Merchant House Group, the AIM-listed merchant banking and financial services group, has launched an expanded corporate finance business under the brand Merchant Pensum. The business will trade as a division of Merchant Capital, a wholly-owned, FSA-authorised subsidiary of Merchant House Group. Merchant Pensum acted as introducer for Craig Whyte on
Saul Singer (pictured), a principal at Fusion Alternatives, the alternative investment asset manager specialising in investment diamonds, examines the current price movement of rough and polished diamonds. Rough diamond prices continue to rise as evidenced by recent sales held by major diamond producers. Reports from the De Beers ‘sight’ held
A disconnect between private equity houses and private equity-backed corporates has emerged and is hampering both exit rates and corporate growth ambitions which in turn could have serious consequences for private equity managers’ ability to raise new funds, according to corporate finance advisers at BDO. BDO data suggests that private
A report by GF Data indicates completed deal volume in the middle market continued to accelerate in quarter three 2010, reflecting steady improvement in the M&A environment. The data, supplied by 151 private equity firms on transactions valued between USD10m and USD250m, includes 33 transactions completed in the third quarter
NB Private Equity Partners’ unaudited net asset value per share increased to USD9.79 at 30 September 2010. This represents an increase of 3.5 per cent compared to the audited NAV per share of USD9.46 at 31 December 2009. For the nine month period ended 30 September 2010, NBPE’s investment
Advantage Capital Partners, a venture capital and small business finance firm, has provided USD3.3m in financing to Hospice Partners of Texas. The funding, raised in connection with the Texas Certified Capital Company programme, will allow the company to expand through the acquisition of Alamo Hospice, maintaining 70 full-time staff and
The boards of four Maven managed venture capital trusts intend to raise up to GBP6.4m in a linked top-up offer across the four companies, which will close on 29 April 2011 and is available for subscriptions for both the 2010/11 and 2011/12 tax years. This is a strictly limited offer,
General Electric and its venture capital partners have made a collective investment of USD55m in power grid technology companies. The investment is a part of the USD200m GE Ecomagination Challenge. It is the first of several rounds of innovation funding planned by GE and its venture capital partners as part
The global financing markets are headed for a revival over the next 12 months, with a slower recovery expected in Europe, according to a survey of capital providers conducted by law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in association with mergermarket and Debtwire. The survey revealed that increased lending activity,
Picochip, a supplier of femtocell technology and silicon, has completed a USD9m debt facility with Silicon Valley Bank, the commercial banking division of SVB Financial Group. The facility consists of a USD4m three-year term loan and a two-year USD5m working capital line of credit. The combined facility will provide Picochip
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