Deals
Castanea Partners has made an investment in Simms Fishing Products, headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.
Founded in 1980 and acquired in 1993 by KC Walsh, its current owner and President, Simms offers a comprehensive line of high-performance fishing apparel, footwear, and gear. Its premium fishing waders are produced domestically at Simms’ manufacturing facility in Bozeman. The company’s products, used by over 6,000 Simms-sponsored fishing professionals globally, are distributed through specialty retail stores both domestically and internationally, and directly to consumers through www.simmsfishing.com.
“Simms is singularly focused on delivering the most technically sound products to ensure that anglers of all types
Axereal Group, has raised EUR150 million to finance its growth projects including the development of the firm’s malting and food processing businesses.
To raise these funds, two financial investors, Temasek and Unigrains, and minority shareholder Tereos subscribed to a capital increase of the group’s malting subsidiary.
This growth primarily concerns the Group’s malting business unit. Axereal subsidiary Boortmalt’s strategy is to support its brewer and distiller customers as they grow, by increasing its production capacities, boosting volumes exported from Antwerp and becoming directly involved in producing barley and malts in fast-growing geographies such as Africa and Asia.
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Pan-European private equity firm IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund is to acquire a minority stake in Third Bridge, a primary research provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Third Bridge provides its clients with insights into companies and markets through access to industry experts and market research. Serving a client base of over 300 customers, including private equity funds, consulting firms, hedge funds and corporates, Third Bridge has a global footprint, with six offices covering America, Asia and Europe. Since inception in 2007, the Company has doubled its turnover every two years, and
Boyd Group Income Fund has, through a subsidiary company, closed the acquisition of the assets and business of Assured Automotive Inc. and related entities which was previously announced on 29 May, 2017.
The total consideration for the transaction is approximately USD193.6 million, subject to closing and post-closing adjustments, and was funded through USD146.1 million in cash and USD47.5 million in Boyd Group Income Fund units priced at USD88.31 per unit. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to the Fund’s earnings and distributable cash.
“The addition of Assured significantly increases our number of collision repair centres, and also
Theva, a German manufacturer of superconductors, has raised additional capital totalling EUR7 million in its third funding round which saw the corporate venture capital arm of utility EnBW join existing investors eCAPITAL, Bayern Kapital, Target Partners and BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft.
“We are the first company in Germany to mass produce superconductors. And we also want to be number one in market penetration. Thanks to our investors we continue to have a reliable financial basis for this,” says Theva CEO Dr. Werner Prusseit. The previous financing round was just a year ago. Since then Theva has continuously improved its processes, and
Lorne Park Capital Partners has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase all of the outstanding securities of Crestridge Asset Management (Crestridge), an independent portfolio manager based in Toronto.
Crestridge provides discretionary investment management and wealth management services for individuals, trusts and foundations with clients across Canada. As of 31 May, 2017, Crestridge had approximately CAD120 million in assets under management.
“We are confident that we have found a new partner in Crestridge that shares similar perspectives on investment management and a commitment to delivering tailored investment solutions to affluent families,” says Robert Sewell, (pictured), Chief Executive Officer
Seedcoin, a subsidiary of Coinsilium Group, an accelerator that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, is to sell its entire holding of 2,133 shares in investee company SatoshiPay Ltd at the price of EUR340 per share for a total consideration in cash of EUR725,220 to Blue Star Capital Plc.
The deal represents an increase of 362.6 per cent on the price paid for the shares in 2015.
The disposal is conditional on Blue Star raising approximately GBP650,000 through a proposed placing, which will be used together with Blue Star’s existing cash resources to satisfy the
IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP1 million asset based lending facility to newly formed Ayrshire business, Confida FM.
Confida FM began in May 2017 after the purchase of an existing business, Sercon Support Services. With continued support from IGF throughout the MBO process, Confida’s management team was able to re-structure the company and make a fresh start, in addition to having working capital to fund the new venture.
IGF’s facility not only allows Confida to realise its ambitious plans to grow the business across Scotland and the rest of the UK, but also helps
The shareholders of Lazada will receive proceeds of more than a billion US dollars from the takeover of the South East Asian shopping portal by Chinese internet firm Alibaba.
The sellers, who include more than 20 existing shareholders such as Rocket Internet, Tesco, Kinnevik, Summit Partners and JP Morgan relied on Noerr’s advice during the transaction (which Lazada values at USD3.15 billion) similar to the investment in Alibaba a year ago.
The acquisition means that Alibaba will increase its stake in Lazada from 51 to 83 per cent. The sale results from the put-call agreement that was announced in
BGF has successfully exited its minority stake in North-East chemicals manufacturer Chemoxy International Ltd. The company has been acquired by a French based trade buyer, Novacap SAS, as it seeks to expand its Performance Chemicals division and geographical presence.
BGF invested GBP10 million into Chemoxy in February 2015 and, as a minority partner, has backed the company’s management team since then. BGF’s funding supported growth in Chemoxy at both its Middlesbrough and Billingham sites, which has included acquisition of new customers, expansion of technical capabilities and further development of its proprietary product range, most notably ChemoxyCare, an emollient in personal care
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