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To help overcome the increased reporting burden faced by private equity managers, SEI has developed an automated end-client reporting capability. It comes at a time when global PE firms are having to adapt to regulation in the form of AIFMD and Annex IV reporting, not to mention a desire by LPs to derive greater transparency from their PE allocations.
Indeed, LPs are themselves coming under increased regulation – for example, insurance companies who need look-through reporting capabilities to manage their Solvency Capital Ratios under Solvency II.
This is putting pressure on back-office teams to generate reports in a more timely
Global law firm Reed Smith has advised CBPE Capital, and the selling shareholders, on the sale of restaurant group Côte Restaurants (Côte) to BC Partners.
Reed Smith also advised the continuing management team on the investment aspects of the deal. The sale represents a money multiple of 2.9x CBPE’s original investment.
The team, led by Philip Taylor, also advised CBPE on the acquisition of Côte in September 2013.
The full Reed Smith team comprised partners Philip Taylor, James Cross and Caspar Fox and associates Emma Gilks and Sarah Crabtree.
Dickson Minto W.S. advised BC Partners on the deal,
Livingstone's Media & Technology sector team has advised on the management buy-out of fast-growing business information company Briefing Media Group, backed by growth investor Lyceum Capital.
Livingstone’s Media & Technology sector team advised Lyceum on the transaction, which further enhances the firm’s credentials in the Business Information space.
Briefing Media owns Farmers Guardian as well as a growing portfolio of other online and print agriculture brands, including Agrimoney.com. It also owns a number of events and exhibitions, including LAMMA, the UK’s largest agriculture event, and the British Farming Awards. The group also operates The Media Briefing, which provides strategy insight
Private equity firm HGGC has completed the equity recapitalisation of Selligent SA, a Belgium-based B2C marketing automation software provider.
HGGC’s investment will help the rapidly growing company expand into new markets and broaden its technology platform. As part of the agreement, the Company’s founders and management will retain a significant minority stake in the business, which will remain headquartered in Europe. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Selligent provides full, end-to-end customer lifecycle management in a single solution for more than 450 companies in retail, financial services, publishing and travel and other sectors in 19
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK 2007 Fund is o sell the remaining parts of the Agros Nova Group – specifically its non-carbonated beverages segment including brands Fortuna, Garden and Pysio – to Polmlek.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the financial terms of the transaction.
Headquartered in Warsaw, Agros Nova is a leader in all three of its business segments, comprising fruit and vegetable preserves, ready-made food and non-carbonated beverages. Following IK’s acquisition of Agros Nova in 2010, the Company has improved its leading position in strategic product categories mainly via product innovations, relaunch of key brands and reorganisation
General Atlantic has agreed to sell its majority stake in amedes Holding AG, a provider of medical diagnostic services in Germany and Belgium, to Antin Infrastructure Partners.
The purchase price has not been disclosed. The transaction is subject to approval by the competition authorities.
With 35 laboratories and 27 practices across Germany and Belgium, amedes Group offers interdisciplinary and medical-diagnostic services for patients, medical practitioners, clinics and other institutions. Every day, it evaluates over 150,000 lab samples using state-of-the-art technology. With 3,500 employees – including more than 365 doctors and technical assistants – amedes is one of the leading lab
Noerr has advised the automotive supplier Neue Halberg Guss on the takeover of the South African foundry Atlantis Foundries (AF). The seller is Mercedes Benz South Africa.
With this acquisition, Neue Halberg Guss is strengthening its business in the truck and commercial vehicles sector. Atlantis Foundries specialises in casting cylinder blocks for commercial vehicles and besides Daimler also supplies engine manufacturers in the UK and the USA. The Daimler group remains an important customer after the takeover.
With a workforce of some 2,000, Neue Halberg Guss is among the European market leaders in the development and production of cylinder blocks
James Cowper Kreston has advised independent private equity company Growth Capital Partners LLP on its investment in FLYdocs Systems Limited.
The investment provides FLYdocs with development capital funding and strategic support to facilitate further international growth. James Cowper Kreston’s Corporate Finance team provided lead advisory services to Growth Capital Partners.
FLYdocs is a technology company whose software as a service platform provides best in class paperless aviation records management and online aircraft transition services to commercial airlines, aircraft lessors and other aviation industry participants worldwide. Based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, FLYdocs has additional offices and operations in the US, India,
Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the shareholders of IS Group BV (IS Group), a provide of cloud computing and IT services, on its sale to strategic buyer Koninklijke KPN (KPN).
The transaction was led by Thierry Monjauze (pictured), Jonathan Organ and Sylvain Noblet of Harris Williams & Co’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group.
“IS Group’s management team has done an exemplary job building one of the leading managed hosting and cloud services platforms in The Netherlands,” says Thierry Monjauze, a managing director at Harris Williams & Co. “KPN’s acquisition will allow IS
The New York Stock Exchange saw 264 transactions raising a total of USD94 billion during the first six months of 2015, more than any other exchange in the world.
This includes 42 companies that raised USD12 billion from initial public offerings (IPOs) in the first half of 2015.
With leadership across multiple sectors, NYSE led with 100 per cent of REIT IPOs and 70 per cent of all private equity (PE)-backed IPO proceeds, while gaining momentum in healthcare, including one of the largest biotech IPOs ever. Consistent with its leadership in technology IPOs since 2012, the NYSE welcomed 10 technology
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