CVC Credit has provided unitranche debt facilities to support the growth strategy of German pet food business AlphaPet. CVC will support the ongoing organic and acquisitive growth of the business, including the recent acquisition of Arden Grange, a UK-based premium pet food brand, through the provision of a term loan

Funds managed by Ares Management Corporation’s Alternative Credit strategy and Real Estate Group have acquired Capital Automotive (CARS) from a Brookfield private real estate fund for USD3.8 billion. CARS is a self-managed real estate company that provides highly tailored, sale-leaseback capital to automotive dealers in the US and Canada to

Runway Growth Capital (Runway), a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has closed a senior secured term loan commitment of USD13 million to Dejero. Decor is a telecommunications aggregator of diverse connectivity paths including LTE and 5G cellular, satellite

Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has provided financing facilities supporting Pamplona Capital Management’s (Pamplona) acquisition of a majority stake in EET Group (‘EET’). This transaction represents Pemberton’s second investment with Pamplona as well as its third investment in the Nordic region over the last 12 months. Following Pemberton’s approach to

Wild Cosmetics, a design-led personal care start-up which pioneered the UK’s first plastic-free refillable deodorant in 2019, has closed GBP5 million in additional funding from existing investors to double down on its mission to remove single-use-plastics and unnecessary chemicals from everyday bathroom routines.

Liefergrün, a sustainable last mile shipping platform, has closed a EUR3 million seed round led by Speedinvest. Norrsken VC also contributed to the round.   Liefergrün will use the investment to grow its team, expand its platform and begin preparations for rolling its service across major European cities including London,

Rubi Laboratories – a pioneer in carbon-negative cellulosic textiles – has raised USD4.5 million in a seed funding round led by Talis Capital and Necessary Ventures. Climactic, Collaborative Fund, Plug and Play, Incite Ventures, Darco Capital, Cayuse Partners, Axial VC, Climate Capital Collective, and CapitalX, also participated.  A number of

Neo Medical, a Swiss-based Medtech company developing value- based care solutions in spinal surgery, announced today the closing of a USD20.6 million financing round. The round features Swisscom Ventures as lead investor, with  the proceeds of the financing set to be used to support the accelerated commercial deployment of Neo

The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) has led a GBP410,000 investment in Newcastle-based CRL Foods Ltd (CRL Foods), a specialist food & beverage canning, sterilisation and pasteurisation business. The Fund originally invested last year to enable the business to expand its

MLM 2, an information services and software platform led by veteran IP executive Mason Slaine, and Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor, have acquired Minesoft, a patent search provider. The investment will enable the company to accelerate the development of new products, expand and scale globally, including in the