Private equity (PE) firms spend millions annually with law firms to manage high-end legal matters such as fundraising, merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions and litigation – but not all private capital firms are effective at managing those costs. That’s according to a new report by Apperio titled, Scale vs agility
Schroders has united its specialist private assets investment capabilities under the newly launched Schroders Capital brand, created to deliver an enhanced service for our clients. Growing Schroders private assets capabilities continues to be a key strategic focus for the business. This has been achieved so far through a combination
airfocus, the world’s first modular product management platform, has raised USD5 million in series A funding, led by XAnge with participation from Nauta Capital.
GRANT Thornton UK’s Corporate Finance team has advised Milton Keynes-based software company, Celaton on an investment deal with serial investor and technology entrepreneur, Vin Murria OBE. Founded in 2004 by Andrew Anderson and Gary Grant, Celaton’s Intelligent Document Processing platform, inSTREAM, delivers consistent and measurable business technologies to processes such
Foresight Group (Foresight), a UK-listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has agreed the conditional sale of Ixaris Group Holdings Limited (Ixaris), a specialist in travel payment technology, to Nium Pte Limited (Nium), a global B2B payments platform based in Singapore. Ixaris’ main product is a pre-paid debit
Funds advised by IK Investment Partners (IK) are to invests in Mecenat Holding AB Mecenat. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Mecenat is a marketing technology company which promotes unique discounts to its community of students and young professionals. The Company is headquartered in Gothenburg and operates
Oakley Capital’ sOakley Capital Origin Fund (Origin Fund) has acquired controlling stakes in Afterbuy and DreamRobot, two providers of e-commerce software in the German-speaking region, which will be combined to become the newly formed ECOMMERCE ONE Group. The two companies provide a comprehensive suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions
KKR, a global investment firm, and Ensono, a leading hybrid IT services provider, have closed the previously announced acquisition of Ensono by KKR. Ensono provides a comprehensive suite of services that help enterprises manage, optimise and modernise their IT systems across mainframe, cloud and hybrid infrastructure. “Joining the KKR family
Uruguayan fintech payments company dLocal, the country’s first unicorn, has raised USD617.65 million in its initial public offering, which started trading on Thursday on the Nasdaq under the symbol ‘DLO’. Of the shares sold, close to 4.4 million were by dLOcal and 25 million by its existing investors. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs,
Dutch blockchain investment fund Maven 11 Capital has raised EUR40 million which it will invest in start- and scale-ups creating innovative financial services and building Web 3.0. using blockchain technology. The new fund is a direct response to the explosive demand for investment in, and mentoring of, start-ups in decentralised
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