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LRI Group, an independent investment services company, has appointed Bastian Dittrich as Global Head of Business Development Real Assets, to support the growth of the Real Assets team alongside the wider LRI Group business.
Dittrich’s newly created role will help to strengthen the positioning and increase the footprint of LRI Group in the real assets sector. He will be responsible for acquiring new clients specifically focused on real estate, private equity and infrastructure projects.
Dittrich has 20 years’ experience in consulting institutional investors and joins LRI Group from LC Germany GmbH, where he was Managing Director and Executive Director
Investing in the UK’s innovative life sciences and biotech sector just became more accessible to a wide spectrum of investors, with the launch Capital Cell, Europe’s first dedicated Life Sciences crowdfunding platform.
Capital Cell has formally ‘opened to investors’ with the first four investment opportunities now live on the platform. These opportunities include a company developing alternatives to antibiotics and an equine health company.
Capital Cell works with companies whose technology is based on biology or healthcare to secure the investment they need to progress their innovative, potentially life-changing ideas. Capital Cell’s model is to support early stage companies,
FFL, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, has completed an investment in Bacharach Holding Corp, a manufacturer of refrigerant gas leak detection and monitoring instruments and combustion and emissions analysers.
Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Bacharach designs and manufactures gas test and measurement (T&M) instrumentation for commercial refrigeration and HVAC equipment, and also develops performance management software for its monitoring products. Founded in 1909, the company’s T&M products are aimed at helping customers – original equipment manufacturers, supermarkets, contractors, building managers, hospitality, military operations, and industrial manufacturing businesses –
Online discretionary wealth manager Netwealth Investments Limited, has completed a second round of capital subscription, raising and additional GBP10.02 million.
Some 13 new investors joined the 28 angels who provided initial capital of GBP6.57 million pre-launch, resulting in total funds raised to date of GBP16.6 million.
Charlotte Ransom, Chief Executive and co-founder of Netwealth, says: “We are delighted that the vast majority of our existing shareholders are backing us in this second round, having experienced the business rollout over the last 18 months. We are also excited to have thirteen new shareholders who all share our vision of how
Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) in conjunction with existing management, has invested in Cartegraph Systems, a provider of SaaS-based asset management solutions to local governments.
CEO Jake Schneider and the Cartegraph management team will continue to lead the growth of the Company moving forward. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in Dubuque, IA, Cartegraph devotes itself to cities, counties, and government agencies seeking to be more effective, efficient, and productive in their daily operations. The Company builds software that empowers users to capture infrastructure asset data, analyze it, and use it to prepare for the future.
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IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP2.75million asset based lending facility to Dundee-headquartered engineering firm, Pryme Group.
Pryme Group sought a flexible financier to support its growing order book and expansion plans, particularly in the aerospace and defence industries. IGF’s facility also provides Pryme Group with a greater level of working capital flexibility.
The Group was formed to provide high quality, integrated manufacturing solutions through bringing together a complementary group of established engineering, testing and manufacturing companies. Collectively, Pryme Group has over 100 years’ experience in providing solutions to a broad range of industries across the
Barings served as co-documentation agent and participated in providing a senior secured credit facility to support Lindsay Goldberg’s investment in Golden West Packaging Group, a holding company created earlier this year for investments in the packaging industry.
The financing facilitated Golden West Packaging’s acquisition of four independent packaging companies and a co-owned captive sheet feeder to create a leading West Coast mill-independent system that provides custom packaging to a diversified customer base with an emphasis on the wine, food, produce and e-commerce markets.
“Golden West Packaging has created a compelling value proposition with its ability to offer a wide
BEX Capital, a secondary investor in private equity fund of funds, has held the final close of BEX Fund II, with total commitments of EUR120 million.
The fund was heavily oversubscribed with fundraising completed in under nine months. At the time of its final close, the fund was already close to 25 per cent invested.
As with its first fund, BEX Capital’s new fund will focus exclusively on the acquisition of positions in private equity fund of funds and secondary funds, with a strong bias towards mature markets and assets. The fund will make individual investments ranging from EUR1
CVC Capital Partners’ CVC Fund VI has agreed to acquire Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd’s (Teva) international (non-US), women’s health assets. The transaction covers products sold in over 50 countries globally, for a cash value of USD703 million.
Headquartered in Israel, Teva is one of the world’s largest generic medicines producers, leveraging its portfolio of more than 1,800 molecules to produce a wide range of generic products. The acquired portfolio consists of over 20 specialty women’s health products, which span various life stages, ranging from contraception, fertility, menopause and osteoporosis, and includes brands such as Zoely, Seasonique, Leeloo, Ovaleap, Colpotrophine and
Private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) has continued its recent string of new investments backing an innovative provider of specialist IT Services with a GBP4m equity investment, to support continued growth and expansion.
GBP16 million turnover London based Sparta Global operates the Sparta Training Academy, a growing IT trainer and provider of IT services. The firm’s clients include private sector firms and government clients, including Channel 4, Three Mobile, and the Ministry of Justice. The Sparta Academy model up-skills new IT graduates with intensive in-house training, which enables Sparta Global to provide blue-chip clients with homegrown, high-calibre IT Consultants,
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