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Gresham Private Equity-backed James Grant Group (JGG) has acquired the entire issued share capital of Rabbit Vocal Management Limited, the leading London based Voiceover Management Company.
JGG is a leading provider of management and professional services to clients within the broadcast media, music and sports sectors.
Commenting on the deal, Mike Wallwork COO of JGG, says: “This acquisition is another step forward in developing a broad range of marketing services under the James Grant Group. We will seek to add further complementary companies which focus on the music, sport and entertainment sectors as and when the appropriate opportunities arise.”
The corollary to the recent falls in emerging market equities is that valuations begin to look attractive, says Bill O’Neill, EMEA Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management…
The MSCI Emerging Market Index is trading (as at end September) on an 8.8x one year forward price earnings ratio, nearly 20% below its average since 2002. Similarly, on a price to book basis at 1.6x, the index is around 27.5% below its average since 2004. The argument is not clear cut, however. Relative to the MSCI World Index, the emerging market index relative P/E ratio is 10.8% above the average;
Oak Hill Capital Partners has made a USD55 million strategic investment in Southern Air. The investment by Oak Hill Capital, which has been Southern Air’s majority investor since 2007, will support the completion of Southern Air’s fleet renewal and the company’s continued growth.
Denis J Nayden, a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital, says: "We are very pleased to provide Southern Air with additional capital to support the ongoing transformation of the company. Southern Air’s new management team has done a great job of upgrading the company’s fleet and establishing relationships with some of the world’s outstanding cargo carriers. We are excited
The KBC group (KBC) has reached an agreement with Precision Capital for the sale of its dedicated private banking subsidiary KBL European Private Bankers (KBL EPB) for a total consideration of EUR1.050 billion, EUR50 million of which depend on the results of KBL EPB.
Precision Capital is a Luxembourg entity, a company representing the business interests of a Qatari investor.
KBL EPB is one of Europe’s largest onshore private banking groups with affiliated local banks in numerous locations across nine European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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Sala International, the document archiving and records storage business backed by mid-market private equity house LDC, has merged with EDM Group, the document management business backed by ECI Partners.
The GBP52m merger, which sees ECI Partners exit its investment, creates one of the UK’s largest providers of outsourced information management services.
LDC originally invested GBP11.5m in Sala International in December 2010 as part of a buy and build strategy. This was followed by an additional GBP4.2m funding package to acquire two complementary businesses, Arrow Imaging and Microstat.
To fund the merger, LDC has provided a substantial further injection
Global private equity investor Pantheon has added two senior executives to its product development and client services teams in the UK and US.
Amanda McCrystal joins Pantheon’s London office as a principal, leading the strategic development of new product and distribution initiatives. McCrystal joins from HarbourVest where she headed up strategic business development and also became a key spokesperson on current regulatory challenges including the AIFMD and Solvency II. Previously, she held senior investor relations and marketing roles at Bramdean Asset Management. Amanda started her career at SG Warburg Group, working both in the bond trading team at SG Warburg
Private equity firm Eigen Capital’s portfolio company Plews, Inc, has completed the acquisition of Solon, OH-based Omega Hose Manufacturing Inc, a subsidiary of ATSCO Remanufacturing Inc. of Phoenix, AZ.
Eigen Capital closed the acquisition of Plews, Inc less than six months ago, and the acquisition of Omega Hose Manufacturing is the first strategic acquisition completed by Plews. Terms of the sale have not been disclosed.
The acquisition is expected to be meaningfully value-accretive to Plews’s customers, who will see an immediate enhancement of Plews’ SKU coverage of aftermarket power steering hoses; the consolidation of Omega is also expected to allow
Chris Wyllie, chief investment officer at Iveagh Private Investment House (Guinness family office), comments on the BoE’s announcement of a further GBP75bn of QE…
We are not surprised by the BoE’s move as it was well flagged, however increasing the existing QE program by such a large sum (more than a third) is bold. The Bank has ventured where the Fed feared to tread, pumping more money into the British economy whilst current inflation is elevated. The UK money supply is more constricted than in the US, which probably persuaded the Bank they could get away with it. This will
FBL Financial Group has agreed to sell its subsidiary, EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, to controlled affiliates of Guggenheim Partners, LLC for a preliminary purchase price of USD440 million in an all-cash transaction.
EquiTrust Life sells fixed and indexed annuities and life insurance nationally through independent agents and marketing organisations. Guggenheim Partners, LLC is a diversified financial services firm with more than USD125 billion in assets under management. In addition, FBL Financial Group is announcing several capital management actions including redemption of USD175 million of public senior notes, redemption of USD50 million of affiliate senior notes and a stock repurchase authorisation
GSO Capital Partners LP (“GSO”), the global credit platform of The Blackstone Group, has acquired Harbourmaster Capital, a leading European leveraged loan manager which manages and advises on approximately EUR8 billion (USD11 billion) of assets.
The Harbourmaster Capital Dublin-based team will continue to support the Harbourmaster funds, and will form a combined platform with GSO’s existing European leveraged loan business to develop new European focused funds for their global investor base. The combined European leveraged loan platform will have approximately EUR11.5 billion (USD15.5 billion) in assets under management supported by a combined team of 40 professionals in both Dublin and
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