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Mid-market private equity investor LDC has backed the management team of Bradford-based Driver Hire Investments Group Limited (Driver Hire), the franchised provider of temporary and permanent personnel to the logistics and distribution industries, to support its continued growth.
Driver Hire, which was originally established in 1983, operates nationally through a 100-strong network of offices, predominantly owned and operated by franchisees. It services around 5,000 corporate customers with fully compliant LGV, van, fork lift truck and fleet car drivers, warehouse operatives and professional logistics managers on both a short-term and long-term basis. It is also now one of the UK’s leading
Square 1 Bank has appointed Phil Gager as Senior Vice President covering the Northeast region, and Ella van Gool (pictured) to the same position out of Square 1’s Menlo Park office covering the Silicon Valley.
Gager spent 10 years with Capital Advisors Group serving venture-backed companies most recently as Senior Vice President of Business Development, where he brought in over USD800 million in new assets, 40 new client relationships and opened up new markets in the Midwest and Southeast regions. He originally joined the firm as a member of the marketing department and rose to the level of Marketing Director.
Dynamics Inc has closed an oversubscribed USD35 million Series B round of financing led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures. Dynamics launched its award-winning Card 2.0 technology last fall, and its products are currently in consumer trials with several top multinational payment card issuers.
Dynamics will use the funding to increase the size of its team and production capacity to support the continued US deployment of its Card 2.0 technology, which debuted at DEMO Fall 2010, winning the title DEMOgod and the USD1M People’s Choice Award. Card 2.0 also won Best of Show at FinovateFall 2010 and Best in Show
More than two thirds (68%) of Private Equity houses plan to invest in the UK Financial Services (FS) market in the coming year, according to a Grant Thornton report called "Where is the Smart Money Going in Financial Services?" However, in the survey of the 40 leading private equity investors, forthcoming regulation has been cited as a major hindrance to investment.
"Our survey indicates that there is a renewed interest in PE houses investing in FS firms with 90% of respondents predicting increased private equity activity in this sector. This has been a long time coming since the banking crisis
ARX Equity Partners (ARX) has completed a management buy-in of a majority shareholding in Manag a.s. (Manag), a leading Czech company focused on design, manufacturing and assembly of electrical equipment, and related regulatory and control systems.
The company is particularly strong in serving clients from refinery, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Manag is also active in Slovakia through its local subsidiary.
ARX and Manag’s management team aim to expand the business organically as well as through complementary add-on acquisitions. “Manag has repeatedly won confidence of its customers for whom Manag’s services are critically important from operational and safety perspective. The
LDC, a leading UK mid-market private equity firm, has appointed Yann Souillard (pictured) as Managing Director of its Southern region. Souillard replaces Kevan Leggett who announced his retirement earlier this year.
Previously a Director in LDC’s London team, Souillard joined the business in 2004 following seven years at Barclays Leveraged Finance. During his time in London, he focused on LDC’s full GBP2 million to GBP100 million investment range and played a key role on transactions including Sala International, a document archiving and records storage company, and Microlease, a provider of electronic test and measurement equipment.
Souillard will be responsible
Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on health care, has acquired MarketLab, Inc. Water Street’s investment in MarketLab is the firm’s fourth in the specialty healthcare distribution sector and expands Water Street’s current group of health care companies specialising in distribution, life sciences, medical devices and services to 13.
MarketLab distributes unique products to the clinical laboratory, hospital nursing and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markets. Headquartered in Caledonia, Michigan, the company directly markets thousands of products to approximately 11,000 customers including hospitals, integrated delivery networks, physician practices and clinical labs across the country. Water Street
Brotonne Capital SAS, the holding company of REVIMA, has completed the acquisition of 100% of REVIMA APU securities from United Technologies Holdings SAS (UTC). REVIMA APU SAS, as a wholly-owned company of UTC since 2008, was developing its activity on behalf of a division of UTC, Hamilton Sundstrand, and was operating as a separate business entity.
The REVIMA GROUP is a leading independent provider, specialised in Landing Gear MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) based in Normandy (France). It employs approximately 600 people and REVIMA GROUP’s market share represents 16% of the global market in its sector with a turnover of
In a far reaching survey by Norton Rose Group, the international legal practice, 109 respondents from Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and North America and drawn largely from the infrastructure and energy sectors, resoundingly agreed (96%) that there needs to be an increase of foreign investment into Indonesia. The respondents agreed that the greatest areas of opportunity include mining and minerals, power, LNG, upstream oil and gas, telecoms and palm oil.
The respondents were unanimous in their view that Indonesia requires international funds to invest in the vast number of potential energy and infrastructure projects. In the next two years
While Chinese inflation is still rising and the recent drought in central China may cause food prices to increase again, we do not expect inflation to reach excessive levels.
The latest positive PMI data (in May) indicated that investors’ concerns for Chinese economy were exaggerated, as underlying economic numbers, although slowing, remain relatively robust. We expect Chinese companies to report good earnings in the upcoming interim reporting season, which should support share prices.
China’s market is demonstrating attractive valuations, with expected earnings growth of 17%. The fund will continue to focus on companies with domestically focused operations, less policy
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