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By Joseph Lee, Head of Asia, Atwater Capital – From Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” to “American Pyscho” and “The Wolf of Wall Street”, the history of Hollywood is littered with unsympathetic portrayals of the financial industry.
On-demand laundry and dry-cleaning platform Laundryheap has raised USD3.5 million as part of Series A round led by Sova VC, the firm’s second deal since launch following its investment of USD2.5 million in the Series B round of translation platform Smartcat.
Secure Trust Bank’s Commercial Finance division has provided more than GBP70 million in funding to private equity-backed businesses in 2020.
Despite the challenges faced across the sector in 2020, this figure reinforces Secure Trust Bank’s continued appetite to write new business and support existing clients. Of the GBP70 million of new facilities provided, GBP20 million related to CBILS and CLBILS support provided to existing PE-backed clients.
Key transactions across the country included a GBP7 million asset-based lending facility for Moda Furnishings, completed in October. The high-quality garden furniture provider, backed by Endless LLP, required funding to increase inventory and
Elysian Capital, an independent Private Equity Fund investing in the UK and Ireland lower mid-market, has appointed Apex Group (Apex) to provide full ESG Ratings & Advisory services.
The Clarison Group has been formally launched, bringing together four leading companies in the façade industry, Alucraft Limited, Alucraft Systems Limited, Williaam Cox and EAG, to create a new force in the design, manufacture and installation of architectural glazing and façade systems in the UK & Ireland.
Alucraft Limited and Williaam Cox are based in Ireland and Alucraft Systems
and EAG in the UK.
The Clarison Group is majority owned by Elaghmore, a UK-based private equity fund, which acquired the Alucraft and Williaam Cox businesses in 2018 and EAG in 2019.
The combined group has over 400 employees and operates
Nordic Capital has expanded its tech and payments track record, with the highly successful IPO of Cint Group AB (publ) (Cint).
Cint, a global software leader in digital insights gathering, today announced the outcome of the initial public offering of its shares on Nasdaq Stockholm. The offering was substantially over-subscribed, attracting very strong interest from large Swedish and international institutional investors as well as the general public in Sweden. The market capitalisation of Cint, based on the IPO price of SEK72 per share, is approximately SEK9.8 billion.
In 2016, Nordic Capital invested in Cint with the ambition of creating
Legrand, a global specialist in electrical, digital building, and data centre infrastructures, has acquired from A&M Capital Opportunities the Champion ONE (C1) family of brands, providers of optical networking components and solutions for the telecommunication, content provider, data centre, and enterprise markets.
The news marks the latest move by Legrand to support data centre and mission-critical IT’s ever-growing need for reliable, highly available and scalable power and connectivity solutions.
With lab, office and warehouse locations in both Lake Forest, CA and Independence, OH, the C1 family of brands, which include Champion ONE, Approved Networks, and US Critical, will join
Gulf Capital, a leading growth markets alternative investment firm, has successfully completed the sale of its 70 per cent stake in Turknet Iletisim Hizmetleri (Turknet), an internet service provider in Turkey, to a consortium of buyers including the incumbent Celebiler Family and Re-Pie Portfoy Yonetimi (Re-pie).
The sale generated a significant return for Gulf Capital Credit Opportunities Fund which focused on providing growth capital to companies in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. The investment in Turknet builds on Gulf Capital’s strong track record in investing in technology companies and in those that provide next-generation digital connectivity.
Turknet, led
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has supported the closing of Basalt III, which raised USD2.75 billion to invest in infrastructure equity opportunities.
Aztec Group, which has been a trusted partner of Basalt Infrastructure Partners since 2016, supported with the closing of Basalt III and will continue to provide ongoing administration and accounting services to the Fund from its Guernsey, Luxembourg and UK offices. Specialising in alternative investments, the Group employs more than 1,000 people globally and administers over EUR370 billion of assets for more than 240 clients.
Chris McErlane, Aztec Group Head of Real Assets –
RM Funds, a specialist asset manager focusing on alternative investments, is to launch the new RM Impact Credit Fund (RM ICF).
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