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The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of Babcock & Brown Gates Parking Investments LLC (BBGPI), which includes Imperial Parking Corporation (Impark), one of the largest parking management companies in North America. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
Impark, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, currently leases or manages more than 2,000 parking locations, consisting of more than 400,000 parking spaces, in over 25 markets throughout Canada and the United States. BBGPI, a joint venture between Gates Group Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based private equity firm, and London-based Global Partners Fund, acquired Impark in
Subsidiaries of Funds advised by Apax Partners (Apax) have completed the acquisition of the Golden Jaguar restaurant chain in the People’s Republic of China.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Shanghai, Golden Jaguar has grown rapidly in recent years and now has multiple locations in Shanghai and Beijing as well as six other cities across China. The buffet-style restaurants serve China’s rising urban middle classes and offer their customers a huge array of Chinese and international dishes including limitless Haagen Dazs. Golden Jaguar also provides wedding banquet services to thousands of Chinese couples per year.
Located in shopping malls, department
Improving the quality of education and its accessibility remains a key goal for Britain and the world. As population figures rise and governments strive to build highly skilled economies, the education sector can offer an attractive proposition for private equity investors. According to experts at international law firm Taylor Wessing, investors in the education sector have seen solid performance to date and, with the right deals, can continue to enjoy stable cash flows in a volatile economy. Robert Fenner, Partner in the Private Equity Group at Taylor Wessing, comments…
The provision of services into the education sector is an area
Rutland Partners, the turnaround and restructuring investor, has made the simultaneous acquisitions of Laidlaw and the interiors manufacturing division of SIG plc (SIGIM). Rutland is investing alongside John Jefferies, CEO of Laidlaw.
Laidlaw is the UK’s leading supplier of architectural ironmongery, doorsets, handrail and balustrading systems into the UK construction market. SIGIM includes the leading brands in commercial doors and partition systems, Leaderflush Shapland and Komfort respectively, and the Cubicle Systems washroom and Tufwell Glass businesses.
Jefferies, the owner of Laidlaw, is rolling his investment in the firm into the new group, which will be called Laidlaw Interiors Group and
Tripp Kyle has joined Brunswick Group as a Partner in the firm’s New York office. Kyle joins from Finsbury Group, where he played a pivotal role in building the firm’s New York office and its alternative investment management practice.
At Brunswick Kyle will focus on advising clients in the financial services sector, including asset management and alternative investment companies, such as hedge funds, real estate investment and private equity firms. He will also provide counsel to corporate and investment management clients on shareholder activism and corporate governance campaigns, as well as mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and special situations.
“Tripp will
Venture capital investment is having a direct impact on job growth, which in turn is spurring strong demand for commercial properties, according to a new whitepaper, entitled Insights: Commercial Grows Where the Venture Capital Flows, just published by Cassidy Turley, a leading commercial real estate services provider.
During the past 12 months, many of the nation’s top performing office markets – including New York, Boston, San Jose and San Francisco – were also among the most active in terms of venture capital investment. These markets are expected to continue to see the strongest levels of growth in office demand
Charlotte-based private equity firm Falfurrias Capital Partners, has signed a definitive agreement to sell its ownership interest in Bojangles’ Restaurants to Advent International, a global private equity firm based in Boston.
The transaction, which is expected to close later this summer, comes nearly four years after Falfurrias acquired the Southeast-based quick-service restaurant chain in September 2007.
"We are grateful for the incredible support Falfurrias has given us over the past four years, which helped Bojangles’ become the fastest-growing, free-standing quick service restaurant concept in the country," says Bojangles’ President and CEO Randy Kibler. "We are also excited by the prospect
Dalkia Polska, the Polish district heating business owned by global investment manager IFM, has signed an agreement following the privatisation of an 85% stake from the City of Warsaw in Przedsiębiorstwo Stołeczne Energetyki Cieplnej (SPEC SA) – the largest district heating network in the European Union. This privatisation falls on the one year anniversary on which IFM increased its investment in the Dalkia Polska business to 40 per cent.
This privatisation increases IFM’s investment in the regulated district heating sector in Poland which will make Dalkia Polska the pre-eminent district heating providers covering three of the four largest cities.
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Ralf Oberbannscheidt (pictured), portfolio manager, DWS Invest Global Agribusiness believes commodities will remain under pressure due to increased demand for food and fuel…
Sentiment was weak in emerging markets as signs of decelerating demand appeared, a result of rising energy prices year-on-year. Supply chain disruptions associated with the Japanese earthquake have weighed on global production. In addition, German and French industrial production posted lower numbers in June. More positively, euro area sales and German factory orders rose.
Possibly more significant is the fiscal front across the euro and the rising uncertainty caused by tensions in Greece. The fear of
Redkite Financial Markets, a specialist in real-time financial markets surveillance solutions, has raised a Series A investment from DFJ Esprit, a leading European venture firm with just under USD900 million under management.
The investment will accelerate the growth of the firm whose next-generation solution enables the financial services sector to ensure compliance to global regulatory initiatives that demand real-time trade monitoring.
Redkite Financial Markets was established in 2009. Its flagship product, Redeye, equips financial institutions with the tools and knowledge to monitor, analyse and act on trading conditions in real-time, enabling them to detect suspicious transactions and trading behaviours
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