LDC opens Newcastle office
LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, is to open a new office in Newcastle city centre, further extending the firm’s footprint across the UK.
LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, is to open a new office in Newcastle city centre, further extending the firm’s footprint across the UK.
Palatine Private Equity has completed its exit from Vernacare Limited, the North-West based healthcare products specialist to HIG Capital. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Established in 1964, Vernacare is a leading international healthcare products manufacturer, with infection-prevention as its core focus. It has pioneered single-use toileting systems globally,
a2e Industries has secured a GBP25 million term loan facility for its fast growing aerospace grouping, Aero Services.Global group (AS.G), with a new funding package provided by Magnetar Capital (Magnetar).In addition, Close Brothers Asset Finance has provided finance facilities of GBP6 million, bringing the total committed funding to GBP31 million.

As London-based VC firm Atomico closed Atomico V on USD820 million today (18/02/20), Atomico’s head of IR tells PEW the firm has “increased its focus over the years to really double down its efforts in Europe.”

Grove Ventures, an early-stage deep tech-focused Tel Aviv-based VC firm, has held a final close of Grove Ventures II with total commitments of USD120 million.
Consulting M&A has sold Critical Resource Strategy & Analysis (Critical Resource) – a specialist sustainability advisory company providing expertise in assessing stakeholder, political and ESG (environmental, social and governance) risks for the mining and energy industry – to ERM, the world’s leading sustainability consultancy.Founded in 2006 by Daniel Litvin, Critical
HG Ventures, the corporate venture arm of the Heritage Group, has made a USD1.35 million seed round investment in Wildnote, an environmental compliance management solution. HG Ventures invested alongside Entrada Ventures, a Santa Barbara-based venture capital fund. Wildnote is a graduate of the inaugural 2019 cohort of The Heritage Group Accelerator
Valsoft Corporation (Valsoft), a Montreal-based company that specialises in the acquisition and development of vertical market software companies, has acquired Young & Partners/Navitrans International (Navitrans), a technology leader offering a complete and integrated suite of logistics, transportation, warehousing and freight forwarding software solutions.Navitrans has provided a premium suite of integrated logistics

Emerging markets private equity fund manager Da Vinci Capital has launched Da Vinci Emerging Technologies-Fund III, its third successive fund.

Global law firm Mayer Brown has found that the total annual value of acquisitions of UK companies by US private equity funds jumped 53 per cent last year to GBP14.2 billion; up from GBP9.3 billion in 2018. It is the latest sign of favourable market economics in the UK, which
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