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Law firm Martin LLP has appointed John Capetta to lead its private equity practice group.
He joins the firm from Kelley Drye & Warren where he started his career and was chair of the firm-wide private equity practice group.
"We are pleased to have John joining us," says Christopher Martin, managing partner at Martin LLP. "John's more than 20 years focused exclusively in the private equity space will further strengthen our growing corporate practice. It is an exciting time for our firm as we continue to expand."
Capetta has 34 years of experience in the area of mergers
Ares Capital Corporation’s board of directors has named Michael J Arougheti as co-chairman of the board and promoted three of its longstanding senior executive officers.
Arougheti has served as a director since 2009 and has also served as chief executive officer of Ares Capital Corporation since May 2013 and prior to that as president since its IPO in 2004.
Arougheti currently serves as president of Ares Management, an alternative asset manager, and will continue to serve as a senior partner and co-head of the direct lending group, as a member of Ares Management’s board of directors and management committee
Palatine Private Equity and Bridgepoint Development Capital (BDC) have completed the sale of Hallmark Hotels to Topland.
Palatine and BDC first invested in 2007, each investing GBP9.4m for a combined 78 per cent stake in the business. The sale achieves a 2x return for the private equity firms.
Both private equity investors have executed a buy-and-build strategy. Hallmark was established in 2007 as a vehicle to facilitate the acquisition of under-performing three star hotels with a view to driving operational improvement and achieving a standardised and upgraded level of quality. Today, Hallmark Hotels has a portfolio of eight four star
DLA Piper has appointed Mark Roppel as a partner in the firm’s corporate and finance group in New York.
Roppel has more than 25 years of experience with complex, cross-border transactions in Asia, Europe and the Americas, particularly in China, where he practiced for six years.
He brings M&A experience (including hostile M&A) to the firm, representing clients in a variety of transactions, including stock mergers, tender offers, public offerings, private stock and asset purchases, private placements, leveraged acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and strategic alliances. In addition, he advises clients on corporate governance matters and represents financial institutions as
Rcapital, the London-based private investor, has funded its portfolio company City Motor Holdings in the acquisition of the Marshall Roebuck Peugeot car dealership in Newbury.
The site, now known as City Peugeot, joins the City Motor Holdings existing portfolio of 11 dealerships in Basingstoke, Newbury and Reading.
The acquisition marks the latest phase of expansion plans for City Motor Holdings with further growth planned over the next 18 months. The City Peugeot site is located adjacent to Gowrings Ford, one of three Ford dealerships in the group.
City Motor Holdings now employs 310 staff across 12 dealerships which
The first half of 2014 marked the busiest period to date for the secondary market for private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds, according to the Setter Capital Volume Report – H1 2014.
The report reveals that volume was up 47 per cent from the same period last year, driven by new and incumbent buyers who optimistically and aggressively put money to work, and the large number of sophisticated LPs who executed on opportunistic sales they had been contemplating for years.
In addition to higher dollar volumes in almost all areas, the first half saw an even greater
Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners has completed the sale of MD Buyline, a provider of healthcare analytics and supply chain spend intelligence capabilities to healthcare providers and vendors, to TractManager, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners.
SFW acquired Dallas-based MD Buyline in 2011 and supported CEO Satin Mirchandani and the company’s management team in a wide range of strategic growth initiatives, including enhancing and extending its product lines, investing in the company’s sales, marketing and account management functions, and strengthening the company’s business infrastructure.
These investments enhanced MD Buyline’s service offering for its customers and extended coverage
ACON Investments has held the final closing of the firm’s most recent Latin America middle market private equity fund, ACON Latin America Opportunities Fund IV, with total commitments of USD515 million.
In May 2014, the firm also closed on the issuance of MXD2 billion (approximately USD150 million) of Mexican publicly traded trust certificates, specifically Certificados de Capital de Desarrollo or Capital Development Certificates (CKD).
The fund, together with the CKD and co-investment appetite from many of ACON's limited partners, represents well over USD600 million of potential capital for pan-regional mid-market private equity investments.
ALAOF IV was oversubscribed, with global
Medley has appointed Peter McLaughlin as managing director on the firm’s direct lending team.
McLaughlin will play a key role in further developing the firm's relationships with private equity firms and corporate borrowers.
McLaughlin brings 23 years of experience to Medley having worked most recently as a managing director at CIFC and with Longroad Asset Management where he was head of origination.
Prior to Longroad, McLaughlin worked with Gottex Middle Market Debt Fund, Contrarian Capital Management, Golden Tree Asset Management, Wells Fargo Foothill and JP Morgan.
Seth Taube, CEO of Medley, says: "We are pleased to add
Elysian Capital I has acquired, in conjunction with the company’s management, Access Hire Nationwide (AHN) and Welfare Hire Nationwide (WHN).
This is the eighth platform deal in the Elysian Capital I LP Fund and the fourth acquisition made by Elysian in the last 18 months.
AHN specialises in the hire of high quality, specialist powered access and welfare vehicles in the UK. It provides Vehicle Mounted Access Platforms (VMAPs) to end use markets in infrastructure maintenance such as power, street lighting and telecoms. Only a third of the market is currently serviced through outsourced rental fleets with the remainder
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