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European private equity firm Cinven is to acquire Gas Natural Fenosa Telecomunicaciones (GNFT), the fibre network operator in Spain and Latin America, from Gas Natural Fenosa (GNF) for EUR510 million.
GNFT is a neutral telecom operator providing fibre infrastructure and transmission services to telecom operators in Spain and Latin America leveraging the infrastructure of utility networks.
GNFT will continue providing telecommunication services to GNF.
The company has generated strong financial performance with a 13 per cent EBITDA increase CAGR between 2011 and 2013.
The management will be led by Iňigo García del Cerro, who will continue in
Aldermore, a British bank backed by funds advised by private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners, has appointed two non-executive directors to its board – John Hitchins and Cathy Turner.
Hitchins is a qualified accountant who brings 38 years of experience to the role, having spent his whole career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) becoming partner in 1988 and retiring in June 2014. He has specialised in bank auditing and advisory services throughout his career.
At PwC his major clients included Euroclear, Lloyds Banking Group, the Bank of England, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, JP Morgan Chase and Nomura. He also carried out
Monomoy Capital Partners and Kingsmoor have teamed up to acquire the denim manufacturing operations of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA) through American Textile Holdings (AmTex), a newly-created acquisition vehicle.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
AmTex is a designer and manufacturer of both denim fabric and denim apparel products. The company converts raw cotton into denim fabric at the ACG textile mill located in Littlefield, Texas and converts denim fabric into finished jeans at the Denimatrix cut, sew and laundry operation located in Guatemala City, Guatemala. AmTex employs over 2,400 associates at its two facilities and runs
Big Data Partnership has completed a GBP1.25 million round of series A investment from Beringea, an international growth capital firm that manages the ProVen Venture Capital Trusts.
Big Data Partnership provides vendor-agnostic big data consulting, training and support for diverse industries including web, financial services, telecoms, utilities, defence and media. Its client list includes several leading Fortune 500 companies.
Trevor Hope, chief investment officer of Beringea, says: “’Big Data’ is a widely used term; although most organisations appreciate its potential promise they still face adoption and deployment challenges. Demand for big data skills continues to outstrip supply and Big
Jersey is to host a high level conference organised jointly by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Jersey Financial Services Commission.
The purpose of the conference is to encourage international co-operation between securities authorities in order to protect investors.
The Commission, which has successfully negotiated for the SEC to stage the conference in the island, is to host and sponsor the event, which takes place at the Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in July. It is believed to be the first time the SEC has staged a conference in one of the British Crown Dependencies.
The
Syntaxis Capital has provided financing in support of the founders’ buyout and strategic development of Expert Petroleum, through its second mezzanine fund.
Expert Petroleum, primarily based in Romania, is an oil and gas services business that partners with some of the largest owners and operators in the oil and gas industries through long term contracts in order to increase production on their marginal and mature fields.
Coupled with the founders’ buyout, funds provided by Syntaxis will support the development of the company’s production-enhancement activities across Romania and internationally.
Aleksander Majewski, the Syntaxis director responsible for the investment, says:
Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to private equity firm Francisco Partners on the sale of Masternaut Group Holdings to a new joint venture between Summit Partners and FleetCor Technologies.
Masternaut is Europe’s largest provider of telematics solutions to commercial fleets. Founded in 1996 and with headquarters in the UK, Masternaut provides a SaaS-based Mobile Resource Management (MRM) application suite which improves its customers’ operational efficiencies.
The company employs over 600 telematics specialists and has over 10,000 customers with over 300,000 assets, vehicles and people connected to Masternaut’s SaaS solutions.
FleetCor, a provider of fuel cards and
Carey Olsen is the number one offshore legal adviser to London Stock Exchange (LSE) clients, according to the Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide (Q2 2014).
The law firm increased its LSE clients by four from the previous quarter and has 40 more clients than the next ranked offshore law firm featured in the guide.
The Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide reports on advisers to FTSE 100, FTSE 250, AIM and Small Cap/Fledgling clients, listing institutional advisers against their quoted clients. Advisers are drawn from UK, Irish, Channel Islands and overseas-domiciled companies, with equity shares fully listed on the LSE, together with
Private equity firm Beringea has made a USD4 million investment in Montage, a provider of purpose-built video interviewing technology to the Global 5000.
Beringea led the USD6 million Series C financing round, which also included existing investors Baird Capital, GCI and Calumet Venture Fund.
The capital will be used to drive increased global expansion, support overall company growth, and fuel the company's video interviewing technology initiatives.
"Montage's focus on innovation and client partnerships is driven by their commitment to the candidate experience, and their understanding of how to deliver a compelling value proposition to recruiters," says Mark Donnelly,
The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) has welcomed the release of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee’s (CAMAC) report into equity crowdfunding in Australia.
AVCAL’s chief executive, Yasser El-Ansary, supports the key policy directions set out in the CAMAC report.
“Australia has been lagging behind other developed economies in setting out a policy framework to support this new and evolving approach to raising equity capital by start-up businesses, and because of that we have some catching up to do,” he says. “This report provides us with a comprehensive analysis of how we should move forward
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