Arctic Shores, a Manchester-based psychometric assessment provider, has secured a USD5.5 million Series A investment to accelerate its international expansion. Beringea, the transatlantic venture capital investor, led the transaction with participation from existing shareholders including Candy Ventures. Arctic Shores was founded in Manchester by Robert Newry and Safe Hammad,
Tikehau Capital, an alternative asset management and investment group, and T&D Insurance Group, a major Japanese insurance company, have agreed to enter into a business and capital alliance. T&D Insurance Group is one of the largest life insurance groups in Japan in terms of market shares and operates three life
MGB Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of anti-infectives to address antibiotic resistance, has completed its latest funding round. which was supported by new and existing investors, led by Archangel Investors and including Scottish Investment Bank (the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s national economic development agency), Barwell
Ropes & Gray has represented Dallas-based Ambridge Hospitality, an independent hotel management firm and a portfolio company of Advent International, in its entry into a definitive merger agreement with Interstate Hotels & Resorts, a leading independent multinational hotel operator. The combined company will create a global leader in third-party hotel
O’Melveny has represented Honeywell International Inc in its equity investment in Theatro Labs, an in-store, mobile workforce communication and management solutions company. Texas-based Theatro brings IoT, AI and workforce-optimised apps together in a “hardware-enabled” SaaS offering to provide companies in gaming, hospitality, retail, and manufacturing mobile solutions for hourly employees.
HeleCloud, an AWS Advanced Consulting and Managed Services Partner, has acquired OlinData, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner based in the Netherlands, specialised in Open Source Infrastructure. Financial details of the deal, which completed this week, have not been disclosed. OlinData is HeleCloud’s first acquisition as part of its ongoing growth
Aurelius Equity Opportunities (Aurelius) is to acquire the Belgium-based MPRO and YouBuild building materials merchants from Grafton Group (Grafton). The combined business of MPRO and YouBuild achieves revenues of close to EUR100 million across its network of 16 outlets employing circa 240 full-time employees. The transaction is expected to complete
Legal & General has provided GBP57.5 million of long-term debt financing to support Hermes Infrastructure in its recapitalisation of two solar photovoltaic (solar PV) portfolios in England and Wales. The two portfolios consist of fully operational solar PV systems installed on the roofs of more than 9,000 residential homes. The
ClearCourse Partnership has acquired BrightOffice, a software-as-service (SaaS) company providing hosted, enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions to many different business sectors. BrightOffice is ClearCourse’s 14th acquisition since October 2018 and an expansion of its business services offering. BrightOffice was founded in 2004. Since then, it has developed
Investment firm Altas Partners (Altas) is to acquire DuBois Chemicals (DuBois), a specialty chemical supplier, from The Jordan Company (TJC). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. DuBois is a premier provider of customised and value-added specialty chemicals solutions and services to a global customer base. The Company
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