EMW, the commercial law firm, has advised Northampton-based real estate investment and development business, Barwood Capital on the initial GBP42 million close of its 2017 UK regional property fund. EMW explains that the fund focuses on property assets within the UK’s prime regional markets outside of London. The GBP42m raised

Bluebee, a provider of high-performance genomics analysis and storage solutions, and MediSapiens, a biomedical big data curation, management and interpretation company, have formed a partnership to provide customers with analytical solutions for next generation sequencing data.   Sequencing technology is maturing and being optimised for performance, while becoming increasingly affordable.

UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has acted for Safestay in its GBP18.4 million debt restructuring and refinancing with HSBC.   The Shepherd and Wedderburn team also acted for the group in completing sale and leaseback transactions on Safestay’s hostels in Edinburgh and London’s Elephant & Castle.    Those transactions raised

PNC Bank has closed a USD37 million senior secured credit facility for Derby Fabricating Solutions, a portfolio company of Prophet Equity Management.   PNC Capital Markets led the syndication as sole lead arranger, with PNC Bank serving as administrative agent. Steel City Capital Funding, a division of PNC Bank, provided a

Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD28 million senior credit facility to support the merger of two consumer products research companies.   The merger will form the leading consumer products and testing research company in its industry.   The combined

Noerr has advised Anschutz Entertainment Group in setting up a strategic partnership in the German cycling market.   Together with the Amaury Sport Organisation, it intends to revive the most important German stage race in road cycling, the Deutschland Tour.   The goal of the joint venture is sustainable development

Harvest Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, and Varsity Healthcare Partners (VHP) have completed a recapitalisation of EyeCare Services Partners (ESP). Harvest has acquired Varsity’s majority ownership interest in the company.   The company’s management team, led by CEO Michael Fricke and other doctor shareholders, will continue to lead

Tikehau IM has led a EUR60 million unitranche to support the recapitalisation of Terratest, an international provider of geotechnical engineering and foundations solutions.   Founded in 1959 in Spain, Terratest provides foundation work, ground improvement and micro-tunnelling services for large-scale international infrastructure projects, industrial, commercial and residential construction.   Los

Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP650,000 facility to European Packaging Distributors (EPD), made up of a GBP500,000 invoice finance and a GBP150,000 revolving cashflow facility.   EPD sought a new finance partner as the incumbent financier was unable to offer the facilities