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The number of acquisitions made by private equity backed businesses in the UK hit record levels in the first quarter of 2021, with 168 transactions completed in just three months, according to Rickitt Mitchell’s Buy and Build Barometer.
The latest analysis from the corporate finance firm, conducted in partnership with Experian Market iQ, reveals an 85 per cent rise in the figures seen in the corresponding quarter last year. Q1 2020 saw 91 deals completed, prior to the first Covid-19 lockdown, with the latest figures nearly triple the 57 deals in Q1 2019.
On a local level, the majority of
Raymond James Financial, Inc has reached an agreement to acquire Cebile Capital, a private fund placement agent and secondary market advisor to private equity (PE) firms. The transaction is subject to certain regulatory and other closing conditions.
The addition of Cebile Capital to the firm’s Investment Banking division deepens relationships with the private equity community and expands the related service offerings to include fund placements, general partner (GP)-led secondaries capabilities and limited partner (LP)-led secondaries advisory, a rapidly expanding market. Based in London and New York City, Cebile will operate as a new business unit within Investment Banking, and
MacroFab has received USD15 million in new funding. The round was led by Edison Partners, with prior investors including ATX Venture Partners participating. Altium Limited, a leader in the electronics design software space, joined the round as a strategic investor aligned with the MacroFab mission of digitising electronics production from earliest design stages to prototype development and commercial production.
The investment follows a strong record of growth driven by adoption of digital manufacturing by production scale customers in industrial, IoT and energy sectors. The USD15 million growth round allows the company to accelerate expansion in North America, including increased investment
Getty Images has led a USD16 million Series B funding round in Promo.com, the video creation platform for businesses, building upon the existing strategic partnership with the company. The fundraise also included debt financing from Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (UMTB-Tech).
Promo.com helps businesses easily meet the video demands of the online world where 86 per cent of businesses currently use video as a marketing tool.
The investment will accelerate the next stage of Promo.com’s growth as an end-to-end video content creation platform across ideation, creation, publishing and analytics. Promo.com will use the funds to accelerate its global expansion and launch new
CentroMotion, a designer and manufacturer of highly engineered components and systems for the industrial and transportation markets, is to acquire Carlisle Brake & Friction (CBF), a global manufacturer of friction materials and mechatronic solutions for off highway brake and transmission products, from Carlisle Companies Incorporated.
CBF will join CentroMotion’s growing portfolio of highly respected global brands, currently comprised of CrossControl, Elliott Manufacturing, Gits Manufacturing, maximatecc, Power-Packer and Weasler Engineering. CentroMotion is headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin with approximately 2,000 employees serving customers across 50 countries. Founded in 1920, CBF is headquartered in Medina, Ohio with approximately 1,350 employees serving customers across
CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SME, has invested in Xenocs, a French deep tech company, through its new Growth Tech strategy.
Founded in 2000, Xenocs is a spin-off from the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL). The company operates on the nanoscale material characterisation market through the development and production of SAXS — Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering — instruments and software. It has made important technological advances in X-ray optics, as well as in data collection, processing and analysis software. This progress allows many industrial sectors to better optimize R&D, fabrication processes and control product quality. For
An investor group led by Swander Pace Capital (SPC), a private equity firm specialising in consumer products’ companies, is to acquire Mighty Spark Food Company (Mighty Spark), an all-natural protein brand ‘on a mission to impact food insecurity’.
In conjunction with the strategic partnership announcement, Mighty Spark has also the announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Sean Reid, who brings over 30 years of industry experience and most recently served as Executive Vice President of Sales at Jack Link’s and Chief Consumer Officer at Hillshire Brands.
“I am excited to welcome my new partners and a
The Boundary, an architectural visualisation (ArchVis) studio pioneering the use of digital technologies to represent the built environment, has attracted a GBP8.2 million investment from Mobeus, with further funding committed to support an existing acquisition pipeline.
The Boundary’s mission is to evoke emotion through imagery. Using proprietary technology and IP, The Boundary creates virtual reality (VR) experiences, short films, animations, and photo-realistic imagery to bring plans to life for architects and property developers.
Founded in 2014, The Boundary has rapidly gained an international reputation as a leading ArchVis studio, working with world-renowned architects including Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, and Foster
Crypto insurance company Evertas has raised nearly USD5.8 million in seed funding.
The funding round was led by Morgan Creek Digital, CMT, HashKey, Wave Partners, RenGen, 4RC, Centrality, Plug ‘n Play, Vy Capital, and a number of individual investors including James Slazas (CEO of VaultLink), Tyler Ward (Founder of BarnBridge), Quinn Abrahams (Partner of D64), Shy Datika (Founder & President of INX), and Sandra Ro (CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council and former Head of Digitisation at CME Group).
Evertas, which has developed a comprehensive underwriting framework for crypto (including blockchain/DLT systems) and the only full lifecycle insurance product for
Conquest is an alternative asset management firm, invested in long-term sustainable value stemming from European infrastructure and energy transition real assets.
Conquest has been approved by the French regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers, as an authorised AIFM and announces the launch of its second European infrastructure fund, Conquest Sustainable Infrastructure II.
Tailored for institutional investors, Conquest Sustainable Infrastructure II invests in equity with a majority position in core energy transition infrastructure assets at an advanced stage of development, with long-term cash flows and an attractive risk-adjusted return combined with an annual cash yield as soon as year three. The
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