Blackstone Resources AG has created Blackstone Research in the city of Erfurt in Germany. Blackstone Research is a wholly-owned entity which will provide an important platform for the company to carry out further research and allow Blackstone to establish a substantial battery-production project in Germany. The aim is to manufacture
JZ Capital Partners Limited (JZCP), a London listed fund that invests in US and European microcap companies and US real estate, has sold Petrocorner, a network of petrol stations throughout Spain, to a Spanish subsidiary of British Petroleum (BP). JZCP owns Petrocorner through its 18.75 per cent stake in JZI
Metropolitan Partners Group Management (Metropolitan), a direct-lending fund manager that provides senior-secured, transitional capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the US, has closed an investment in US Home Aggregation (US Home), an acquirer and manager of single-family rental homes across targeted markets in the US. US Home will use
Refinitiv has launched BRI Connect, part of a suite of tools enabling the global investment community to identify investment opportunities around China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) through access to trusted, holistic information including macroeconomic, project, market, financing, geopolitical and operational risk data. The Belt and Road Initiative focuses on
Israeli VC firm Magenta Venture Partners has held the first closing of a new venture capital fund targeting USD100 million. Magenta Venture Partners is an equal partnership between Mitsui & Co Ltd, one of the largest trading and investment companies in Japan, Ori Israely, and Ran Levitzky, two seasoned Israeli
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has signed a secondary transaction in relation to a number of assets from its European private equity portfolio, under a new fund arrangement, subject to receipt of relevant regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions. The fund will be capitalised with
BGF, the UK and Ireland-focussed investor in growing businesses, invested nearly half a billion pounds into British businesses in 2018, in another record year of growth. With an average of one deal per week, BGF invested GBP288 million into 51 new businesses across the UK and Ireland and provided GBP153
Venture capital investor Beringea has led a GBP9 million investment in AccessPay, a Manchester-based fintech firm. The funding round, also backed by US investors True Ventures and Route 66, is one of the largest ever investments in a financial technology company in the North. Maria Wagner, Investment Director at Beringea,
Jose Castellano has joined iM Global Partner as deputy CEO and Head of International Business Development. iM Global Partner is an investment and development asset management platform focused on acquiring strategic investments in traditional and alternative investment firms, its Partners, with an objective of growing together. iM Global Partner aims
Vectis, a private equity firm long active in Nigeria, has concluded a restructuring investment transaction of USD12 million into Leventis Foods Ltd, an established Nigerian FMCG manufacturing company with leading brands of bread and snacks. The transaction is pending regulatory approvals. Upon completion Vectis will control a majority stake and
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