Allocations
Odore, a beauty tech start-up working with global brands including Guerlain, Clive Christian and L’Oréal has raised USD830,000 to transform how cosmetics and beauty businesses market their products to consumers.
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a USD25 million growth equity investment in Basis Technologies, a specialist provider of DevOps and test automation software for SAP systems.
Organisations across the world use Basis Technologies’ DevOps technology to support the transition from legacy on premise SAP software to modern cloud-hosted SAP systems, and to increase agility through fast, effective delivery of business innovation. The company provides the only complete automated DevOps and testing platform engineered for SAP and serves global enterprise customers including BP, Procter & Gamble and Booking.com, helping them to accelerate time to market, adopt new development methods and
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has formed Aquila Air Capital, a specialty finance platform focused on commercial aerospace, in partnership with aerospace industry veteran Al Wood and investment firm Kepler Hill Capital.
Aquila Air Capital will have a broad mandate to purchase, finance, and lease, aircraft, engines and other aviation equipment. The company’s vision is to become a trusted partner to all players in the value chain, from buyers and sellers of assets to operators in need of creative and timely solutions for their critical business needs.
Al Wood joins Warburg Pincus as an
Alternative finance provider Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided a GBP21.73 million asset-based lending facility to support the growth of Orchard House Foods.
The deal follows Elaghmore’s acquisition of the fresh fruit business in January 2021, and will enable the business to invest in new equipment and ongoing product development.
Orchard House Foods is the UK’s specialist supplier of prepared fruit, fresh fruit drinks and chilled desserts to retailers across the UK and Ireland, including Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Greggs and Pret a Manger. Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, the business has remained profitable and is well
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact), a boutique infrastructure investment firm, has selected Prescient Fund Services Proprietary Limited (Prescient) as the Fund Administrator for its first infrastructure fund, the Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1.
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact) is a specialised infrastructure and impact investment management business. The new fund, Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1 aims to provide growth capital for South African focused midmarket infrastructure businesses, which own real assets that provide essential services and have value creation potential to enable the infrastructure of tomorrow. Infra Impact typically secures significant minority
Aras has secured a substantial growth investment from GI Partners, a private investment firm. This investment will further accelerate Aras’ low-code platform innovation, global expansion, and customer success.
Aras continues to disrupt the industrial software market with its low-code platform and suite of digital solutions spanning the product lifecycle from global product development and systems engineering to manufacturing, maintenance, and digital twins. Large enterprises such as Microsoft, Honda, and Airbus use Aras to rapidly digitalise mission critical processes and replace legacy systems faster.
“We believe the pace of digital transformation in manufacturing is just beginning to increase, and that
Drooms, Europe’s specialist provider of digital data rooms, enjoyed a successful year in 2020, with the number of users of asset management platform Drooms PORTFOLIO, rising 87 per cent versus the previous year.
As a result, the number of assets managed and transacted on Drooms surpassed 10,000 for the first time. Drooms also proved its resilience to crises during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Alexandre Grellier, Co-founder and CEO of Drooms, explains: “Our response from customers remains huge. This is down to the fact that in 2019 we invested in our services and increased staff levels in our
England’s North West is a prime destination for private equity and venture capital investment, and therefore a ‘key player’ in the UK’s growth-led recovery, a new report has found.
The report, produced by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), takes a closer look at investment in the North West of England and is the first in a series of publications that look at the benefits of private equity and venture capital backing on a region-by-region basis.
The benefits, both social and economic, are illustrated by the latest industry data – including how many businesses and sectors
Addleshaw Goddard has advised Terra Firma on the GBP110 million acquisition of Kier Living from leading UK construction and infrastructure company Kier Group.
The AG team was led by Corporate Partner Graham Cross alongside Real Estate Partners William Boss and Cathy Fearnhead.
The sale, due to be finalised over the coming weeks (subject to shareholder approval), will create a standalone UK house building business, to be re-branded Tilia Homes.
Kier Group announced its intention to sell its Living division, which employs around 450 people, in a strategic review in 2019. The business will continue to be run by
Pan-European asset manager AURELIUS has closed the AURELIUS European Opportunities IV. The Fund has secured EUR350 million of total commitments from a diverse group of top-tier institutional investors, including US and European university endowments, pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.
AURELIUS’ listed vehicle, AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8), will – in addition to its established lower mid-market investment program – co-invest up to EUR150 million alongside the Fund creating a total deal-making firepower of EUR 500 million for investments in the European mid-market.
Despite the Fund being significantly oversubscribed, AURELIUS effectively capped the Fund at
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