BDC Capital has committed an additional CAD3 million to the early stage venture capital fund managed by Mistral Venture Partners, bringing its total commitment to CAD6 million. The Business Development Bank of Canada subsidiary had made a first commitment of CAD3 million in June 2014. This increase will enable Mistral Venture
Law firm Howard Kennedy and its regulated London Stock Exchange sponsor, Howard Kennedy Corporate Services, have advised Maven Income and Growth VCT 6 PLC on the launch of its 2016 VCT share offer. The VCT is managed by Maven Capital Partners UK LLP, one of the largest VCT investment managers
PrivatEquity.biz, Israel’s first online secondary market trading arena, has launched its Global Provider Program, aimed at helping mature private, pre-IPO high-tech companies in receiving investments from both private and institutional investors in their region through a local secondary market web trading platform. PrivatEquity.biz is working to establish partnerships with financial
EMEA is the strongest performing region for global early-stage mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with the UK outperforming the region and shrugging off concerns over the results of the anticipated EU membership referendum, and a potential “Brexit”. That’s according to the latest Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP), which also finds that
Jordan/Zalaznick Advisers (JZAI), the investment adviser to JZ Capital Partners, has closed the second and final round of fundraising for JZI Fund III, the successor fund to the EuroMicrocap Fund 2010, with EUR400 million of commitments. The fundraising surpassed its EUR350 million target, receiving strong backing from institutional investors and family
Opus Bank is to acquire PENSCO Trust Company, (PENSCO) a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENSCO Services. PENSCO is a custodian of self-directed IRA and alternative investments headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has nearly USD11 billion of custodial assets from over 45,000 clients and investments in over 40,000 unique asset types,
Private equity firm Swander Pace Capital has completed its acquisition of Swanson Health Products (Swanson), an online and catalog marketer of Swanson-branded and third-party healthy living products. Swanson, based in Fargo, North Dakota, carries over 27,000 health and wellness products sold under its own and third-party brands, including vitamins, minerals,
MesDocteurs has completed an initial EUR1.2 million funding round with Omnes Capital, Partech Ventures and a business angel from the insurance world. MesDocteurs is a start-up founded in 2015 by Chloé Ramade, Séverine Grégoire and Nicolas Orofino, the founders of Monshowroom, which was supported from its beginnings by Omnes Capital
Law firm White & Case has advised Mid Europa Partners (MEP) on reaching an agreement with CEE Equity Partners resulting in an investment by the China CEE Investment Co-operation Fund in Energy 21. MEP is a leading private equity investor focused on the growth markets of Central and Eastern Europe
2015 was a busy year for both the Silverfleet team and its portfolio companies. The firm successfully raised its second independent fund, closing at its hard cap of EUR870 million. Shortly thereafter the fund made its first investment in The Masai Clothing Company. Silverfleet was also delighted with the successful
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