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Electra Partners announces successful Hollywood Bowl IPO

Fri, 16th Sep 2016 07:38

(ShareCast News) - Electra Partners has announced the successful initial public offering of its portfolio company Hollywood Bowl Group, a ten-pin bowling operator in which it owns an 85% interest.Electra said that upon admission to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 21 September, Hollywood Bowl will have a market capitalisation of £240m. Based on the offer price, Electra's equity and debt investments in Hollywood Bowl have a value of £217m, an uplift of £62m on the valuation at the end of March and equivalent to a net asset value increase of 126p per share. On admission, Electra is expected to receive cash proceeds of £153m from the sale of its equity investment and the repayment of £22m of debt instruments issued by Hollywood Bowl.In addition, it will hold about 18% of the issued ordinary share capital of Hollywood Bowl with a valuation at the offer price of £42m.Bill Priestley, chief investment partner at Electra Partners, said: "This investment is a great example of Electra Partners' investment strategy in action. When we first invested two years ago our plan was to accelerate the company's growth and, together with Steve Burns and his team, this is exactly what we have done: bringing forward and expanding the company's organic growth investment programme, developing the new site pipeline, and leading the acquisition of Bowlplex."Altogether these actions have more than doubled the size of the business while transforming it into the UK market leader with multiple levers for future growth."
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TOP NEWS: Electra Private Equity Directors Barker And Barnes Step Down

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(ShareCast News) - Electra Private Equity announced the cancellation of a large credit facility on Tuesday. The FTSE 250 firm said that, having carefully reviewed its cash position, it has decided to cancel its existing £275m multi-currency revolving credit facility. Its board confirmed that the fa

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Electra sells Elian to Intertrust for £435m

(ShareCast News) - Electra Partners said it had agreed to sell corporate services provider Elian to Intertrust Group for £435m. After completion of the deal, which is expected during the third or final quarter of 2016, Electra said it expected to receive total proceeds of around £200m, an uplift of

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RPT-Dutch trust operator Intertrust buys Elian for 435 million pounds

(Repeats to add Reuters Instrument Code for Electra) AMSTERDAM, June 6 (Reuters) - Intertrust plans to buy rival Elian for 435 million pounds ($625.31 million) from private equity firm Electra to expand in the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Dutch trust firm sa

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27 May 2016 14:18

Directors dealings: Activist investor Bramson tops up stake in Electra

(ShareCast News) - Electra boss Edward Bramson picked up another large slice of shares in the listed private equity outfit on the same day of his appointment as interim chief executive officer of the firm. Bramson and one of his associates, Ian Brindle, were named to Electra Private Equity´s board o

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