Deals
Noerr has advised the Danish parent cooperative of the Arla Foods Group, Arla Foods amba, on the cross-border merger of its German members MUH Arla eG and Hansa Arla Milch eG by the formation of a Danish European Cooperative Society (SCE), namely Arla Foods 2018 SCE.
Other participating cooperatives in the merger were the Group’s British member The UK Arla Farmers’ Cooperative Limited as well as its two Belgian members Büllinger–Sankt Vither Molkereigenossenschaft and EUREGIO Arla Genossenschaftsmolkerei. The merger was registered with the Danish Business Authority on 1 October 2018.
The merger of Arla Food’s central European and British local
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital fund, today announces its investment in Arc, the company behind Vector – the world’s first fully-electric motorcycle with a Human Machine Interface (HMI).
The investment from InMotion Ventures, along with Mercia Fund Managers, the Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund which is part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and a number of industry specialist angels, will support Arc with its global ambition for Vector to be the cleanest, safest, and most fulfilling motorcycle on the road.
The brand new bike will be revealed today at the Milan Motorcycle. The Arc
Hyundai CRADLE, Hyundai Motor Company’s corporate venturing and open innovation business, has made a strategic investment in allegro.ai, a technology company specialising in deep learning (DL) – based computer vision.
Founded in 2016, allegro.ai offers the first end-to-end DL lifecycle management solution focused on deep learning as it applies to computer vision. The company’s platform simplifies the process of developing and managing deep learning-powered solutions – such as autonomous vehicles, drones, security, logistics and others.
“Deep learning computer vision is one of the core technologies that can be applied to autonomous driving to navigate roads and make quick decisions in real-time – and
Foresight Group (Foresight) has invested GBP2.5 million to support the growth of North Wales-based software provider Cimteq Limited.
This is the thirteenth investment by the GBP58 million Foresight Regional Investment Fund (FRIF), focussed on North Wales and the North West of England. Since December 2015 the Fund, backed by local institutional investors including the Clwyd Pension Fund, has supported the creation of 260 new jobs across the investment area. Cimteq marks the Fund’s first investment into the thriving North Wales SME community, supporting growth in the region.
Located in Wrexham, Cimteq specialises in the development, supply and support of
Cowen and Company and Intrepid Partners have formed a strategic alliance to jointly provide comprehensive capital markets advisory and execution services to oil and gas companies and investors in the United States of America and Canada.
The companies say the exclusive relationship creates a centre of excellence in energy capital markets, bringing together Cowen’s research, sales and trading, capital markets and advisory services with Intrepid’s strategic advisory capabilities and relationships in the North American energy sector.
“We’re very excited about the opportunity to join forces with Intrepid to meet the financing and capital market needs of Intrepid’s impressive network
Cleantech company Black Bear has secured an additional EUR5 million from Capricorn Venture Partners and Particon, who join an earlier EUR11 million growth financing round.
Using this growth capital, Black Bear aims to scale up its “Tire to Carbon Black” technology, a carbonisation process used to transform tires into recovered Carbon Black for use in the production of tires, technical rubber, coatings, plastics and inks.
Black Bear operates an industrial-scale prototype plant in partnership with Kargro, one of Europe’s foremost recyclers of tires. The plant, located in Nederweert, the Netherlands, is capable of processing more than one million tires
Gen Cap America, a private equity firm focussed on lower middle market buyouts, has sold CPS Distributors (CPS) to an undisclosed buyer.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
CPS was founded in 1890 and is the largest wholesale distributor of professional pump, irrigation and landscape supplies in the Rocky Mountain Region. Customers include contractors for commercial facilities and municipalities, as well as landscape, residential and maintenance contractors. Gen Cap America acquired CPS in October 2012 when partnering with management to buyout the previous owner.
Matt Lane, Managing Director at Gen Cap America, says: “The CPS team and
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP1.5 million growth capital investment into Inovo Robotics Limited (Inovo) on behalf of the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.
Inovo is developing a low-cost collaborative robot (cobot) that can integrate into existing workforce processes. Inovo’s modular design means the cobot can be easily adapted to varying customer requirements.
Henry Wood and Jonathan Cheung, previously senior engineers at Northrop Grumman, founded Inovo in 2016. Both founders possess deep technical expertise and experience of delivering complex engineering development projects and, between them, they have more than 30 years of combined experience in robotics and engineering.
CVC Credit Partners has acted as Administrative Agent on a first lien senior secured credit facility provided to Industrial Physics.
The company used the proceeds at close to finance an acquisition and refinance existing debt, whilst the credit facility can also be utilised to finance the company’s growth through future acquisitions in the US and Europe.
Formed in 2014 by Union Park Capital, Industrial Physics designs, manufactures, and distributes test and measurement instruments for quality assurance of packaging materials. These instruments are critical to maintaining customer quality control procedures and are used throughout the value chain. The Company has offices
ARQIS has advised Alloheim Senioren-Residenzen SE on the acquisition of the Cologne-based CMS Unternehmensgruppe.
The takeover is subject to approval of the antitrust authorities. After the transaction’s closing, which is expected to be carried out by the end of the year, Alloheim will combine about 21,000 care beds and apartments for assisted living under one umbrella.
CMS operates 23 nursing homes with about 2,000 care beds, an outpatient nursing service, day care services, and about 300 apartments for assisted living. Since its foundation in 1990 by Klaus Rosenthal, CMS has constantly expanded its regional presence and today has operations
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