Law firm Noerr has advised Augusta Technologie AG (Munich) on a squeeze-out under merger law. At an extraordinary general meeting of Augusta, the transfer of the shares of the minority shareholders to the main shareholder TKH Technologie Deutschland AG was approved with reasonable cash compensation. The squeeze-out and the merger of Augusta into TKH will become effective on entry in the Commercial Register. Noerr’s team was led by Dr Michael Brellochs and Dr Tobias Bürgers. The law firm acted for Augusta regularly in recent years and advised the company throughout the entire takeover process by the TKH Group in 2012.

Norwegian private equity firm Herkules Capital has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to streamline its portfolio monitoring process and to create more efficiency in its investor reporting process.  Herkules Capital invests in companies based in the Nordic region, primarily in Norway. “After a thorough analysis of the portfolio monitoring systems available in the marketplace, we selected iLEVEL. It will allow us to maintain most of our data in a single platform, where we can easily access it for investment analysis, marketing and quarterly investor templates,” says Adele Norman Pran, CFO of Herkules. “iLEVEL will take a resource intensive

Law firm Howard Kennedy is advising English Rose Enterprises, a company owned by Andrew Perloff and family, on its efforts to acquire Beales, the historic department store chain.   The acquisition is being made with the financial support of Portnard Limited, another Andrew Perloff family vehicle. English Rose Enterprises has yesterday (19 January) announced its intention to make a cash offer of 6p per share, valuing the company at GBP1.23m. This is backed by the offer of financial support for Beales to the tune of up to GBP2m. Beales, which can trace its history back to 1881 operates 30 department

Jamieson Corporate Finance has advised the shareholders of Honest Burgers on the sale of a significant stake to Active Private Equity (Active). Honest Burgers, the London-based premium burger restaurant, was founded by Dorian Waite, Tom Barton and Philip Eeles in 2011 in a market traditionally dominated by innovative independent restaurants. The Jamieson team, which consisted of Stuart Coventry, David Kirkpatrick and Jean Pierre Smith, advised the founders on the sale of a 50 per cent holding to Active.   As part of the deal, the three founders will retain holdings in Honest Burgers and will continue to run the successful

Raney & Associates has expanded its service offering to include revenue integration strategies targeting emerging market private equity portfolios. "Given the range of our capabilities, which includes deal origination, cross functional team management, brand awareness, total shareholder returns and corporate governance, the new service offering for this target market seems like a perfect fit with our proactive alternative investor relation (ProAltIR) solutions," says founder George Raney. "We've noted in excess of 150 multinational corporations expanding their US corporate development deal teams in 2014, including the Industrial Commercial Bank of China. In virtually every industry there appears to be abundant opportunities

Insurers in Asia and Europe are being guided by the shadow of local regulations, as well as investment logic, in their allocating to alternative strategies.  While their plans are often to boost exposure to non-traditional asset classes, the degree of such increases will often hinge on regulations, according to the inaugural edition of The Cerulli Edge – International Institutional Edition.  In Europe, punitive capital charges on insurers' alternative investments under Solvency II, taking effect from 2016, threaten to limit insurers growing their allocations to non-traditional classes.  In Asia, by contrast, Chinese insurers have used the liberalisation of their investment options