Law firm Howard Kennedy has kicked off the 2016/17 VCT season with the early launch of the Octopus Titan VCT from Octopus Investments. The new share offer from the UK’s largest venture capital trust is seeking to raise up to GBP120 million for its GBP309 million fund. It follows last year’s unprecedented success, where Octopus
Roundtree Automotive Group has formed a long-term partnership with Lantern Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Roundtree Capital Partners will focus on the acquisition of high-quality automotive dealerships throughout the US. Roundtree is the holding company for retail franchises of automotive-related companies extending from
Six months after creating a consolidation platform in the aeronautical subcontracting sector, Mecadaq Group and Activa Capital have acquired RBDH Marignier, a manufacturer of precision-made gearings with a turnover of EUR8 million. Located in the Arve Valley, Marignier is an independent subsidiary of the industrial group RBDH. Its revenues
Investment banking advisory firm Evercore has extended its strategic alliance for cross-border M&A advisory services with Korea’s NH Investment & Securities for an additional two year period. The advisory alliance enables Evercore and NH to continue to capitalise on what they believe to be a positive long-term trend driving cross-border
Livingstone’s consumer sector team has advised the management team of Long Tall Sally, a multi-channel retailer of fashion for taller women, on the GBP30 million acquisition of the business by Equistone-backed TriStyle Mode. Founded in 1975, East London-based Long Tall Sally, led by CEO Andrew Shapin and backed by Amery
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has held the first close of its fourth dedicated private equity secondaries fund, Unigestion Secondaries Opportunities IV (USO IV). The fund represents a continuation of the secondaries strategy that Unigestion has deployed since 2000. USO IV has now received commitments in excess of EUR177 million,
An affiliate of private equity and alternative asset investment firm HIG Capital has acquired CABLExpress Corporation d/b/a CXtec and TERACAI Corporation. Headquartered in Syracuse, New York, CXtec is a provider of refurbished networking and telephony hardware and data centre cabling products to a diverse base of blue-chip customers. Since
HIG Europe, the European arm of global private equity firm HIG Capital, is to sell the International School of Europe Group (ISE). Closing of the transaction is expected in mid-September 2016. Terms have not been disclosed. 
 ISE, founded in 1958 by the Formiga family, is a group of schools
Noerr has advised Isaria Wohnbau on its capital increase carried out in connection with its takeover by the US private equity investor Lone Star. The cash raised amounted to around EUR53 million. At the same time, Noerr assisted the Munich-based project development company in cancelling the admission of its
Early-stage venture capital firm True Ventures has raised USD310 million for its fifth fund, True Ventures V. With the close of this fund, True now manages approximately USD1.3 billion in capital. True received support from substantially all of its existing investor base and a few new institutional investors.
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