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Groupama Axiom Legacy 21 fund passes EUR500m AuM mark

Groupama Axiom Legacy 21 has reached EUR506 million in assets under management, less than three years after the fund’s launch in 2018.  The fund focuses on the subordinated “legacy” debt universe, a sector of financial instruments that is constantly being influenced by regulatory changes across the Eurozone. Currently, the majority

Wombat lands GBP2m investment led by Fuel Ventures

Wombat, the UK’s first thematic & curated fractional investment platform, has closed a GBP2 million seed round to help the fast-growth business serve consumers’ increasing appetite for shares investing.  The seed round, led by Fuel Ventures, will help Wombat further develop the platform to provide easy access to the world

Orion to acquire Romania-based Tellence Technologies

Orion Innovation (Orion), a digital transformation and product development services firm, is to acquire Tellence Technologies (Tellence), a privately-held technology services company headquartered in Bucharest, Romania. With this acquisition, Orion is strengthening its European presence by establishing an R&D operation in Romania, with associates across Bucharest and other major cities,

TA Associates to make majority growth investment in DL Software

TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has entered exclusive negotiations to make a majority growth investment in DL Software, a France-based group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software providers.  Current DL Software majority shareholder 21 Invest France, as well as company founders and management, would each retain a

Kingswood Capital Management closes oversubscribed USD230m PE fund at hard cap

Kingswood Capital Management (Kingswood), an operationally-focused lower-middle market private equity firm, has closed the Kingswood Capital Opportunities Fund I.  The Fund was oversubscribed and closed at the hard cap with total commitments of USD230 million. The Fund received commitments from a balanced group of high-quality limited partners, including public pension

Bain Capital Private Equity and Cinven to acquire Lonza Specialty Ingredients

Bain Capital Private Equity (Bain Capital) and Cinven (the consortium) have entered into definitive agreements to acquire Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI), a division of Lonza AG, for a total enterprise value of CHF4.2 billion. LSI is a world-leading provider of specialty chemicals for microbial control solutions, used to eliminate or

VCTs remain resilient despite pandemic, says AIC

Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) showed extraordinary resilience in 2020 despite the challenges of the pandemic, according to a new survey of VCT managers conducted by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). In the survey, which was conducted between 1 December 2020 and 6 January 2021, 40 per cent of managers

Surface Transforms raises GBP20m in round led by Zeus Capital

Surface Transforms, which manufactures next-generation carbon ceramic brake discs for the automotive and aircraft industries, has raised GBP20 million in a financing round led by Zeus Capital. The raise follows a successful 18 months for Surface Transforms, in which it has secured contracts to supply brake discs for five new

Puma Private Equity completes GBP2m investment into Ostmodern

Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments has completed a GBP2 million investment into Ostmodern, a digital product design and technology business that creates innovative video platforms for some of the world’s leading entertainment companies, including Formula One, Arsenal, Channel 4 and Fox.   Ostmodern has been

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