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Global buyout firm Advent International has opened an office in Bogotá, Colombia, extending its long-established presence in Latin America.
The office, Advent’s fourth in the region and 18th worldwide, will serve as a hub to invest in high-growth companies across Colombia, Perú and Central America.
“Given Colombia’s strategic location, prospects for continued growth and strong pipeline of investment opportunities, Advent believes it is an attractive market for private equity,” says Diego Serebrisky, an Advent Managing Director who is heading the Bogotá office. “Colombia has the fourth-largest economy and third-largest population in Latin America and a stable government, and its
Mid-market private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in QualitySolicitors, a leading UK brand of high-street solicitors for individuals and SMEs. Details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
QualitySolicitors was founded in 2009 with the aim of building a national legal brand focused on providing improved standards of service to individual customers and SMEs. The UK high-street legal market, which represents GBP10 billion in annual revenue, is highly fragmented with approximately 10,000 firms, the vast majority of which have less than 25 solicitors. The Company has rapidly built a network of 300 locations across the UK, comprising
Private investment firm Bain Capital has entered into definitive documentation to acquire Skylark Co Ltd, Japan’s leading family restaurant chain, from Nomura Principal Finance Co and other investors.
Bain Capital has acquired 100% of the company for an equity value of approximately USD2.1 billion (JPY160 billion). This transaction is one of the largest private equity purchases of a Japanese company, and the largest buyout in Japan in nearly two years.
Skylark, which began operations in 1970, has more than 3,600 outlets in Japan and overseas and about USD4.5 billion in annual revenues, making it one of the largest restaurant
Lithuania SME Fund managed by BaltCap, the largest private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltic countries, has invested in Impuls LTU, operator of the leading Lithuanian health and fitness club chain.
With eight gyms in Lithuania’s main towns, Impuls LTU will be the largest health club chain in the country. Impuls LTU operates only large format clubs the size of which ranges from 2000 sq metres to 6600 sq metres. Impuls clubs offer their clients main workout and cardio areas, group exercise classes and pools as well as additional products and services. The investment should support an aggressive
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services today announced that it has been appointed by Cerberus Capital Management, LP, one of the world’s leading private investment firms, to provide fund administration and related securities services for its investment funds with aggregate assets of over USD23 billion.
The JP Morgan platform will be supplemented by certain back-office personnel of Cerberus who will become employees of JP Morgan.
"The transition of the services to a world class third-party administrator provides our firm strong infrastructure support and the independence preferred by our investors,” says Jeffrey Lomasky, Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of
Ogier has appointed new managing partners in each of its Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands offices and a new chief executive officer in its fiduciary business in the Cayman Islands.
In the Cayman Islands, Nick Rogers, currently a partner leading Ogier Cayman’s corporate and commercial practice, has been named managing partner of Ogier Cayman’s legal business. Rogers first joined Ogier in the Cayman Islands in 2001 and, after some time with Walkers in Hong Kong and Cayman, rejoined as a partner in 2010.
Peter Cockhill (pictured), currently managing partner of Ogier Cayman legal business, will reassume his responsibilities
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has funded the acquisition of US based MetricTest for portfolio company Microlease, the international provider of rental and asset management services to the test equipment market.
LDC originally backed the GBP30m management buyout of Microlease in 2006, investing a further GBP8.3m in 2009 to provide further capital to support a programme of acquisitions and continued organic growth.
The business subsequently acquired rental specialist Telogy International NV in 2009, making Microlease the largest provider of its kind in Europe with the most comprehensive portfolio of services, followed by Hamilton Hall Consultants earlier this year to
Saffar Holdings Limited has retained Arma Partners LLP to advise on strategic options in relation to its portfolio company, Zawya Limited in response to several unsolicited expressions of interest in Zawya that have recently been received.
Founded in 2001 and based in Dubai, UAE, Saffar is a leading early-stage private equity investor in the financial services sector in the Middle East and North Africa (“MENA”). Its focus is to nurture and grow financial services companies to serve the region. Saffar acquired a majority stake in Zawya in 2001 and has provided financial and management support with which the Company has
Swiss investment firm Mountain Cleantech AG has announced the first close of Mountain Cleantech Fund II (Fund II) at EUR23 million. With a target fund size of EUR100 million, Mountain Cleantech Fund II aims to become the largest dedicated growth equity Cleantech fund in the German-speaking and Nordic regions.
Fund II follows the success of Mountain Cleantech’s first dedicated Cleantech fund, which demonstrated the team‘s ability to drive top-line growth and create value within its portfolio companies even through the recent financial crisis. A full exit from solar waste recycler SiC Processing AG to Nordic Capital in 2010 generated one
The findings of a new study led by Professor Christoph Kaserer of the Technical University of Munich and released at the EVCA Mid-Market Forum in Budapest, show that by far the most significant factor in delivering returns from European mid-market buyouts is earnings growth, accounting for up to 75% of the overall return.
The study analysed the attributions of the IRR and money multiple returns of 332 fully-exited, anonymised mid-market* private equity investments funded between 1990 and 2011 – one of the largest European sample analysed for return attributions to date. The study focused on the relative contributions of
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