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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) prohibited three merger & acquisition deals in 2021/22, the highest on record in a single year. The number of blocked deals in 2021/22 equates to 5.5% of all deals reviewed by the CMA that year, says Thomson Reuters.
In the previous decade, the CMA only prohibited an average of one transaction a year, around 1.5% of M&A deals reviewed.
Warsha Kalé, Senior Legal Editor at Thomson Reuters says that whilst the number of prohibited deals may still seem low overall, this increase supports the idea that the CMA is reviewing more significant transactions post-Brexit
MRH Trowe (MRHT), an owner-managed commercial lines insurance broker in Germany, and a portfolio company of AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist mid-market private equity investor in financials, technology and related business services, has acquired a majority stake in afm Holding AG (afm), a top-25 industrial insurance broker with a long operating history in the country.
afm is based in Hamburg and has been a key player in the German insurance landscape for almost 30 years. It serves more than 70,000 clients across the commercial and high-value private customer segments of the market. With 200 employees, including a network of
Mindset AI – which helps businesses within the knowledge economy to digitise their services and scale their expertise – has raised £1.65 million from Mercia and angel investors. Mercia has invested from its EIS funds.
EQT has set the target size for the EQT Infrastructure VI fund at €20 billion. The actual fund size is dependent on the outcome of the fundraising process and may be higher or lower than the target size.
The EQT Infrastructure VI fund’s investment strategy and commercial terms are expected to be materially in line with the predecessor fund EQT Infrastructure V.
To ensure continuity between two fund generations, EQT’s capital raisings usually follow a cycle with successor funds targeted to be in a position to commence investment activities when the predecessor fund is close to being fully invested. This
Daehan Shipbuilding Co, a small-size oil tanker manufacturer has been acquired by a South Korean private equity consortium led by Seoul-based KH Investment Inc (KHI) for around $150 million, according to a report by The Korea Economic Daily.
The consortium has acquired a 95% stake in the unlisted business from the Korea Development Bank (KDB) having been chosen as a stalking horse bidder after offering the highest price among the initial bidders and paying a deposit of 10% of the proposed acquisition price in May of this year.
The reports ays the consortium plans to manage Daehan, which specialises in
Baker Botts, an international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, has appointed Omar Iqbal as a partner in the firm’s corporate department in Riyadh.
Iqbal’s core practice is transactional, focusing on private equity, M&A and joint ventures, combining both significant cross-border experience with extensive local Saudi Arabia expertise, having worked in both private practice and inhouse with Samba Financial Group.
He has practiced for over 14 years in the Gulf Cooperation Council region and has developed long-standing relationships with a number of international and local investment banks and leading Saudi Arabian family offices.
The appointment of Iqbal,
HTEC Group (HTEC), a global consulting, software engineering and digital product development company based in San Francisco, has acquired Sarajevo-based Mistral Technologies The deal makes HTEC the largest technology company in Bosnia and Herzegovina employing close to 600 experts in the country.
Stafford Capital Partners has closed its latest fund with €731 million in capital commitments making it the largest in the private markets firm’s history, and taking the firm’s total infrastructure AUM to $1.7 billion, according to a report by AlternativesWatch.
Stafford also raised an additional £100 million ($116 million) for a managed account that will focus on geographically targeted infrastructure secondary transactions.
With 13 closed transactions to date and another three more in the pipeline, the Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund IV targets investments in existing core infrastructure funds, predominantly in Europe, North America and Australasia, through LP as well as
COPE Private Equity is planning to launch its fifth fund next year following the full deployment of the current COPE IV Fund which is expected by Q1 2023, according to a report by Deal Street Asia.
The report cites the firm’s founder and managing director Azam Azman as revealing that the the next investment vehicle, COPE V, will be open to businesses in the wider Southeast Asia region with a Malaysian subsidiary or presence, rather than just Malaysian companies.
The target size of the fund has not been revealed but COPE’s current AUM reportedly stands at around $150 million.
Argyle Capital Partners has partnered with Canadian family office Celina Capital to acquire TRS Components, a maker and installer of roof trusses, wall and floor panels for the new home construction market, according to a report by PEHub.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Argyle Capital Partners, a Toronto-based private equity firm founded in 2016, invests in family-owned lower middle-market businesses with a specific focusing on industrial products businesses within service, manufacturing and distribution.
Established in 2017 to make direct investments in entrepreneurial, growth-orientated companies and to build out a portfolio of diverse real estate assets, Celina
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