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Bunge Limited, a global agribusiness and food company, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Climate Change Capital Group Limited (CCCG), the parent company of Climate Change Capital Limited (CCC), a UK-regulated sustainable asset manager and advisor.
James Cameron (pictured), CCC’s Vice Chairman, will replace Vivienne Cox as Chairman. Mark Macleod, CCC’s Chief Financial Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer, will continue as CFO and Director. Alfred Evans will become CEO. Since 2005, Evans has advised Bunge on its internal emission reduction initiatives, overseen emission reduction services provided by Bunge’s Ecoinvest Carbon subsidiary and served as Chief Investment Officer for
Cordea Savills, the international property investment manager, has appointed John Claxon as a Director of Investment to lead the company’s expansion of its UK segregated mandate business.
Claxon, who will report to George Tindley (pictured), Executive Director and Head of Investment, UK, has 25 years’ experience of managing and advising real estate portfolios. He joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, where he was Head of the UK Investment Management Business. At BNP, he focused on segregated mandates and was discretionary manager for some major UK pension fund mandates, for which he delivered robust performance returns.
Tindley says: “I
Evercore Partners has appointed Steve Wellington as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s investment banking business based in London, focusing on financial restructuring, distressed M&A and debt advisory.
Randolph Sesson has also agreed to join the firm’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director, also based in London, where he will be Head of European Transportation.
Wellington has specialised in financial restructuring advisory and leveraged finance underwriting for the past 16 years. He worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 1999 to 2012, most recently as Head of Restructuring Advisory EMEA where he advised a wide range
Ancor Capital Partners has sold Tritrax Healthcare Services, a home health-care services provider to Dallas/Fort Worth area geriatric patients, to Jordan Health Services, a statewide provider of adult home health services.
"The focus of our growth plan in the home care sector at Ancor is in paediatric care, and we were pleased to find a strategic buyer such as Jordan who valued the Tritrax employees and its reputation in the industry," says Timothy J McKibben, managing director at Ancor. "We are excited about the opportunities that are in front of us in the paediatric sector and look forward to building
US-based companies led the way in completing merger-and-acquisition (M&A) deals with emerging and high-growth market companies in the second half of 2011, but deal activity dropped by 20 per cent compared with the first half of 2011, according to KPMG International’s latest Emerging Markets International Acquisition Tracker (EMIAT) study.
The semi-annual KPMG study, which tracks completed deals in which an acquirer took at least a 5 per cent shareholding interest, revealed that in the second half of 2011, US-based companies completed 126 emerging and high-growth market acquisitions, down from 158 in the first half of 2011. Companies in the other European
Doug Henderson has joined Oak Hill Advisors as Partner. Based in London, Henderson will lead the firm’s European performing credit business and enhance its established distressed capabilities.
Henderson has more than 25 years of experience and extensive relationships in the leveraged finance market, including the last 12 years in London. He joins OHA from Goldman, Sachs & Co, where he most recently served as Chairman of the European Credit Finance Group in the Investment Banking Division, with oversight of the firm’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia) loan, high yield, restructuring, structured finance and real estate finance businesses. In addition,
Total sovereign wealth fund (SWF) assets under management stand at USD4.62tn, an increase from USD3.98tn in 2011, Preqin data reveals.
Data analysed for the forthcoming 2012 Preqin Sovereign Wealth Fund Review also show that more than half of all sovereign wealth funds, 57%, invest in private equity. However, the overall proportion of such institutions investing in private equity has fallen slightly in the last year, as several newly established sovereign wealth funds have yet to make their maiden allocations to the asset class.
Some 46% of sovereign wealth funds invest in private equity through fund commitments, and a further 11%
Willem Sels (pictured), UK Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank on how recent data still points to a soft landing scenario in China…
In recent months, concerns have increased that China will experience a hard landing and that tightening measures by policymakers since October 2010 have been too aggressive, especially given the global slowdown we have witnessed in recent quarters. Our view has remained that a soft landing was achievable and that the slowdown in Chinese growth was both engineered and needed. Indeed, given the current size of the Chinese economy, 10% growth is no longer needed and
Vision Capital has acquired Vitopel from funds advised by DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and JP Morgan Partners.
Vitopel is the market leader in BOPP (bi-axially oriented polypropylene) film production in Latin America, generating over USD300 million of revenue in 2011. Its materials are widely used for products such as snack foods, fresh produce and confectionery products. Vision Capital intends to use Vitopel as a platform for consolidation in the BOPP industry and to capitalise on the high growth potential within the Latin American BOPP film packaging market, driven by increasing commercial and consumer demand.
As part of the transaction, Vision
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