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Arrowpoint Advisory’s Healthcare team has advised Veramed, a specialist biostatistics and programming Contract Research Organisation (CRO) serving pharmaceutical and biotech clients across the UK, Europe and US on its partnership with Livingbridge.
Founded in 2012 by Matthew and Emma Jones and headquartered in London, Veramed provides statistical consulting, programming and study reporting, and market launch and commercialisation services to clients globally. The business has since scaled both nationally and internationally through establishing offices in multiple locations across the UK and international offices in mainland Europe, the Ukraine and the US. Alongside this, investments in new services and continuing to build
Schroders Capital is strengthening its real estate investment capabilities by acquiring Cairn Real Estate, a real estate fund and asset management business based in the Netherlands with EUR1.3 billion of assets under management.
The acquisition will expand Schroders Capital’s client offering in a key European growth market, enhancing our access to Dutch real estate expertise with on-the-ground investment talent to meet the growing investment demand from our institutional investors.
Cairn, which is being sold by MPC Capital, a German investment management group focused on renewables, specialises in a range of sectors including logistics, offices and healthcare and is well respected
CI Financial Corp (CI) has made a strategic investment in GLAS Funds (GLASfunds), a turnkey alternative investment platform and alternative asset management firm based in Cleveland.
Founded in 2009, GLASfunds is a tech-enabled platform providing investors with secure and streamlined digital access to institutional-quality alternative investment opportunities and asset management oversight. It has approximately USD1.1 billion in combined assets under management and assets under contract.
CI’s investment will strengthen GLASfunds’ offering to the broader market, while providing CI Private Wealth clients with enhanced access to alternative asset classes through a best-in-class platform.
“Alternative assets are an increasingly important part of
Euronext has congratulated SPEAR Investments I (SPEAR), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has listed on Euronext Amsterdam, becoming the SPAC-listing on Euronext markets in 2021.
SPEAR has a multi-disciplinary team, combining equity capital markets professionals, M&A professionals, investment professionals, C-suite and senior leaders, operators and technology experts and founders. SPEAR expects to focus on targets with strong business fundamentals, and technology, innovation and/or changing business model-led growth.
The admission and issue price of the units offered by the company was EUR10 per unit. The SPAC-listing raised EUR175 million altogether. SPEAR is sponsored by STJ Advisors and AZ Capital. STJ
Honeycomb Network, an Imperial College London spinout developing smart charging and storage infrastructure for e-scooters and e-bikes to accelerate micromobility adoption in the UK, has secured GBP127,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed stage investor.
The funding will support the development of prototypes of the company’s storage and charging pods and rollout of a pilot scheme.
Despite more than 65 per cent of trips made in London being shorter than one mile, and despite car driver and passenger trips having reduced by 33 per cent and 44 per cent respectively, users of e-scooters and
bd-capital, a pan-European, operationally-led private equity firm, has made its latest investment into TAPTAP Digital, an advertising technology and marketing intelligence software platform in Southern Europe, Latin America and Africa. This is bd-capital’s first investment in Spain.
TAPTAP was founded in 2010 by Alvaro del Castillo. The business has developed its own software platform called Sonata that helps deliver relevant advertising content to consumers while protecting their privacy. It aggregates and cross references multiple sources of location data, which helps advertisers to increase brand awareness, build purchase interest and boost consideration.
A key changing pattern of consumer behaviour is the
TELEO Capital Management (TELEO) has acquired Flatirons Solutions, Inc (Flatirons) from Presse Participations.
Flatirons is specialist in technical content management solutions for the aviation and defence industries. This investment marks TELEO’s second investment in aviation software and fifth corporate carve-out since 2019.
Flatirons offers a critical SaaS solution for the global aerospace industry which helps improve the productivity of maintenance procedures, ensuring regulatory compliance. TELEO’s investment will support the continued innovation of Flatirons’ software, driving significant operational efficiencies for the aerospace industry.
“The aerospace market is rapidly changing in response to regulations and technological advances. Flatirons provides organisations with a
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI), a FTSE250 specialist economic infrastructure lender, has signed a private bilateral three-year facility agreement of up to USD50 million to EXMAR, the Euronext listed maritime and offshore solutions provider.
EXMAR will use the loan to repay part of the current NOK650 million bond issued by EXMAR Netherlands BV at maturity (May 2022).
David Fussell, Vice President at Sequoia Investment Management, says: “We have built a strong relationship with EXMAR since our first investment with the company in 2018 and are pleased to announce this new three-year facility. We believe LNG has a significant
Prytek Holdings (Prytek) has completed a strategic investment in Hirewell, a US-based talent acquisition solutions firm, as it continues its expansion.
Prytek enters the Human Capital space by investing into Hirewell, a US-based talent acquisition solutions firm and merging ICV, an AI sourcing solution (a Prytek technology company) to create a vertical integrated holding and delivering a managed service solution. This combined solution includes data technology, natural language programming, and business intelligence to marketplaces and offers an entire recruiting managed service.
Prytek will provide strategic capital to accelerate Hirewell’s organic growth and invest in technology to integrate it into
McVeigh Global Meetings and Events (MGME), a corporate meetings and events company and a portfolio company of private equity firm Infocommerce Partners, has acquired PRIME Event Partners, a Canadian full-service event management company.
This move expands on MGME’s global presence, with offices in Toronto and Vancouver, bringing new growth opportunities and enhanced service capabilities to clients across North America and around the world.
“We are very excited to welcome the PRIME team to our family,” says Jeff Guberman, CEO of MGME. “The acquisition of PRIME builds on our global business strategy with an incredible team that brings depth of experience
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