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Monroe Capital has acted as co-syndication agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support Argyle Executive Forum’s (Argyle) acquisition of Innovation Enterprise. Argyle is an existing portfolio company of the Wicks Group.
Based in New York City and founded in 2004, Argyle is a provider of high-touch engagement events for Fortune 500 C-level executives. The company hosts more than 150 full-day forums, private dinners, virtual conferences, think tanks and roundtable discussions annually for its selective executive membership in the United States and Canada.
Innovation Enterprise is a leading producer of engagement events and marketing services. The acquisition
Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), the company behind the Reactive Platform that includes the Akka, Play and Lagom Frameworks as well as the Scala programming language, has closed a USD20 million Series C funding round led by Intel Capital.
Blue Cloud Ventures also joined Intel Capital as a new investor, with full participation from previous investors Bain Capital Ventures, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Vibhor Rastogi, Director for Enterprise Software at Intel Capital, will join Lightbend's board of directors.
Enterprises including Walmart, Verizon, iHeartRadio, William Hill, and Samsung (see case studies) have adopted the Lightbend Reactive Platform to build low latency,
Global private equity group EQT has held the closing of the EQT Ventures Fund, a multi-stage venture capital fund advised by the EQT Ventures team at EQT Partners (EQT Ventures).
The fund will invest in fast-growing, innovative and tech-enabled companies across Europe, supporting great entrepreneurs throughout different stages of growth.
Thomas von Koch, Managing Partner and CEO of EQT, says: “There is a huge opportunity for venture capital investing in Europe – transformational shifts in technology are occurring across numerous industries and this disruption is spurring on new, innovative companies. EQT Ventures is ideally equipped to support great entrepreneurs in
Taiyo Pacific Partners has accumulated in excess of 5 per cent in Hitachi Maxell to become the second largest shareholder in the provider of micro batteries, camera lens and LED headlamp lenses for cars.
Taiyo Pacific Partners is a pioneer of friendly engagement investing in Japan and has been proactively working with senior management at its portfolio companies to enhance shareholder value for over 13 years.
Brian K Heywood, Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner of Taiyo Pacific Partners, says: “The demise of cassette tapes and CD-ROMs means you probably haven’t heard the name Hitachi Maxell in a while but
NorthEdge-backed Accrol Group Holdings has revealed plans to to float on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Dealings are expected to commence on AIM on 10 June 2016.
Established in 1993 by the Hussain family, Accrol has grown to become a leading supplier of tissue products, supplying both the premium retail and UK discount markets. Accrol has a 35 per cent market share of the discount market and seven per cent. of the overall UK tissue market. The business manufactures a wide range of household and away from home tissue products for a number of blue-chip retailers and
ClickDimensions, a provider of marketing automation and email marketing technology, has received a growth equity investment from Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm.
The new partnership will allow ClickDimensions to continue its significant growth while making additional investments in existing products and driving further product innovation in the marketing technology space. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
The company, with over 2,400 customers and nearly 1,000 reseller partners, delivers value to companies of all sizes through its two platforms, ClickDimensions and Automational. Embedded directly in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the ClickDimensions solution brings robust marketing tools and a
Investec Bank has arranged the long term refinancing of a portfolio of four UK projects totalling 40MW solar portfolio owned by Canadian Solar Inc (CSIQ). The long term debt was provided by Bayern LB after Investec ran competitive process for Canadian Solar.
Investec originally provided a short term bridging facility that funded the portfolio shortly after its connection to the electricity grid.
Olivier Fricot, head of Power and Infrastructure Lending, Investec, says: “Having supported Canadian Solar in its first ROC based project financing Investec is delighted to have arranged a long term financing solution on very attractive terms to Canadian
Ergomed is acquiring Haemostatix from a group of UK-based VC investors including Albion Ventures, Catapult Ventures, Esperante, as well as Nesta and the Wellcome Trust for an initial consideration of GBP8.0 million, with a contingent consideration of GBP20.0 million.
Nottingham based Haemostatix, a spin-out of the University of Nottingham, is a developer of topical clotting agents. The technology is based on a novel class of molecule that binds directly to fibrinogen to promote haemostasis and is targeted at the global surgical bleeding market, worth more than USD2 billion.
The two lead products developed by the Haemostatix team are PeproStat (Phase
RINA is to acquire the entire share capital of Edif Group Limited (Edif), a portfolio company of Phoenix Equity Partners (Phoenix), for GBP118.5 million (around EUR151 million).
The acquisition represents a further step towards the fulfilment of RINA’s broader growth strategy, which will increase its geographical coverage, and deliver a higher level of technical expertise for its customers. In particular, the acquisition of Edif will significantly increase RINA’s presence in the UK, alongside the US and German market, where the combination of the two groups will provide a platform for further expansion.
Edif is a leading worldwide provider of
Aquila Capital is providing institutional investors with access to its latest diversified renewable energy portfolio – the Aquila Capital Renewables Fund III – via a bond solution.
The securitisation, which already has been given an indicative investment grade rating by an ESMA-recognised rating agency, is targeting an A- rating thanks to the high quality of the underlying portfolio, its efficient structure and very modest structuring costs.
Both the securitisation and a direct investment in the Fund provide investors with access to a conservative, broadly diversified portfolio of wind and photovoltaic plants in politically stable countries in Western Europe. The Fund
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