Last year’s ‘Enterprise’ budget paved the way for increased investment in the UK’s smaller unlisted companies. The higher bank lending targets agreed under Project Merlin along with a relaxation of the rules governing VCTs promised greater flexibility for funding. VCT managers surveyed by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) have
Silverfleet Capital, in conjunction with mergermarket, has published the findings of its 2011 Buy & Build Monitor, which show a significant slowdown in Buy & Build activity. While overall 2011 saw Buy & Build activity increase both in volume and value terms, the number of add-on transactions decreased considerably during
3i, an international investor focused on private equity, infrastructure and debt management, and funds managed by 3i have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Geka, a manufacturer of brushes, applicators and comprehensive packaging systems for the cosmetics industry. The company is being acquired from Halder, an investor focused on
The German private equity market has yet to recover from the slump in the autumn, based on the evidence of several indicators from the private equity panel polled by CMS Hasche Sigle and FINANCE. The headwinds generated by the euro crisis and the stock market crash in the summer have
Ahead of the March 2012 Budget, the BVCA has called on the UK Government to take immediate action to boost the financing of SMEs and start-ups and in the medium term, improve the competitiveness of the UK’s tax and regulatory regime. Financing SMEs: We urgently need policy to encourage
A welcome inclusion in South Africa’s national budget on Wednesday was a further commitment to a broad-based investment manager exemption, says Rupert Worsdale (pictured), partner with Maitland, London… It was proposed that a legislative carve-out be created for foreign investment funds so that these funds are not inadvertently subject to
NewWorld Capital Group, a leading private equity firm in the environmental opportunities sector, has announced an environmental infrastructure investment initiative to complement the firm’s growth equity investment activities. NewWorld Environmental Infrastructure, LP, which will be funded by a commitment from North Sky Capital’s CleanTech Alliance Fund, will provide project equity
Tamar Energy Limited, a newly-launched company focused on producing energy from organic waste matter, is planning to develop a network of over forty Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants in the UK to generate 100MW of green electricity over the next five years. The project brings together UK and international blue chip
Despite the return of serious macroeconomic concerns in the second half of the year, private equity fundraising in the European mid-market saw a big rise in 2011, according to the latest research from Acanthus Advisers.

 The firm’s’ European Mid-Market Fundraising Review 2012 shows that private equity fundraising in the mid-market
Following a surge in demand for non-bank finance and an estimated GBP25 billion of debt funding and refinancing needed for UK SME businesses between 2012 and 2016, Palio Capital Partners (Palio) is carving a new niche in the UK market by providing senior debt and mezzanine loans to businesses with
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