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Malta became a member of the European Union in 2004 and is one of the 15 members of the Eurozone.
Evolution Group, a UK investment bank, has appointed Steve Bartlett as head of private company and private equity coverage.
Bartlett will be responsible for leading Evolution’s growing focus on private companies and the private equity market.
He will report to Garry Levin, Evolution’s newly appointed head of the corporate finance division.
Bartlett has 20 years’ experience as an adviser, focusing on private company M&A and private equity. Most recently, he operated his own advisory practice. Prior to that, Bartlett spent five years in the London corporate finance team of BDO where he was a partner. Before that, he worked
Wheb Ventures, a European clean technology private equity firm, has invested in the German company Friedola, a recycled plastics processing and products business.
Wheb led the round with a EUR10.8m investment.
Friedola’s products consist of up to 80 per cent recycled materials, feedstock which is generated by its own plastic waste recycling facilities in Germany. Its products are mainly used in the automotive and logistics industries.
Friedola’s main product is Con-Pearl, a lightweight board made of polypropylene. They are mainly used as automotive components such as floor boards in light commercial vehicles.
Jörg Sperling, partner at Wheb
European financial directors are concerned about accessing sufficient levels of working capital in 2010, according to research from London-based working capital solutions provider Demica.
As a result, a majority (62 per cent) believe they will be unable to make the most of economic recovery when it emerges.
European corporations are faced with a number of hurdles – the unsustainable demand to extend payment terms, the looming threat of supplier failure and the withdrawal and rise in the cost of credit insurance.
The continued lack of availability and tightening of traditional lines of credit have shown no sign of easing, causing
Augmentum Capital, the entrepreneurial fund founded by Tim Levene and Richard Matthews, has formally launched.
It comes soon after its first investment in BullionVault, the online physical gold investment platform.
The fund is targeting GBP50m of private equity deals over the next three years and is backed solely by RIT Capital Partners, the London listed investment trust in which Jacob Rothschild and family are substantial investors.
Augmentum focuses on dynamic, growth businesses that are break-even or profitable in the e-commerce and technology sectors. Geographically its prime areas of focus include the UK and Hong Kong. Its typical investment size is
The Amplio Group, an operator and investor in the renewable energy and environmental sectors, has acquired a majority stake in Puresep Holdings, the UK water purification, filtration and separation company.
This acquisition is the first geographic expansion for Amplio Filtration, a subsidiary of Amplio Group, which last year acquired Nasdaq-listed Basin Water out of Chapter 11 and subsequently formed Envirogen Technologies.
With over 300 clients, a team of 15 employees, revenues of GBP3.7m and a range of conventional and leading edge water treatment and process filtration technologies, Puresep gives Amplio Filtration a solid foothold in the large, growing and fragmented
Lloyds Banking Group is selling a portfolio of 40 private equity investments in its Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance business to a new joint venture called Cavendish Square Partners.
The new joint venture will be majority owned (approximately 70 per cent) by private equity firm Coller Capital, with Lloyds Banking Group owning a stake of approximately 30 per cent.
The total cash consideration for Coller Capital’s majority stake is GBP332m. This values the portfolio at approximately GBP480m, which is a small premium to current book value.
The group held a competitive tender process before selecting Coller as its preferred
Global Capital Management’s Global Opportunistic Fund I has exited its investment in Banawi Industrial Group.
Banawi, a diversified industrial group based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was founded in 1957 by Sheikh Ali Al-Banawi as the first commercial printing and paper-based packaging company in the GCC region.
The company is currently active in the packaging and specialty chemicals sectors with four subsidiaries, Banawi Container Group, Ashwa Technologies, Henkel Technologies Egypt and Henkel Technologies Middle East.
Global Opportunistic Fund I, a pre-IPO private equity fund managed by Global that invests in late stage private equity opportunities within the GCC, invested in
Resilience Capital Partners, an Ohio-based private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of Taylor Lumber and its subsidiaries.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1889, Taylor Lumber is one of the world’s largest producers of rift and quartered sawn lumber. The company is headquartered in Ohio and employs over 180 people.
Taylor Lumber’s products consist of a wide variety of lumber species including white oak, red oak, walnut, cherry, hard maple, ash and hickory.
"We are excited about the opportunity to acquire this very unique niche-oriented building products business and look forward to writing a new chapter
OJK, part of Gresham Private Equity backed James Grant, has acquired Addis, a Stockport based accountancy practice.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
OJK provides accountancy, tax and consultancy services to clients within the music, entertainment and sports sectors. Clients include Bryan Adams, Davina McCall and Sir Bob Geldof.
Addis clients include Muse, Manic Street Preachers, The Script, New Order and Elbow.
Pat Savage, managing director of OJK and group director of James Grant, says: “Addis & Co has a highly regarded client base and in acquiring this business we establish a North West office to complement our
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