Private equity investor, Ardenton Capital, has made a key appointment to its UK team with the appointment of Allan Dunn as Head of Strategic Development. Dunn joins Directors Mike Bradbury and Iain Marlow and will be responsible for working closely with the management teams of Ardenton’s UK investments. He will
ZOA Robotics has secured a GBP85,000 seed investment from the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The investment is the first of a series that have been made by the UK’s robotics-focussed investment firm, and is in a company that is raising further investment on the new and complementary robotics crowdfunding
An investment fund affiliated with private equity firm Lightyear Capital (Lightyear) has invested in Datalot Inc (Datalot), a provider of mobile and web marketing technology solutions for the insurance industry. Josh Reznick, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Datalot, together with other management, remain significant shareholders in the business. The
Signal Capital Partners, a London-based private asset management firm, has raised EUR725m with an investment strategy targeting credit and real estate special situations.

 Signal closed its funds in July 2017 and has deployed over EUR450 million across 15 investments to date since September 2015. The private investment funds target transactions
The infrastructure market saw 365 deals announced in Q3 2017, worth a combined USD88 billion. Preqin expects these totals to rise by around 5 per cent as more information becomes available. However, this already surpasses the USD55 billion in deal value seen in Q2, reversing the slowdown seen through the
Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Simon Tilley as Partner in the firm’s Partnership Capital team and Ben Long as Investment Director in the Enterprise Fund team. Tilley brings a wealth of experience to our unique minority investment fund, Inflexion Partnership Capital. Offering investment between GBP10 million to GBP150 million in
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-area private equity firm, has acquired Xebec Global Corporation (Xebec) a highly specialised provider of human intelligence solutions and services to customers in the Intelligence Community. David Wodlinger, a Partner at Arlington, says: “Xebec has built a reputation for excellence in supporting our nation’s
Arma Partners is pleased to have advised on six major M&A transactions with an aggregate value of circa USD7.5 billion over the course of the summer. The accelerating momentum underscores both the robust health of M&A activity in the global Communications, Media and Technology sector and Arma’s position as the
Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has closed its eleventh private equity fund at its USD325 million hard cap. The fund raise was completed in six months based on strong support from existing limited partners of the USD250 million Frontenac X, and the addition of several new investors. Frontenac
IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP100k invoice finance facility to Industro, a specialist engineering firm and labour provider based in the North East of England. Industro sought a new finance partner to help fund its growth ambitions, with the aim of winning larger contracts and
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