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New hires
Travers Smith bolsters funds practice with hire from Proskauer

Tosin Adeyeri joins with particular experience in secondary portfolio transactions

  • People
  • 03 August 2023
Sam Kay of Dechert
Dechert hires Travers Smith’s Kay for funds practice

Sam Kay joins London-based team having spent more than 25 years at Travers Smith

  • People
  • 03 July 2023
Lucie Cawood of Travers Smith
Travers Smith names new head of PE and financial sponsors group

Lucie Cawood's appointment follows poaching of Ian Shawyer by Cleary Gottlieb earlier this month

  • Advisory
  • 25 January 2023
New hires and promotions
Cleary Gottlieb hires Travers Smith's Shawyer for M&A practice

Ian Shawyer spent 17 years with Travers Smith and has worked on mandates for GPs including Bridgepoint

  • People
  • 11 January 2023
The Unquote Podcast
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: Spotlight on GP-led secondaries

Travers Smith's Ed Ford and Sacha Gofton-Salmond share insights on structuring continuation fund deals and navigating an increasingly competitive environment

  • Industry
  • 19 October 2022
Office software and communication tools
CBPE sells Xceptor to Astorg for 10.8x return

Sale ends a four-year holding period for CBPE, which bought a majority stake in Xceptor from SVG Capital

  • Buyouts
  • 15 March 2021
Data analysis
TA sells ITRS to Montagu

Montagu Private Equity acquires companies with enterprise values of €200m-1bn

  • Buyouts
  • 20 January 2021
People moves and promotions
Travers Smith selects new managing partner

Edmund Reed joined Travers Smith in 1994 and became a partner in 2005

  • People
  • 16 November 2020
Olives and other assorted tapas
PAI acquires LDC's Addo Food and Equistone's Winterbotham Darby

Both management teams have reinvested and operations will continue to be run separately

  • Exits
  • 10 November 2020
Call centres and outsourcing firms
LDC sells Babble to Graphite for £90m

LDC retains a minority stake in Babble, while the management team is reinvesting some of its proceeds

  • Exits
  • 10 November 2020
Sam Kay of Travers Smith speaks with Unquote
Video: Travers Smith's Sam Kay on fundraising's paradigm shift

Unquote interviews Sam Kay from Travers Smith, finalist in the Fund Structuring category at the 2020 British Private Equity Awards

  • Fundraising
  • 19 October 2020
Waiting for the market to change
BVCA summit: fund financing boom necessitates tailoring

Market participants discuss IRR-enhancing tactics, emergency liquidity and negotiations with LPs

  • GPs
  • 13 October 2020
Doubling down
Co-investment: get out or double down?

While some LPs could be overexposed to troubled sectors, others could up their game and deploy into opportunities arising mid-cycle

  • LPs
  • 06 October 2020
Fundraising in the UK
Elysian III closes on £325m hard-cap

In conjunction with the fund close, the firm has announced the promotion of Jack Jacovou to partner

  • Funds
  • 01 October 2020
Simon Witney of Travers Smith
Travers Smith poaches Simon Witney from Debevoise & Plimpton

Witney joins Travers Smith from Debevoise & Plimpton, where he has worked since 2017

  • People
  • 02 September 2020
Enterprise software
BDC exits BigHand to Levine Leichtman

Los Angeles-based Levine Leichtman is currently investing from its sixth-generation fund

  • Buyouts
  • 28 August 2020
Separating wheat from the chaff
Secondaries players weigh up risk and rewards of "ring-fencing" deals

GP-led transactions isolating assets hardest hit by the Covid-19 crisis could appeal to adventurous secondaries players, but challenges abound

  • Secondaries
  • 15 June 2020
Waiting for the market to change
Secondaries: opportunistic buyers ready for fund stakes to hit market

With more sellers coming to market, prices are unlikely to stay at pre-Covid-19 heights, which could in turn encourage more opportunistic buyers

  • Secondaries
  • 30 March 2020
Horse racing and associated gambling services
Secondaries sea change: Backing your winners

What was once the preserve of the underperformer is now shifting towards the prized asset

  • Secondaries
  • 12 March 2020
Clinical trials and biotechnology
3i creates new bioprocessing platform with Cellon acquisition

GP is currently looking for a CEO to sit across the divisions of the new platfom

  • Buyouts
  • 14 January 2020
Pounds sterling
Elysian to launch new £250m fund in Q1 2020

Current fund also closed on £250m, in 2015, and is nearly three-quarters deployed

  • Funds
  • 20 December 2019
Ceiling panels
3i scores 4.1x on Aspen Pumps sale to Inflexion

Sale of the pumps manufacturer represents a 4.1x return on invested capital and a 34% IRR for 3i

  • Buyouts
  • 18 December 2019
Unquote roundtable December 2019
2020 Preview: Evolve and adapt

PAI's Richard Howell, Livingbridge's Susie Stanford and more discuss PE developments throughout 2019 and expectations for the year ahead

  • Industry
  • 16 December 2019
Roofing repair and structural renovations
Inflexion acquires Marley

Inflexion has acquired roofing materials manufacturer Marley from Belgium-based Etex

  • Buyouts
  • 20 August 2019
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