Managers
iM Square, a European investment and development platform dedicated to asset management, has secured a new financing commitment from Eurazeo, one of its founding shareholders.
Eurazeo is committed to support iM Square’s investments over the next few years and is expected to become its reference shareholder. Other founding shareholder Le Groupe Dassault/La Maison will also participate.
This new commitment will enable iM Square to acquire three to six additional participations in entrepreneurial active asset managers with USD1 to 20 billion of AUM, high growth potential and complementary strategies, such as alternative management. Most of the targeted asset managers are
Metro Bank has provided the highly prestigious Z Hotels with GBP18 million of funding. The capital will be used by the company to acquire a five-story office building just off Trafalgar Square in central London.
Branded as ‘The Urbanite Stay’, Z Hotels offers luxury hotel accommodation in prime city locations across London, Liverpool and Glasgow, and has plans to open a further two hotels in central London and Bath later this year.
Mark Stokes, Managing Director Commercial Banking at Metro Bank, says: “We’re delighted that we could provide Z Hotels with a swift and custom-made funding solution. We look
Compass Group Equity Partners has acquired Logic PD, a designer and developer of embedded and connected devices serving the aerospace, defence, control and automation, Internet of Things (IoT), and medical/life sciences markets.
Established in 1960, Logic has evolved into a leading provider of electronics manufacturing services offering a complete suite of product lifecycle management solutions. With integrated capabilities in research, design, engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and aftermarket services, Logic helps its clients identify opportunities, reduce risk, and control costs to deliver the next generation of innovative products into the world’s most demanding markets. Logic has manufacturing facilities in Eden Prairie,
Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), a specialist private equity fund manager, have backed an investment into Ncam Technologies Limited, a provider of innovative and leading Augmented Reality solutions for the entertainment industries.
YFM’s investment comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies VCT plc and British Smaller Companies VCT2 plc alongside the YFM Equity Partners 2015 Co-Investment LP.
Ncam was founded in 2012 by Nic Hatch (CEO), Sam Boivin (CTO) and Brice Michoud (Senior R&D Engineer) to develop a unique augmented reality solution which combines patented camera tracking hardware that fuses data from multiple
Mid Atlantic Capital Group, a provider of custody, brokerage, trade processing, and financial services technology is to partner with Parthenon Capital Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm, and Waterfall Asset Management, an alternative asset manager.
The transaction, which will not be consummated until applicable regulatory approvals (including an approval from South Dakota Division of Banking) are obtained, will provide Mid Atlantic with an opportunity to leverage the investors’ experience and resources to accelerate the development of and investment in client-centric technology, products, services and people. The transaction will also position Mid Atlantic to grow through organic initiatives and opportunistic strategic
The Finance Durham Fund, established by Durham County Council and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has helped raise GBP850,000 for insurance technology start-up, Honcho Markets Ltd.
The Finance Durham Fund provided GBP150,000 of the total investment with CrowdCube investors providing the remaining GBP700,000. Funds raised will be used to complete the final build of the software and launch the product later in 2018, creating three new jobs based in Durham.
honcho’s software is an alternative to price comparison websites (PCWs), and aims to disrupt the market by providing consumers with a new way to buy insurance products reducing
New York-based private equity firm Delos Capital has acquired Sage Metals Limited, a manufacturer of specialty metal products serving the North American electrical, power utility, industrial, and drainage end markets.
Sage Metals was founded over 30 years ago and is based in Delhi, India.
Delos acquired Sage from its founders, Vinod K Agarwal and SP Agarwal, and partnered with one of the owners, R Krishnan, and a new US based management team in the transaction. Delos raised acquisition financing from Olympus Capital Asia Credit and SSG Capital Management.
“Delos is excited to partner with the Sage management team
ARQIS has advised Stuttgart-based BIMwelt Systems on its Series A financing round, led by BitStone Capital and Zech Group.
BIMwelt Systems is a specialist in the field of 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) – a planning method in which all those involved in the planning process can be integrated into the various projects and networked and thus access relevant component information. BIMwelt Systems is currently the only worldwide supplier that can create BIM content automatically, connect BIM software solutions directly, map sales and consulting on a database-based platform, and who already co-operates with well-known component manufacturers.
The ARQIS team,
GALA Kerzen, a leading manufacturer of candles backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has acquired a majority stake in the Berlin-based candle manufacturer JuwelKerze (JuwelKerze).
This follows GALA Kerzen’s recent acquisition of a majority stake in Indian manufacturer Ramesh Flowers.
Through these acquisitions, GALA Kerzen is positioning itself widely and developing significant synergies within a global network. The founders of JuwelKerze, Martin Werle and Marius Stolarski, will retain a shareholding in the company as well as receiving a significant interest in the GALA Kerzen group. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed and completion remains subject to the
Noerr has advised the Lendico Group, a specialist in business lending, on the first major takeover of a fintech company by a bank in Germany.
The buyer is ING Deutschland GmbH, the parent company of ING-DiBa AG. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
The Noerr team which advised on this transaction was headed by the Partner Hans Radau and the Senior Associate Armin Bartsch. Both have extensive expertise in advising fintech companies and have, besides Lendico, advised the online lending platforms Zencap and Spotcap and the Chicago fintech company Joinesty on its European market entry.
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