A survey of European ABS investors published by Bishopsfield Capital Partners reveals a positive consensus supporting increased issuance in the asset backed securitisation public market.  The survey of 26 investment managers and investment advisers active within the European ABS market shows that caution among issuers and arranging banks for new

Private equity firm Risk Capital Partners has taken a majority stake in DWS Bodyworks, a crash repairer in London. DWS repairs passenger cars and light commercial vehicles for insurers from 15 bodyshops located around the M25. It services almost all the major UK insurance underwriters, and carries out roughly 50,000

Amalgamated Capital, a recently formed division of Amalgamated Bank, has served as co-lead arranger for a USD25m senior secured credit facility in support of the acquisition of Wheaton Industries by PNC Equity Partners II. Amalgamated Capital provides cash flow-based senior debt financing to support investments made by private equity sponsors

Charles River Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, has invested in the USD35m series B financing round for TerraPower. TerraPower is a Washington-based company developing new options for nuclear energy production. Khosla Ventures also joined in the round for this three-year-old company that counts Intellectual Ventures co-founder Nathan Myhrvold and

Precise Media Group, the media intelligence group owned by UK mid-market private equity firm Phoenix Equity Partners, has acquired MediaGen, a provider of media monitoring, analysis and editorial services. The transaction was funded from Phoenix’s 2006 Fund, rather than the 2010 Fund which Phoenix recently closed. MediaGen, whose client base

IK Investment Partners, a Pan-European private equity firm, has agreed with the owners of Agros Nova, ITR Investment Partners, to acquire a majority stake in the company. Agros Nova is a diversified food and drink company in Poland. Terms of the agreed sale are not disclosed. Headquartered in Warsaw and

Venture capital firm Panoramic Growth Equity says its Panoramic Enterprise Capital Fund 1 has made an initial close at GBP34m.  The only SME growth fund to close in the UK in the last year, it has already exceeded initial fundraising targets by GBP1.5m. The fund has secured significant funding from

Origo has raised approximately USD30m, before commissions and expenses, by way of the placing of 82,200,000 new ordinary shares of GBP0.0001 each in the capital of the company.  The shares were placed with investors at a price of 25 pence per share. Liberum Capital acted as broker to the placing.