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Alantra, an independent global mid-market investment banking and asset management firm, has recruited a Maritime and Offshore investment banking team within its Investment Banking division.
The new Maritime and Offshore team comprises four members, including two managing partners: George Giannakis and Nicholas Petrakakos. The team plans to further grow by adding another two members in the short term.
The team offers a unique combination of financial, technical and commercial experience in the maritime sector, consolidating both deep investment banking and strong marine engineering backgrounds within its members.
Giannakis and Petrakakos bring more than 20 years of Investment Banking and Capital
Payflow, a financial wellbeing platform that allows employees to get paid on demand, has closed an EUR8 million financing round to continue its growth in Spain and its internationalisation plans, which have already started in Chile and Colombia.
In 2022, the company plans to start operations in two additional countries and to launch at least two more products.
After closing this round, the total funding raised by Payflow to date exceeds EUR12 million, with the company having previously raised EUR2 million inn a seed round EUR2 million in a debt round.
This new fundraising attracted renowned national and international investors.
BGF invested GBP600 million, including 67 new deals, over the course of 2021, a 55 per cent increase in the total amount invested compared to 2020.
Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of the total sum invested – was with companies based outside of London and the South East, demonstrating an enduring commitment to ensuring growth capital reaches the full breadth of the UK and Ireland, a core differentiator of BGF’s approach delivered across 16 local offices.
At the same time, total investment since 2011 passed the GBP3 billion milestone as BGF celebrated its 10th anniversary with the most
ELYSIA, a decentralised project linking has raised a strategic investment (USD1 million) from FBG Capital, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency hedge fund and venture capital firm.
The ELYSIA Foundation plans to utilise FBG Capital’s network to preoccupy the global market and accelerate technological advancement through this investment.
ELYSIA is a protocol that makes real assets into asset tokens (NFTs) to be used on-chain, and the asset tokens created in this way can be used in ELYSIA’s DeFi, ELYFI. ELYFI is the first DeFi project to utilise real assets brought on-chain through the ELYSIA protocol. Participants in the ELYFI Protocol can obtain investment
Annualised figures from October 2021 put private debt assets under management (AUM) near USD1.21 trillion for the full year, off the back of a decade of 13.5 per cent annual growth, according to the 2022 Global Private Debt Report, published by Preqin.
Sustainable investor Planet First Partners (Planet First) has become a significant investor in Submer, a growth stage company solving an emerging environmental threat – high energy consuming data centres.
Funds advised by Permira Credit are acting as sole senior secured lender to Castik Capital’s acquisition of TBAuctions.
The support highlights Permira Credit’s focus on high-quality, growing tech-enabled businesses and builds on Permira’s proven track record of investing in marketplace platforms.
Founded in 2018 after the merger of Troostwijk Auctions (B2B auctions) and BVA Auctions (B2C auctions), TBAuctions is a leading online auction platform and marketplace active in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Collectively, the Permira Credit funds have invested approximately EUR13 billion since inception in a range of European debt products, including over EUR9 billion in European direct
NPIF Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has invested GBP500,000 in Cheshire based Cryoniss Limited (Cryoniss), a storage and logistics management services business.
The funding will enable the business to create new jobs, expand its service offering and invest in green technology as it seeks to create new jobs in the North West and grow its customer base initially in the UK and Europe.
Cryoniss provides storage facilities, knowledge and extensive scientific expertise to the life sciences sector.
Lukka, the crypto-asset software and data provider, have closed their Series E investment round of USD110 million, valuing the company at more than USD1.3 billion. This round comes after closing their Series D round just nine months ago.
The round was led by Marshall Wace, a global alternative asset manager. The round’s other notable investors include Miami International Holdings, In, Summer Capital, and SiriusPoint Ltd., as well as participation from previous investors Soros Fund Management, Liberty City Ventures, S&P Global, and CPA.com, who all contributed to the company’s Series D investment.
Investcorp has released its 2021 Responsible Business Report, which includes the firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (EGS) highlights for 2021 and specific initiatives the Investcorp implemented to meet its goals, as well as some case studies illustrating areas where the firm has demonstrated its commitment to responsibility as a core component of its values and culture.
During 2021, the Firm delivered on its previous commitments to work with stakeholders to integrate ESG considerations across all its business lines and the markets it operates in.
In the coming year, Investcorp is committed to continuing to increase its ESG efforts, particularly in
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