Makoto Nagao has been appointed to the newly created role of Director, Business Development adding further strength to SANNE’s Asia-Pacific business. With more than 35 years of experience, Nagao brings a wealth of knowledge, following a lengthy career with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, SMFG. While he was at SMFG, Nagao-san was
With interest in infrastructure investing increasing significantly in recent years, AMP Capital’s David Rees explains how asset managers are looking to new technology to bring PE-like rigour to the sector and add value for investors… The McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2019 (Private markets come of age) notes that infrastructure expanded
UK-based videogame publisher Outright Games has signed a deal with specialist financier ExWorks Capital in order to support its expansion aims. The funding will contribute towards Outright Games’ growth ambitions, helping to further their plans for global expansion and welcoming a host of exciting new partners. Founded in 2016, Outright
Crypta Labs has completed a GBP2.7 million (USD3.4m) funding round led by Bloc Ventures and includes GBP1,000,000 (USD1.3m) debt finance from Innovate UK. Crypta Labs is a quantum cybersecurity company which develops IP, hardware and related software using the quantum properties of light to secure highly critical data and communication
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the burgeoning cryptoasset industry, has closed its first equity funding round, led by North Island, the investment firm of prominent technology investor and Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, along with his son, James Hutchins. After launching the Digital Assets
Following participation in the FCA’s Sandbox initiative in 2018/2019, SquareBook has received regulatory authorisation under Article 25 (2) of the Regulated Activities Order to ‘make arrangements with a view to transactions in investments’. The FCA approval enables SquareBook to provide new services in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process to benefit
Deepbridge Capital has appointed two new Business Development Managers (BDMs) covering both the North West and North East regions. Donna Battersby joins Deepbridge as BDM for the North West. Don Battersby na worked most recently within the tax-efficient investment space with Ingenious, following two decades of financial services experience with
Macfarlanes has advised a fund managed by secondary private equity firm Glendower Capital on the acquisition of a circa 40 per cent stake in the famous London department store Liberty in a deal valuing the business at around GBP300 million. Liberty, which was founded in 1875, is a world-renowned store
Keensight Capital is to acquire a majority stake in Smile, a European specialist in digital and open source. Keensight Capital, which has built a strong partnership with Smile over the years having first invested in the company from 2013 to 2017, will replace Eurazeo PME as majority shareholder. Eurazeo PME
Eurazeo has held the final closing of the EUR2.5 billion Eurazeo Capital IV investment programme, with Investment partners providing circa EUR700 million in funds, close to 40 per cent more than for the previous fund, Eurazeo Capital III. In line with previous programmes, Eurazeo Capital IV enables Eurazeo to invest
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