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Dorsey & Whitney has boosted its Cross-Border and Merger & Acquisition Practices with two experienced attorneys in its New York office.
Michael Budabin has joined as a Partner along with Marc Kushner as a Partner and Head of US M&A under the leadership of M&A Co-Chairs Bill Jonason and Layne Smith. Kushner and Budabin are well-known and well-respected cross-border mergers & acquisitions attorneys and have particular expertise in transactions involving representations and warranties insurance (RWI). Budabin will also serve as head of Dorsey’s new Transactional Risk Insurance Group.
Dorsey has made a concerted effort to grow strategically in its New
Cerbos, a new open source software startup helping tech scaleups and other companies manage user permissions more efficiently, has raised a USD3.5 million seed round.
Investment in the funding round was led by Crane with support from Earlybird Digital East, Seedcamp, 8-Bit Capital, Connect Ventures, OSS Capital, Acequia Capital, HelloWorld, Tiny, and a roster of prestigious angel investors including Guillaume Pousaz, Paul Forster, Mike Stoppelman, Jeff Trudeau, Chris Barchak, and Pete Koomen.
Cerbos serves a vast addressable global market of companies with growing software stacks and exponentially more complex levels of user permissions to manage them.
In particular,
British Patient Capital has made a EUR30 million commitment to Partech Growth II, which announced its final close today at EUR650 million.
Partech is one of the most active tech-specialist venture capital firms in the world, and this latest fund is one of the largest growth funds in Europe. It aims to back between 12 and 15 digital scale-ups, investing between EUR20 million and EUR70 milllion in each business across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer, healthcare, financial services, education and other frontier technologies.
Judith Hartley, CEO, British Patient Capital, says: “We are delighted to be partnering with Partech
Bessemer Venture Partners has closed a dedicated USD220 million fund in India to back the country’s next generation of innovators.
The fund will focus primarily on early-stage investments, consistent with Bessemer’s time-honoured approach of starting with seed and Series A investments and sticking with companies throughout their growth lifecycle with later stage investments. Bessemer plans to apply its roadmap-driven investment approach to deploy the new capital over five roadmaps across consumer internet and cloud software, including marketplaces, digital health, social commerce, vertical and global SaaS. These roadmaps take a deep look at industries to identify emerging areas and understand the
LGT Capital Partners, a global specialist in Alternative investing, has hired Wael El Burji as Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer to head and expand its presence in the Middle East.
Vidrio Financial, a provider of managed data services and software for institutional alternative allocators globally, has made significant updates to its services and platform to supports the unique needs of institutional investors who allocate to external alternative asset funds, including hedge fund and private equity managers.
“As we continue to build on our long-term vision to become the de facto solution for institutional allocators, over the last 12 months we have made a series of updates to the Vidrio offering. These enhancements enable our clients to better manage their complex alternative investments and external manager relationships through deeper insights and
Skaylink, a recently formed cloud service provider that operates throughout Europe, has acquired a majority stake in cVation with support from Waterland Private Equity (Waterland).
The Danish company is a leading cloud service provider in the Northern European region. This strategic partnership seeks to further diversify and professionalise the Skaylink cloud service portfolio and to use synergy effects to strengthen the companies’ common market position in Europe.
cVation was formed in Copenhagen in 2014. The company is considered one of Denmark’s leading cloud service providers. cVation’s service portfolio is positioned in an especially diversified way in the area of managed
Turquoise, a UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has made an investment from Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2) in Switchd as part of a capital raising round of over GBP1.2 million. Other investors included Nationwide Building Society, Inspired Energy and Crowdcube also participated.
Switchd offers energy supply switching services, including green tariffs, as well as MakeMyHouseGreen, a data-driven platform that allows homeowners to source and install domestic renewable energy generation, such as solar panels and heat pumps, and energy saving products.
Ian Thomas, managing director at Turquoise, says: “The combination of the ongoing crisis in the
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, is to acquire Norit Activated Carbon (Norit), a global manufacturer of activated carbon for purification solutions, from corporate parent Cabot Corporation (CBT).
Norit manufactures a broad portfolio of activated carbon products used for purification needs in growing sectors including renewable natural gas, food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, air quality, water, and automotive. The Company operates two plants in North America, five facilities in Europe and participates in three joint ventures in Canada, Asia and Mexico.
“We are proud to make this investment in Norit, whose product offering uses
Bolt has acquired Tipser, a Swedish-based tech company enabling commerce on any digital surface.
Some 84 per cent of shoppers look for insights on at least one social media platform before purchasing, according to Pew Research Center, and 52 per cent of socially-engaged shoppers have initiated a purchase through a social platform, according to Inmar Intelligence. Meanwhile, the creator economy is a booming USD104 billion market, according to CB Insights, and demands better monetisation tools to further accelerate growth. While social commerce is still nascent in the history of ecommerce, its adoption has ramped up over the past year—and solutions
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