Cobra Electronics at a price of USD4.30 per share in cash within ten business days.
The offer is conditioned on, among other things, the tender of a majority of the outstanding shares of Cobra Electronics' common
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