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GMT Communications Partners (GMT), the European TMT-focused private equity group, has acquired Sverige Bygger AB and Norge Bygges AS through its portfolio company, DOCUgroup, for a total consideration of EUR15.2 million. This acquisition is DOCU’s thirteenth bolt-on since GMT acquired the platform in 2004. The combined business is expected to generate revenue of approximately EUR121 million.
Sverige Bygger and Norge Bygges are two market-leading providers of high quality and user-friendly information and marketing services for the construction industry in Scandinavia. Sverige Bygger and Norge Bygges are expected to generate consolidated annual revenue of EUR8.4 million in 2011. The companies
Rockefeller Financial has appointed Jeffery Moy as Head of Private Equity with effect from 1 August, 2011. Moy will be responsible for oversight of Rockefeller Financial’s private equity and venture capital program, including the selection and review of third-party managers, the review of client private equity portfolios and new business development.
Reuben Jeffery, Chief Executive Officer, says: "We are pleased to welcome Jeff Moy, a seasoned private equity professional, to Rockefeller Financial. With more than 20-years of investment management experience, Jeff brings extensive knowledge and key relationships to our long-established private equity and venture capital business. We look forward
Golden Gate Capital has acquired EP Management Corporation and its sole operating subsidiary, EP Minerals, a producer of diatomaceous earth (DE) filter aids, functional additives and absorbents.
Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive advisor to EP Minerals on the sale with the transaction being led by John Neuner, Patrick McNulty and Luke Semple from the firm’s Richmond office.
"As the world’s second-largest producer of DE and a leading supplier of perlite with a leading suite filtration, functional additive, and absorbent products, EP Minerals is a great fit with the strong practice we have
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Dan Haxby as Head of Realisations within RBS’s Strategic Investment Group (SIG). SIG is responsible for all aspects of the equity positions that the bank takes through debt for equity swaps and new money investments in restructuring situations. It sits within RBS’s Global Restructuring Group.
Haxby used to work as the Head of Financial Sponsors Coverage at JP Morgan, before moving to the same role at RBS’s Global Banking and Markets business (GBM). In the new role Haxby will work the lifecycle of a SIG investment from the identification of equity opportunities through to their
Valeo Foods has reached an agreement to acquire the business of Jacob Fruitfield Food Group for an undisclosed consideration. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
Valeo was formed in 2010 and comprises a growing portfolio of leading Irish consumer brands which it supplies to Irish and international retail customers. The Valeo portfolio currently includes Batchelors, Odlums, Shamrock, Sqeez, Roma, Erin, Amigo, Lustre and Picnic. Valeo also provides tailored route-to-market services for a number of leading international consumer brands.
Jacob Fruitfield brings together Fruitfield Foods, which was acquired from Nestlé in 2002, and Irish Biscuits, which was purchased from Groupe
Private equity fund-of-funds manager SL Capital Partners has haired Thomas Chevalier as Investment Director, bringing the total number of investment professionals at the firm to 20 – 16 in Edinburgh and a further four based in Boston, USA.
In his new role, Chevalier will provide guidance on legal and regulatory issues, both internally and to clients. He will be an integral part of SL Capital’s deal teams as they invest and monitor primary funds, secondary investments and direct co-investments.
David Currie, Chief Executive of SL Capital, says: “The private equity industry is facing strong regulatory headwinds, not least through the potentially
Carbon reduction management agent Climate Energy has acquired low carbon smart home provider ecoTECH in a bid to expand its portfolio.
Climate Energy is an award winning, multi disciplined energy agency which provides innovative advice and funding solutions to local authorities, registered social landlords, homeowners and businesses.
Andrew Holmes, MD of Climate Energy Ltd said, “I am delighted to welcome ecoTECH’s experience of sustainable housing to our Group portfolio. We are closer to realising our ambitions to further our influence over the sustainable construction industry which is a very exciting prospect.”
Christine Hynes, CEO of ecoTECH Housing commented; “We are
Rakuten, Inc, Japan’s biggest Internet service company, has closed an all cash transaction to acquire an 80% stake in Tradoria (www.tradoria.de), one of Germany’s leading online ecommerce platforms.
In January 2010 Seventure became the lead investor in Tradoria as part of Seventure’s strategy to back emerging high growth national and European champions in the ICT industry. Tradoria employs a unique business model that encompasses a web store, marketplace and checkout in a single product for small and medium-sized merchants. Since Seventure’s investment Tradoria has tripled its customer base to more than 4400 shops and has reached a leading position in
The chief executives of some of Britain’s best-known companies have agreed to lend their expertise to the new Business Growth Fund (BGF) as non-executive board members.
Audrey Baxter, the CEO of Baxters Food Group, Stephen Murphy, Group CEO of Richard Branson’s Virgin group of companies, Neil Johnson, Chairman of aviation and defence engineering company Umeco plc, toy model company Hornby Plc and Motability Finance, the car scheme set up to help disabled drivers, and John Burgess, Co-founder and Managing Partner of European equity investment firm BC Partners and Non-executive Director of C&C Group plc which manufactures and markets the Magners
WindMW, a company majority owned by funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE: BX), has completed the financing for “Meerwind,” the largest German offshore wind farm to complete its full financing process. Meerwind is also the first German wind farm to be fully financed by private investors.
The 80 turbine installation will be situated approximately 50 km off the German coast in the North Sea. Construction of the 288MW offshore wind farm will be completed in 2013. Once finished, Meerwind will produce sufficient power to service approximately 400,000 households and will help Germany eliminate approximately one million tons of carbon emissions
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