The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF), managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has provided a GBP400,000 loan facility to Mobedia Limited (“Mobedia”), a digital design agency offering a full range of services to SMEs, mid-corporates and large multinational companies. The investment will enable Mobedia to open its planned Manchester city
QLess, an specialist in customer experience and queue management software, has secured USD2.5 million in True Growth Capital from Wellington Financial, a privately-held specialty finance firm. QLess helps companies optimise their customer experience process by providing an interactive platform for employees to manage customer service flow, equipping management with real-time
Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance and SKG Capital have provided GBP1 million worth of funding and investment to support the acquisition of White Knight Laundry Services, a specialist provider of laundry services to international hotel chains. The joint equity funding and asset based lending facility marks the second transaction that
Inflexion Private Equity has completed the management buyout of Global Reach Partners Ltd, a leading UK foreign exchange specialist providing payments and hedging services to businesses and private individuals. Global Reach Partners helps clients manage their foreign exchange exposure through a range of hedging strategies, which are tied to fundamental
Italian corporate and financial law firm Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners advised the private equity firm CVC on the acquisition of Italian generic drugs firm Doc Generici from Charterhouse. CVC was assisted by a team composed by partners Bruno Gattai and Gerardo Gabrielli, together with senior associate Lorenzo Fabbrini. Lorenzo
Deutsche Börse Venture Network, Deutsche Börse’s programme to fund young growth companies, has passed the 200-member mark nine months after its launch. The Network has gained 31 investors and 10 growth companies since the beginning of this year. Specifically the number of participants from outside Germany, currently at 81, has
Shifts in regulation and changes in attitudes towards reputation are prompting a rise in the inward migration of alternative fund managers to Jersey, delegates at a major annual funds conference have heard. Discussing trends within the alternative fund space, panellists at this year’s Jersey Finance London Funds Conference agreed that
UK-based online property finance marketplace LendInvest has completed a GBP17 million (USD25 million) Series B equity investment from Atomico, the technology venture capital firm founded by Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype. This is LendInvest’s second equity investment in nine months. In June 2015, LendInvest secured a GBP22 million (USD33
The infrastructure investment joint venture between Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) and London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has entered a partnership to co-own one of the largest wind farms of its type in Europe. The investment vehicle, GMPF & LPFA Infrastructure LLP (GLIL), along with Greencoat UK Wind PLC (UKW)
Future Finance Loan Corporation (Future Finance), which makes tailored loans to undergraduates and postgraduates at universities across the UK, has raised GBP119 million in growth and lending capital from leading FinTech investors QED Investors, Blackstone Strategic Opportunity Fund, Colchis Capital, Invus Opportunities, KCK, DW Partners, Fenway Summer Ventures, Ridge Road
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