Amicus Finance is to launch a new commercial finance business dedicated to serving the small business and professional services communities. Amicus Commercial Finance will be led by two highly experienced and proven market specialists, John Wilde and David Hogg, who built SME Invoice Finance Limited (SMEIF) from start-up in 2000
Rakuten has launched the Rakuten FinTech Fund, a USD100 million global investment fund focused on investments in disruptive early to mid-stage fintech startups that offer ‘attractive return potential with strategic relevance’. The fund will target investments in startups and growth companies primarily in the US and Europe and build on
Gravitas Technology Services is to provide alternative investment manager Mill Hill Capital with cloud hosting, archiving, network support and failover capabilities across its trading, investment, portfolio management, finance, and operations functions. Mill Hill Capital relies on proprietary valuation, cash flow models and vast amounts of market data to perform its
Geneva-based Quaero Capital has completed the first close of its European Infrastructure fund, with EUR50 million of commitments. The dedicated private equity fund, a French-domiciled 'Fonds Professionnel de Capital Investissement' structure, invests in small to mid-sized project finance transactions in the transport, social infrastructure, telecom, utilities and energy sectors across
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has entered into a period of exclusivity with Wolseley plc, to acquire their France-based business, Bois & Matériaux (B&M), a distributor of building materials. B&M is one of the top three business-to-business distributors of building materials in France, with two established brands: Réseau Pro and
Noerr has advised Home24 AG on its acquisition of fashion4home GmbH. The Noerr team led by Dr Sascha Leske worked closely together with the company’s in-house legal department led by General Counsel Dr. André Schneider. With the merger of the two companies, Home24 AG further expands its position as Europe’s
The Better Software Company, a recent graduate from the L-SPARK Accelerator program, has secured an additional USD1.35 million in funding led by ff Venture Capital, with participation by Mistral Venture Partners and additional local angel investors. This closes the firm’s seed funding round and brings the total amount raised to
108 Partners, a middle market business advisory firm led by James Bergeron, has completed the recapitalisation of Levementum, enabling the CRM and digital services specialist to fund the next stage of its growth. Levementum provides management consulting, system integration and value-added resale of cloud-based CRM and digital solutions, serving more
With Blackstone Group’s latest opportunistic offering, which closed in Q3, becoming the largest private real estate fund of all time, Preqin’s Lauren Mason takes a look at fundraising for the strategy and the pipeline of opportunistic funds in market. Although the total number of opportunistic funds reaching a final close
Private equity and venture capital investor BaltCap is to acquire the invoicing and financial automation business of OpusCapita in the Baltics. BaltCap Private Equity Fund II managed by BaltCap has signed an agreement to buy the business operations serving the local markets in the Baltic States from Finnish financial process
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