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Bridgepoint and Eurazeo are to aquire Fonica with the ambition of making the company the leading residential real estate services company.
Foncia has a network of more than 600 branches run by nearly 7,000 employees. It operates in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, and offers a complete range of services for the residential real estate market: lease management, joint property management, sales advice, financing research, insurance and technical diagnoses. Its revenue in 2010 was EUR580 million, after sustained growth over the last 10 years.
To make Foncia the leading European residential real estate services company, Bridgepoint and Eurazeo will
The management board and the supervisory board of Deutsche Börse Aktiengesellschaft have made a joint statement recommending that the company’s shareholders accept the offer by Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V under which they will receive one share of the Dutch holding for each share in Deutsche Börse. The Dutch holding will be the joint holding company of Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext in the combined company.
Reto Francioni, CEO of Deutsche Börse AG, says: “The combination with NYSE Euronext will drive significant long-term value for all shareholders through superior cash flow generation, a strong balance sheet and a clear
TA Associates, a leading growth private equity firm, today announced it has completed a minority investment in Tega Industries Ltd, a designer and producer of consumables for the mining industry. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Kolkata, India and founded in 1976, Tega offers a range of products and services used in mining, mineral processing, screening, grinding and material handling. Tega’s primary offering is customized wear-resistant mill liners that are used for grinding and sizing of mineral ores. Tega has manufacturing facilities in India, South Africa and Chile, with sales and support offices in 14 countries
HCI Equity Partners (HCI) has been formed by the Managing Partners and investment team of Thayer | Hidden Creek Partners to assume the management of the funds and operations of Thayer | Hidden Creek Partners. HCI was formed to better reflect the heritage of the team and strategy which originated with the founding of Hidden Creek Industries in 1989.
For the past 22 years, the HCI team has employed its extensive operating capabilities in partnership with proven managers of industrial growth companies to generate attractive risk adjusted returns for investors. Through its disciplined execution of this strategy, the HCI team
Funds advised by HIG European Capital Partners LLP and its debt affiliate Bayside Capital have acquired Silentnight, Ltd. the UK’s leading bed & mattress manufacturer. This is after Silentnight was forced to file for administration following unsuccessful negotiations with the Pension Protection Fund over the company’s unserviceable pension deficit.
The deal with HIG Europe secures the future of the Lancashire-based Silentnight and safeguards the jobs of its 1,250 employees.
HIG Europe will take full ownership of Silentnight’s ongoing business interests, including its brands and all other assets. The acquisition of Silentnight marks H.I.G. Europe’s twelfth new deal investment in the
Harris Williams & Co has advised Idaho Pacific Holdings, Inc (IPH), a subsidiary of Otter Tail Corporation, on the company’s sale to to Novacap Industries III, LP (Novacap). The transaction closed on May 6, 2011. Harris Williams & Co. acted as the lead advisor to IPH. The transaction was led by Tim Alexander, Glenn Gurtcheff, Jeff Cleveland and Brant Cash from the firm’s Consumer Group in Minneapolis.
“IPH is an industry leader serving blue-chip customers across the ingredient, foodservice, and export markets. The company’s broad product offering and operations that span multiple potato growing regions provide unmatched stability and
Harvey M Eisenberg and Douglas A Ryder will join the New York office of International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Man as partners in its private equity practice group. Eisenberg and Ryder come to Weil from O’Melveny & Myers LLP.
Eisenberg has held a number of leadership positions at his former firm, including head of its Global Transactions department and most recently, he served as the Co-Chair of its Strategy Committee. He was a member of its Investment Funds and Mergers & Acquisitions practices and has more than 25 years of experience representing alternative asset managers, particularly private equity firms
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has recapitalised Iron Data Solutions in partnership with the company’s existing management team, of privately held Iron Data Solutions, LLC (Iron Data) in order to facilitate further growth. This transaction represents Arlington’s third government software deal in the last 12 months.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Iron Data offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, called Intelligent Process Management (IPM), that assess, improve, manage and monitor challenging operational process issues for federal, state and local government clients and transportation/logistics customers in the private sector. Iron Data has more than 400 employees across 11
Santa Rosa, California-based Praxis Capital LLC has acquired the 136-unit Elm Grove Apartments in the master planned community of Kingwood, Texas, a class A suburb of Houston. This stabilised, yet high potential complex, is the second Texas acquisition targeted and acquired by Praxis Capital in the last ten weeks.
Elm Grove is ranked as the largest master-planned community in Harris County, Texas. The Kingwood submarket was recently ranked number 1 in the Houston area in terms of rent growth by REIS, Inc. The Houston MSA population is estimated to increase by 2.66 million residents by 2030. This would result
EVCARCO Inc announced today has signed a USD10m drawdown equity financing agreement with Boston based Auctus Private Equity Fund, LLC (Auctus).
Mack Sanders, CEO of EVCARCO, says: "We are pleased to have signed this funding agreement with Auctus, which provides the Company with future flexibility and will help us with dealership acquisitions, operations and general corporate use."
Nickolay Frolov, CFO of EVCARCO, says: "The Auctus Agreement requires the company to file for fewer shares and should have a gradual effect on our share structure due to the 36 month term. The company is also looking at several smaller debt financing
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