Orrick has advised Michelin on its acquisition of NexTraq, a US provider of commercial fleet telematics, from Fleetcor Technologies in an all-cash transaction. NexTraq provides solutions for driver safety, fuel management and enhancing fleet productivity. Since its inception in 2000, NexTraq has become a leading provider of GPS fleet management
Edge Investments (Edge), a specialist investment house focused on the creative industries sector, has taken a stake in Antidote Productions. Antidote is an independent, factual TV production company based in London, working with major UK and international broadcasters. The Company was founded by Laura Jones, BAFTA and RTS award-winning filmmaker,
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has completed its acquisition of a 35 per cent stake in tfintech company Avaloq, a specialist in integrated and comprehensive banking solutions. Under the partnership announced on 22 March 2017, Avaloq will be able to capitalise on Warburg Pincus’ expertise and network in the financial
Investec has agreed to sell 18 aircraft from its managed leasing funds to funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., working in conjunction with World Star Aviation. The transaction includes 15 narrow body Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A320-200 aircraft, two wide body Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and an Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The
Medicxi has closed Medicxi Growth 1 (MG1), a new USD300 million fund that will focus on growth stage companies in European life sciences. With this new late stage fund, Medicxi will help fill a clear gap in Europe, where talented life sciences entrepreneurs do not have access to as much
Eco-friendly coffee specialist Halo Coffee is looking to raise GBP1.6m to aggressively grow the business in the UK and globally through a fundraising campaign on private investor platform Growthdeck. Since its launch in early 2016, Growthdeck has raised GBP7.3 million for a range of growth companies. Halo has designed
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) ended 2016 with a moderate quarterly performance, posting an overall gain of 2.58 per cent in the fourth quarter, a slight decrease from the 3.8 per cent return in Q3 2016. Buyout funds posted a strong annual return of 12.52 per
Mid-market private equity firm MidOcean Partners has agreed to sell Agilex Fragrances (Agilex), a leading provider of innovative, high quality fragrance products and related creative and technical services, to Firmenich. Agilex designs creative fragrances and innovative technical solutions for a broad range of market categories including air care, personal care,
Harris Williams & Co has advised Zitcom HoldCo ApS (Zitcom Group), a portfolio company of HgCapital, to The Intelligent Group, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V. (Waterland). Harris Williams & Co is serving as the exclusive financial advisor to Zitcom Group, a Danish hosting and cloud solutions
Artificial intelligence company Element AI has raised USD102 million in a Series A funding round led by Data Collective (DCVA) with participation from Fidelity Investments Canada, Hanwha Investment, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, National Bank of Canada, Development Bank of Canada (BDC), NVIDIA, Real Ventures, and several of the world’s largest
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