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Italmatch Chemicals, a global speciality chemical group focussed on the production and marketing of performance additives for water & process treatment, oil & gas, industrial lubricants and plastics, is to acquire BWA Water Additives, a global provider of sustainable water management solutions for the oil & gas, industrial water treatment and desalination industries.
This combination of two highly complementary companies allows the development of strategic, commercial and industrial synergies, consistent with the aim of expanding and broadening Italmatch Chemicals’ current production and marketing capabilities for water management chemicals. BWA Water Additives, having more than 40 years’ experience in the marketing
EQT has held the final closing of its second European direct lending fund, EQT Mid-Market Credit II (the fund) with commitments equivalent to EUR2.3 billion of available capital, including anticipated leverage.
Since the launch in 2008, the EQT Credit platform has raised over EUR6 billion and invested over EUR5.1 billion in over 170 companies.
The fund will continue EQT Credit’s strategy of providing financing solutions to European mid-market companies, with a focus on high-quality performing businesses with defensive characteristics. Over 30 per cent of the Fund has already been committed in 12 investments, including recent financings for Medifox, Dukes
Vesta, a new online marketplace for buying and selling rental property, has opened its latest equity crowdfunding round to new investors through leading European platform Seedrs.
Vesta is led by an impressive team including Chairman Bob Wigley, also Chairman of UK Finance, and CEO Russell Gould, who previously held senior roles in several successful scaled digital businesses.
The GBP750,000 fundraise will allow Vesta to further build and raise awareness of its unique online marketplace, which allows landlords to buy and sell residential investment property with tenants in place. This approach eliminates void periods (and removes uncertainty such as estimating
Two investment management platform firms have formed a partnership to offer a one-stop hosting solution to their international client base of hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds.
Laven Partners will provide UK Appointed Representative and AIFM solutions as well as its unique and world-leading compliance technology monitoring solutions. Fuchs Asset Management meanhwile, an established management company in Luxembourg covering UCITS AIFMD and MIFID solutions, will provide an umbrella to suit every client’s needs. Laven Partners has offices in London and New York. Fuchs Asset Management has offices in Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland.
The partnership will give Laven’s
Metropolitan Partners Group Management (Metropolitan), a direct-lending firm that provide senior-secured, short-term capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the US, has raised USD172 million, including co-investment rights, for its fifth and largest direct lending – Metropolitan Partners Fund V.
Fund V invests in US non-sponsored companies in the lower middle market with revenues under USD100 million that have not yet received institutional investor capital, are going through a period of growth and require additional capital in order to achieve scale.
“We are pleased to welcome new investors to Fund V and are thankful for the opportunity to continue
A consortium of growth-oriented private equity investors led by CX Partners Fund 2 Limited has acquired a significant equity ownership in Veeda Clinical Research Private Limited.
The investors will make additional investments in the company over a period of time to fund the growth requirements of the company.
The Board of Directors of the company will be reconstituted to have representatives from the incoming investors. Apurva Shah and Binoy Gardi, the promoters, will continue on the Board of the company and lead the management team.
Veeda is the largest independent Clinical Research Organisation in India established in 2004
OnliFunds, a global venture fund, has launched its first investment fund focussed on blockchain companies within Protect Pharmaceutical’s OnliChain Ecosystem.
PRTT has announced that the fund launch will be this week. The fund will be led by its joint venture partners AES, Inc and OnliFunds LLC headquartered in Utah. AES/OnliFunds will be a USD250 million fund, which would make it one of the region’s largest funds of its kind, and is supported by ViolaLux, a 5 billion asset-backed Luxembourg-based fund.
Erick Mosteller will lead the fund for AES/OnliFund LLC. Mosteller has spent the last five years working very closely
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with USD35 billion of assets under management, has provided a senior secured term loan and a revolving credit facility to Permira, the global private equity firm, for its acquisition of Jayhawk Fine Chemicals (Jayhawk).
Adams Street served as sole lead arranger and administrative agent for the transaction.
Jayhawk, based in Galena, Kansas, is one of the leading fine chemicals companies in the US. The company is a custom manufacturer of specialty chemicals used in various end markets, including pharmaceutical, animal health, agriculture, and consumer electronics. It provides outsourced manufacturing solutions
Funding Circle UK, a small business loans platform, and Waterfall Asset Management (Waterfall), an institutional asset manager focussed on structured credit, have entered into a strategic partnership to support the growth of UK small businesses.
Under the terms of the agreement, Waterfall will invest in GBP1 billion of loans originated through Funding Circle’s UK platform over a two-year period. Waterfall’s investment will be partially financed by Deutsche Bank.


This significant investment will support the growth of approximately 14,000 small businesses, creating and sustaining thousands of new jobs across the UK. Waterfall joins a diverse group of investors lending to small
Cross River, a provider of banking services for financial technology companies, has completed a funding round of approximately USD100 million, led by a USD75 million equity investment from KKR.
KKR is joined in the round by new investors, CreditEase and Lion Tree Partners, and by returning investors Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Ribbit Capital.
In addition to traditional banking, Cross River has developed partnerships with financial technology companies to build fully compliant and integrated products for the marketplace lending and payment processing arenas. Current clients consist of leading technology brands, start-ups and financial services firms disrupting global finance including
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