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UNNOX GROUP, a portfolio company of the Iberian private equity firm Sherpa Capital, has completed – along with the Turkish masterbatch company AKSOY PLASTIC – the creation of a joint-venture UNNOX AKSOY.
UNNOX AKSOY will commercialise and distribute both product portfolios of AKSOY PLASTIC and UNNOX GROUP in the Middle East and Eastern European markets.
AKSOY PLASTIK, founded in 1982, is a renowned manufacturer of color and additive masterbatch based in Istanbul. The company offers its clients a wide array of high-end, personalised products both for the colour and additive masterbatch segments.
The creation of UNNOX AKSOY is part of
Substantive Research, a research discovery and research spend analytics provider for the buy-side, has completed a study examining how market share is changing in the investment research industry and which firms make up the list of highest paid providers in the industry.
Substantive Research analysed research budgets of buy-side firms representing a total of USD6 trillion in Assets Under Management (AUM).
Expert networks make it into the top 20 for the first time, with GLG and Third Bridge in positions eight and 14 respectively. It’s clear the pandemic created a surge in interest, how structural these market changes are will
Aquila Capital’s second “Aquila Capital Transformation Award” recognises Dr Ning Yan, assistant professor at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.
A high-profile jury awarded the lead author for the paper “A membrane-free flow electrolyser operating at high current density using earth abundant catalysts for water splitting”. The annual Aquila Capital Transformation Award supports research for mitigating climate change and is endowed with EUR20,000.
The jury concluded that Ning Yan and his team presented an exciting and innovative way how green hydrogen can be produced more cost-efficiently and at larger scale by combining
Asterion Industrial Partners, an independent investment management firm focused on European infrastructure in the mid-market, has partnered with MS3, a provider of full fibre services to homes and businesses.
For some time, the VCT and EIS fund industry has wrestled with balancing the tax and investment aspects of its products. Unfortunately, the former is easier to articulate, and usually ends up being emphasised over the latter. A new white paper from Hardman & Co, ‘How much should clients invest in venture capital?’ firmly tips the balance back in favour of the investment case.
It applies a rigorous approach, using standard asset allocation methods to show that, for most investors, the best portfolio includes some venture capital, even without any tax reliefs. This can raise expected returns for clients. Importantly,
A few weeks after the acquisition of the Daudin group, a specialist in the manufacture of mobile living facilities, the GSCM group (Groupe Solfab Constructions Modulaires) has completed the acquisition of Deltamod, a specialist in the reuse of modular buildings.
Since its creation in 2013, Deltamod has given a second life to modular buildings by reconditioning them and selling them as second hand. Operational know-how combined with complementary services such as dismantling, transport, reinstallation and recovery of old modular buildings, makes Deltamod a mature and experienced player within the reuse market. Faced with the many challenges of the construction industry
Tricor Group (Tricor), an Asian business expansion specialist, has received regulatory approval and completed its acquisition of NZGT Holding Company Limited (NZGT Holdings) together with its wholly owned subsidiaries The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Limited (Guardian Trust) and Covenant Trustee Services Limited (Covenant) from Complectus Limited.
Tricor is the largest pure-play corporate services platform in Asia Pacific, serving over 50,000 client entities across its 21-market footprint. A positive move for Guardian Trust and Covenant, this acquisition will see the group and its New Zealand clients benefit from Tricor’s significant financial backing and global best practices.
Guardian Trust and Covenant
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Fund (NPIF), has invested a six-figure funding package in Margin Guardian Ltd (MG), a platform that provides fashion retailers with data insight and targeting services.
Funds will allow the business to invest in its platform, commercialise and develop an android version of its app, in addition to the iOS version, as well as fuel its marketing activities.
Headquartered in Liverpool, MG has built a platform that provides retailers with unique data insights – such as price, viewed products and saved products – direct
AEW, a global real estate investment manager, has launched a new value-add Spanish logistics partnership, RELOG, with EUR150 million of equity commitments from the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and Migdal Insurance.
AEW intends to build RELOG into a large-scale Spanish logistics platform. The initial commitments provide cEUR400 million of investment capital which will target infill and last-mile assets that accommodate the growing demand from retailers and third-party logistics providers for well-located space close to urban populations following a fundamental shift in consumer habits.
AEW and Vega Partners, RELOG’s local operating partner, have completed the first acquisition on
Mandarin Capital Partners (MCP) III, a Private Equity fund specialising in investments in Italian export-oriented SMEs, has closed the combination of three companies active in the sector of bakery machinery for shops, patisseries, and pizzerias.
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