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LGB arranges GBP20m medium term note programme for Simply Asset Finance

LGB Corporate Finance has arranged a GBP20 million Medium Term Note (MTN) programme for Simply Asset Finance, a private equity backed specialist asset finance provider. The facility will enable Simply Asset Finance to expand its lending capabilities. Simply Asset Finance offers finance products as a secured lender to SMEs to

CyberOwl raises GBP1.8m in funding

A cybersecurity company, with a platform that helps to safeguard transport and infrastructure systems, has raised a further GBP1.8 million to help it expand its business in the maritime sector.CyberOwl has secured funding from 24 Haymarket, Mercia’s EIS funds, and the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which

Maven leads funding round in customer data platform

Maven Capital Partners has led a funding round in Chester-based Intilery.com, a customer data platform and real-time decision engine that powers multi-channel campaigns. The funding will enable Intilery to expand the sales and marketing team and develop its commercial offering. Both Maven VCTs and Maven Equity Finance, which forms part

Glennmont sells minority stake in Finnish wind project

Glennmont Partners, a fund manager focused exclusively on investing in clean energy infrastructure, has agreed to the sale of a 15 per cent minority stake in Project Piiparinmäki, a 211.4mw wind farm, to Kansai Electric Power Company.  The onshore wind farm, located in central Finland, is currently under construction with

Breaking ice

Icebreaker.vc’s latest tech fund holds first close

Icebreaker.vc, which invests in Finnish, Swedish and Estonian tech companies, has held a first close of its second fund at EUR50 million. The target size of Icebreaker Fund II, which will invest in very early stage tech companies, is EUR75 million. Already before the Corona crisis there was a gap

Ropes & Gray advises K2 on acquisition of Pioneer Underwriters

Ropes & Gray has advised K2 Insurance Services, a portfolio company of US private equity firm Lee Equity Partners, on its acquisition of Pioneer Underwriters, a London-headquartered underwriting services organisation. The deal will see Pioneer’s ongoing underwriting portfolio, together with underwriting and support staff, transfer to K2, a specialist insurance

Ogier supports Index Ventures on USD2bn closing of two new funds

Ogier’s Jersey investment funds team has advised Index Ventures on the simultaneous closings of Index Ventures Growth V, which has raised USD1.2 billion to invest in later-stage, growth rounds, and Index Ventures X, which recently closed at USD800 million to put into earlier rounds for smaller start-up companies.This latest USD2

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