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Atlas Holdings has sold portfolio company Pangborn Group, a designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative surface preparation equipment and related aftermarket parts and services, to United Generations. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Atlas acquired Pangborn in June of 2006. Headquartered in Fairburn, Georgia, the company employs over 250 people at nine strategically located facilities around the world.
“When we acquired Pangborn, our goal was to reinvigorate and strengthen an innovative manufacturing company, one with roots dating back well over a century,” says Andrew Bursky, Atlas Co-Managing Partner. “We succeeded by doing what Atlas does best; partnering with a
Avedon has sold German high precision miniature ball bearing company GRW Bearing (GRW) to US-based Kaman Corporation (NYSE:KAMN), with the deal expected to close by the end of November.
GRW specialises in the design and manufacturing of custom engineered high precision miniature ball bearing solutions. GRW has a comprehensive product offering of several thousand different variants that are designed to meet specific customer application requirements in the Healthcare, Aviation & Defence, Drive Systems & Analysis and Industrial & Distribution end-markets. With over 550 employees and two state-of-the-art production facilities in Rimpar, Germany and Prachatice, Czech Republic, GRW has a competitive
EQT Infrastructure is to sell Koole Terminals to institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets. The agreement is subject to the positive advice of the Company’s works council.
EQT Infrastructure acquired Koole Tanktransport in February 2011, followed by the acquisition of NOVA Terminals in October 2011. The integration of both companies formed Koole Terminals, an independent liquid bulk storage provider operating a portfolio of eight terminals in North-West Europe.
The Company operates around 2 million cubic metre with ~85 per cent of storage capacity being located in Rotterdam, the key trade flow hub in
Polaris Private Equity (Polaris) has sold its holding, equivalent to 75 per cent of all shares, in Skånska Byggvaror to Byggmax, for SEK741 million. In addition to the initial purchase price, an additional payment of SEK110 million may also be made depending on the financial performance for Skånska Byggvaror during 2016.
Skånska Byggvaror is an online based retailer of refined do-it-yourself (D-I-Y) products, with operations in Sweden and Norway. Over the past 12 months Skånska Byggvaror had net sales of SEK690 million, growing by approximately 20 per cent year-on-year, and EBITA of SEK47 million (excluding non- recurring items).
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Black Mountain’s Direct Lending Solutions are now offered via Software as a Service (SaaS). The firm’s clients include investment managers, credit funds, hedge funds, private equity firms, direct lenders and banks.
"We are excited to bring our leading best practice solutions to more clients with this new offering," says Kevin MacDonald, co-CEO of Black Mountain. "In addition to the deployment speed and cost benefits of the SaaS model, users will have access to new features and enhancements for Direct Lending as they become available."
The new offering comes pre-configured with industry best practices which allow users to manage all
On 22 September, the SEC hit RT Jones Capital Equities Management, a St Louis-based investment adviser with a USD75k penalty for failing to have sufficient cybersecurity policies and procedures in place. This led to the personally identifiable information of approximately 100,000 individuals, including thousands of its own clients, being compromised when the web server it used was hacked in July 2013.
The case has been settled, and whilst the fine itself wasn’t mortifying, the potential impact on the firm’s reputation could be significant. The unfortunate reality for investment advisers of all shapes and sizes today is that failure to treat
Ambienta has sold its portfolio company Envirogen Group, formerly Amplio Filtration Group (Envirogen), to a syndicate of investors led by UK fund manager Promethean Investments.
Envirogen Group, established in 2009 by Riccardo Segat and Andrea Davi – who acted as CEO – is a UK based mid-sized international provider of environmental and process solutions for the treatment of water, wastewater, vapour emissions and material recovery, with operations in Europe and North America.
Ambienta’s divestment of Envirogen comes four years after its initial EUR16.1m investment, executed through its fund “Ambienta I”. Ambienta invested to support Amplio Group with the goal
Collaboration is extremely important for any service provider looking to do business in Luxembourg and in that respect, Circle Partners (`Circle'), an independent fund administrator, is no exception.
Having first established a footprint in the Grand Duchy in 2011, Circle has invested considerable time and money and is now beginning to see the fruits of its labours as it prepares to establish an umbrella SIF. The platform will act as an incubator for managers wishing to create a sub-fund as opposed to taking on the burden of establishing their own standalone fund structure.
Michel van Zanten (pictured) is a Switzerland-based director
MultiConcept Fund Management SA ("MultiConcept") is an AIFM and UCITS IV fund Management Company. Established in Luxembourg in 2004, MultiConcept has approximately CHF10.7 billion in assets under administration. It currently has 20 umbrella structures with 89 sub-funds.
With the AIFM Directive now in full swing, the demand for management company services as well as the ability to get to market quickly with a new fund offering is growing exponentially among alternative fund managers of all shapes and sizes. Cindyrella Amistadi is the CEO of MultiConcept. In her view, the potential growth is particularly strong in the more illiquid market (i.e.
Ogier has acted as BVI legal counsel on the USD50 million IPO on the NASDAQ Capital Market of Pacific Special Acquisition Corp.
Pacific is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, entering into contractual arrangements, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
The company is not obliged to limit its efforts to identify a target business to a particular industry or geographic region, although it is understood
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