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Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, has appointed Anas Afzal as Fund Associate in its Alternative Funds.
Afzal joins from Aberdeen Standard where he was a Portfolio Analyst on the Fixed Income team. He will work alongside Head of Funds, Lorna Robertson, to source and identify specialist fund managers that the company believes will be attractive to clients and complementary to its existing fund portfolio which spans strategies from private credit to venture capital.
Growth investor Vitruvian Partners has a made a EUR45 million Series C investment in Enfuce, a European Card-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform for modern card issuing and processing.
The new capital will be used to further accelerate growth internationally as well as development of the Company’s technology platform.
Vitruvian Partners has previously invested in several successful financial services and payment companies including most recently Marqeta and TransferWise.
Goodhart Partners (Goodhart), an independent “multi-boutique” asset manager, has, through its Volunteer Park Capital Fund (Volunteer Park), taken a minority stake in Syntaxis, a provider of private credit in Central Europe.
Syntaxis’s leadership team has been working together for over 20 years, and the firm is currently investing its third private debt fund, Syntaxis New Europe Fund SCSp.
Seraphim Space Investment Trust (LSE: SSIT), a listed fund focused on Space Tech, has made a new USD25 million investment into ICEYE Oy (ICEYE), a specialist in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging technology.
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has completed the acquisition of GCA Corporation (GCA).
Following the acquisition of outstanding shares of GCA last month, the two companies will now operate as one firm under the Houlihan Lokey banner.
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is to acquire Quantile Group Ltd, a provider of portfolio optimisation services for the global financial markets.
As part of LSEG, Quantile will operate as a standalone entity within the Post Trade division, reporting to Daniel Maguire, LSEG’s Group Head of Post Trade. Quantile will continue to be led by its CEO and co-founder, Andrew Williams.
In January 2021, Quantile received USD51 million in growth investment from Spectrum Equity, a growth equity firm focused on internet-enabled software and information services companies.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in SRL Traffic Systems, a provider of portable and temporary traffic equipment, to 3i Infrastructure plc.
LDC backed the Cheshire-headquartered business in September 2019, investing GBP24 million to support the management team’s ambitious growth strategy. The exit generates a 5.7x money multiple for LDC on its original investment and an internal rate of return of 124 per cent.
Korea Investment Partners has led a EUR17.5 million Series B2 financing round in PDC*line Pharma, a clinical stage biotech company developing a new class of off-the-shelf lung cancer vaccine.
Less than two years after its EUR20M B1 round of fundraising, announced in January 2020, PDC*line Pharma has attracted new investors and secured a further capital increase of EUR11.8 million. In addition, the company has received a EUR5.7 million grant in repayable aid from the Walloon Region of Belgium, which has backed the company since its arrival in 2016. The company will therefore have raised a total of EUR37.5 million in
Inflexion has made a minority investment in WithWise (Wise), a software provider for logistics delivery firms serving the e-commerce sector. The investment is being made by Inflexion Enterprise Fund V.
The Wise platform is currently used by over 250 UK logistics firms and 14,000 self-employed drivers to manage everything from onboarding to document storage and compliance.
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has completed the acquisition of Time Manufacturing Holdings (Time Manufacturing) a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of vehicle-mounted aerial lifts for electric utility, telecommunications, infrastructure and forestry end markets.
The company provides equipment and services to support the specialised access needs of end customers around the world with nine manufacturing facilities and 30 distribution and service facilities globally.
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