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Private equity firm NorthEdge Capital has invested GBP11.1 million in the management buyout of Utiligroup, a Lancashire-based data management and software services provider.
The management software and services company, based in Chorley, provides data management software and services to the energy sector.
Utiligroup helped a total of 15 new companies to enter the energy market during the last four years, and supplies software and services to 29 of the active UK energy suppliers.
Matthew Hirst, Utiligroup chief executive, and Andrew Green, chief operating officer, led the MBO of the business. The investment from NorthEdge will facilitate the acceleration
KKR Asset Management (KAM), a sub-investment grade manager wholly-owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, has agreed to provide EUR220m long term financing to Selecta.
The investment is part of a comprehensive re-financing of the company’s capital structure, providing flexibility for investments and implementation of its ongoing growth strategy.
Selecta is Europe’s largest independent pan-European vending machine operator, with operations in 21 countries, including France, Switzerland, Sweden, UK and Germany. The company operates 135,000 vending machines, employs 4,500 people, and serves over six million customers daily. Selecta’s business is made up of a combination of private vending, public vending, office coffee
Joe Truelove, Director of Carey Group, explores how capital markets are once again playing a more important role in oiling the wheels of the global economy.
Capital markets are where corporates go to raise equity or debt finance. There is often a connection to Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency, which is home to a thriving capital markets industry that has three distinct sub sectors. First, the high profile listed investment funds sector, second and less well-known is Guernsey’s capability to support listed trading companies on a range of international markets and finally, Guernsey is home to the domestic Channel Islands
Growth private equity firm Keensight Capital has appointed Magdalena Svensson as the firm’s new investment director.
Svensson has 14 years of experience in the private equity industry.
Having started her career in 1998 in Sweden at Swedbank, she joined the Paris office of ABN Amro Capital in 2000. As investment manager and analyst, she was involved in the structuring and execution of over 20 investments. She subsequently joined XAnge Private Equity in 2004, following its acquisition of ABN Amro Capital’s small cap activities, first as investment director and subsequently as partner from 2012.
Jean-Michel Beghin, managing partner at
Tissue diagnostics specialist Definiens has closed a EUR15 million funding round led by venture capital firm Wellington Partners.
Gilde Healthcare co-led the financing round and was joined by other existing investors Cipio Partners and TVM Capital in the financing.
In conjunction with the financing, Dr Rainer Strohmenger, general partner and managing director for Wellington, will join Definiens' board of directors.
The new funds will allow Definiens to grow its business in digital pathology image analysis and expand into digital tissue diagnostics. Major investments will be made in executing the company’s Tissue Phenomics strategy, enabling partnerships with leading medical
Maven Capital Partners has completed a multi-million pound investment backing the management team of Yorkshire based Just Trays (JT) to acquire the business from Gresham Private Equity.
JT was established in 1988 and has since grown to become a manufacturer of shower trays and related accessories, with all product design, development and production undertaken at its main facility in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The business sells its range of products direct to trade partners in the construction and housing market and now accounts for around 28 per cent of the UK market.
The current management team previously led a
JHL Biotech has closed a Series B financing round of USD35 million, led by new investors Milestone Capital and a consortium of Taiwan venture capitalists and individuals.
The consortium includes President International Development Corp, Fubon Financial Holdings, Taishin Financial Holdings, TaiAn Technologies, Hotung Group, Dr Allen Chao (founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals), and existing Series A shareholders China Development Industrial Bank, Biomark Capital, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
JHL will deploy the new funds toward developing its proprietary biosimilar monoclonal antibody pipeline and accelerating its filing of investigational new drug applications, whilst supporting the ongoing facility expansion in Taiwan
A group led by FINESP Holdings II, an affiliate of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Santander’s current custody operations in Spain, Mexico and Brazil.
The remaining 50 per cent will be owned by Santander.
The investor group, which is being advised on the deal by law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, also includes Temasek, a Singapore based investment company.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Santander is a leading custody provider in Spain, Brazil and Mexico, with EUR738 billion in assets
Maitland has received approval from the Luxembourg regulator (CSSF Luxembourg) for its Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (AIFMD) compliant management company and specialised investment fund.
Together, they provide fund managers with a solution to the regulatory and supervisory burden associated with the AIFMD, enabling them to focus on their core fund management activities.
MS Management Services, a Luxembourg-based subsidiary of the Maitland group, has been authorised by the CSSF to act as an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) to third-party alternative investment funds (AIFs) as well as to the new Maitland AIF platform, MS SICAV SIF.
MS SICAV SIF
The Abraaj Group has submitted a mandatory tender offer to acquire, through one of its funds, up to 100 per cent of the shares of Cairo Medical Center SAE, which is listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX).
The mandatory tender offer is conditional to 51 per cent of the total outstanding shares being tendered.
Abraaj has already obtained irrevocable sale undertakings from the shareholders owning 50.09 per cent of the company.
Cairo Medical Center was founded in 1976 by Dr Hassan Zahed. It is located in Heliopolis, in a central location of East Cairo. Cairo Medical Center is a purpose-built
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