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Cleantech startup Penrhos Bio raises £1m in funding round led by Eos Advisory

Cleantech startup Penrhos Bio, which aims to revolutionise global industry with its anti-biofilm technology, has secured £1 million investment with the support of St Andrews-based impact investment firm Eos Advisory.   The investment will accelerate the commercialisation of its patented platform technology, Remora, developed in collaboration with Unilever, that protects

CMA blocked record three M&A deals in past year

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) prohibited three merger & acquisition deals in 2021/22, the highest on record in a single year. The number of blocked deals in 2021/22 equates to 5.5% of all deals reviewed by the CMA that year, says Thomson Reuters.  In the previous decade, the CMA

AnaCap’s MRH Trowe acquires afm Holding

MRH Trowe (MRHT), an owner-managed commercial lines insurance broker in Germany, and a portfolio company of AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist mid-market private equity investor in financials, technology and related business services, has acquired a majority stake in afm Holding AG (afm), a top-25 industrial insurance broker with a

Mindset AI raises £1.65m in funding round led by Mercia

Mindset AI – which helps businesses within the knowledge economy to digitise their services and scale their expertise – has raised £1.65 million from Mercia and angel investors. Mercia has invested from its EIS funds.

EQT sets target fund size for EQT Infrastructure VI at €20bn

EQT has set the target size for the EQT Infrastructure VI fund at €20 billion. The actual fund size is dependent on the outcome of the fundraising process and may be higher or lower than the target size. The EQT Infrastructure VI fund’s investment strategy and commercial terms are expected

South Korean PE consortium acquires shipbuilder Daehan in $150m deal

Daehan Shipbuilding Co, a small-size oil tanker manufacturer has been acquired by a South Korean private equity consortium led by Seoul-based KH Investment Inc (KHI) for around $150 million, according to a report by The Korea Economic Daily. The consortium has acquired a 95% stake in the unlisted business from

Baker Botts appoints new PE and M&A corporate partner in the Middle East

Baker Botts, an international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, has appointed Omar Iqbal as a partner in the firm’s corporate department in Riyadh. Iqbal’s core practice is transactional, focusing on private equity, M&A and joint ventures, combining both significant cross-border experience with extensive local Saudi Arabia expertise, having

HTEC Group acquires Mistral Technologies

HTEC Group (HTEC), a global consulting, software engineering and digital product development company based in San Francisco, has acquired Sarajevo-based Mistral Technologies The deal makes HTEC the largest technology company in Bosnia and Herzegovina employing close to 600 experts in the country.

Stafford Capital raises record €731m for fourth secondaries fund

Stafford Capital Partners has closed its latest fund with €731 million in capital commitments making it the largest in the private markets firm’s history, and taking the firm’s total infrastructure AUM to $1.7 billion, according to a report by AlternativesWatch. Stafford also raised an additional £100 million ($116 million) for

COPE Private Equity planning fifth fund in 2023

COPE Private Equity is planning to launch its fifth fund next year following the full deployment of the current COPE IV Fund which is expected by Q1 2023, according to a report by Deal Street Asia. The report cites the firm’s founder and managing director Azam Azman as revealing that

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