A new report from Invest Europe, an association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, shows that European private equity strongly outperformed listed equity benchmarks to the end of 2020, underlining the industry’s resilience during the Covid-19 crisis and its consistent ability to
Inflexion has announced a number of promotions within its team, reflecting their contribution to the business as well as Inflexion’s commitment to developing its talent. The promotions follow an active first half of the year which has seen Inflexion complete 11 investments and six exits whilst supporting its portfolio to
EXCEL Esports (EXCEL), a leading British esports franchise competing in League of Legends, Fortnite and VALORANT, has secured EUR20 million (GBP17 million) in new equity capital. This financing round was led by investment firm JRJ Group which first acquired a majority shareholding in 2018 alongside TOMS Capital LLC, the family
StepEx, the only FCA-regulated fintech startup that provides affordable student finance based on future earnings rather than debt, has raised GBP1.1 million in pre-seed funding. This follows an earlier angel investment of GBP270,000. Backed by BBVA Anthemis Venture Partnership, Triple Point Ventures, and prominent angel investors — including renowned fintech investor
Certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management are to acquire a majority stake in Reno De Medici SpA (RDM), a leading producer of recycled cartonboard in Europe. Apollo Funds will acquire approximately 67 per cent equity ownership in RDM from the Company’s top two shareholders, Cascades Inc. (TSX:
DWS has launched its new institutional ESG Infrastructure Debt Fund (EIDF), which will focus on European sustainability themed infrastructure sectors which contribute towards making society and economies more sustainable. ESG will play a key factor in all strategic allocations for the fund, targeting sectors including: renewable energy, digital, energy efficiency/utilities,
Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in World of Books Group (Wob), a UK online re-seller of second-hand books. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, Wob is a re-commerce business operating within the books sector, committed to acting as a force for
Transine Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing a novel class of therapeutic RNAs based on its pioneering SINEUP platform technology, has appointed Jan Thirkettle, PhD as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Thirkettle joins Transine’s team at a time of rapid growth following the Company’s recent successful GBP9.1 million extended Seed financing,
Pemberton, a European private credit manager, has appointed Graeme Dell as the its new Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective 1 July 2021. Dell brings over 30 years of financial services experience in private equity, asset management, equities broking and investment banking, most recently at private equity firm BC Partners, where
Private equity house WestBridge has promoted Peter Barkley to director. Barkley joined WestBridge in August 2019 to head the firm’s newly opened Manchester office and establish the firm in the north west, north east and Yorkshire markets. After qualifying at BDO, he joined Dow Schofield Watts where he came
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