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Private equity house LDC is to exit from UK commercial real estate consultant GVA once its merger with Bilfinger, the EUR8.6bn-turnover global engineering, construction and real estate services group, is finalised.
LDC’s initial investment of GBP40 million for a minority stake in GVA in 2007 supported the company’s growth through acquisition.
The merger will result in LDC, which currently holds a 27.5 per cent stake in GVA, exiting the business following a sustained period of investment that has helped GVA realise its growth plans.
Contracts have been exchanged and there was a 99 per cent shareholder vote –
Huron Capital Partners has formed a platform investment in the dental market and recapitalised Michigan-based Spring & Sprout Dental Holdings.
Spring & Sprout is a dental support organisation (DSO) formed to provide practice support services to dental specialists in paediatric dentistry and orthodontics.
Spring & Sprout will initially provide its support services to dental practices in Ohio, with plans to expand its presence through the Midwest and into the South.
In launching this buy-and-build initiative, Huron Capital has partnered with dental industry veteran and Huron Capital operating partner Michael Schwartz. Schwartz was previously the CEO of Corner Dental, a
Urban&Civic, a portfolio company of private equity firm GI Partner, has completed its reversal into Terrace Hill Plc and the subsequent relisting on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
GI Partners established Urban&Civic with the management team of Nigel Hugill (chairman) and Robin Butler (managing director) in 2009. The company was set up to acquire strategic land sites in the UK and take these assets through the allocation and planning consent process to deliver large scale residential and employment led developments.
Urban&Civic's first acquisition was the 1,432 acre Alconbury Weald site near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, a former
Emerging markets – including Latin America, Africa and China – continue to be the winners of new global sovereign flow, despite a fundamental preference, relative to the total portfolio, for developed markets, a study by Invesco has found.
The second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study also shows that sovereign investors continue to favour alternative investments with allocations increasing across all major alternative asset classes, including real estate and private equity, on a net respondent view basis.
Analysis of data within the study highlights that these geographical and asset class shifts can be attributed to the influence of
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has acquired Global Orthopaedic Technologies, an Australian manufacturer and distributor of orthopaedic implants.
With two research, design and manufacturing facilities in Bella Vista and Seven Hills in New South Wales, Global supplies implants and instrumentation for hip, knee, shoulder and spine surgeries, along with related orthobiologics.
Riverside has partnered on the transaction with Andrew Fox-Smith and Duncan Lilley. Fox-Smith is a former group president – international with Stryker Corporation, and has more than two decades of experience in the global orthopaedic market. Fox-Smith will serve as CEO. Lilley has most recently held senior
MyOptique Group, a European online optical retailer, has secured a GBP16 million (EUR20m) additional investment, bringing the total raised in its current Series C funding round to GBP35 million (EUR43m).
The latest investment came from two new investors, Korys and Beringea, manager of the ProVen VCTs, with additional funding from existing investor Cipio Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.
Together with the initial Series C investment round from previous investors Acton Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Index Ventures, the GBP35m (EUR43m) round is one of the five biggest UK technology venture capital investments of 2014.
It will be
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.
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