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Summa Equity closes Fund II at SEK6.5 billion

Summa Equity has closed the Summa Equity Fund II at its hard cap with investor commitments of SEK6.5 billion (circa EUR610 million). With Fund I and II, Summa Equity now manages aggregated capital commitments of SEK11 billion (circa EUR1 billion). Summa Equity was amongst the first Private Equity firms to

LBO France invests in French electric bike manufacturer Moustache Bikes

LBO France has acquired a stake in Moustache Bikes, a company that specialises in designing, assembling and distributing electric bikes. The private equity firm Initiative & Finance is selling its 55 per cent stake held since 2015, and the company’s founding managers, Emmanuel Antonot and Grégory Sand, who hitherto owned

Palamon-backed Simplify Group acquires My Home Move

Palamon Capital Partners’ (Palamon) portfolio company Simplify Group (Simplify) is to acquire My Home Move. The businesses will be combined under the group name Simplify to become one of the largest conveyancing services business in the UK.   My Home Move owners Smedvig Capital will continue to hold a significant minority

Varagon supports Marlin Equity Partners’ acquisition of Worksoft

Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as administrative agent on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Worksoft by Marlin Equity Partners. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Worksoft is the industry’s leading continuous robotic test automation platform for enterprise packaged applications, offering a diverse ecosystem of service providers,

UBS Asset Management disposes of two City of London assets for GBP77m

UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM), in separate transactions undertaken on behalf of clients, has disposed of two properties for a combined total of GBP77 million. The properties are at 21 Wilson Street, EC2M, and 158-164 Bishopsgate, EC2M, in the City of London.   21 Wilson

Tantalum sells Tracker to CalAmp

Tantalum, a specialist in connected car software and payments, has sold Tracker, its UK stolen vehicle recovery business, to CalAmp. The sale follows swiftly on Tantalum’s acquisition of Springworks, a Stockholm-based connected car software house. The sale of Tracker and Tantalum’s restructuring enables the enlarged group to deliver global connected

Souter Investments invests in DivideBuy

Souter Investments has invested in the fintech interest-free-only credit provider, DivideBuy. The investment from Souter Investments and Jon Moulton through his family office Perscitus, alongside debt funding from Shawbrook Bank and Paragon Bank, will enable DivideBuy to grow further and offer many more UK retailers access to its market leading technology. DivideBuy

Noerr advises CEMEX on sale of Baltic and Nordic activities to Schwenk Group

Noerr has advised CEMEX, one of the world’s leading building materials companies, on the sale of its activities in Scandinavia and the Baltic states to Schwenk, a building materials group headquartered in Ulm, Germany in a EUR340 million deal. In Latvia, Schwenk is taking over, a cement production plant with

Morgan Lewis represents MPM Capital on closing of seventh oncology fund

Morgan Lewis has advised MPM Capital, a life-sciences venture capital firm investing in early-stage therapeutics companies based in Cambridge, MA, and Brisbane, CA, on the closing of its seventh venture fund, BioVentures 2018 (BV2018). MPM is currently investing out of BV2018 and its two oncology-only funds with a total of

AnaCap-backed heidelpay Group acquires PoS specialist Alpha-Cash

AnaCap-backed heidelpay Group, a fintech service provider in Germany, has acquired point-of-sale specialist Alpha-Cash Payment GmbH. The purchase of Alpha-Cash Payment is heidelpay Group’s second investment in 2019 following the acquisition of PayLater and collection specialist Universum Group back in late January.   Alpha-Cash Payment GmbH is now the third

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