Marlborough Partners
Emerging manager Px3 makes first acquisition with carve-out buyout
Rhône Group spin-out makes inaugural acquisition with Celeros Flow Technology’s filtration unit buyout
Marlborough founder David Parker joins Axis Arbor
New debt advisory firm was launched last year and notably advised on the Deliveroo IPO
OakNorth Bank provides fund facility to BlueGem
Key investors include Glendower Capital, Blackstone's Strategic Partners and BMO Global Asset Management
Equistone buys Bulgin in £105m deal
Firm scores its fourth carve-out in a month with the purchase from Elektron Technology
Rubicon sells Farsound Aviation to AGIC for £115m
Aviation-focused supply chain management company was reportedly marketed based on £11.4m EBITDA
Marlborough hires Lloyds' Welsh to lead fund finance efforts
Welsh leaves his role in Lloyds' financial sponsors division after 14 years at the company
Then and now: European private equity's post-Lehman decade
European PE came to a virtual standstill 10 years ago, but figures show the asset class has all but recovered its pre-crisis appeal
Marlborough opens office in Madrid, hires head of Iberia
PwC's Pedro Manen de Sola-Morales will become managing director and head of Iberia
Equistone sells Travel Counsellors to Vitruvian
Sale follows a three-and-a-half-year tenure and brings to an end proposals to list the travel agent
Bridgepoint's BigHand bolts on DWR
Following the deal, BigHand plans to further develop its software product and bolster its growth
Perfect fit: The evolving craft of fund financing
GPs are tailoring more complex and plentiful fund finance facilities to their advantage
ECB leverage guidelines: casting too wide a net?
Debt advisory firm Marlborough Partners warns that the guidelines, as they stand, could impact deals with standard levels of term debt
European leveraged loans rocket in Q1 on back of favourable terms
Opportunistic recaps and refinancings, with borrowers taking advantage of lower pricing, led to a 140% uptick in loan volume in Q1
Marlborough hires Simpson-Orlebar as senior adviser
Aubrey Simpson-Orlebar joins debt advisory firm Marlborough Partners after leaving Lloyds
High-yield issuance for PE buyouts hits six-year low
Loan market flexibility and pricing steal the limelight as high-yield market for buyouts raises lowest total since 2010
Debt advisory: Building bridges between sponsors & lenders
Debt advisory role is growing increasingly prevalent in the European mid-market private equity space
UK debt market rebounds in response to lower yields
Debt volumes were up 9% in Q3 2016 as lower yields prompt wave of recaps and refinancings
UK debt volumes drop in Q2 as Brexit puts brakes on issuance
Brexit prospects impacted issuance in the UK in the second quarter, but strong buyout volumes across Europe helped keep loan volumes afloat
Nordic mid-market mezzanine’s malaise
Mid-market mezzanine has been all but entirely squeezed out of the Nordic private equity space
Marlborough Partners and STJ Advisors join forces
Firms set up a joint venture to pitch integrated equity and debt services to clients worldwide
Marlborough Partners appoints Metzgen as MD
New recruit will oversee the firm's coverage and execution advisory activity
How private equity is dealing with the debt deluge
Despite jitters in the large-cap space, the European mid-market continues to be flooded with financing options
Debt: borrowing terms improve as competition intensifies
European PE houses set to benefit from increasingly borrower-friendly environment for remainder of 2015
German debt market: a changing landscape
German refinancings are increasingly turning to alternative lenders