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Brooklands a specialist in operational and regulatory compliance, has extended its services to provide a robust AML Infrastructure.
The new offering includes an Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer and an Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Manual, Policies and Procedures.
With a time-lag on public market volatility, a fund’s NAV may not portray the fair value of secondary assets in the current market, so valuation methods are evolving in other ways…
Blackford Capital has appointed operating partner Paul I Doyle has to the position of managing partner at the firm effective 18 April, 2022.
Martin Stein will continue to lead the firm as founder and managing director. Blackford is a private equity firm that acquires and builds founder and family-owned companies in the lower middle market with a focus on manufacturing, industrial and distribution companies.
Doyle has been with Blackford Capital since 2014 as an Operating Partner, and has held senior leadership positions in sales, marketing and organisational development, including fifteen years as CEO of GHSP, Inc and Coastal Automotive and
Ingenio, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, and the owner of North America’s largest online marketplace and media platform focused on spiritual and emotional wellness, has acquired its largest European peer, adviqo Group.
The transaction creates a global leader in this fast-growing segment of the media and technology sector, combining Ingenio’s 12 brands, which include Keen.com, Purple Garden, Horoscope.com and Astrology.com, with adviqo’s 19 brands, which feature Questico, Horoskop.de, and Kang.
Ingenio owns and operates one of the world’s largest astrology media companies, reaching over 20 million people monthly. adviqo reaches over 36 million households through its TV broadcasts,
TowerBrook Capital Partners (TowerBrook), a London and New York-based international investment firm, is to acquire Premium Credit Limited from Cinven.
Premium Credit is a provider of premium finance for commercial and retail insurance products, as well as other specialist lending solutions. The company has driven consistent growth through the development of a sophisticated technology platform and expansion into new product areas, building on Premium Credit’s core capabilities.
TowerBrook is an experienced investor within the financial services sector, with highly relevant expertise across fintech, insurance and specialty finance companies. Current investments in the sector include the AA Ltd, Access Financial,
Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specialising in infrastructure and real assets, is to make a €1.0 billion investment in Inspired Education Group (Inspired), a global group of premium schools.
Seraphim Space Manager (Seraphim Space), the manager of Seraphim Space Investment Trust, a listed Space Tech Fund, has adde Patrick McCall, former Senior Partner of Virgin Group, to its investment team.
McCall joins Seraphim as a Venture Partner following a long and distinguished career in the space, communication and transport sector, He worked for two decades in the senior team driving the expansion of the Virgin Group and as the Chair of Virgin Orbit and Virgin Galactic. His achievements include financing the development of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit, culminating in the flotations of both companies. He also played a
Engimmune Therapeutics AG (Engimmune), a Swiss biotech company developing novel T-cell receptor (TCR)-based therapeutics, has completed a CHF15.5 million (EUR15.2m) seed financing round, co-led by Pureos Bioventures and Novo Holdings.
Engimmune is a platform company using cutting-edge technologies to engineer highly potent and specific TCR-based therapies for cancer treatment. By combining genome editing, functional screening, deep sequencing and machine learning, Engimmune addresses major efficacy and safety challenges that currently limit the full potential of TCR-T cell and soluble TCR therapies. Engimmune’s lead products are focused on oncology, with potential to expand to autoimmune diseases in the future.
Engimmune is
Wheel and tyre safety business Wheely Safe Ltd (WSL), based in Burntwood, Staffordshire, has secured a £500,000 investment from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven).
Wheely Safe Ltd, which helps to prevent wheel loss and tyre underinflation, will use the funding to grow its national presence and scale up the business. Its key products protect lorries and large commercial vehicles from wheel loss, which is a major safety problem in the UK, where approximately 150 to 400 wheel-detachments occur annually.
Wheely Safe offers services to its commercial clients with tyre pressure
abrdn has provided a £38 million debt facility to Dalmore Capital’s 2012 vintage fund – (Dalmore Capital Fund LP – DCF).
Dalmore Capital is a UK Public Private Partnership (PPP) investor.
The financing is expected to provide abrdn’s clients with reliable, fixed rate payments under a long-term fully amortising structure. abrdn’s investment participants included Phoenix Group, a longstanding funding partner to abrdn, and abrdn’s Multi Sector Private Credit Fund.
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