Deals
Mourant has advised a New York-based private equity firm on its takeover of AIM-listed GBGI Limited (GBG).
GBG is a provider of international benefits insurance, operating globally across 120 jurisdictions. Trading principally as GBG Insurance Group, GBG is a fully integrated insurance group providing services from policy sales to claim administration.
The takeover of GBG was undertaken by way of a Guernsey scheme of arrangement and was sanctioned by the Royal Court in Guernsey on Wednesday, 20 February 2019. The aim of the takeover was to return GBG to private ownership thereby enabling enhanced financial and operational flexibility, together
The SaaS video management platform, Imagen, which holds both current and archive footage for major sporting organisations and news outlets, including Premier League, World Tennis Association and the BBC, has secured GBP6.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Downing Ventures.
The round also included capital from Guinness Asset Management Ltd. and existing investor Cambridge Innovation Capital.
Imagen helps sports, media and enterprise businesses to manage their expanding video and content libraries on its cloud-based technology. Imagen announced 88 per cent year on year growth in 2018 driven by clients including Premier League, World Tennis Association, BP
Audax Private Equity (Audax), in partnership with management, has completed the sale of Rogue Wave Software (Rogue Wave) to Perforce Software (Perforce), a Clearlake Capital portfolio company.
Headquartered in Louisville, CO, Rogue Wave is a leading provider of software development tools and code components to Global 5000 enterprises, helping developers tackle the hardest and most complex issues in building, connecting and securing applications. Rogue Wave’s product offering solves problems across a broad portion of the software development lifecycle, spanning Open Source Support, API management, Java Development, and other key focus areas for developers. Known for its commitment to help developers
Chinese companies have outpaced their western counterparts by value in the top five VC funded companies in the global payments space during 2018, according to GlobalData, a leading and data analytics company.
Of the top five, two companies represented China with a combined value of USD14.73 billion, followed by two American firms with a combined value of USD0.6 billion and one UK-based company with USD0.25 billion.
Ant Financial, the parent company of Alipay (largest mobile payments network in China), has attracted the highest VC funding among all companies in the payments space during the period. Interestingly, the USD14 billion
Monroe Capital has acted as co-lead arranger on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the growth of Mindbody, by private equity sponsor Vista Equity Partners.
Based in San Luis Obispo, California, Mindbody is the leading technology platform for the fitness, beauty and wellness services industries. Local entrepreneurs worldwide use Mindbody’s integrated software and payments platform to run, market and grow their businesses.
Consumers use Mindbody to more easily find, engage and transact with fitness, wellness and beauty providers in their local communities.
SALU Capital (SALU), together with its partners Apex Group (Apex), and Inlife Holding (Inlife), has closed the purchase of all outstanding shares of Augur Financial Opportunities 2 SICAV (AFO-2), a Luxembourg investment vehicle managed by German Augur Capital that includes the fund’s portfolio companies, German life insurer myLife Lebensversicherung (myLife) and Luxembourg-based fund administration and ManCo business LRI Group (LRI ), from the Fund’s investors in a secondary fund buy-out transaction.
The closing of this complex transaction, upon receipt of all regulatory approvals in Germany and in Luxembourg, is the latest step of SALU Capital, a young and growing private
European impact investor, Wermuth Asset Management, has completed its second round of funding under the Green Gateway Fund 2 (GGF2) portfolio, doubling its investment in NexWafe.
Until recently silicon solar wafers have been the costliest single components of a solar module, accounting for around 40 per cent of the total product cost. But new wafer technology company, NexWafe, has stepped in as an industry disruptor with the development of a drop-in replacement for wafers specifically designed for future high efficiency solar cells with a low energy and material consumption during production that significantly brings down the costs.
“The historic
Venture capital funding to automotive start-ups totalled USD8 billion in 2018, according to the latest Automotive Technology M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions adviser, Hampleton Partners.
In parallel, almost 100 M&A deals were inked, including Renault, Ford and Volkswagen’s autotech acquisitions in the second half of 2018; however, total disclosed M&A transaction value reached USD3.9 billion in the time period, the lowest in over five years.
The report also shows the growing role of Private Equity (PE) in the autotech M&A market, accounting for almost one quarter of all transactions in 2018. The largest PE acquisition
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made two investments totalling GBP1.95 million into two fast-growing Lincolnshire based businesses, Firetree Chocolate Ltd and YPP Group via the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).
Foresight completed a GBP950k investment into premium chocolate maker Firetree Chocolate Ltd (Firetree) as part of a GBP1.2 million funding round in late January. Firetree was set up in 2017 as a bespoke high-end chocolate manufacturer. It has been successful in securing several prominent B2B supply contracts in the ‘super premium’ chocolate market, as well as securing two lucrative private label contracts. Firetree’s ambition is to develop its own brand of
Senseon, an AI platform for cyber defence, has completed a USD6.4 million seed funding round led by venture capital fund MMC Ventures, alongside Mark Weatherford, former Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, US Department of Homeland Security.
Additional investors include Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane Venture Partners and CyLon.
The funding will allow Senseon to continue its rapid expansion in the UK and increase its presence in EMEA and the US.
Founded in 2017 by David Atkinson – the first ever cyber operative within the UK’s specialist military units – Senseon empowers businesses to keep pace with the increase of
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