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InMotion Ventures, a venture capital business powered by Jaguar Land Rover, has completed seed investments in four exciting mobility and transportation startups.
Early stage businesses By Miles, Dovu, Wluper and Zeelo join the Seed Programme and will spend six months working from InMotion HQ in London.
Founded by James Blackham and Callum Rimmer, By Miles (formerly Just Miles) offers innovative pay-per-mile car insurance with a simple-to-use driving app. Rather than buying a traditional annual car insurance policy, By Miles customers sign up for a fixed monthly subscription and then pay on a flexible, per-journey basis. Transparent, real-time policies give customers more
International law firm Ropes & Gray has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on the USD5.3 billion consortium buyout of Visma, Europe’s largest ever software buyout.
ICG was part of a consortium of investors that bought stakes in the deal. Other investors included HgCapital, Cinven, GIC and Montagu, alongside Visma’s management team.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partner Helen Croke, with finance partner Malcolm Hitching leading on the debt aspects of the deal. Other members of the team included finance counsel Alex Robb and private equity associate Nicholas Matthew.
In May 2017, Ropes & Gray
CVC Credit Partners’ European Private Debt Business has provided a EUR50 million unitranche facility to Trimb Healthcare, to support its acquisition of the Pevaryl and Fungoral brands in certain European countries from Johnson & Johnson.
Trimb Healthcare, sponsored by lead investor Avista Capital since 2015, is a niche pharmaceutical company, focusing on the development, sales and marketing of branded over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and consumer healthcare products. Avista Capital is a healthcare specialist, with significant sector experience and 17 investments completed to date.
Neale Broadhead, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager in CVC Credit Partners’ direct lending business, says: “We are very
An affiliate of Sun European Partners is to sell NextPharma, a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), to funds advised by CapVest Partners (CapVest), subject to regulatory approval.
NextPharma is a market leader in the western European pharmaceutical CDMO space, serving a global blue-chip customer base, including seven of the top ten pharma companies. The company offers a broad range of specialised product types and therapeutic areas across multiple attractive niches. NextPharma has over 1,000 employees and operations in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.
NextPharma was acquired by an affiliate of Sun European Partners in 2011. Over the
Dyal Capital Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman Group, has acquired a strategic minority stake in private credit and special opportunities alternative investment manager, Atalaya Capital Management.
Dyal will become a passive, non-voting partner in Atalaya. All of the proceeds from the investment will be retained on Atalaya’s balance sheet to expand the Firm’s capabilities and increase the Firm’s investment alongside its investors.
Atalaya was founded in 2006 and today manages more than USD2.5 billion in assets under management across its Special Opportunities Fund and Asset Income Fund products as well as select other investment vehicles.
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Carey Olsen’s Guernsey funds team has advised ADM Capital Europe LLP, a London-private equity and investment advisory firm, on the launch of its global agribusiness investment fund, the Cibus Fund.
The Cibus fund held its first close of USD100 million on 2 May and is targeting a USD500 million final close in 2018. The fund will focus on mid-market investment opportunities in sustainable food processing and production companies, primarily across Europe and Australasia that look to provide for the growing demand for high value added foods.
It will have a secondary mandate to invest equity growth capital in parts
Legal & General is helping to finance a fleet of new Bombardier trains for the First MTR South Western Trains franchise.
The GBP100 million long term debt investment by LGIM Real Assets, on behalf of clients including Legal & General Retirement (LGR) is part of a total GBP1 billion commitment made from a group of institutional investors to Rock Rail.
This deal represents the largest single UK rolling stock deal for which all senior debt is provided by institutional investors. It is also Legal & General’s second UK rolling stock deal following the backing of a new fleet of
BlackRock is to acquire Cachematrix, a provider of financial technology which simplifies the cash management process for banks and their corporate clients in an open-architecture platform.
Cachematrix supports approximately USD200 billion in client assets through relationships with many of the world’s largest banks and asset managers.
Cachematrix enables financial institutions to provide corporate clients with a portal for allocating cash to a variety of money market funds and direct cash instruments. Corporate clients are also able to seamlessly analyse, perform compliance checks and generate detailed reports for their cash investments on the Cachematrix platform.
BlackRock is one of
Beenext, a global venture capital-focused fund has spun out from the Gordian Capital platform.
Since 2005, Singapore-based Gordian has provided a regulated, physical and operational infrastructure for institutional quality teams seeking to launch private equity, venture capital, real estate, private credit and hedge funds.
“Although we have many years of venture capital investment experience, we had limited experience in establishing a fund, tax matters and structuring as well as the operational and regulatory aspects of operating a fund. Gordian Capital was very helpful and handled all those activities allowing us to focus on investing and working with our investee
View, a specialist in dynamic glass, has completed a financing round of over USD200 million, including a USD70 million investment from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
“We are delighted to be supported by BlackRock, who recognizes View’s potential to transform the real estate industry,” says View CEO Rao Mulpuri. “View is now installed across 20 million square feet of buildings and continues to experience tremendous growth across commercial offices, healthcare, education, multi-family residential, and airports. This investment enables us to scale our operations to meet rapidly growing demand.”
View enables building owners to improve people’s comfort and productivity
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