Deals
Private equity firm Corsair Capital (Corsair) has made a majority investment in ZEDRA Group (ZEDRA), a specialist in trust, corporate and fund services.
Corsair has a long and successful track record of growing financial services firms across a diverse range of sectors, and its partnership with ZEDRA will support the firm’s continued growth and global expansion.
ZEDRA’s network covers 13 jurisdictions across 15 offices in Asia, Oceania, the Americas and Europe. Its team of nearly 500 industry experts creates and delivers bespoke trust, corporate and fund services solutions to clients, including high-net-worth individuals and their families, international corporations, institutional
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital fund, has made a seed investment in WeTrip, a digital platform aiming to simplify group holiday planning and booking.
InMotion’s seed stage funding will support WeTrip in its global ambition to become the go-to digital platform for booking personalised group experience holidays. In August 2017, the company raised USD1m funding to launch WeSki, a platform that allows groups to share responsibility for booking complete, tailor-made ski holidays.
Sebastian Peck, Managing Director, InMotion Ventures, says: “As well as investing in the future of mobility, our fund seeks to back companies that are enabling
Inflexion Private Equity has completed the buyout of MYCOM OSI, a provider of service assurance software to global telecommunication companies. The investment was made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V, the company’s dedicated mid-market buyout fund.
The business is poised for significant future growth as telecommunications companies transform to offer new digital, IoT and 5G services whilst adopting automated solutions to reduce operational costs. MYCOM OSI is well positioned as it leads the industry with its cloud-based automated assurance solution enhanced with AI/Machine Learning.
Simon Turner, Managing Partner of Inflexion, says: “The team at MYCOM OSI have built up
Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, is enhancing its private debt solution to meet growing demand from SMEs for flexible finance options to fund growth and support business strategy.
The private debt offering, which was launched last year, will now fund financing requirements of GBP3-10million – up to twice its original level of GBP2-5million. This will provide more small and medium-sized businesses with an alternative to bank lending or equity investment which can be tailored to fit their specific needs.
Connection Capital has already completed almost twice as much private debt lending this year as the previous
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP249,000 equity investment into Footfalls and Heartbeats Limited through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).
Based in Nottingham, Footfalls has developed a revolutionary and proprietary process for manufacturing smart fabric, which uses nano-scale interactions within the textile to make the fabric itself the sensor. This technology can be used in medical applications such as bandages or within sports apparel and shoes, monitoring the pressure being exerted on a specific body part and transmitting data in real time, wirelessly to a receiver.
Investment from the MEIF will be used for continued development of product
Fersa Group has acquired 100 per cent of the Austrian company NKE Austria, completing a ‘deal’ that began in 2016, when the Spanish company purchased 49 per cent of NKE shares.
With the acquisition of the remaining 51 per cent, the Austrian company is now wholly owned by Fersa and the business group offers two commercial bearing brands – Fersa for the automotive sector and NKE for the industrial sector. Fersa has not ruled out incorporating new brands into its portfolio in the near future.
The merger strengthens the group’s presence in central Europe – part of the company’s
Integral, a forex market technology partner for banks, brokers, and asset managers, has secured a USD15m investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.
“The market opportunity for Integral has never been better,” says Harpal Sandhu, Integral founder and CEO. “Our focus on building the best FX solutions coupled with our unparalleled customer service has given us the largest installed base in the business – more than 200 leading institutions run on the Integral platform. We look forward to partnering with Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and leveraging their deep experience and global resources.”
Integral combines the innovation of Silicon Valley with deep
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US Government’s development finance institution, has committed USD6 million in debt financing to CrossBoundary Energy, Sub-Saharan Africa’s first investment fund for commercial and industrial solar.
CrossBoundary Energy provides solar power to African enterprises. Clients sign long term power purchase agreements to purchase solar electricity without contributing upfront investment or taking technical risk on construction and maintenance. CrossBoundary Energy finances, builds, owns and operates the captive solar system for the client. The client receives cheaper and cleaner electricity.
OPIC’s commitment will contribute to the funding of six captive solar PV projects currently under
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP1.035 million investment in Manchester-headquartered water treatment technology business, G2O Water Technologies Limited (G2O).
A total of GBP600,000 has been provided by Maven funds, which includes a GBP400,000 investment from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, which is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and a GBP200,000 investment from the Finance Durham Fund, both managed by Maven. The additional GBP435,000 is from a number of private individual investors.
The funding will enable the business to carry out the next stage of its technical development and forge more
Harbour Point Capital (Harbour Point) has led a growth recapitalisation of InSight Telepsychiatry (InSight), a national telepsychiatry services provider organisation.
The Company’s founders, including Chief Medical Officer Dr Jim Varrell, and InSight CEO Geoffrey Boyce, have reinvested the majority of their holdings and will remain significant shareholders in InSight.
“The InSight team has done a fantastic job of building a clinically-focussed organisation that is highly regarded by both the mental health provider community and InSight’s facility partners We are excited to partner with Geoffrey and the management team for this next phase of growth and to help InSight continue
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