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finnCap Cavendish (Cavendish), part of financial advisory firm, finnCap Group, has advised the technology company, Smart Apprentices, on its sale to Advanced, the British software and services provider.
Founded in 2010, Smart Apprentices has developed a leading position in the recruitment, management and assessment of workplace apprentices across both workplace and classroom learning.
The acquisition will strengthen Advanced’s position in the further education, skills and learning sector which will prove to be critical as the UK undergoes one of the largest reforms of skills and education as it emerges from the pandemic.
The deal, which was led by Andrew
Macquarie Capital Principal Finance (Macquarie Capital) has aqcuired Wavenet Group Holdings Limited (Wavenet), a multi-award-winning provider of telecoms and technology solutions – serving thousands of small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises across the United Kingdom (UK).
Wavenet has built on a solid foundation for growth over the last five years, with a focus on future technologies and digital transformation that will drive the industry and its customers. The new partnership with Macquarie Capital will boost this growth potential, by providing both expertise and flexible growth capital. This will enable more investment in the people at Wavenet and provide a renewed
Legend Capital has closed the LC Healthcare Continued Fund I, having raised USD270 million for a secondary transaction that involves healthcare portfolios of two older vintage funds.
The fund provides liquidity and helped to enhance returns for existing investors while maximising the value of the fund’s portfolio with new follow-on capital.
The deal was co-led by accounts managed by Hamilton Lane and Coller Capital, with participation from other institutional investors. Lazard was the sole financial advisor and Gibson Dunn acted as the legal counsel for Legend Capital while Ropes & Gray acts as the legal counsel for Hamilton Lane and
Kirkland & Ellis has advised Tele Columbus AG on a capital increase of EUR475 million. The capital increase was registered with the commercial register of the Company on 12 May, 2021. On 14 May, 2021, the new shares were admitted to trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange.
Following a rights offering resolved on 17 April, 2021, a total of 146,109,887 new shares were issued. The majority of the new shares was subscribed by Kublai, the majority shareholder of the Company. The gross proceeds will be used in particular to achieve a sustainable capital structure of the Company and to further
Private capital platform iSTOX is rebranding as ADDX as it enters a phase of fast-paced growth. The digital securities exchange will facilitate more issuance deals – at least 20 this year, more than double the number of deals completed in 2020.
Among these issuance deals are new product lines, including private equity (such as pre-IPO unicorns), structured products, products that provide exposure to cryptocurrencies, as well as commercial papers. The new investment opportunities will accompany product lines rolled out in 2020 – such as hedge funds, private REITs and wholesale bonds – forming a more complete range of private market
StudentFinance.com, a fintech company building the technology and data infrastructure to enable education providers globally to offer Income Share Agreements (ISAs), has secured a USD5.3 million (EUR4.5 million) seed round co-led by Giant Ventures and Armilar Venture Partners, with the intention to expand its operation into the UK later this year.
Existing investors Mustard Seed Maze and Seedcamp, along with Sabadell Venture Capital, are also participating in the round, as well as a strong list of angel investors, which includes: Victoria van Lennep (founder of Lendable); Martin Villig (founder of Bolt); Ed Vaizey (the UK’s longest-serving Culture & Digital
Cube 19, a data analytics specialist that works with businesses in the recruitment sector, has secured a GBP1.75 million loan from the alternative lender BOOST&Co to support its international expansion following a strong period of growth.
The London-based SaaS company provides recruitment firms with dedicated data analytics software that can power their growth. Clients use dashboards that deliver critical insights into how their business is performing and how they can ensure maximum productivity, and the software is also able to identify further opportunities across the sector.
Cube 19 has a partner-led approach: by working alongside the customer relationship management provider
Cadman Capital Group, a privately owned, independent private equity firm specialising in real estate, has acquired a 3.87-acre residential development site, located in the Midlands.
The site, which is situated in the hamlet of Knaptoft on an area of historic importance, is surrounded by the open Leicestershire countryside and offers a small-scale residential development opportunity with scope for 13 individual homes of varying sizes. Whilst much of the site is cleared for the build, it is also home to the Grade ll Listed remains of Knaptoft Hall, along with some heritage farm buildings, which will be sympathetically retained to form
Enreach, a European provider of unified communications solutions (UCaaS), has formed four new partnerships via acquisitions – with the Finnish UCaaS market leader Benemen, Enreach expands its presence in Northern Europe and strengthens its product portfolio with leading cloud telephony and contact centre solutions with a particularly high compatibility with Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.
The acquisition of Netherlands-based Go2the.cloud (G2C) will enable Enreach’s partners and clients to gain simplified access to Microsoft Cloud Services. With UK-based Pace Telecom, Enreach continues the expansion of its UK client base; similarly, the acquisition of Netherlands-based Prewest allows Enreach to expand in its Dutch home
EyeSouth Partners (EyeSouth) has completed an affiliation with Retina Care Specialists (RCS), it’s fifth such deal in the state of Florida and twenty-fourth affiliation overall.
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