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Stirling Square Capital Partners acquires Assistansbolaget

Mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners has acquired Assistansbolaget Försäkring Sverige, a B2C roadside assistance provider. The acquisition is the third platform investment in Stirling Square’s Fourth Fund, which closed at EUR950 million in January and focuses on the European mid-market. Founded by Stefano Bonfiglio and Gregorio Napoleone,

Maven completes GBP2.5m investment in SaaS company

UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has completed a GBP2.5 investment in Precursive, a maker of business management software. This investment by Maven will allow Precursive to pursue an ambitious growth strategy in both the UK and USA, including funding further product development and expanding its sales and marketing teams.

Foresight makes six-times return on sale of Manchester-based golf business

Private equity firm Foresight Group has sold the UK’s largest independent online retailer of golf equipment, Clubhouse Golf, to European ecommerce business, all4golf.Clubhouse has found a strong strategic partner in all4golf, and together they will look to become the pan-European market leader for golf equipment.  This represents the first exit

Sorfam Capital acquires historic American boatbuilding company

Private equity firm Sorfam Capital has acquired an American boatbuilding company, Century Boats, for an undisclosed amount. Sorfam purchased Century Boats’ parent company, All Craft Marine, and will continue operations at its headquarters in Zephyrhills, located just north of Tampa. Sorfam and All Craft Marine were both represented by Anchors Aweigh

British Business Bank increases Mercia’s investment mandate by GBP54.3m

Regionall focussed specialist asset manager Mercia Asset Management PLC (AIM: MERC), the proactive, regionally focused specialist asset manager, is pleased to announce that the British Business Bank (BBB) has allocated an additional GBP54.3 million to regionally focused specialist asset manager Mercia’s two existing investment mandates from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

GHIF portfolio company Atomo Diagnostics lists on Australian Securities Exchange

The Global Health Investment Fund’s (GHIF) portfolio company Atomo Diagnostics Limited (AT1) has commenced trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) following an oversubscribed initial public offering (IPO). The Australian rapid blood test company intends to use the net proceeds from the IPO to support the planned expansion of its production

Spinal implant firm raises GBP830k to target US market

A UK company, which is developing the next generation of spinal implants, has raised GBP830,000 in a funding round led by asset manager Mercia, to launch trials of its product in the US. Axis Spine has spent three years developing its technology, which could improve the success of spinal surgery and

Sofinnova Partners makes third investment from Italian fund

Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan, has made an investment in Genespire, a Milan-based gene-therapy company developing best-in-class therapies for patients affected by genetic diseases. This is the third investment for the Sofinnova Telethon Fund, bringing the total financing of Italian startups

YFM Equity Partners delivers more than three-times return with sale of GroupBC

YFM Equity Partners-advised funds have sold their shareholding in GroupBC to Bentley Systems Incorporated, a global provider of software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, generating a return well in excess of three-tims its original investment.GroupBC is a leading provider of enterprise-scale information

ZEDRA fund services wins contract with USD230m Latin America fund

ZEDRA Fund Services has won a new mandate to provide comprehensive fund administration and corporate governance services to IG4 Capital’s latest USD231.5 million blind-pool Private Equity II Fund, which will focus on special opportunities in Latin America. Ryan Taylor, director of ZEDRA Fund Services, explains: “We have proven and significant experience

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