Silverfleet Capital, the European private equity firm specialised in buy-to-build, is to invest alongside the existing management team in the acquisition of UK training provider Lifetime Training.  Completion is subject to regulatory approval and the terms of the transaction were not disclosed.   Founded in 1995, Lifetime Training offers high

transcosmos is to make an additional investment in UNQ (Shanghai) Co, a China-based e-commerce distributor. transcosmos is the second largest shareholder in the company after Wang Yong, President & Founder of UNQ. With this additional investment, transcosmos’s ownership ratio in the company increases from 26.3 per cent to 39.9 per

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has made an investment in Geropharm, a Russian pharmaceutical company, specialising in restoring brain function and the treatment of diabetes. This investment utilises the mechanism designed to promote the development of companies with significant export potential.   The proceeds will be used by Geropharm

LogicMonitor, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivered end-to-end IT infrastructure monitoring platform, has secures a USD130 million investment from Providence Strategic Growth (PSG), the growth equity affiliate of private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. The investment will be used to continue LogicMonitor’s global market expansion as the leading modern IT infrastructure performance

Energy Access Ventures (EAV) has announced a USD2 million investment as part of a USD7.5 million round in PEG  – an off-grid solar pay-as-you-go (PAYG) company operating in Ghana. The partnership with PEG is EAV’s second investment and represents the start of its investment activity in West Africa. After a

Navicure, a provider of cloud-based claims management and patient payment solutions for physician practices and hospitals, has secured a strategic investment from Bain Capital Private Equity. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Navicure, which is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, will continue to be led by current

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) is investing in a complex reconstruction of the federal M-4 Don highway in Russia, as part of its infrastructure partnership with Avtodor State Company.  The project involves complex installation work, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, structural repair and toll operation of the M-4 Don federal highway

Dating app Once has secured a second wave of investment from Partech, the French venture capital firm, that supports global companies that they believe possess revolutionary concepts.  For this reason, Partech Ventures has just signed a second partnership deal with Once to invest a further one million euros in the

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution, has commenced the initial disbursement of a USD250 million loan to Apollo Towers Myanmar Limited, based in Yangon.  The disbursement marks OPIC’s first financing in the country as well as a historic milestone in public-private cooperation. Investors TPG

Octopus has taken a 12.3 per cent stake in European impact investment bank ClearlySo as part of a GBP1.25 million growth funding round. Octopus will become the largest single institutional investor in the firm and Octopus Co-Founder Chris Hulatt will join the ClearlySo board as a non-executive director. The investment