Ingenio, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, and the owner of North America’s largest online marketplace and media platform focused on spiritual and emotional wellness, has acquired its largest European peer, adviqo Group. The transaction creates a global leader in this fast-growing segment of the media and technology sector, combining Ingenio’s 12 brands, which include Keen.com, Purple Garden, Horoscope.com and Astrology.com, with adviqo’s 19 brands, which feature Questico, Horoskop.de, and Kang.   Ingenio owns and operates one of the world’s largest astrology media companies, reaching over 20 million people monthly. adviqo reaches over 36 million households through its TV broadcasts,

TowerBrook Capital Partners (TowerBrook), a London and New York-based international investment firm, is to acquire Premium Credit Limited from Cinven. Premium Credit is a provider of premium finance for commercial and retail insurance products, as well as other specialist lending solutions. The company has driven consistent growth through the development of a sophisticated technology platform and expansion into new product areas, building on Premium Credit’s core capabilities.   TowerBrook is an experienced investor within the financial services sector, with highly relevant expertise across fintech, insurance and specialty finance companies. Current investments in the sector include the AA Ltd, Access Financial,

Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specialising in infrastructure and real assets, is to make a €1.0 billion investment in Inspired Education Group (Inspired), a global group of premium schools.

Engimmune Therapeutics AG (Engimmune), a Swiss biotech company developing novel T-cell receptor (TCR)-based therapeutics, has completed a CHF15.5 million (EUR15.2m) seed financing round, co-led by Pureos Bioventures and Novo Holdings. Engimmune is a platform company using cutting-edge technologies to engineer highly potent and specific TCR-based therapies for cancer treatment. By combining genome editing, functional screening, deep sequencing and machine learning, Engimmune addresses major efficacy and safety challenges that currently limit the full potential of TCR-T cell and soluble TCR therapies. Engimmune’s lead products are focused on oncology, with potential to expand to autoimmune diseases in the future.   Engimmune is

Wheel and tyre safety business Wheely Safe Ltd (WSL), based in Burntwood, Staffordshire, has secured a £500,000 investment from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven). Wheely Safe Ltd, which helps to prevent wheel loss and tyre underinflation, will use the funding to grow its national presence and scale up the business. Its key products protect lorries and large commercial vehicles from wheel loss, which is a major safety problem in the UK, where approximately 150 to 400 wheel-detachments occur annually.    Wheely Safe offers services to its commercial clients with tyre pressure

abrdn has provided a £38 million debt facility to Dalmore Capital’s 2012 vintage fund – (Dalmore Capital Fund LP – DCF). Dalmore Capital is a UK Public Private Partnership (PPP) investor.  The financing is expected to provide abrdn’s clients with reliable, fixed rate payments under a long-term fully amortising structure. abrdn’s investment participants included Phoenix Group, a longstanding funding partner to abrdn, and abrdn’s Multi Sector Private Credit Fund.

Tempus Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of Burkhan World Investments (Burkhan), has agreed terms to lead an institutional investment round into GMEX Group Limited (GMEX),  a specialist in digital business and technology solutions for capital markets players, exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure.

Olsam Group (Olsam), a company that acquires and scales category leading e-commerce businesses, has completed the acquisition of MarketFleet, a US-based incubator and aggregator of e-commerce brands. This is the second “aggregation of aggregators” by Olsam – the first being Flywheel Commerce in November 2021.  MarketFleet was founded in 2015, by a group of ecommerce experts including serial entrepreneur Chris Friedland, with the thesis around creating brands in markets where customers were being overcharged. With a focus on outdoors categories, MarketFleet has 11 brands that will be combined with Olsam, alongside its entire operational team who collectively bring on an

Investor services provider IQ-EQ has competed the acquisition of Irish fund management business Davy Global Fund Management (DGFM) following regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Ireland. Effective immediately the legacy DGFM business will operate as IQ-EQ Fund Management (Ireland) Limited a fund management company that helps global asset managers to establish and operate UCITS and AIF structures in Europe.   The newly combined business will offer fund management and portfolio management services, fund administration and corporate dministration services from its offices in Dublin and Shannon where it employs a team of 130-plus people, part of a total employee base

Private equity firm Winch & Co, which has its sights set on adding five logistics business to its increasing portfolio, has completed the acquisition of a North East freight operator and its 250,000 square foot industrial estate. The purchase of Dedicated Transport Solutions (DTS), which operates a road transport fleet from its base in Cramlington, County Durham, comes on the back of Winch & Co’s purchase of Eclipse Distribution Solutions, a £4 million transport business based in Loughborough.   Winch & Co was founded by South Yorkshire entrepreneur Nathan Winch, who sold his first business in 2017. The business, which