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A new venture investment business has been formed via a partnership between the city advisory group Forster Chase and four successful CEOs/entrepreneurs, designed to guide and turbo charge young companies through to highly valuable exits.
Forster Chase Ventures, in conjunction with the other companies in the group (Forster Chase Executive Search, Forster Chase Corporate Finance) will create significant value for founders and shareholders by delivering exceptional strategy, people, distribution and capital solutions. Given the cashflow challenges that young businesses often face, this will be a cost-effective model that is focused on long term mutual success and growth.
Over multiple years
FFL Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, and the Dr H Doug Barnes Family have acquired all of the outstanding Class A common shares of the New Look Vision Group Inc for USD50.00 in cash per Share, other than certain Shares held by certain shareholders who received consideration consisting of common shares of the purchaser.
“We look forward to working together with our new partners to take New Look Vision to the next level of growth and add value for our customers, partners and employees across North
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust (DORE) has signed an exclusivity agreement with AB Edsbyns Elverk (EE), a local Swedish multi-utility (EE) to buy EE’s subsidiary Elektra Nät AB (Elektra) and a portfolio of three hydropower plants.
Elektra is a local regulated electricity distribution company in Edsbyn, central Sweden.
DORE has submitted an indicative bid in excess of SEK300 million (GBP25.5 million), whose confirmation is subject to final due diligence by the Company and approval by EE shareholders at its Annual General Meeting on 29 June. The assets are in line with DORE’s investment strategy and the acquisition of Elektra will
Deepbridge Capital, a UK venture capital investment manager, has secured a GBP15 million commitment from British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, to fund early-stage businesses across the UK.
This commitment from British Business Investments’ Regional Angels Programme, which is designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early stage equity finance for smaller businesses across the UK, will be invested alongside Deepbridge’s own funding over the next three years.
It will match funds raised via Deepbridge’s private investors, including the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS and the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS. Deepbridge’s EIS funds enable
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Simple Admit, a provider of automated patient relationship management solutions for surgery centres, on its merger with HST Pathways, a Bain Capital portfolio company and provider of cloud-based software focused on the ambulatory surgery centre (ASC) space.
For over a decade, Simple Admit has crafted industry-leading software solutions that connect patients with ASC staff through user-friendly online services that improve efficiencies, communication and cost savings from pre-admissions through post-op care. The combined HST Pathways and Simple Admit platform will deliver a best-in-class approach to outpatient surgery, transforming revenue cycle
Independent asset manager BOOST&Co is expanding across the UK, offering a wider range of funding options to SMEs by establishing a presence in Birmingham, Reading and Leeds.
The lender has hired nine new principals to better serve businesses throughout the country, and now has dealmakers in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Reading and Leeds.
This expansion will enable BOOST&Co to provide more UK businesses with alternative finance – particularly important as high-street banks increasingly shy away from lending to SMEs. The lender has instead committed to supporting these companies, wherever they are based, by hiring principals across the country
The Agri-Business Capital Fund (ABC Fund) has provided loans to three agri-businesses to support their working capital needs and their expansion, enabling higher rural employment and securing market access for farmers in their respective sectors.
The two loans in the mango sector enable the provision of financing to SMEs that usually do not have access to local finance, with financial institutions being reluctant to finance the mango activity due the short harvest season, lasting only 3-4 months a year.
The ABC Fund provided a loan of EUR450,000 to Kaworo, a producer of grains (mainly maize, millet, sesame, cowpeas and
UK food and beverage M&A deal volume increased across T1 2021, a report from corporate finance house Oghma Partners has revealed.
By Melanie Pittas, partner and co-head of financial services & Karen Allan, director, haysmacintyre – The private equity industry faced a number of challenges during the pandemic, with the majority of these arising from one underlying issue: uncertainty. These challenges included valuations, investor pessimism and a downturn in investment activity.
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the business services, healthcare, education and information industries has completed a significant growth investment in Centroid Systems Inc (Centroid), a provider of managed cloud-services and enterprise workload consulting services. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Centroid is one of the few certified Oracle Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in all of North America, where it has won 14 North American Partner of the Year awards from Oracle. Centroid provides Oracle enterprise workload consulting and managed services across all major public cloud providers, including Azure, Amazon, Google, IBM,
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