JAB is to acquire ready-to-eat food specialist Pret A Manger from Bridgepoint, an international private equity firm and its majority owner, and other minority shareholders. The transaction is expected to be completed during the Summer 2018. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Pret maintains a strong presence in
OnTruck, a haulage tech platform, has raised EUR25 million from a group of investors to fund its expansion across Europe and consolidation of its position in the UK and Spain. The series B funding round was led by global venture capital fund Cathay Innovation, with participation from new investor GP
Alternative asset manager Tikehau Capital has made a EUR114 million investment in Nexteam Group, a specialist in the machining of complex and hard metal parts for the aviation and space industries. Pending approval from the French competition authority, this minority stake, alongside Nexteam Group’s management, will support the company’s future
British soft drinks company Cawston Press has successfully raised GBP1 million in an equity fundraising round to support continued expansion at home and overseas. The total has been reached through existing shareholders, members of the Cawston Press team from the UK, Australia and USA as well as a select number
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has invested GBP1.0 million of growth capital into Cambridge-based medical device company Ablatus Therapeutics Limited (Ablatus) alongside existing angel investors. Ablatus was founded in 2016 as a spin out from the NHS, under the guidance of Health Enterprise East (HEE), to develop and commercialise patented Bimodal
CAST, a specialist in Software Intelligence, has completed an additional USD12.5 million round of capital funding. This comes on the heels of a USD22 million investment in technology innovation over a three-year period, which focused on CAST Highlight, CAST’s SaaS-based application portfolio analysis solution that has seen 100 per cent
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Symphony Technology Group on the contemplated sale – subject to customary approvals – of its portfolio company Maincare Solutions to Montagu Private Equity. Specialising in electronic patient records and hospital administration software, Maincare Solutions is the leading software and digital solutions
Artis Exploration Ltd, a Calgary-based exploration and production (E&P) company, has closed a CAD180 million growth equity investment from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The common share private placement will be used to fund the company’s accelerated development program. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Artis is a
Alternative investment firm KKR is to acquire BMC Software, a specialist in software solutions for digital enterprise. The company is being acquired from a private investor group led by Bain Capital Private Equity and Golden Gate Capital together with GIC, Insight Venture Partners and Elliott Management. Founded in 1980,
Toscafund Asset Management LLP, with USD4 billion in assets, is to acquire what it calls a ‘significant minority stake’ in London-based independent wealth manager Plurimi Wealth, through Tosca Private Investments Fund. This is the first transaction from TPIF which is a new specialist vehicle that will target small/mid-market private equity
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