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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
Impax Asset Management has added three new hires to its private equity infrastructure team.
Within private equity infrastructure, the firm manages two funds that follow an industrially focused, value-add “buy, build and sell” strategy, investing in renewable power generation and related assets.
Its latest fund, a EUR330 million investment fund that achieved final close in 2011, is now close to 75 per cent invested.
Peter Rossbach, managing director of the private equity infrastructure team, says: “We are delighted to announce these appointments which bring a broad range of analytic experience and expert support to strengthen the team. In
HIG Europe, the European affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital, has completed the acquisition of Café & Té and Panaria, two bakery, coffee-shop and tapas bar operators in the Spanish foodservice market.
Café & Té is a Spanish coffee-shop and tapas bar operator with a network of 147 points of sale with 101 directly operated stores (DOS). Café & Té Group operates, amongst others, through the following brands: Café & Té, Café & Tapas, Il Caffè di Roma, Kroxan and Sky Madrid.
Panaria was founded in 2010. In four years Panaria has developed a network of more than 60
Evercore is to acquire the operating businesses of ISI International Strategy & Investment, an independent research-driven equity sales and agency trading firm.
Evercore also will acquire the approximately 40 per cent interest in its institutional equities business not currently owned by the company.
The combined business, which will be known as Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, will be one of the two leading independent equity research, sales and agency trading businesses in the US.
Evercore will issue up to approximately eight million share equivalents in the two transactions, with almost 70 per cent of the share equivalent consideration dependent
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