Foresight Group has invested in Postworks Limited (Postworks) on behalf of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). This marks Foresight’s third MEIF investment since its launch in February. Postworks is an online franking company providing small and medium sized businesses with a software-based alternative to franked business post. Using
ArchOver, a P2P business lending platform connecting businesses requiring finance with individual and institutional investors, is expanding into the West Midlands and opening up new flows of capital for SMEs operating in the region. As traditional banks divest from hubs outside London and further centralise their operations in the capital,
The two founders of international corporate finance advisory firm Rautenberg & Company, Arndt Rautenberg and Jens Moritz, will with immediate effect take on equal representation in the name of the firm: The company will now operate as Rautenberg Moritz & Co. “After four years of successful and trustful cooperation, we
KKR is to acquire Quadion, which trades as Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (MRP), from Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), a Minneapolis-based middle-market equity investment firm. This transaction marks KKR’s second acquisition of a middle-market business in the industrials sector and is being funded through KKR’s Americas XII Fund. Financial details of
Dext Capital, a new independent equipment leasing company focussed on the healthcare industry, and backed by private equity investor Sightway Capital, plans to begin offering equipment financing in the beginning of 2019. Dext Capital is led by industry veteran Kyin Lok, who will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer. Lok
The Growth Stage has launched what it says is the world’s first funding platform for private growth companies to raise investment capital from regulated institutional investors. The company has signed up investors with over USD4 trillion of assets under management, from pension funds, retail funds and hedge funds through to
Alliance Marine, a European distributor in recreational and commercial boating equipment, has acquired 3SI Group in the United Kingdom, its third overseas acquisition following Bukh Bremen in Germany (October 2017) and FNI in Italy (June 2018). 3SI Group counts among the European leaders in safety equipment (design, manufacture and distribution
Bregal Milestone, a private capital firm, has completed an investment in Arkphire Group, a leading IT solutions and networking company. The investment by Bregal Milestone is out of their new EUR400m fund dedicated to investing in high-growth European companies, and is their first deal to be closed, three months after the
Capagro is investing SEK15.6 million in Malmö, Sweden-based BoMill AB, which has developed high-speed grain sorting equipment. The previous owners are also participating in the share issue, totalling SEK20 million. BoMill’s unique High Precision Quality sorting of Single Kernel technology can be used to sort Durum wheat, Soft wheat, Malting
Michael Westhoven has joined Livingstone as a Partner in its global Media & Technology team based in Düsseldorf. Westhoven has 25 years of experience in media, tech and communications M&A as both a corporate finance adviser and venture capital investor, and as an operational executive with P&L responsibility. He joins Livingstone
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