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Global law firm Paul Hastings has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on a comprehensive financing package to support its investment in Iver Holding AB alongside management and other shareholders.
Headquartered in Stockholm, the Iver group specialises in IT outsourcing and multi-cloud solutions.
The European leveraged finance team at Paul Hastings advised ICG on all aspects of the debt financing process, including the establishment of committed term and revolving facilities to support the ongoing growth and expansion of the Iver group.
A multi-disciplinary Paul Hastings team was led by London based finance partner Luke McDougall together with finance partner
Elvie, a global health and lifestyle brand developing products for women, has extended its Series C funding with a further GBP12.7 million (USD17.5 million) investment.
This investment – an extension to the initial Series C funding announced in July 2021 – takes Elvie’s total Series C to GBP70 million (USD97 million).
Founded in 2013 by CEO Tania Boler, Elvie brings together a team of world-class engineers, designers and business minds to develop extraordinary products that improve women’s lives – revolutionising categories which had been overlooked for many years, including breast pumps and pelvic floor health.
The Series C
Ogier has acted as British Virgin Islands counsel on NASDAQ-listed Kismet Acquisition One Corp’s merger with Cyprus-based Nexters Global Limited, in a SPAC business combination valuing Nexters at an enterprise value of USD1.9 billion.
The deal, initially signed at the end of January this year, closed on 27 August following the prior approval of Kismet’s shareholders.
The acquisition price was settled in a combination of shares in a new NASDAQ listed BVI company, Nexters Inc, which will hold the merged business, and an additional USD132 million in cash, which will effectively be reinvested in the business to develop new games
Private equity investment platform Moonfare has surpassed EUR1 billion assets under management, a critical milestone for the company. It took just under three years to raise the first EUR500 million and then only eight months to double that amount.
Global wealth management faces disruption as private markets open access for individual investors. Private markets investments – such as private equity and venture capital funds – are seeing massive inflows as investors are looking for yield and inflation protection.
Affluent individual investors are increasingly demanding access to private asset classes that were previously only accessible to institutions.
According to consulting firm
E&M Logistics (E&M), a US-based direct store delivery (DSD) distributors of ice cream, frozen and fresh foods, and beverages, has partnered with Mill Point Capital (Mill Point Capital), a middle-market private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in the business services, industrials, and IT services sectors in North America.
The Mill Point team employs an Executive Partner model and has extensive experience investing in transactions in the distribution and business services sectors. For the E&M transaction, Jim Schubauer, an industry veteran with over 30 years of operating and management experience, will serve as Mill Point’s Executive Partner. Previously, Jim Schubauer
ILC Therapeutics, a UK-based biotechnology company and pioneer in the discovery and development of a ground-breaking new class of interferon drugs, has completed a GBP3.5 million pre-IPO funding round.
Investors include Los Angeles-based lawyer and investor, Robert Kopple; St Andrews-based Eos Angel Investment Syndicate; Scottish Enterprise; ILCT management.
Chairman Peter Bains says: “We are very pleased to complete this important funding round and to strengthen the Board with the appointment of Robert Kopple, Professor David Harrison and Chris Brinsmead. With this funding in place, ILCT is now well positioned to strengthen its novel technology platform and to advance its lead
Green entrepreneur Jo Bamford has joined forces with multi-family office Vedra Partners to launch HYCAP, a hydrogen investment fund which has set its sights on raising GBP1 billion.
contextflow, a provider of artificial intelligence for medical image analysis, has raised EUR6.7 million in a Series A funding round.
A second closing included an additional EUR2 million from new co-investor Peak Pride Management GmbH, HPH (Hans Peter Haselsteiner) Start-up Unit and current investor APEX Ventures with its “APEX Best in Class” fund. A first closing was led by B&C Innovation Investments GmbH (BCII) and included participation from new co-investor TTIP Beteiligungs GmbH and current investors APEX Ventures, Crista Galli Ventures, IST cube, Nina Capital and Novacapital.
The closing represents one of the largest Series A healthtech investments in Europe
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Jersey have advised European mid-market private equity firm Capvis on the disposal of the remaining portfolio of Capvis Equity III to a new Capvis-managed continuation structure.
The transaction was co-led by Committed Advisors SAS and Eurazeo IM, with the continuation vehicle providing time and additional capital for the exit of the existing portfolio companies, hessnatur, arena and Kaffee Partner.
Hessnatur is a German eco-fashion company with a focus on sustainability and a rapidly growing e-commerce business, arena is a global producer of swimwear and equipment for competitive swimmers and enthusiasts, and
Aurelia, the startup dubbed “IFTTT for financial admin” because it helps businesses automate tasks across third-party financial apps and services on a single platform – has raised USD3 million in seed funding from Blossom Capital and angel investors including Guillaume Pousaz through his Zinal Growth investment vehicle and Erez Mathan (ex-COO and CRO at GoCardless).
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