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Livingstone has advised the shareholders of ABI, including management and private equity investor LGV Capital, on CBPE Capital’s acquisition of a majority stake from LGV Capital.
ABI is a manufacturer of caravan holiday homes which it manufactures in Beverley, East Yorkshire where it employs over 400 people. ABI is the second largest supplier into the UK market by volume and supplies all of the major holiday park groups, as well as smaller groups, independent parks and a number of dealerships in the UK market.
The Livingstone team previously advised ABI’s management team in 2011 when the company was sold
Avrio Capital has deployed CAD15M of capital from its third institutional late stage venture fund, Avrio Ventures Limited Partnership III.
Avrio's new portfolio investees include Intelia Technologies Inc. and Alasko Inc, both based in Montreal, QC and Cadcan Marketing & Sales Inc (operating as CheeCha Puffs), based in Calgary, Alberta.
"We are very pleased to be partnering with Intelia Technologies Inc, to develop the market for data analytics services to optimise production management across multiple animal husbandry applications. This investment opportunity is highly strategic, as it sits at the very intersection of animal health, and data analytics, two
Venture capital firm Rand Capital Corporation has made a follow-on investment of USD250,000 as part of a USD1.75 million financing round led by existing investor BroadOak Capital Partners in Empire Genomics, a molecular diagnostics company.
Empire Genomics will use the proceeds to continue growing its business through investments in sales and marketing, automation, and increasing scale of operations as well as the launching of additional proprietary molecular diagnostics.
Anthony Johnson, President and CEO of Empire Genomics, says: "We appreciate the participation of BroadOak and Rand in this recent round of financing. We intend to make additional investments in the talent
Hermes Investment Management’s infrastructure team has acquired an additional 17.1 per cent ownership stake in Southern Water on behalf of clients. This takes Hermes’ overall managed ownership interest to 21 per cent.
Following announcement of the sale of Future Fund’s stake earlier in the year, Hermes has worked collaboratively with multiple parties in order to ensure a positive transaction outcome. Southern Water is responsible for a region encompassing Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent and East and West Sussex, supplying water to over 2.4 million people and wastewater services to 4.6 million people. The company operates across the entire water
transcosmos has made an additional investment in Social Gear, a company that provides social media operational support, and now owns 100 per cent of the company.
transcosmos has been providing Social Gear with social media operation and advertising support in multi-languages in Japan and ASEAN countries since first signing a strategic alliance agreement with the company in June 2015. With making Social Gear a wholly owned subsidiary, transcosmos, together with Social Gear, will drive efforts on developing services for Facebook while sharing technology, people and know-how.
transcosmos continues to enhance its services that support client companies’ activities in sales &
The unlisted natural resources debt fundraising market has developed since the financial crisis, with 54 funds closing since 2010 raising a combined USD29 billion.
The most successful year of fundraising occurred in 2013 when 15 funds reached a final close, raising a combined USD11 billion; by comparison, five funds raised just USD0.5 billion in 2014, and nine funds closed in 2015 securing USD5.5 billion of investor capital. Since 2010, 79 per cent (USD23 billion) of investor commitments have gone to funds with a primary focus on energy; vehicles with a diversified approach saw the next highest amount of capital, raising
Stratajet has secured a major USD8 million round of additional investment to grow its booking platform, which provides travellers with real-time and accurate private jet prices.
This latest round of investment, led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from existing investors Playfair Capital and JamJar Investments, brings the total figure raised to date to USD14 million.
The funding has allowed Stratajet to invest in further developing Stratafleet – its intelligent quoting tool which is provided free of charge to aircraft operators – and will support the company’s vision to revolutionise private aviation by solving the industry’s problems of inefficiency and
Clearwater International Denmark has acted as financial advisor to the owners of StarCo in the divestment of major parts of their aftermarket business to German Bohnenkamp.
The StarCo Group has been family owned and expanding for more than 55 years. Today, StarCo has more than 700 colleagues, is represented throughout Europe and has an international manufacturing, assembly and distribution setup. The company delivers tyre and wheel solutions for a wide range of applications worldwide to manufacturers and aftermarket customers – from the smallest wheelbarrow tyre to the largest agricultural or industrial wheels. The StarCo Group had a turnover of more
Content activation platform Showpad has secured USD50 million in Series C funding led by Insight Venture Partners. Previous investors Dawn Capital and Hummingbird Ventures also participated in the new funding round.
The investment will be used to build on Showpad’s leadership position in the marketplace, accelerate the growth of its sales and marketing teams globally, and further enhance its platform.
The Series C investment comes on the heels of rapid expansion and customer growth for Showpad. The company has been more than doubling revenue for the last four years. With hundreds of customers worldwide, including Johnson & Johnson, GE,
Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd (MTSL), a provider of software solutions for online video advertising, telecommunications expense management and billing solutions, has completed a private placement of 648,475 ordinary shares, constituting approximately 7.5 per cent of the Company's outstanding ordinary shares, for an aggregate investment of approximately USD700,000.
The price paid per share of USD1.08 was equal to the closing price of an ordinary share on the NASDAQ Capital Market on Tuesday, 17 May, 2016. The private placement was approved by the Company's shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on 16 May, 2016. The proceeds from the private
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