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Funds advised by HIG European Capital Partners have made a significant investment in Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH, a leading German recycling company.
Based in Cologne, Germany, Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) is the pioneer and market leader in take-back recycling systems. This includes close-to-home collection and recovery of consumer and transport packaging materials, as well as eco-friendly, cost-efficient recycling of used electrical equipment and facility waste disposal services. DSD is also one of Europe’s largest raw materials trading companies. In 2010, DSD generated revenues of over EUR600 million.
HIG Europe is backing
Micro-market, private equity firm Evolution Capital Partners has appointed Gene Marino to its team as a partner. Effective 1 March, Marino will open Evolution’s Chicago office, where he will focus on sourcing new investment opportunities, join the board of existing Evolution portfolio companies and continue to build the Evolution brand in the Chicago region.
"Hiring Gene and opening a Chicago office will reinforce our presence in the Chicago market, as we already have several portfolio companies there," says Jeffrey Kadlic, a Managing Partner at Evolution.
Prior to joining, Marino was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Innerpac, Inc,
Channel Islands-based law firm Bedell Cristin is hoping the opening of a new office in Mauritius will open doors to emerging markets in Asia and Africa, following changes in the law of the Indian Ocean island nation that have allowed Bedell to establish the office in partnership with local lawyers.
Mauritius’ tax treaties – notably with India and China – plus its stability as a jurisdiction make it an increasingly important conduit for investment in emerging markets, according to Mark Helyar (pictured), a group partner and head of Bedell’s Guernsey office.
“Mauritius is like an aircraft carrier off the coast
The recovery in emerging market private equity activity has outpaced the global industry, led by a significant 30% increase in capital invested in 2010 versus the prior year. According to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), 856 private equity and venture capital deals valued at USD28.8 billion were completed in 2010 across the emerging markets, driven by an increase in deal volume (27%) coupled with a slight uptick in median deal sizes (12%).
While fundraising remained relatively flat at USD23.5 billion, versus USD22.6 billion in 2009, emerging markets’ share of global fundraising hit a new peak at 11%, as
Asset management, private equity and hedge fund executives expect growth over the next year to come from smaller Asian economies such as Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, according to a study commissioned by RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada, and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Asset management, private equity and hedge fund executives expect growth over the next year to come from smaller Asian economies such as Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, according to a study commissioned by RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm
RJD Partners (RJD), a middle market private equity firm, has announced four promotions within in its investment team. Alex Hay (pictured) and Frank Bulman are both promoted to Partner, Jill Williams is promoted to Investment Director, and Richard Court to Investment Manager.
The promotions follow a busy second half of 2010, which saw RJD complete two new investments and achieve the first realisation from its second fund, RJD Private Equity Fund II, with the sale of Teaching Personnel in July.
Hay joined RJD from Close Brothers Corporate Finance in January 2007. He completed the management buyout of Chemigraphic Limited, one
Funds advised by HIG European Capital Partners LLP have acquired AIRCOM International Group – the world’s largest independent provider of network planning and optimisation services to the mobile telecoms industry – from Advent International.
AIRCOM estimates that every day, the 20 top global operators depend upon its tools and consultants to improve network coverage and service quality for more than 1.1 billion subscribers worldwide.
Founded in 1995, AIRCOM is headquartered in the UK, and employs over 900 professionals spread across 14 offices worldwide servicing customers in 135 countries. Today’s mobile market is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by the
The vast majority (84%) of respondents to a straw poll conducted by mergermarket and CMS feel that the deals they have done in Russia have lived up to their expectations and fulfilled their objectives. Despite Russia’s reputation as a difficult venue for M&A, participants in the new CMS Deal Drivers Russia 2011 survey state that it is no more difficult to do a deal in Russia than it is elsewhere.
To get a better understanding of the current state of the M&A market in Russia as well as the current deal drivers and deal obstacles, CMS commissioned mergermarket to garner
Irving Place Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, has appointed Michael Feiner as Senior Advisor of Human Capital. Feiner has extensive experience helping some of the world’s leading corporations develop and optimise their leadership and talent as a corporate executive, management consultant, author and professor.
Feiner’s corporate experience includes 20 years at PepsiCo, where he served as Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer for beverage operations worldwide. In that role, Feiner built a global human resources organisation that has been recognised as one of the most innovative in the world. He also has taught at Columbia Business School, where
Longbow Capital LLP, the British innovation investor, has launched a tax-efficient fund which supports tomorrow’s technology today.
The Longbow Growth and Income VCT offers the possibility for investment in the UK’s growing healthcare technology sector. The VCT has a unique link to Boots stores. Products are already available on the shelf, while others are being developed in its innovation centre in Swansea. This makes the investment a very accessible opportunity with real benefits for investors and their families – and the wider UK R&D industry.
Products developed at the Boots Centre for Innovation that the fund may invest in
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