Managers
London-based investment firm RDCP Group (RDCP) has acquired one of the UK’s largest tech BPOs, Intelling, from NVM Private Equity (NVM).
RDCP has acquired a 67.4 per cent stake in Manchester-based Intelling. NVM first backed Intelling in 2017 when the company was delivering business process outsourcing (BPO) and communications services to a range of clients, including a major contract with O2.
As a result of both investment and additional Board support, the company has been transformed into a GBP40 million turnover, tech-enabled business employing more than 1000 staff at multiple sites, both in the UK and overseas. The company
Pembroke VCT has invested GBP2 million into JustWears, a men’s basic wear brand focused on comfortable, sustainable and high-performance fabrics.
JustWears was launched in 2018 by co-founders Yang Liu and Alex Walsh to address a gap in the male underwear market and meet the needs of consumers by focusing on comfort and sustainability. Since launch, JustWears has featured on the BBC’s Dragons Den and sold over 150,000 underwear to happy customers with more than 3,000 five-star reviews.
In a sector dominated by legacy brands, a key point of difference for JustWears is the brand’s bold content and humorous marketing,
Orion Advisor Solutions is strengthening its compliance technology offering for clients by acquiring BasisCode Compliance, a provider of regulatory compliance and risk management technology.
Founded in 2011, BasisCode provides trusted compliance management in a secure cloud environment with capabilities ranging from compliance testing and risk assessment to trading surveillance, insider trading, staff certifications and audit-ready reporting. Orion will add BasisCode to its best-in-class fintech integrations, cementing its status as the premier provider of the tech-enabled fiduciary framework that boosts financial advisors’ capacity to Prospect, Plan, Invest, and Achieve within a single, connected digital experience. The combined platform experience is expected to come to market quickly.
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Foresight Group Holdings Limited, a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made a joint venture investment into geothermal energy in the Netherlands.
Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP), Foresight’s energy transition fund, has invested in a joint venture with 85 Degrees Renewable Ltd (85 Degrees).
Located in the Netherlands, the joint venture investment entails both the acquisition of operational wells and construction of new wells. There is also a significant pipeline of development projects representing a potential build out capacity of c200MW.
Geothermal heat energy is supported by the Dutch government as a strategic priority, given it
Managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, has exited Intec Business Solutions (inTEC); a group offering end-to-end technology consultancy and specialist support services for SMEs.
Manchester-based inTEC has now entered into a royalty financing agreement with AIM-listed provider of royalty finance Duke Royalty, who provided GBP7.7 million to facilitate a refinancing of the Group’s debt and equity. Duke Royalty has also committed additional funding to support inTEC’s ongoing M&A strategy.
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance invested GBP750,000 into the business across two tranches in 2018 and 2019, with
Glennmont Partners from Nuveen (Glennmont), Europe’s largest pure clean energy specialist, is working with Clir Renewables (Clir), a company dedicated to maximising project returns from renewable energy assets, to identify wind turbine underperformance, to investigate solutions for improvement with project partners, and validate subsequent increases in operational output utilising its extensive domain expertise.
This relationship, which has seen Clir’s technology deployed on a number of onshore wind projects for the fund, has led Glennmont and Clir to work together with the aim of providing deep insights into wind farm performance, unearth ways to improve it, and drive forward as a
Equistone Partners Europe Limited (Equistone) has invested in adm Group (adm), an independent global marketing services business headquartered in the UK.
EIG, an institutional investor to the global energy and infrastructure sectors, is to acquire a 10 per cent interest in Australia Pacific LNG Pty Limited (APLNG) from Origin Energy Limited (Origin) for an equity purchase price of USD1.592 billion.
Enterprise Investment Scheme investment manager Deepbridge Capital has deployed over GBP50 million of capital into UK life sciences companies.
The Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS was launched in 2017 as the first life sciences focused EIS fund, providing private investors with access to a portfolio of early-stage investee companies across the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology and digital healthcare domains.
This capital has been provided UK-wide to 87 companies across the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS and Deepbridge Life Sciences SEIS funds, with investee companies based across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Founded in 2010, Chester-based Deepbridge launched its first
Chimera Capital Ltd (Chimera Capital), an ADGM regulated fund manager and a wholly owned subsidiary of Chimera Investment has held the second close of Chimera Global Fund I LP surpassing its initial target of USD50 million.
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