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Law firm Sidley Austin has added three partners to its executive committee, the committee that exercises general authority over the affairs of the firm.
The appointments bring the current count to 45 members.
Samir A. Gandhi (New York), a partner since 2002, focuses his practice on private equity transactions and capital markets offerings. He represents domestic and foreign fund sponsors, investment banks and other private investors in their private equity and venture capital activities and regularly represents investors, including private investment funds, in foreign direct investment transactions oriented towards Asia.
Michael P. Goldman (Chicago), a coordinator of the firm’s
Michael Foods’ parent, M-Foods Holdings, has signed a definitive agreement under which its owners, affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners, and certain current and former members of management, will sell Michael Foods to affiliates of GS Capital Partners.
The transaction, which is expected to close in the next two months and is subject to customary closing conditions, values Michael Foods at approximately USD1.7bn.
Michael Foods is a producer and distributor of food products to the food service, retail and food ingredient markets. Its principal products are specialty egg products, refrigerated potato products, cheese and other dairy-case products.
Thomas H. Lee,
Channel Islands leaders are confident about relations with the new UK government – including Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat business secretary who is renowned as a vigorous critic of “tax havens”.
Officials from Jersey and Guernsey have also found a receptive audience during recent visits to Washington to discuss issues such as financial regulation with their US counterparts and lawmakers.
Maintaining good relations with leading members of the G20 group of leading economic powers is particularly important at a time when new financial regulation is under discussion on both sides of the Atlantic and both the European Union
Private equity firm Riverside has strengthened its European team with the appointment of Vincent Daelemans as vice president of origination for Benelux and France.
Daelemans joins Riverside from Tesco, where he was business development manager.
Based in Riverside’s European headquarters in Brussels, the Belgian national will be responsible for driving the sourcing of new quality deals with investment bankers, brokers, financial intermediaries, and larger corporations in the French and Benelux markets.
He will work in concert with the origination team across Europe and globally in order to ensure stronger focus for Riverside in France and Benelux. His responsibilities will include
Hot on the heels of the UK General Election, ITV news anchor Alastair Stewart will be the keynote speaker and host of a debate on the future of ‘offshore’ at this year’s Guernsey Funds Forum event, to be held in London on 26 May. Prominent panellists will include John Moulton from Better Capital.
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MMC Ventures has made a follow-on capital investment into portfolio company Small World Financial Services Group to support the further expansion of the independent money transfer operator in Europe.
The investment was made alongside new investor FF&P Private Equity.
Tom Hopkins, director of MMC, says: “This deal is a good example of the way MMC operates. We invested in Small World at an early stage in its development, supported it through a period of high growth and geographical expansion, and then brought in an appropriate partner to help exploit the full potential of the market opportunity. We remain excited by
Emerging Capital Partners, a private equity firm committed to building responsible businesses across the African continent, has become a signatory to the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment.
The principles are a globally recognised initiative dedicated to integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into investment processes.
Signing the guidelines is consistent with Emerging Capital Partners’ efforts in contributing to development in Africa by upholding best practices in corporate governance, social development and environmental sustainability in the continent’s private sector.
As part of this initiative, Emerging Capital Partners has institutionalised a new protocol to track ESG impact and mandated internal ESG
BNP Paribas Private Equity has invested EUR3m in Danish mobile virtual network enabler Telogic.
The investment, which BNP Paribas Private Equity expects to see strong growth in the coming years, will help Telogic to further accelerate its expansion in the German and Polish markets.
”We have enjoyed a strong position in Sweden and Denmark for many years, and we are currently rapidly expanding in Poland and Germany, where we acquired a majority of the shares in the German mobile virtual network enabler Vistream GmbH earlier this year,” says Per Erik Ångman (pictured), Telogic chief executive officer. “The backing of
AIC Director General Ian Sayers (pictured) will be among a host of prominent panellists at this year’s Guernsey Funds Forum event on 26 May. “The Guernsey Funds Forum provides an ideal opportunity to take stock of where we stand and look into the crystal ball at what the future might hold for the funds industry,” he says.
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Yell has acquired Trusted Places, the private equity-backed company behind the UK local reviews website trustedplaces.com.
The purchase means that Yell will, for the first time, enable consumers to recommend a local business through its Yell.com website.
The combination of Yell’s database of over two million businesses with TrustedPlaces’ expertise in generating recommendations from local consumers represents a major shake-up of the fast-growing local reviews market.
It aims to generate additional leads and provide a richer online interaction with existing and potential new consumers.
Mark Canon (pictured), president of new media at Yell in the UK, says: “This represents a
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