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European private investment management funds Capzanine and Creadev are joining forces with the management of Recommerce Group in a EUR50m fundraising.
This fundraising aims to support the company’s growth in countries where it already operates and its expansion into new territories as it capitalises on the rapidly growing market for reconditioned smartphones.
Recommerce Group, a key player in the circular economy and pioneer of smartphone reconditioning, was founded in 2009. It anticipates 30 per cent market growth potential in the coming years, and rapid expansion in 2018 with revenues of over EUR50m. Operating around the world, Recommerce works with
Castanea Partners has made a minority investment in The Townshend Group, the parent company of Brew Dr Kombucha.
The Townshend Group (TTG) was founded in 2006 by Matt Thomas, the Company’s CEO, and consists of three operating businesses: Brew Dr Kombucha, Townshend’s Tea Company, and Thomas & Sons Distillery. Brew Dr Kombucha produces a line of 100 per cent raw, organic kombucha in a variety of flavors distributed in stores in the US and Canada, including New Seasons, Whole Foods, Costco, Kroger, Safeway, Trader Joe’s, and Target. Townshend’s Tea Company is a tea retailer with nine locations in Oregon, Montana,
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has backed a management buyout of Dale Power Solutions (Dale), one of the UK’s leading providers of reliable secure power solutions with a GBP9 million investment.
Dale provides its customers with systems that ensure reliable secure power for applications where power is critical.
It serves organisations in many diverse sectors including telecoms, healthcare, oil & gas and utilities, as well as the power distribution network itself. New opportunities for Dale in areas such as energy storage, are expected to complement strong organic growth in its core business, in what is a rapidly developing energy market
An Ogier team led by Global Head of Corporate Simon Dinning is advising UBM on the recommended offer by Informa, which values UBM at GBP3.9 billion.
Ogier is advising on the Jersey law aspects of the proposed deal, working with lead counsel Linklaters. Dinning is being assisted by managing associate Alexander Curry, senior associate Saraid Taylor and associate Chloe Watson-Hill.
UBM is a long-standing client of Ogier and the deal, which comprises share and cash components, will be effected by way of a scheme of arrangement in Jersey.
Dinning says: “We are delighted to, once again, represent UBM
Calculus Capital, an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT), have invested GBP3 million in Open Energy Market, an online platform that helps companies secure the best deal with energy suppliers.
Businesses provide details of their usage for all major suppliers to submit bids for the contracts through a live reverse auction process.
Dairy Crest, EasyJet, Southampton Football Club and London Business School are among more than 200 businesses and organisations that have used the Open Energy Market platform to find the most attractive contracts with suppliers.
Alexandra Lindsay, Investment Director of Calculus Capital, says: “The
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched two new private debt strategies; European Infra Debt and European Real Estate Debt. The launches are BNPP AM’s first within infrastructure debt and commercial real estate debt.
European Infra Debt invests in senior secured loans in Europe across sectors including transport, social infrastructure, telecoms, renewable energy, conventional energy and utilities. European Real Estate Debt targets a portfolio of senior secured loans in commercial real estate across the whole European market, including offices, retails, logistics, hotels, operating assets and non-standard assets.
Asset sourcing for both strategies is based on a distinctive open
Battery Ventures has closed two new funds worth a combined USD1.25 billion. Battery Ventures XII is an USD800 million fund, while Battery Ventures XII Side Fund is a companion vehicle capitalised at USD450 million to fund larger growth and private-equity investments.
Through these funds, Battery will continue its strategy of building disruptive businesses of all sizes across the technology landscape. Battery has carved out a niche by investing across all investment stages, ranging from seed- and early-stage deals to majority-ownership transactions exceeding USD100 million.
Investments in the new funds will focus broadly on sectors including business software; enterprise-IT infrastructure,
Manchester & Hong Kong based Isher Capital, a private equity firm focused on the contact centre industry, is on the acquisition trail with a GBP20 million warchest.
The firm, which includes in its portfolio alldayPA, myalldayPA and ADP Call Centres amongst others, is aiming to drive revenue from its contact centre businesses from GBP30 million to GBP100 million. This will be completed by creating a network of eight to 10 contact centres spread nationwide; safeguarding jobs and growing the headcount of the portfolio companies from the current 500 to 2,000.
Led by group CEO Reuben Singh, the aim of
International law firm Taylor Wessing has advised Inflexion Private Equity on its backing of the management buyout of leading Dutch IT outsourcing training business Calco Group BV.
The cross-border deal brought together the private equity teams from Taylor Wessing UK and Taylor Wessing Netherlands. The firm’s UK team was led by partner James Goold with senior counsel Matt Harrison and associate Catherine Williams, while the Dutch team was led by partners Edwin de Rooij, Evert-Jan Osnabrugge and Elmar Dijkstra with associate Willem Thijssen.
Goold says: “This deal is another example of Taylor Wessing’s close relationship with Inflexion and the Taylor
NanoFlex Limited, an early stage sensor design company, has secured GBP250,000 of funding from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).
The fund is delivered by MSIF working with Maven Capital Partners in the Liverpool City Region. NanoFlex is a sensor design company that has developed a patented diagnostic sensor technology.
The business is based at Sci-tech Daresbury, and will be using the funding to explore new business opportunities for the technology to develop a pipeline of products. The technology is based on nanoscale electrodes that are capable of measuring a range of
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