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UK: LDC adds Nicola Gray and Chris Coulton to portfolio team

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UK-based private equity investor, LDC, has added two new partners - Nicola Gray and Chris Coulton – to its portfolio team. Gray joins from Epiris, where she spent 12 years in investment roles, most recently as investment partner and a member of the investment committee. She previously held roles at...

Belgium: Gimv completes €150m private placement bond

Debt Nick Herbert -
Brussels-listed Gimv has completed a €150m (US$171m) 5.532% eight-year private placement bond issue via arranger and sole bookrunner KBC Securities. Bonds were placed with a limited number of institutional investors. The deal comes after Gimv, in July, repaid an outstanding €75m bond. “This new long-term bond issue brings our total bond portfolio to €425m while significantly extending its average duration,” said Koen Dejonckheere, CEO and Kristof Vande Capelle, CFO Gimv. “Together with the increase in our revolving credit facility to €400m, announced earlier this year, this provides us with solid funding...