Disruptive Capital has bought additional shares in Tungsten Corporation on the same day that another institutional buyer, Majedie Asset Management, acquired a 5.2 per cent stake in the company. The small acquisition by Disruptive takes its holding to 13.07 per cent.   Edi Truell, the Founder of Disruptive, says: “We

Houston-based private equity firm Junction Energy Capital (Junction) and alternative asset manager Ara Partners Group have made a significant joint investment in Puraglobe, a technology platform with a proprietary process for producing high-quality base oils, using recycled oil as feedstock. Allied Resource Corporation (Allied), the founding shareholder, will maintain a

ORIX Corporation (ORIX), through its wholly owned subsidiary ORIX Aviation Systems (ORIX Aviation), is to acquire a 30 per cent stake in Avolon from Bohai Capital (Bohai). The Transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and Bohai shareholder approval. Bohai’s largest shareholder, HNA Group, has provided its commitment to the

An O’Melveny team led by Matthew Erramouspe, co-chair of the Entertainment, Sports & Media practice, advised Alibaba Group on its investment in NewTV, the mobile entertainment startup launched by former Disney and Dreamworks exec Jeffrey Katzenberg.  NewTV, led jointly by Katzenberg and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, will acquire and

Plantforce, a provider of heavy equipment rentals in South West England, has received a GBP4.7m growth capital investment from BGF to further scale its operations. The company, whose clients include Kier, Costain, Balfour Beatty and BAM construction groups, will use the funding to support its growth plans in expansion, acquisition

YFM Equity Partners (YFM), a specialist private equity fund manager, has invested GBP4.5 million from its managed funds into Collaborative Project Management Services (CPMS) to support the continued growth of the business through ongoing new product and market development. YFM’s investment is the seventh from its GBP46 million buyout fund.

NVM Private Equity (NVM) has invested GBP3 million of growth capital into indoor climbing business The Climbing Hangar (TCH). Indoor climbing is a growing sport that blends socialising with health and fitness and TCH aims to provide access to its superior facilities at an affordable cost, catering to a growing

NorthEdge Capital has made the first investment from its recently closed NorthEdge Capital SME Fund I, backing award-winning cloud services specialist iPortalis with a multi-million pound growth capital investment to support its global expansion. As organisations increasingly move to the cloud, iPortalis helps international businesses aggregate their diverse solutions so