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Croatian food and retail group Agrokor, represented by Kirkalnd & Ellis, has successfully completed a two-year restructuring process.
With the implementation of the creditor settlement on 1 April, 2019, the new holding company Fortenova Group took over the operative parts of Agrokor, which are now controlled by the former creditors as new shareholders. The former parent company will be wound up together with the remaining subsidiaries in due course.
With a debt volume of around EUR6 billion, Agrokor’s restructuring was the largest in Europe in 2017/18. With a significant share of Croatia’s gross domestic product, Agrokor and its subsidiaries employ more
FundedByMe’s branch in Poland has closed a crowdfunding campaign for Warsaw game development studio Duality Games in record time, with 66 investors committing more than EUR440,000 in just 37 minutes.
“Gaming is a very promising sector in Poland with plenty of investment opportunities. We are delighted to see Duality close their crowdfunding campaign in a record-time, congratulations! Now we are even more motivated to launch interesting projects to the broader public in the near future. You should expect new exciting startups from Poland on the FundedByMe platform this year,” says Maciej Gajewski, CEO FundedByMe Poland.
“Duality Games is planning
iMod Structures (IMS), makers of ‘future proof’ modular classrooms, has raised USD11 million in a Series A round of funding led by the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group.
This financing in equity and warrants marks the first institutional investment in the company. Los Angeles-based law and consulting firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP were advisors to Goldman Sachs on the transaction.
Proceeds of the funding will be used to finalise renovations at the iMod Structures 100,000-square-foot factory on Mare Island in Vallejo, CA, and to expand the company’s customer engagement and deployment team. This enables commercial scale production of iMod
Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa), a private equity investor focused on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), is to acquire a majority stake in Mlinar dd (Mlinar) from its founder, Mato Škojo, who will retain a stake in the business. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to complete in Q2 2019.
Mlinar is the bakery retail and wholesale business in Croatia and operates the largest bakery retail network in South East Europe. The company serves pastries, breads, drinks, sandwiches and salads to more than 36 million customers per year through circa 220 directly- owned stores in
ARQIS has advised Sankyo Tateyama. on the acquisition of the aluminium foundry (casting) business of Aluwerk Hettstedt (AWH), a manufacturer of cast and extruded aluminium products, and of the entire business of RMG Metallfachhandel (RMG), a distributor of semi-finished metal products.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
AWH is a manufacturer of cast aluminium billets and extruded profiles and specialises in the casting of medium and hard alloys. RMG acts as AWH’s exclusive distributor and is an integral part of the overall transaction.
With the acquisition of AWH and RMG, Sankyo Tateyama enables its
There was a sharp increase recorded in private debt fund activity in France in 2018 confirming the growing importance of private debt in financing methods, by offering companies and equity investors an alternative and complementary financing solution to bank debt.
That’s according to a new report by France Invest (Association of Investors for Growth) and Deloitte based on a survey of members of the France Invest Private Debt Commission and international firms which have a team specialising in private debt or a representative office in France. A total of 84 per cent of the 37 firms surveyed responded.
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Burford Capital Limited (Burford), a global finance and investment management firm focused on law, has closed the Burford Alternative Income Fund LP (BAIF), a new private fund focused on post-settlement investments.
BAIF will invest in settled litigation matters, monetising a claimant’s settlement and other associated legal receivables. The solution serves to meet the needs of law firms awaiting payment of their fees and clients eager to release cash from the settlement, who find it attractive to secure financing against those expected receipts.
A variety of institutional investors made commitments to BAIF in the aggregate amount of USD297.25 million. BAIF’s investment
SVK Crypto is leading a USD2 million series A funding round for innovative, end-to-end business management SaaS company, MakerOS.
With participation from EOS Global, MakerOS intends to use the funds to expand the company and integrate the EOSIO blockchain technology in their software platform.
MakerOS was co-founded by Mike Moceri and Joe Tavares in 2015. It is a cutting-edge, end-to-end enterprise management SaaS platform for product developers – used by providers of manufacturing services, designers, engineers, and light fabricators. It streamlines business processes and the production of digital and physical products, with the overall aim to increase profitability, efficiency, and security of the
Orion Food Systems (Orion) and Land Mark Products (Land Mark) have signed a definitive merger agreement to create a leading and fully comprehensive foodservice company to serve convenience store operators.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is backed by an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, (One Rock), were not disclosed.
Founded in 1983, Orion is a manufacturer and distributor of food products as well as a provider of foodservice solutions to the convenience and specialty retail channels worldwide. The company supplies locations in the United States and abroad with a complete portfolio of foodservice solutions from ingredients to
Nautic Partners (Nautic) has completed the acquisition of LindFast Solutions Group (LindFast), in partnership with LindFast management.
Headquartered in Blaine, MN, LindFast is a master distributor of specialty fasteners in the North American market serving a broad base of national, regional, and local distribution customers through its metric (Lindstrom) and imperial (Stelfast) product brands. As a master distributor, LindFast provides an important link in the fastener supply chain by offering a deep inventory as a “virtual warehouse” of approximately 130,000 low volume, slow moving SKUs that distribution customers need quickly but are non-economical to inventory and source themselves. These SKUs
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