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Corporate law firm AZB & Partners continues to top the Venture Intelligence India League Tables as the Most Active Legal Advisor for both Private Equity and M&A deals – advising a total of 51 transactions – in the first six months of 2011. Ernst & Young topped the Most Active Transaction Advisor Table under Private Equity and Avendus Capital topped as the Most Active Transaction Advisor under M&A for the six months ended June 2011.
The Venture Intelligence League Tables, the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on volume of PE and M&A transactions advised
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has signed an agreement with Barclays Private Equity and Quadriga Capital to acquire German outdoor specialist Jack Wolfskin. The transaction is expected to close in August.
Dr Axel Herberg, Senior Managing Director, Blackstone says: “We have seen consistent growth in the outdoor market, and Jack Wolfskin has played a leading role in this. Management at Jack Wolfskin has proven its ability to build a strong brand, and we look forward to supporting further growth throughout Germany and internationally.”
Christian Brandt, Chief Finance Officer, Jack Wolfskin says: “We are pleased to have a long-term oriented and experienced strategic
Shareholders of Citadel Capital, a leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa, approved an EGP1.05 billion rights issue at par at an Extraordinary General Meeting held today in Cairo.
Shareholders voted to raise the firm’s capital to EGP4,358,125,000 from EGP 3,308,125,000 by issuing 210,000,000 new shares at a par value of EGP 5 per share. Newly issued shares include 157,500,000 common shares and 52,500,000 preferred shares. Shareholders will be invited to subscribe to the newly offered shares on a pro-rata basis.
Citadel Capital received approval from the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (EFSA) on 13 July 2011
Craton Equity Partners, Southern California’s leading clean tech private equity fund, has led a USD60 million round in Series E financing for Bridgelux Inc, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies.
Existing financial and strategic investors also participated in the round, including VantagePoint Capital Partners, DCM, El Dorado Ventures, Novus Energy Partners, Invus Group, VTS, Harris & Harris Group and Passport Capital among others. Bridgelux will use the new funding to extend its leadership position in the solid state lighting market by accelerating research and development in key areas of strategic focus for the company, including GaN-on-Silicon development
Acquisitions of insolvent businesses in the UK have continued to fall in the first half of 2011, according to research by Experian Corpfin on behalf of the insolvency trade body R3.
The figures show that distressed deals now account for one in 19 of all mergers and acquisitions, compared to one in nine when activity peaked in 2009.
During the first half of 2011, 76 out of a total of 1,430 acquisitions (1 in 19) in the UK involved companies acquired out of administration or other formal insolvency procedures. This compares to 249 out of 3,139 acquisitions (1 in
Janrain, the leading provider of social identity management solutions for businesses, thas closed USD15.5 million in financing. Emergence Capital Partners led the round, and is joined by previous investors Anthem Venture Partners, DFJ Frontier, RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and founder Larry Drebes with participation from Square 1 Bank.
The investment will be used to add resources and employees across all existing functional teams and further support the accelerated growth the company is experiencing.
Janrain provides SaaS solutions that help organisations increase acquisition and engagement with online users by leveraging the user’s social profile. These solutions, including social login, sharing
Investment vehicles managed by Colony Capital LLC (Colony) have completed the acquisition of a portfolio of institutional real estate collateralised non-performing loans (NPL) from four German banks, including Eurohypo, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), Berlin Hyp and Archon Capital Bank. These first ranking loans have a face value of EUR370 million and were utilised to develop properties primarily in Berlin and Frankfurt in the mid to late 1990s.
All loans in the portfolio were held by one borrower. Whole loans are the only loans related to the properties and will be sold together by the lenders. There are no senior, pari-passu or
Private equity firms often look to sell holdings on the public market in order to realise gains on investments and increase returns to their investors. Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the US, provides private equity groups with four recommendations to help them successfully divest of a portfolio company (portco) through an initial public offering (IPO).
"In recent months, we’ve seen an uptick in IPO activity, which is causing many private equity groups to revisit an IPO as a viable exit strategy for some of their holdings," says Tony Klaich, a partner in
LLR Partners (LLR) has made a USD24 million investment in VectorLearning, a leading online continuing education platform, to support the Company’s continued growth and acquisitions. The investment in VectorLearning, which operates under the brands RedVector and Care2Learn, is LLR’s second education investment within the past 12 months and its fourth overall.
Renowned for its superior online education solutions tailored to post-acute healthcare and design and construction professionals, VectorLearning will benefit from LLR Partners’ unique investment expertise in education and healthcare to build upon its success in the eLearning market. The Company will use this capital to drive organic growth in
The Sterling Group (Sterling), a Houston based private equity investment firm, has, through its affiliated investment fund, Sterling Group Partners III, completed the acquisition of the Stackpole International (Stackpole) business from Gates Canada (a subsidiary of Pinafore Holdings PV). The acquisition is Sterling’s second investment in its third fund, USD820 million fund raised in 2010, and is the twentieth corporate carve-out in its twenty-nine year history.
The acquisition was financed with equity from Sterling Group Partners III, LP, Current Capital LLC and several other co-investors. Senior debt financing was provided by RBC Capital Markets, BNP Paribas and UBS and
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