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Gide Loyrette Nouel advised the Tikehau Group on the takeover of Salvepar, a French investment company listed on NYSE Euronext Paris, from Société Générale.
Tikehau Participations & Investissements, an investment company recently created by the Tikehau Group and whose objective is to invest equity in the capital of listed and non-listed companies, acquired on 26 October 2012 at a price of EUR 86.24 per share, the 51.42 per cent of the capital and voting rights in Salvepar held by group Société Générale.
Tikehau Participations & Investissements will shortly file a simplified takeover bid on the remaining Salvepar shares at
AXA Private Equity is providing EUR100m of additional financing to support the development of Ceva.
The deal follows AXA Private Equity’s first investment of EUR30m in 2007.
Ceva is an animal health company, which since becoming independent in 1999, has grown by more than 10 per cent per year, well above the industry average, thanks to an internal growth strategy focused on developing innovative products combined with external growth achieved through build-ups.
The management of Ceva became the majority shareholders in the group in 2007, following the third in a series of LBO’s supported by NiXEN, Euromezzanine and, in 2010,
The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has recruited James Crisp as its new media manager.
Crisp is responsible for the EVCA’s media relations, website and social media communications.
An experienced journalist, Crisp joins the EVCA from the Brussels office of MLex Market Intelligence, a global news agency specialising in EU financial services regulation and competition law.
Previously, he spent 10 years working for UK local and national newspapers, magazines and on radio.
KPS Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement to sell its portfolio company, North American Breweries, to Cerveceria Costa Rica, a subsidiary of Florida Ice and Farm, for USD388m in cash.
NAB is one of the largest independently owned beer companies in the US and the owner of a diverse portfolio of brands including Labatt, Genesee, Seagram’s Escapes, Magic Hat, Pyramid, the Original Honey Brown Lager, Dundee and MacTarnahan’s.
NAB operates four breweries and seven retail locations located in New York, Vermont, California, Oregon and Washington.
KPS formed NAB in February 2009 as a platform for investments and growth in
iJento has received a USD8m equity investment led by MMC Ventures and existing investors Nauta Capital and Oxford Capital Partners.
This new investment in iJento is driven by several key factors:
• Market opportunity: digital and multichannel customer intelligence is an explosive global market with customer centric organisations investing heavily in specialist technology and services that provide a full understanding of their customers.
• Business value: iJento is enabling organisations to observe individual customer journeys, identify high value consumer segments and target customers with highly relevant and timely information and offers. This is delivering significant bottom line results
Paul Mumford (pictured), Senior Investment Manager of Cavendish Asset Management (CAM), the specialist long only active equity fund manager, believes that now is the time for investors to consider taking a more positive approach to equity investing…
I was quite amazed to recently read in various national newspapers and IFA investment publications that advisers believe that in the current stockmarket climate that passive investment is the way forward and that some fund management houses are even launching cautious funds. Why, when for the past three years the FTSE100 has in effect been ‘range bound’ moving between the 5,000 and 6,000
Don’t Just Start Up – Scale Up is the theme of this year’s Silicon Valley Comes to the UK 2012 (SVC2UK), taking place 14-16 November.
Aimed at helping to support the growth of the next multi-billion-pound companies in Europe, this year’s SVC2UK programme seeks to tackle the challenges of creating the mindset and conditions required for businesses to grow into global winners by focusing on a wide range of stakeholders in the UK including secondary school students, university students, first-time CEOs, serial entrepreneurs, academics, angels and VC investors.
SVC2UK 2012 brings leaders from companies such as Google, Linkedin, Facebook, Care.com,
The Central Bank of Ireland is to initiate a consultation on the Irish regulatory regime for non-Ucits funds.
The consultation will outline the changes to be introduced in connection with the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) in July 2013.
The AIFMD has presented the Central Bank with an opportunity to redesign the framework for the regulation of non-Ucits funds. The Central Bank is proposing an approach to non-Ucits regulation which aims to turn the Irish regulations into a proportionate investment funds framework which accommodates investors across a wide spectrum of capability and sophistication.
Following detailed preliminary
The scarcity in the number of quality businesses coming to market, coupled with a lack of availability of debt funding, has impacted private equity yet again this quarter as the number of deals continued its year-long fall, according to research released by BDO’s corporate finance team.
This contrasted starkly with private company trade sales which reached their highest number since Q3 2011.
According to BDO’s quarterly Private Companies Price Index (PCPI) and Private Equity Price Index (PEPI), the number of private equity deals completed in Q3 2012 stood at 77, the lowest since Q2 2011 (when 68 were seen)
Asset Match, the UK’s first electronic platform for trading shares in private companies, has acquired Sharemark, the online stock market for smaller listed and non-listed companies, for an undisclosed sum.
Sharemark is designed to provide a low cost, online secondary trading platform.
Sharemark and its multilateral trading facility (MTF) will be rebranded as Asset Match. The new Asset Match MTF will enable more cost effective, liquid and transparent share trading and should be attractive to companies who are not considering a public listing, as well as those companies delisting from the AIM and PLUS markets.
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