Deals
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has completed a GBP2 million investment in Lending Works, a UK peer-to-peer (P2P) lender.
The total transaction value also includes GBP800,000 of funding from NVM Private Equity, Pollen Street Capital, and a small number of business angels. The investment will be used to strengthen Lending Works’ sales and marketing function to support the continued expansion of the business, capitalising on the significant growth forecasted in the P2P market, and enabling it to originate and convert more loans through its established sales channels, such as brokers and price comparison sites.
Founded in
Moore Stephens has advised Webcredible Limited, a London-based experience design agency, on its sale to digital consultancy and software design agency Inviqa.
The acquisition helps Inviqa to expand its customer and user experience capabilities in response to client demand, while Inviqa adds an improved development capability for Webcredible’s clients.
Led by Partner Damian Ryan and Senior Manager Victoria Kiess, Moore Stephens’ Corporate Finance team acted as exclusive advisor to Webcredible throughout the sale process, including; the preparation of an information memorandum on Webcredible, identification and approach to potential acquirers, solicitation and negotiation of offers through to the successful completion
Bambu, a provider of robo-advisory technology, today announced it has completed a USD3 million Series A funding led by Franklin Templeton Investments, with Singapore family office Octava and prominent Japanese Fintech investor Mamoru Taniya also joining the round.
The year 2018 has already become a marquee year for the two-year-old startup, signing clients in both North and South America as well as across Asia, and newly opened offices in London and Kuala Lumpur. Bambu also continues its commitment to its proprietary AI research and solutions, with further hires and completion of the team’s first research publication.
“We are incredibly
Parisian operational marketing firm group Marquetis has restructured its capital and strengthened its development through an investment from Omnes.
Headquartered in Boulogne Billancourt, and part of the French marketing and communications sector since 1996, Marquetis has been managed for more than 20 years by Virginie Massa and Evangelos Vatzias. Marquetis operates through its subsidiaries Marquetis One, Marquetis Connect and Marquetis Call. It offers a 360 degrees service, ranging from global communication consulting to automated cross-channel marketing in SaaS mode.
The group has a portfolio of customers made up of key accounts from different sectors (automotive, services, insurance, banking, etc).
The EQT Ventures fund has made a EUR23.4 million investment in BIMobject AB, a Swedish technology company with a global presence operating at the forefront of digitising the building industry.
Hjalmar Winbladh, Partner and Head of the EQT Ventures advisory team at EQT Partners, will join the company’s board.
BIMobject provides a cloud-based platform and powerful technology to make digital product information available for Building Information Modelling (BIM). This ensures that digital representations of each component can be used early in the building process for visualisation, specification, and analysis. Every element can be digitally built, checked and issues identified
The partners of Bedell Cristin have announced a plan to merge with Cayman-based law firm, Solomon Harris. It is hoped that the deal will complete by the end of August, and Solomon Harris will rebrand as Bedell Cristin at a later date.
Founded in 1998, Solomon Harris is a full service law firm employing 28 people in Grand Cayman. It has been awarded recognition for its legal expertise across a broad range of services including as a premier firm for captive insurance and investment funds, capital markets, inward/local investment, private client services, corporate/residential real estate, immigration, litigation and insolvency &
Constellation Brands has acquired Dallas-based brewer Four Corners Brewing Co producer of a range of premium products including Local Buzz Honey-Rye Golden Ale and El Chingón IPA.
Four Corners, which will join Constellation’s Craft & Specialty Beer Group, was founded in 2012 by longtime friends George Esquivel, Greg Leftwich and Steve Porcari. The founders and their team will all remain involved with Four Corners following the acquisition.
“We like to say that Four Corners Brewing is our collective beer journey, and partnering with Constellation continues that journey by opening amazing possibilities of where our brand and company can go,”
Investment vehicles managed by Colony Capital have their entire stake in DATA4 to AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets, acting on behalf of AXA France.
DATA4 is a European specialist in dedicated and colocation data centres that offers services to Cloud providers, digital service companies and large and medium-sized firms. DATA4 finances, designs, builds and operates its own data centres, in order to offer its customers hosting solutions that are flexible, scalable, high-performing and secured. The company currently operates 15 data centres in Paris, Milan and Luxembourg.
Founded in 2006 by Colony Capital, DATA4 was one of the first
Noerr has advised the Schwarz Group on the takeover of the Tönsmeier group of companies. The Schwarz Group, Europe’s largest retail company, is implementing the purchase through its affiliate GreenCycle, located in Neckarsulm, Germany.
GreenCycle is taking over the fifth largest player on the German waste disposal market. Tönsmeier is based in Porta Westfalica, Germany, and is also active on the Polish and Dutch markets. It achieved sales of around €500 million with a workforce of more than 3,000 last year. GreenCycle organises the collection and recycling of all recyclable materials for the Schwarz Group generated in the stores and
MediaMath, a specialist in programmatic advertising, has secured USD225 million in new financing, in a funding round led by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight).
The funding provides MediaMath with strategic growth capital to accelerate the expansion of its Demand Side Platform (DSP) and Data Management Platform (DMP). The funding, which will be delivered in two tranches to pursue both organic and inorganic growth initiatives, brings MediaMath’s total capital invested to over USD500 million.
“The marketing industry has reached a tipping point, with more than half of consumer time now spent on digitally connected devices, yet the challenges associated with connecting marketers
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