Digital music provider I Like Music is on a recruitment drive after securing a GBP700,000 growth capital deal as part of Santander’s Breakthrough programme. The Richmond-based company, which supplies music to businesses including the BBC and Funky Pigeon, is looking to recruit an additional 10 staff to boost its
Solar market specialist Sungevity has secured USD15m in new equity financings, including an investment from venture capital firm GE Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s capital efficient growth initiatives with a primary focus on the development of new service offerings that will diversify Sungevity’s business and
Irving Place Capital and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management have entered into a definitive agreement to sell their ownership interests in Chesapeake to The Carlyle Group. Chesapeake is a supplier of specialty paperboard packaging, including folding cartons, leaflets and labels, for the pharmaceutical, confectionary, and premium drinks markets.
AVT, a specialist in automated retailing systems, customised kiosks and self service stores, has settled trade payables of approximately USD1.1m in exchange for the issuance of shares of its common stock to Ironridge Consumer Co, a division of Ironridge Global IV. The capital will be used to build company-owned
Los Angeles-based private equity firm CounterPoint Capital Partners has completed its third acquisition in as many months with the recent addition of The Bradshaw Group into its platform company, Parts Now. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Founded in 1990, The Bradshaw Group is a distributor of desktop laser and production
Acquisitions are currently high on the agenda in many German M&A departments – companies are showing increasing confidence in the mergers and acquisitions market and relying on their own liquidity to finance transactions. In contrast, bankers and advisers in the market are working primarily on sales at present. Both
Venture capital investor Albion Ventures is in the process of disposing its investment in Opta following the conditional sale of the company to Perform Group for GBP40m. Opta is a provider of sports data and analysis. Formed in 1996, the company uses proprietary technology to collect and analyse statistical
Private equity firm Avista Capital Partners is to acquire Zest Anchors from The Jordan Company. Zest is a designer and manufacturer of LOCATOR branded overdenture abutment solutions used in the treatment of edentulous patients. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Sriram Venkataraman, partner at Avista, says: “The
Patron Capital Partners has acquired a 20,000 square metre office complex in Malakoff, an emerging district in the south of Paris, from a subsidiary of one of the funds managed by Centuria Capital on behalf of one of its historical clients. The building is fully let to a single
Steinway Musical Instruments is to be acquired by an affiliate of private equity firm Kohlberg & Company in a transaction valued at approximately USD438m. Upon the completion of the transaction, the Steinway will become a privately held company. Under the terms of the agreement, an affiliate of Kohlberg
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