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Jamie Allsopp (pictured), Fund Manager at Insparo Asset Management believes US president Barack Obama should follow the UK’s lead on investment in Africa…
You don’t have to be an expert to realise Africa has extraordinary investment potential. Africa receives far less foreign direct investment than China or India and over the last year investment from developed markets actually fell. Driven by the thriving Africa funds sector in London the UK was alone in this group, increasing investments by 9% during 2012. The US and France reduced the value of their investments on a yearly basis.
Investment in infrastructure from China
Livingstone’s consumer sector team has advised ISIS Equity Partners on its GBP9m investment in the management buy-out of Key Travel, with Livingstone’s debt advisory team advising on the leveraged debt facilities.
Key is a travel management company (TMC) dedicated to serving the travel requirements of the not-for-profit, academic and faith sectors with clients and offices in the UK (Manchester, London, Liverpool and Edinburgh), Europe and the US.
With over 30 years’ experience within these sectors, Key provides airline tickets, hotels, rail tickets, visas and risk management services to clients including charities and universities. These include Oxfam and Save
Rotunda Capital Partners, a middle market private equity investment firm, has sold its investment in Worldwide Express to a group of investors including a significant investment from the management team.
Financial terms have not been disclosed.
“We developed a strategic partnership with the Worldwide Express management team and are proud to be involved in building the company into one of the leading third party logistics providers serving the small and medium sized business market,” says John Fruehwirth, managing partner at Rotunda Capital. “The company achieved significant growth during our investment and we are pleased to provide our investors
Morrison & Foerster has appointed Mark Wojciechowski as a partner in the firm’s financial transactions group in New York.
Wojciechowski has spent most of his career handling sophisticated finance matters in the New York markets. He brings to Morrison & Foerster close ties with leading institutional lenders and investment funds.
Jill Feldman, chair of Morrison & Foerster’s financial transactions group, says: “Mark is an exceptionally versatile finance lawyer who works across a spectrum of areas that will benefit our clients. He has a strong track record working with sophisticated domestic and international banks, non-bank lenders and companies on
Wealth management boutique Signia Wealth acted as an adviser to EME Capital in its offer for Theo Fennell Plc and played a key role in introducing co-investors into the acquisition vehicle for the transaction, Mirfield 1964 Plc.
Theo Fennell is a British designer of jewellery and silverware.
The deal reflects Signia’s entrepreneurial approach to investment, where exclusive investment opportunities are made available to clients with a preference for direct private equity investing and tailored wealth management products.
Nathalie Dauriac (pictured), founder and chief executive of Signia Wealth, says: “The Theo Fennell transaction is a powerful illustration
TA Associates, a growth private equity firm, has completed an investment in Flashtalking, an international advertising technology company.
Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Flashtalking provides a software platform for intelligent ad serving – the creation and delivery of online advertising campaigns, including robust post-delivery analytics and reporting. Customers build, execute and track campaigns via an efficient self-service platform.
The company offers products for desktop, tablet and mobile devices across multiple ad formats, including video, rich media and standard display. This is complemented by a dynamic creative platform that is used to deliver real-time creative
Oppenheimer & Co has appointed Jason "Hutch" Hutchinson as managing director to lead the firm’s technology mergers and acquisitions group.
Hutchinson joins Oppenheimer as part of a team of bankers that includes Michael Lippert, executive director, and will continue to deliver a wide range of M&A advisory services to the firm’s clients across all sectors of technology, media and telecom.
The team will be based in Oppenheimer’s San Francisco office.
"With their network of relationships and long track record of successfully advising clients across the technology landscape, Hutch and his team substantially expand both our Technology and
Hub International, an insurance brokerage, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by funds advised by Hellman & Friedman.
The transaction values Hub at approximately USD4.4bn.
Under the terms of the agreement, investment funds managed by Hellman & Friedman will hold a majority interest in the company, while members of Hub’s senior management will continue to have a significant equity position.
With more than 6,500 employees in the US (including Puerto Rico), Canada and Brazil, Hub is expected to achieve 2013 revenue of approximately USD1.2bn, after the annualised impact of acquisitions.
Martin Hughes, Hub chairman
Blackstone has closed on its acquisition of Strategic Partners from Credit Suisse.
Strategic Partners is a secondary private fund of funds business, with USD10bn in assets under management.
Strategic Partners seeks capital appreciation through the purchase of secondary interests in private equity, real estate and venture capital funds from investors seeking liquidity on a fair, timely and confidential basis. From its start in 2000, it has raised over USD11bn of capital commitments, completed over 700 transactions, and acquired over 1,500 underlying limited partnership interests.
Strategic Partners’ team of 29 secondary investment professionals is headed by Stephen Can
A marked improvement in the availability of debt financing for mid-market private equity deals has seen PE deal values rise to their highest level in a year, according to BDO’s latest Private Company Price Index/Private Equity Price Index (PCPI/PEPI).
The index, which compares the EV/EBITDA ratios being paid on the sale of private companies to trade (PCPI) and private equity (PEPI) buyers, showed a quarter-on-quarter jump of 36 per cent on the values paid for private equity deals – up to 10.5 in Q2 2013, from 7.7 in Q1 2013 – and marking the end of a decline that had
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