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European private equity firm, Cinven, has completed its acquisition of CPA Global, a global provider of intellectual property (IP) management services and software.
The acquisition of CPA Global, headquartered in Jersey, Channel Islands, has received the required regulatory clearances and the approval of the Jersey courts, which sanctioned a new Scheme of Arrangement.
Cinven acquired CPA Global from its previous shareholders, including Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) and the founder shareholders (a number of patent attorneys in the UK and Australia) for an undisclosed consideration.
CPA Global, through its offices world-wide, supports many of the world’s best known corporations
Harbottle & Lewis has advised social media monitoring company, Brandwatch, on its USD6 million investment round led by Nauta Capital.
The funding will fast track Brandwatch’s plans to bring innovative products to market, expand internationally and bolster its sales and marketing teams.
Founded in 2007 by Giles Palmer, Brandwatch is based in Brighton, UK, with offices in New York and Germany. Since its launch in August 2007, Brandwatch has acquired more than 300 clients and several thousand users, including global brands and agencies such as HSBC, DDB, Ipsos and Mediacom.
“We are extremely pleased to be part of Brandwatch and to
The Securities and Exchange Commission has established comprehensive arrangements with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as part of a long-term strategy to improve the oversight of regulated entities that operate across national borders.
The two memoranda of understanding (MOUs) reached this month follow on a similar supervisory arrangement that the SEC concluded with the Quebec Autorité des marchés financiers and the Ontario Securities Commission in 2010 and expanded to include the Alberta Securities Commission and the British Columbia Securities Commission last September.
The SEC’s latest supervisory cooperation arrangements will enhance SEC
International law firm Eversheds has advised leading global private equity firm HIG European Capital Partners on its acquisition of Brand Addition Limited (together with its subsidiaries including those in Germany and Hong Kong) from 4imprint Group plc.
Brand Addition specialises in the design and manufacture of gift packaging and promotional health and beauty products, covering everything from design, product development, sourcing, supply-chain management, and co-packing.
4imprint Group are an international company providing promotional products, items and corporate gifts. The Eversheds team was led by partners Mark Spinner and Nigel Dale, assisted by senior associate Edward Waldron and solicitors Meghan
Bluewater Bio International has completed a GBP22.5 million financing round. The transaction was led by specialist Cleantech investors Ombu Group (Ombu) and Hermes GPE Environmental Innovation Fund LP (Hermes GPE), with GP Bullhound advising Bluewater Bio.
The board of Bluewater Bio believes that this transaction represents one of the largest growth capital finance rounds in the water sector over the last 12 months and reflects the Company’s recent commercial progress.
Stephen Brooke, CEO of Ombu Group, says: “Water technology is a core sector at Ombu and Bluewater Bio is the most exciting company we have seen in the field
Pinetree Capital Ltd has acquired ownership of 1,500,000 common shares and 750,000 common share purchase warrants of Mega Precious Metals Inc.
Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to acquire one additional common share at a price of USD0.85 until March 23, 2014. In the event that the Warrants are fully exercised, these holdings represent approximately 0.7% of the total issued and outstanding common shares of Mega as of 23 March, 2012, calculated on a partially diluted basis assuming the exercise of the Warrants only.
As a result of this transaction, Pinetree and its joint actors collectively held, as at 23
Enterome has had a first closing of a series A funding round, raising EUR 5 million. This funding follows a previous seed round that raised EUR 1.5 million from Seventure and INRA Transfert.
The series A round has brought in Seventure and Lundbeckfond Ventures, as new colead investors. Seventure is one of the most active European investors in venture capital investing in Life Sciences and Information and Communication Technologies. Lundbeckfond Ventures is a pure life science venture fund investing into companies in Europe and in the US.
Enetrome is a medicine company developing biomarkers for chronic and challenging medical conditions
HIG Europe, the European arm of private equity firm HIG Capital, has acquired Brand Addition, a European leader in the supply of promotional merchandising, from UK listed firm 4imprint, in a management buyout valued at GBP24 million.
Based in Manchester, Brand Addition is a market leader in the provision of promotional products to large corporates across Europe for use in their corporate marketing and consumer promotion campaigns. The business provides a full outsource service including product design, ethical sourcing, stock holding/management, international logistics and web creation/hosting. Customers include numerous Global Fortune 500 companies. The company employs 260 people across five offices in the
Energy Investors Funds (EIF) has completed the sale of the Watertown, NY-based Black River Generation plant to ReEnergy Holdings, LLC. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Black River Generation is a 55 MW coal-fired facility located on the Fort Drum U.S. Army Base in Watertown, NY. The project commenced commercial operations in 1988. EIF’s United States Power Fund, LP acquired the project in 2004. ReEnergy Holdings plans to convert the facility to a biomass power plant.
“Black River Generation has been a solid investment for our firm and investors,” says Robert Franson, Vice President at EIF. “ReEnergy is
Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) has expanded its US M&A and Capital & Debt Advisory business, which provides sector-specific advice on transaction strategies, buy- and sell-side M&A execution, and private capital raising.
The US M&A and Capital & Debt Advisory team helps corporations and private equity firms improve their competitive position through Ernst & Young LLP’s affiliated registered broker-dealer, Ernst & Young Capital Advisors.
"The transaction market has demanded advisors with a greater sector focus," says Richard M Jeanneret (pictured), Vice Chair, Transaction Advisory Services at Ernst & Young LLP. "Our US practice in M&A and Capital and
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