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Jet Environmental Systems, a provider of temperature control solutions for industrial and commercial buildings, and its sister company Jet AHU, which supplies and installs air handling units, have been acquired by Wozair.
Wozair Ltd has purchased 100 per cent of Jet Environmental Systems Ltd and Jet AHU Ltd shares.
Wozair is a privately owned international HVAC equipment manufacturer with a turnover of GBP39 million in 2015. Headquartered in the UK with operations in Europe, Singapore, Dubai, Korea, the US and Australia, it provides specialist solutions in a diverse range of industrial sectors.
In a letter to clients and
Private equity fund manager and enterprise investment scheme (EIS) specialist Calculus Capital has made a GBP2.5 million investment in diagnostics company Epistem via its EIS fund and venture capital trust (VCT) investment vehicles.
Calculus is the cornerstone investor in a GBP6.5 million equity fundraising undertaken by Epistem.
Epistem, an AIM-listed molecular diagnostics and biotechnology company, will use the investment to fund its next stage of growth, which includes developing low-cost, rapid and simple to use tests for diagnosing infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV via its Genedrive platform.
Epistem, which will be
Private equity firms Maven Capital Partners and YFM Equity Partners have backed the MBO of Indigo Telecom Group, acquiring the business from parent TTG-Global.
Maven and YFM have invested in partnership to provide a GBP12 million funding package, including additional funds to support a buy and build strategy to scale and diversify the Indigo group.
South Wales based Indigo designs, installs and maintains telecom networks across the UK and Europe, enabling customers such as Vodafone, Sky and BT to deliver fixed line, broadband, mobile and other data services to a wide variety of corporate, enterprise and consumer end users.
Marlin Equity Partners has held the first and final closing of Marlin Heritage Europe with EUR325 million of total capital commitments.
The Heritage Europe Fund was exclusively offered to existing investors in Marlin's lower middle market focused Heritage Fund platform and closed at its hard cap in just over two months while generating demand well in excess of its initial EUR200 million target.
The Heritage Europe Fund is a natural progression for Marlin following the firm's long history of investing in European businesses since 2006 and the establishment of a local European presence in January 2013, with the opening
The global venture capital investment market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 35.86 per cent between 2016 and 2020, according to a report from Research and Markets.
The report – Global Venture Capital Investment Market 2016-2020 – has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts.
A trend boosting market growth is the advanced and early seed capital/angel funding activities. There has been a continuous increase in the initial capital investment through the use of an angel investor, a crowdsourcing platform, and an early-stage venture capital funding.
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Following the UK’s referendum result in favour of leaving the EU, Heritage Financial Services says it is in a strong position to navigate the unchartered waters ahead.
With offices in the UK, Guernsey and Malta, Heritage is well positioned to continue to service European and non-European clients and it should be a case of business as usual.
Whilst it is too early to predict how the relationship between the UK and the EU will be redefined, Guernsey’s own relationship with the UK remains unchanged. Guernsey is and will continue to be outside the EU and third country provisions in
The De Agostini Group and Activa Capital are finalising the acquisition by Activa Capital of a majority position in Atlas For Men, alongside the existing management team.
De Agostini is a family-owned private group active worldwide, with activities in several business areas: publishing, media, gaming and communication, as well as the historic activities in multi-channel publishing and selling. In 1999, the group developed a new business in distance selling, Atlas For Men, led by Marc Delamarre.
In recent years, Atlas For Men has become a European multi-channel leader in the distance selling of outdoor clothing for men, with a
Minella Capital Management (MCM) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in WE Donoghue & Co (WEDCO), a Massachusetts-based registered investment adviser specialising in tactical strategies with over USD1.6 billion in client assets.
Founded in 1986, WEDCO is a pioneer in delivering tactical allocation strategies designed in an effort to generate sustainable income while preserving capital in all market cycles.
WEDCO's strategies are offered via separately managed accounts as well as through the Power Dividend Index Fund and the Power Income Fund. The company's strategies primarily employ proprietary indices developed in conjunction with S-Networks Indexes and S&P Dow Jones
Perusa Partners Fund II has completed a majority investment in Senator GmbH & Co KGaA.
Senator, headquartered in Gross-Bieberau, had been owned by Merz-Pharma-Group since 1920.
In the previous financial year 2014/15 Senator generated nearly EUR50 million sales. The company currently employs around 350 people worldwide at the site in Gross-Bieberau, and at its foreign subsidiaries in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, China, and India.
Senator is one of the world’s leading suppliers of merchandising products and writing instruments. In addition to high quality ballpoint pens, the product range also includes mugs, writing cases, and accessories.
“Senator
Lendix has launched what it says is the first European Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) dedicated to lending to very small businesses and SMEs.
Lendix SME Loans fund II has received the agreement of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and is the first SME dedicated ELTIF authorised in Europe.
The new European regulation, which gave birth to the ELTIF format and which became applicable by the Member States on 9 December 2015, aims to promote long-term investment in the real economy and fits into the 2020 Capital Markets Union action plan.
"This new fund format, passportable everywhere
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