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DWF, a global legal business, has advised Waterland Private Equity on the investment in imc group, the UK-headquartered global healthcare communications company.The investment will see Waterland Private Equity become a significant majority stakeholder in imc (integrated medhealth communication group) with ambition to create a leading independent services provider in the global pharmaceutical communications and consulting outsourced services market.
Waterland will support imc to pursue an ambitious buy-and-build strategy with significant follow-on funding available to acquire high-quality pharmaceutical communications, digital and consulting agencies across the UK, North America and EMEA.
The investment will also be used to execute a series of
Red Door Capital Partners, an independent private equity firm founded in 2019 with the mission to allow real, break-through access for independent investors to the lucrative private equity market, is to begin rolling out investment opportunities to a vast network of individual accredited investors.Red Door secures partnerships with company founders seeking to build collaborative relationships, deploy strategic oversight, and implement investing governance for private funding projects. In many instances, Red Door will pre-position funds to monitor operations prior to its permanent financing, which helps to reduce investor risk and shorten exit horizons. Red Door is often able to invest side-by-side
Q&A with Franz Hoerhager, founder and head of Mezzanine Management, manager to the AMC funds which recently exited Zagreb-based contract research organisation Optimapharm.
Nordic Capital has agreed to acquire Max Matthiessen, a financial advisor focused on pensions, insurance and investment in the Nordics, from Willis Towers Watson.
Founded in 1889, Max Matthiessen has been active in the insurance sector for more than 130 years. Nordic Capital aims to develop the company’s customer offering and its next phase of growth and innovation.
“The company fits perfectly within Nordic Capital’s sector focus and strategy for financial services,” said Christian Frick, partner and head of financial services, Nordic Capital Advisors.
“Going forward, the joint focus will be on scaling Max Matthiessen’s operations and investing in organic
Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) has invested in integrated medhealth communication group (IMC) through a primary investment that will support ambitious plans to create a leading independent provider of global healthcare communications and consulting to the pharmaceutical industry.IMC Group is independently owned and has been committed to healthcare communications since 2006. IMC has offices in London, Cambridge (UK), Toronto, Boston and Cairo and a highly qualified employee base of 100 people. IMC provides healthcare communication and medical affairs support to over 50 pharmaceutical, biotech, vaccine, device and diagnostic companies globally, including eight of the 20 largest drug companies in the world such as AstraZeneca and Takeda. Five
Alternatives allocators, to both hedge fund and private equity style vehicles, have assets ready to deploy as standardisation of ESG standards occurs, according to Jim Neumann, CIO of Sussex Partners.
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Sherpa Capital has acquired a stake in Spanish company CityBike, which was created in 2014 by the Moventia Group and is one of the leaders in the European micromobility market, with a special focus on the operation of public bicycle systems.
Sherpa Capital’s investment in CityBike will further strength the company and accelerate even more rapidly the growth of its international business via the implementation of shared bicycle systems in new cities.
This is the third transaction from the Sherpa Capital Private Equity fund (the third vehicle of the firm after Sherpa Capital I and II), which held a
Horizon Capital has exited Connexas Group to AddSecure, a European provider of solutions for secure data and critical communications.
Connexas provides connected vehicle technology and fleet management solutions in the UK, EU, North America and Australia.
The company aims to empower fleets to become smarter, safer and more efficient using end-to-end technology solutions for delivery management, high definition camera systems and driving performance applications.
Connexas recently won mid-cap Technology Company of the Year at the 2019 UK Business Tech Awards. “Connexas has come a long way with the support of Horizon, evolving from a predominantly legacy hardware-based integrator to a
Invision has sold Vantage Education, a Swiss provider of higher education programmes, to a group of Swiss investors, but the company will continue to be led by the existing management team.
Vantage covers mostly higher and executive education across more than 60 programmes. The educational companies offer high quality education programs in business administration, sales, marketing, information management and tourism management at 13 locations throughout Switzerland.
Over the past seven years, Invision has taken Vantage through a series of consolidation deals, completing five acquisitions. “The unification of various education providers under the umbrella of Vantage proved to be the right strategy to
A Newcastle tech company, whose software allows businesses to create their own mobile apps, has raised GBP1.2m to further develop its product and expand its team.Nutshell Software has secured investment from two funds managed by Mercia – the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds and the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), which is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.
Nutshell’s software offers a simple way for businesses to create their own fully functional mobile apps in minutes – with no coding necessary. Launched in 2017, it is already being used by many public and private sector organisations including Network
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