Specialist direct lender Beechbrook Capital has held a final close of its inaugural UK SME credit fund with commitments in excess of GBP150 million. The fund has completed two new investments. Beechbrook Capital UK SME Credit I, which backs small and medium-sized businesses in the UK with a turnover
The fourth Albion Growth Report, based on interviews with 1,000 SMEs, finds that less than half (45 per cent) of microbusiness owners with fewer than five employees expect their company to grow over the next two years compared to almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of larger scale SMEs. The report
Ramsdens Holdings, a diversified financial services provider and retailer backed by NorthEdge Capital, is to seek admission of its shares to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange following a successful institutional placing. Admission is expected to occur on 15 February 2017. Ramsdens operates in the
TPG Capital, the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, has closed its acquisitions of RCN Telecom Services and Grande Communications Networks, two US regional broadband service providers. The transaction combines the two companies into the seventh largest US cable company and a market-leading provider of next-generation, high-speed
European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital’s Fund II portfolio company Coventya has made two add-on acquisitions, both in Turkey. Coventya, headquartered in Villeneuve-la-Garenne near Paris, is a chemicals group focused on surface treatment to the automotive, construction, luxury and consumer goods, data storage, and oil & gas industries. In
The Semcon Group is selling its engineering operations in Germany – Business Area Engineering Services Germany – to Valmet Automotive in a EUR14.1 million deal. The business provides services to customers primarily in the German automotive industry and has around 800 employees with annual sales in 2015 amounting to SEK901
Funds managed by FL Partners, a Dublin-based investment boutique, have acquired Potensis Recruitment, one of the largest recruiters to the UK housebuilding and construction industries, together with SEAL Resource Management, a related business. Potensis, founded in 2000, provides temporary and permanent recruitment services to the residential housebuilding, social housing and
Céréa Capital II has completed its fourth investment, participating in the reorganisation of the capital and financial structure of GPS Group, in partnership with Bpifrance and the company's management. Based in Bordeaux, GPS Group is specialised in industrial packaging logistics, used for the transport of viscous or liquid materials such
EOS Investment Management has acquired, through its energy fund Efesto Energy, a portfolio of approximately 40 MW owned by Telmo Group from Bergamo, Italy. This EUR140 million transaction places EOS IM’s latest acquisition among the biggest transactions in the last 12 months in Italy in the renewable energy sector. The
MARU Group, a market and customer insights company backed by Primary Capital Partners, has acquired research technology platform Usurv for an undisclosed sum. Usurv will subsequently be rebranded to Maru/Usurv and founders Martin Bysh and Guy Potter will remain with the company to oversee its growth trajectory and development.
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