Alpha Pyrenees has announced that its main lender, Barclays, has agreed to extend the deadline for repaying its debt until 11 May 2015. The total outstanding is €271m. Alpha Pyrenees will pay 0.5% or €1.35m as a fee for the extension. The announcement says that the company is within its debt covenants as at 11 […]
Land Securities has announced that work will soon begin on its £440m joint venture development, alongside the Crown Estate, of Westgate Oxford. Preparatory works will begin imminently and construction is set to start in spring 2015. The new 800,000 sq. ft. (74,300 sq. m) retail and leisure scheme in the heart of Oxford city centre […]
JZ Capital has announced the acquisition of National Inspection and Consultants, LLC (“NIC”). The final purchase price is still to be finalised but is expected to be between $9-10 million. JZCP owns 37.4% of the combined entity on a fully-diluted basis (alongside The Edgewater Funds). Headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, NIC provides teams of experienced, […]
Global Fixed Income Realisation has announced that, at the end of December 2014, its net asset value was 50.25p. £1.4m of that was in cash. The fund holds three investments in funds managed by Vision Brazil where the primary underlying asset is undeveloped farm land in Brazil. They say “Over the last year, Gottex Asset […]
Northern Investors has announced the sale of its investment in Kerridge Commercial Systems Limited to the incumbent management team backed by private equity funds managed by Accel-KKR. Kerridge provides integrated business software solutions for the distributive trades. Northern Investors has received cash proceeds of £16.38m. The directors’ valuation as at 30 September 2014 was £14.6m so the uplift is therefore […]
The Board of Scottish Investment Trust has decided to make Alasdair McKinnon its investment manager. He has been doing the job on a temporary basis since John Kennedy stepped down in July last year. Alasdair has been working for the trust since 2003. SCIN : Alasdair McKinnon confirmed as Scottish Inv Trust manager
This morning the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (“BIS”) announced its intention to place at least 40 million ordinary shares in Greencoat UK Wind at a price between 103p and 105p. Barclays, RBC Capital Markets and Winterflood aim to have the deal wrapped up by lunchtime tomorrow. Vince Cable (the minister) said: “The department invested in […]
Elephant Capital has announced results for the year ended 31 August 2014. These are somewhat academic now but for the record the NAV then was 35p – up 2p from the previous August. The new news is that Elephant Capital will return £1m to shareholders via a buy-back programme starting on 9 March 2015. Elephant […]
Empiric Student Property has made its first acquisition in London with the purchase of a student accommodation block from Brandeaux Accommodation Funds for £13.25m. The announcement says the property, Liberty Fields in Camberwell, South London, is a high-quality conversion of an attractive building, which was part built in the 1930s and the 1970s and is part […]
ARC Capital Holdings has announced that at the EGM held yesterday the proposals put forward were approved by shareholders. Alpay Ece, Sean Hurst and Cosimo Borrelli (the “New Board”) have therefore been appointed as directors of the Company with immediate effect. Steven Feniger, Helen Wong and Tian-Cho Chu have been removed from the office of […]
