Tikehau Capital is to sponsor a first Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), which will focus on the European financial services sector. Since its inception in 2004, Tikehau Capital has built a strong track-record of backing high-quality companies through equity or debt financing. Investment vehicles like SPACs are a natural extension
Sherpa Capital, a private equity fund manager focused on mid-market companies with EUR500 million under management, announces the sale of Macrolibros, a leading Spanish printing and binding company for children’s and educational books, to Gráficas Ceyde. Founded more than 40 years ago and based in Valladolid, Macrolibros is a market
Riata Capital Group (RCG or Riata) has made a strategic investment in Greenix Pest Control (Greenix) in partnership with Bob Nilsen and the Company’s management team. Greenix, estimated to be the thirteenth largest residential pest control company in the US based on subscribers, is a market-leading provider of subscription-based pest
MIG AG, through its MIG Fonds, has kicked off the year with a seed investment in deep-tech company Zadient Technologies, based in Chambéry, France. and founded in 2020. Joining the financing round led by MIG is Vestel Ventures, the investment arm of Turkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel. Zadient, which was
A Cambridge University programme has produced a raft of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class innovators – attracting over GBP50million (GBP53,561,000) of funding and investments over the last four years for the alumni’s life-changing projects. Notable alumni completing the programme have included: Dr Steve Brierley, Founder/CEO of technology sensation, Riverlane
Drug discovery and development company, Blueberry Therapeutics, has secured a GBP3.6 million extension to its previously successful GBP10.8 million Series B fundraising. Japanese investor, Medical Incubator Japan (MIJ), and a private syndicate of US Board Certified Dermatologists – led by Dr Omar Ibrahimi of the Connecticut Skin Institute – have
Private Equity Wire’s Technology Summit continued on Thursday, where LPs and GPs explored themes around digitisation and how the adoption of new tech is shaping private equity.
I read a prediction in one of those crystal-ball gazing missives that financial firms like to put out at the start of every year. It forecast that there will be continued blurring between hedge funds and private equity. I must admit I baulk at such an idea and find myself
Nordea Asset Management (NAM) – a specialist in sustainable and responsible investing – has received an allocation in excess of USD550 million into its Emerging STARS Bond strategy. The investment came from Danish pension provider Velliv. Nordea’s Emerging STARS Bond strategy is an actively managed emerging market debt portfolio,
Onecom has acquired its closest rival, Olive Communications, in a move which creates one of the largest business-to-business mobile, fixed-line and cloud specialists in the UK. Together, Onecom and Olive will provide services to more than 500,000 corporate and business end users this year, generating combined annual turnover of more
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