Following approval from the French financial markets regulator (Autorité des Marchés Financiers or AMF), ACG Group has completed its acquisition of Groupama Private Equity with Groupama changing its name to ACG Capital as a result of the transaction. The acquisition encompasses Quartilium’s funds of funds business (EUR1.4bn under management)
Yellow&Blue Investment Management, ABB Technology Ventures and b-to-v Partners have invested EUR4.8m in ROMO Wind along with the founders of the wind farm optimisation company. Yellow&Blue, a specialised clean-energy venture capital investor backed by Nuon/Vattenfall and headquartered in the Netherlands, led the investment. It invested alongside ABB Technology Ventures, the
Peterson Partners has added Matthew Day, former managing partner at Black Opal Equity, as a principal on its investment team. In this position, Day will play an instrumental role in identifying sound investments that enhance the company’s portfolio. Day will also work with portfolio company management teams to accelerate
Lazard has appointed Ken Oliver Fritz as a managing director and co-head of investment banking in Germany. He will serve as co-head with Eric Fellhauer, who has been a member of Lazard Investment Banking’s senior leadership team in Germany since 2006. Fritz joins Lazard from Credit Suisse, where
Private equity firm HIG Capital has acquired Pegasus Financial Services (PFS), the world’s largest processor of commissions paid by hotels to travel agencies, from Pegasus Solutions. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, PFS’s global payment network and technology solutions serve a large and diverse customer base of
The North West Fund for Digital & Creative, managed by AXM Venture Capital, has supported the launch of new software venture Sitedesk which will this Summer launch a on-site Building Information Modelling collaboration tool, Sitedesk Dabit. The initial development work on Sitedesk Dabit was commissioned by construction entrepreneurs
Euro Car Parts, the UK’s largest car and van parts distributor, has agreed to merge with Netherlands based Sator Holding to create one of Europe’s largest car parts distributors. The merger has been financed by LKQ Corporation, the largest provider of aftermarket and recycled collision replacement parts and refurbished
Small transactions (under GBP10m) dominated the UK equity capital markets and M&A market in Q1 2013, increasing by 6.3 per cent from 319 in Q1 2012 to 357 deals in Q1 2013, according to Experian. The increase can largely be attributed to a substantial upturn in the volume of
Advise Technologies, a software solutions provider for regulatory compliance, will offer the first CPO-PQR e-filing platform to the National Futures Association (NFA) EasyFile portal. This will be the first time that filing electronically is possible for Form CPO-PQR. Advise has worked closely with the NFA and several clients
The venture capital trust (VCT) sector raised GBP402.5m in the 2012/13 tax year (value of new shares issued), according to figures published by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). This is up 22 per cent on the previous tax year (GBP330.9m). Excluding enhanced share buy backs, the VCT sector
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