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Independent corporate advisory firm Acuity Advisors has acted as exclusive corporate finance advisor to KnowledgeCenter to secure agreement from Charles Taylor to purchase both the business and its assets.
Established in 2001, KnowledgeCenter provides tailored business solutions to the insurance industry with its business process management and document management software applications. KnowledgeCenter works at all stages of a project’s lifecycle from initial project definition, through analysis and design, solution development, implementation and product or solution training.
Charles Taylor is an international provider of professional services to clients in the global insurance market. The group has been providing professional
Keith Lawson, ICI Global Senior Counsel, Taxation, comments on the Council of the European Union Legal Service opinion regarding the current Financial Transaction Tax proposal under consideration by some EU member countries…
We welcome today’s well-reasoned opinion of the European Union Council’s Legal Service that the proposed Financial Transaction Tax violates several principles of European law. Specifically, this opinion supports our long-held view that the proposal would have extraordinary extraterritorial impact.
We will continue to engage closely with policymakers regarding the many negative effects that a financial transaction tax would have on individual fund investors, pension funds, issuers, and the markets.
BMC Software has concluded its acquisition by a private investor group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital together with Insight Venture Partners, GIC Special Investments and Elliott Management.
“This is an exciting day for BMC Software, including our employees, our partners and our new owners,” says Bob Beauchamp, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Most importantly, this transaction is very good news for our customers. As a private company, we will be able to innovate more quickly than ever before and deliver the most valuable IT management solutions in the industry.”
“BMC is the leading global
The CapStreet Group has completed a majority recapitalisation of Industrial Plant Services, the parent company of EPSCO International and Plant Maintenance Services, in partnership with the senior management team.
Founded in 1994, Industrial Plant Services is a Houston-based provider of corrosion resistant and non-metallic products primarily serving the petrochemical and general industrial end markets.
Private equity firm CapStreet, also based in Houston, focuses on growing, lower-middle market companies in Texas and other Sunbelt states.
EPSCO International, founded in 1962, is a specialty distributor of corrosion resistant and non-metallic products along the Gulf Coast. EPSCO has facilities in
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has added director Dave Furlong and associate director Kate Grimoldby to its North of England acquisition finance team.
The appointments will support the origination and execution of mid-market leveraged financings, including buyouts, bolt-on acquisitions and re-financings, with private equity firms and companies across the North West, Yorkshire and the North East.
Furlong, who has 10 years’ industry experience, joins from HSBC where he was deputy head of leveraged finance for the North of England, arranging facilities to support sponsor-led deals across the three regions. Prior to this he held director and associate director roles
While private equity funds remain flush with cash, a shortage of good investment opportunities and structural challenges are hampering the industry’s recovery, according to a study and survey conducted by SEI.
Updating two previous surveys from 2009 and 2011, SEI’s latest study, “Key Course Adjustments for Breaking Through: Five Ways Private Equity Managers Can Optimise Their Competitive Advantage,” identified some positive industry trends.
Allocations to private equity are on the upswing; 36 per cent of investors surveyed this year said they are increasing their allocations to the asset class, versus 26 per cent in the 2011 survey. Additionally,
Nova Capital Management has appointed Richard Lobo as an investment partner in the firm’s North American team.
Nova opened its North American headquarters in Chicago in January this year. This appointment follows Nova’s recent announcement of its acquisition of five home improvement and hardware brands from Newell Rubbermaid in the US.
Lobo (pictured) has spent the last 20 years with CHS Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm investing in mid-market companies in the US. As a partner and member of CHS’ investment committee, Lobo has been directly involved in dozens of transactions and brings a wealth of private
Summit Partners, a growth equity investor, has appointed two senior healthcare investment professionals: Darren Black, managing director in Summit’s Boston office, and Thomas Tarnowski, principal in Summit’s London office.
Since 1984, Summit has invested in more than 70 companies across the healthcare and life sciences industry.
“We’re delighted to welcome Darren and Thomas to our experienced team,” says Marty Mannion, a managing director in Summit’s Boston office. “Their deep knowledge and sector expertise will help Summit build on its nearly 30-year history of investing in the healthcare sector. We’re very much looking forward to working with them.”
LBO France has appointed Etienne Colas as managing director within the operating team.
The operating team was put in place by LBO France to help support its underlying portfolio companies and to generate value creation. The team’s mission is to structure the value creation process by working with the portfolio company’s management.
Composed of three members, the operating team reports directly to LBO France’s executive board. Colas joins Guy Latourrette, former chief executive of La Redoute and Devanlay-Lacoste, and Gilles Taldu, partner and member of LBO France’s executive board and former manager of Thomson and Capgemini.
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