Law firm Howard Kennedy has advised 31 venture capital trusts (VCTs) in the past seven months. The firm’s VCT team has advised on 20 completed offers, with a further 11 offers ongoing, with a combined market value of GBP443m. The firm has advised 14 VCTs as both sponsor and legal adviser,
Albion Ventures has sold Tower Bridge Health and Fitness Club to Encore Capital, delivering a total return of 2.8 times the amount invested and an IRR of 25 per cent. Tower Bridge Health and Fitness Club is a premium club located at the More London estate near Tower Bridge, overlooking
Cloud Equity Group, an investment management company focused on opportunistic acquisitions of web service providers, has acquired Just199 Hosting, a budget web hosting provider based in South Carolina. Just199 Hosting, which operates under Just199.com, was founded in 2006 by Dave Wykofka with the goal of providing easy-to-use budget hosting services
Mid-market advisory firm Clearwater International has advised recruitment agency GatenbySanderson on its management buyout (MBO), backed by private equity house Primary Capital. GatenbySanderson provides permanent and interim executives across public services and the not for profit sector. The business has a particular expertise in headhunting chief executives, senior management teams
Zolfo Cooper has advised the shareholders of iNTERTAIN Limited, best known for its chain of Walkabout bars, on its management buy-out led by chairman David Myers and CEO John Leslie. The purchaser, Better Capital LLP, is a private equity investment vehicle founded by Jon Moulton, former managing partner of Alchemy.
Ian Enslin, Charity Director at Waverton Investment Management, comments on Sainsbury's and the 'Big Four' retailers… There is significant value in the big four food retailers, but they are lumbered by a cost base which can no longer be justified by the lack of growth and an imminent and inevitable
Better Capital’s BECAP12 Fund has acquired all of the debt facilities of iNTERTAIN Limited and its subsidiary companies. iNTERTAIN was formed in October 2009 to acquire the prime trading assets previously owned and operated by Regent Inns Plc. It now owns and operates a national chain of bars trading principally
Private equity investment firm Hellman & Friedman has held the final closing of Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VIII (HFCP VIII), a USD10.9 billion fund. Since forming its first partnership in 1987, Hellman & Friedman has raised over USD35 billion of committed capital. "We are pleased to announce the
Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION), a business angel network owned and managed by Oxford Innovation, has launched its initial Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) Fund. The OION 2015 SEIS FUND is promoted and managed by Innvotec Ltd, an FCA regulated Alternative Investment Fund Manager, specialising in investment in start-up and
The partners of 123Venture have launched Lendix, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to SMEs which lets institutional and private investors can lend directly to businesses at rates based on the quality of the borrower. Lend has raised EUR7 million in a funding round led by Partech Ventures, Weber Investissements and 123Venture’s
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