Souter Investments has invested in the fintech interest-free-only credit provider, DivideBuy. The investment from Souter Investments and Jon Moulton through his family office Perscitus, alongside debt funding from Shawbrook Bank and Paragon Bank, will enable DivideBuy to grow further and offer many more UK retailers access to its market leading technology. DivideBuy
Noerr has advised CEMEX, one of the world’s leading building materials companies, on the sale of its activities in Scandinavia and the Baltic states to Schwenk, a building materials group headquartered in Ulm, Germany in a EUR340 million deal. In Latvia, Schwenk is taking over, a cement production plant with
AnaCap-backed heidelpay Group, a fintech service provider in Germany, has acquired point-of-sale specialist Alpha-Cash Payment GmbH. The purchase of Alpha-Cash Payment is heidelpay Group’s second investment in 2019 following the acquisition of PayLater and collection specialist Universum Group back in late January. Alpha-Cash Payment GmbH is now the third
Ipsum Group (Ipsum), backed by Aliter Capital (Aliter), has completed its third bolt-on acquisition – the Scotland, North of England and Midlands-based operations of utilities and infrastructure maintenance, inspection and repair services provider EEG. The deal excludes EEG’s Andover-based South of England operations. EEG has a network of strategically
Planixs, a high-growth FinTech company, has secured an initial GBP3.5 million minority equity investment from BGF. The company will take advantage of a fast-growing market by using the funding to expand its global customer base, accelerate product development and support recruitment across the business. Founded in 2011, Manchester-based Planixs works
Oxx, a growth capital firm focussed on B2B software companies, has led a USD8 million growth equity investment in Stockholm-based Funnel, a software company delivering automated data collection and transformation software to advertising and marketing business users. Existing investors, including Balderton, Industrifonden and Zobito also participated in the round. The
Apax VIII, a fund advised by Apax Partners, is to sell its entire stake in AssuredPartners, a leading US insurance brokerage, to an investor group led by GTCR, a Chicago-based private equity firm. GTCR previously owned AssuredPartners from its inception in 2011 until its sale to Apax VIII in 2015.
FLOWERBX, an online, wholesale, flower-delivery service, has closed a GBP4.2 million (USD5.5m US) fundraising round. The new funding will pave the way for the company’s US launch, scheduled for May 2019. This follows a successful raise of GBP1.5 million of seed equity in 2017, which was used to invest in
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has completed the sale of ATG Access (ATG) to Hill & Smith Holdings (Hill & Smith) in a deal which values the business at GBP22.5 million. Headquartered in Haydock, ATG designs, manufactures and supplies high security vehicle barrier systems used to secure buildings and venues from vehicular impact and terrorist
Cairngorm Capital Partners’ (Cairngorm Capital) second fund, Cairngorm Capital II, has acquired Sentry Doors Holdings Limited (Sentry Doors). This transaction marks Cairngorm Capital’s entry into the fire protection sector. Established in 1989, Sentry Doors is a specialist manufacturer of timber fire and security door-sets for the social housing, public sector,
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