Managers
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has signed a secondary transaction in relation to a number of assets from its European private equity portfolio, under a new fund arrangement, subject to receipt of relevant regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.
The fund will be capitalised with approximately USD1 billion of aggregate commitments.
Coller Capital’s current fund, Coller International Partners VII, will underwrite the new fund, with Investcorp retaining a continued interest in the portfolio through a meaningful GP commitment to the fund. The transaction also includes fresh capital for any follow-on investments, future investments and
BGF, the UK and Ireland-focussed investor in growing businesses, invested nearly half a billion pounds into British businesses in 2018, in another record year of growth.
With an average of one deal per week, BGF invested GBP288 million into 51 new businesses across the UK and Ireland and provided GBP153 million of follow-on funding to companies in its existing portfolio to support further growth.
Since BGF began in 2011, it has invested over GBP1.85 billion across 263 companies.
New businesses added to the portfolio in 2018 included BGF’s first investment in the Republic of Ireland since announcing the
Venture capital investor Beringea has led a GBP9 million investment in AccessPay, a Manchester-based fintech firm.
The funding round, also backed by US investors True Ventures and Route 66, is one of the largest ever investments in a financial technology company in the North. Maria Wagner, Investment Director at Beringea, led the deal.
The investment also marks the expansion of Beringea’s footprint in the North of England, as the firm has launched its first dedicated office in the region in central Manchester. This expanded presence will enable Beringea to work more closely with the region’s scaling businesses and provide
Jose Castellano has joined iM Global Partner as deputy CEO and Head of International Business Development.
iM Global Partner is an investment and development asset management platform focused on acquiring strategic investments in traditional and alternative investment firms, its Partners, with an objective of growing together. iM Global Partner aims to cover a wide spectrum of high alpha strategies globally supporting its present and future top-of-the-range managers.
iM Global Partner, which opened a distribution platform in the United States mid-2018, is now accelerating its international business development’s resources for its Partners.
Castellano (pictured), will support the continuous build-up
Vectis, a private equity firm long active in Nigeria, has concluded a restructuring investment transaction of USD12 million into Leventis Foods Ltd, an established Nigerian FMCG manufacturing company with leading brands of bread and snacks.
The transaction is pending regulatory approvals. Upon completion Vectis will control a majority stake and AGL will maintain minority.
Bread and flour-based snack sectors emerged in Nigeria over the past years and are expected to have a substantial growth with new products coming on the market. Rising disposable incomes and growing popularity of quality branded snacks will be key growth drivers especially among the
Law firm Thomson Snell & Passmore, has advised on the corporate restructure and Management Buy-Out (MBO) of SE10, and its related group companies.
SE10 is an integrated communications and public relations agency, specialising in strategic brand journalism and content marketing for international industrial business-to-business clients. The company has an international presence, providing expert services to world-class brands from its offices in London, Chicago and Singapore.
The corporate team advised the SE10 group on the restructure, which included the management buy-out of one of the founding partners. Thomson Snell & Passmore was required to project manage the various complex international
Decisiv, a specialist in Service Relationship Management (SRM) solutions, has secured a GBP30 million in equity funding from Kayne Partners, the growth equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
“The investment by Kayne Partners reflects our position as the leading provider of a highly successful and innovative approach to SRM for asset manufacturers, service providers, and asset owners,” says Dick Hyatt, President and CEO of Decisiv. “With this financial support we can continue to pursue ongoing initiatives in commercial vehicle, heavy equipment, construction, agriculture and mining markets in North America, Japan, Europe, Australia and Latin America.”
Decisiv SRM is
Inflexion Private Equity has expanded into North America with a focus on supporting portfolio company mergers and acquisitions and broader business development. Inflexion-backed businesses will benefit from direct access to an experienced, senior North American professional with an established network, offering local insight and direct access to this key market.
Inflexion’s North American presence will be based in Boston and led by Whitney Bower, who joins as Senior Adviser. Whit brings with him over 25 years of experience in building businesses, including working with BC Partners, HgCapital and 3i, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2014, he
Goldman Sachs has led a USD8 million Series A investment round in Immersive Labs’ cyber security skills platform. The funding, made alongside smaller private investors, will grow an offering which arms enterprise IT and cyber security teams with the latest skills by combining threat data with gamified learning.
The award-winning Immersive Labs platform uses real-time feeds of the latest attack techniques, hacker psychology and technological vulnerabilities to rapidly build cyber wargames for IT and security teams to learn from. The platform can up-skill people within hours of a threat emerging and can also be used to identify and fix less immediate weaknesses in the talent pool.
Artemis Capital Partners (Artemis), an industrial technology-focussed private equity firm, has held the final close of its second fund, Artemis Capital Partners II after hitting the fund’s hard cap in September 2018 in an oversubscribed fundraise.
“We are humbled by the support we received from our existing base of Limited Partners and are delighted to welcome several new top-tier institutional partners,” says Peter A Hunter, Founder and Managing Partner of Artemis. “With capital from our new fund and that of our co-investors, we will continue our focus on acquiring and growing profitable industrial technology companies in close partnership with
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