The ‘flowers through the letterbox’ gifting companyBloom & Wild has has raised a GBP2.5m Series A funding round, led by MMC Ventures, alongside existing angel investors including Samos, Catamaran Ventures and Scott Sage. Launched in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild have developed a unique flower
GSR Capital is launching a new USD5 billion mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fund, which will target cross-border buyouts and M&A of industrial and emerging technology companies with multi-billion dollar scaling opportunities in China. The GSR Global M&A fund is anchored with USD1billion committed from GSR GO Scale Capital Limited Partners
The latest hedge fund launch data is analysed in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q2 2015, which looks at the structure, location, investment focus and strategy of hedge funds launched in the second quarter. Single-manager hedge funds dominated launch activity over the quarter, accounting for 79
The Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund (NVCF) has held its final closing achieving its maximum fund size of USD300 million. The Fund's final closing included new commitments from Sun Life Financial and a number of high net worth and family office investors, as well as additional commitments from existing NVCF investors.
Following-up on its first closing held in January at EUR160 million, BlackFin Capital Partners is on track to reach its “hard- cap” amount of EUR400 million before the end of 2015. Current commitments stand at an aggregate amount in excess of EUR300 million, both from investors in BlackFin’s first fund,
Anthem is to acquire all outstanding shares of Cigna in a cash and stock transaction. Cigna shareholders will receive USD103.40 in cash and 0.5152 Anthem common shares for each Cigna common share. The total per share consideration equates to approximately USD188.00 for each Cigna share based on Anthem's closing share
Ares Management and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors are to merge to form Ares Kayne Management, a diversified alternative asset manager with a combined USD113 billion of assets under management as of 31 March, 2015. Under the terms of the agreement, Ares will provide USD2.55 billion in consideration, the majority of
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners are to acquire PKPE Energetyka (PKPE), the energy unit of the Polish National Railways (PKP) in a transaction that puts an enterprise value on the business of PLN1,965 million (approximately EUR477m). PKP Energetyka is a cross-country electricity distributor to the Polish railway network and
The Home Depot is to acquire Jacksonville, Florida-based Interline Brands, a national distributor and direct marketer of broad-line maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products. Under the terms of the agreement, The Home Depot will acquire Interline for USD1.625 billion in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The acquisition, which has been
PrivateEuity.biz, Israel’s first online secondary trading arena, has signed a series of agreements with senior employees who own shares in high-tech companies, including leading pre-IPO Israeli and North American start-ups. Following the agreements, which have been signed during the past few weeks, shares held by 14 employees at US, Canadian,
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