BDO publication Horizons reveals that global mid-market M&A activity in Q2 2018 dropped 6.6 per cent; in other words, a total of 1,782 deals were registered, representing a total deal value of USD157.8 billion – or a 4.5 per cent drop – compared to Q1 of this year. When the
Financial services private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners’ (AnaCap) AnaCap Credit Opportunities III fund has acquired a 1st lien corporate debt/loan portfolio from local bank Nova KBM (NKBM). The servicer is Elements Capital Partners. The gross purchase price or claim amounts have not been disclosed. In addition to completing
Two months after acquiring FIM Services Limited (FIM), an alternative fund manager specialising in UK-based sustainable forestry and renewable energy investments, Gresham House is expanding FIM Solar Distribution, with the opening subscription for its new “D” Partnership Shares subject to a minimum investment of GBP95,040. The closing date for this
The value of UK M&A deals involving e-retail businesses has jumped to GBP461 million in 2017/18, a fourteen-fold increase from just GBP31 million the previous year, says RPC, the City-headquartered law firm. RPC says that this M&A activity has been driven by deals targeting luxury fashion e-retailers, as both luxury
Compass Banca (Compass), which is 100 per cent owned by Mediobanca, is to acquire 19.9 per cent of PT BFI Finance Indonesia Tbk (BFI Finance) from the Trinugraha consortium which currently owns 45.7 per cent of the share capital. Upon closing, Compass will become one of the largest shareholders
Calculus Capital, an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist, has invested GBP2 million in Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT), a clinical-stage oncology company that is developing next-generation cancer treatments. OBT has a strong pipeline of ‘immune-oncology’ (IO) therapies that are intended to provide more targeted, specialised treatment strategies
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity investor focused on Central and Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of JS Hamilton, partnering with its founder, Jan Olszowski who will remain involved in the business. JS Hamilton is a testing, inspection and certification company in Poland engaged in food, non-food, fuel and
Green Acre Capital (GAC) has launched the Green Acre Capital Fund II which is exclusively dedicated to making investments in the cannabis industry. This is the second cannabis fund in the GAC umbrella which follows Green Acre Capital Fund I, a USD25m fund with a focus on ancillary Canadian opportunities
ARQIS has advised AVS Verkehrssicherung (AVS) on its acquisition of KMK Projekts, a provider of traffic safety products and permanent road marking in Latvia. The purchase price has not been disclosed. Founded in 1994, KMK Projekts provides and installs crash barrier systems and offers horizontal road marking, on both
Noerr has advised the investment company Mutares and its subsidiary Donges SteelTec on the strategic acquisition of Tata Steel’s roof and facade system division operating as the Kalzip Group. Donges, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, has so far been operating in the steel bridge and structural steel construction business in the
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