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Funds advised by Triton have sold logistics specialist Dematic to private equity investor AEA Investors and Teachers’ Private Capital (TPC), the private equity arm of Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
As part of the transaction, around EUR450m of outstanding bonds will be redeemed.
Dematic has sales of approximately EUR1bn and serves worldwide customers with around 4,500 employees across the globe. The parties to the transaction have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
“Today we are particularly well positioned in the growing retail and e-commerce segments. AEA and TPC have the track record, know-how and capital to support
Monroe Capital is launching a new healthcare finance company to assist lower middle-market healthcare companies in meeting their liquidity needs to fund working capital, growth initiatives, expansion and refinance existing debt.
The new firm, MC Healthcare Finance, will provide short-term, asset-based funding for healthcare companies located throughout the US.
MC Healthcare will be led by James Irwin, the former founder of Meridian Healthcare Finance, and Terry Cady, a founder of three specialised healthcare asset-based lending firms, each having more than 30 years of corporate finance experience.
In addition, the firm will rely on the vast experience and extensive healthcare industry
Adictiz, a social and mobile gaming specialist, has closed its first EUR2m round of financing from Omnes Capital (formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity), which will help it to pursue its strategy of expansion in France and abroad.
Founded in 2009 by 27-year-old Charles Christory, Adictiz has authored web and mobile games such as “Space Dog”, “Animal Story” and “What a Stupid Pigeon”.
With over 30 million players since its inception, the company boasts close to 2.5 million active players every month on the web and mobiles generating over 200 million monthly advertising impressions.
These players are located chiefly in Europe
DN Capital, an early stage and growth capital investor in the digital media, e-commerce, software and mobile industries in Europe and North America, has appointed Simon Greenman as venture partner UK and John Helm as venture partner in Germany.
In addition, Jonathan Pell and Jaclyn Schnau join the industry advisory board.
Greenman and Helm will expand the DN Capital team to identify new investment opportunities and support current and future portfolio companies with strategic and operational advisory, building on DN Capital’s proven track record of establishing and exiting European industry leaders in its Global Venture Capital (GVC) I and GVC
The recent confusion and lack of direction from the Westminster Government may cause the UK to slide towards the bottom of the renewable energy production capacity table in Europe, says Luca Concone, CEO of the Real Asset Energy Fund…
At the moment wind farm capacity accounts for less than 6 per cent of the UK’s energy needs per day. On a global scale that means the UK, a G7 country, produces barely 3 per cent of the world’s wind energy capacity. The UK is now behind Germany, France, Italy and Spain in wind power capacity production.
What is perhaps
Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity firm, has signed key financing and government agreements in the construction of three renewable energy projects in South Africa.
Actis portfolio company Globeleq is part of the consortium building the 138 megawatt (MW) Jeffrey’s BayWind Farm on the Eastern Cape, the 50 MW photovoltaic (PV) solar farm in De Aar, and the 50 MW PV solar farm in Droogfontein, both in the Northern Cape.
Construction will commence shortly and the plants are expected to be fully operational by mid-2014.
Once up and running the projects will produce enough electricity to light 48,000 households
The aggregate value of technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fell 52 per cent year-on-year (YOY) and 15 per cent compared with the previous quarter to USD28.2bn in the third quarter of 2012, according to Ernst & Young’s Global technology M&A update.
Large M&A transactions gave way to smaller, more strategic deals, as companies proceeded cautiously in light of continued, widespread macroeconomic uncertainty.
In particular, the total volume of announced deals in 3Q12 was 752, up two per cent YOY and three per cent sequentially (on 2Q12). Strategic transactions continue to be driven by five long-term megatrends that are generating disruptive
Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity firm, has held the IPO of the Ugandan electricity company Umeme.
The share application period for Umeme, which has been an Actis investment since 2005, closed last week more than 35 per cent oversubscribed, with particular demand from East African institutions and Ugandan retail customers. The offering is one of the largest in the Ugandan market.
The offer price of 275 Ugandan shillings (USD10.5 cents) values 100 per cent of Umeme at USD165m. The total number of shares on offer was 622.38 million, split between 272.4 million new (primary) stock and 350 million
Patrick Goebel has joined international law firm Dechert’s financial services and investment management group as a partner in Luxembourg.
Goebel was previously with Allen & Overy.
"We believe we have the leading financial services practice worldwide, with unrivalled strength and depth across the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In Europe specifically, we remain unique among law firms in having a presence on the ground in London, Dublin and Luxembourg, Europe’s three key funds jurisdictions. Patrick joining us further strengthens our Luxembourg offering,” says Peter Astleford, co-head of Dechert’s global financial services practice.
Goebel advises on all types of
Brian T Daly has joined Schulte Roth & Zabel as a partner in the firm’s investment management and regulatory and compliance groups.
Resident in the firm’s New York office, Daly concentrates on advising hedge and private equity fund managers on regulatory, compliance and operational matters, including registration and disclosure obligations, trading issues, advertising and marketing, and the establishment of compliance programmes.
Daly joins the firm after nearly a decade serving in-house as general counsel and chief compliance officer at several prominent hedge fund firms. He most recently was with Kepos Capital, which he joined in early 2010 as a
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