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Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has already reached its target to match the successful previous fund raising for its infrastructure debt platform, the fifth vintage having raised to date more than EUR1.2 billion.
Online travel operator, Travcorp Holdings Ltd has raised GBP3.7 million in equity funding, led by growth capital investor BGF.
The Chester-headquartered company specialises in packaged holidays and hotels via its consumer brands – Destination2.co.uk and HolidayGems.co.uk.
The two brands service a diverse holiday market, from premium, long-haul holidays to destinations such as Barbados, Dubai and the Maldives, to low-cost, short-haul packages to locations, including the Canary Islands, Balearics, Turkey and Greece.
BGF’s backing, which will be supported by a significant co-investment by Travcorp’s management team, will enable the business to continue to invest heavily in technology, marketing and
UK M&A activity slowed in September after a period of increasingly intensive takeover activity between April and August, according to new data release by Peel Hunt.
Värde Partners has promoted Deputy Chief Investment Officers (CIOs) Brad Bauer and Giuseppe Naglieri to join Ilfryn Carstairs as Co-CIOs.
Bauer and Naglieri will share oversight of Värde’s global investment activity with Ilfryn, who is also Co-CEO.
“This is important recognition of the strong leadership that Brad and Giuseppe are already providing alongside me in the CIO function,” says Ilfryn. “Together with Jon Fox as President and Andy Lenk as Deputy CEO, this group represents a cohesive and experienced global leadership team for the firm.”
Based in London, Bauer joined Värde in 2007, was named partner in 2013,
Privilege Finance, one of the dedicated, specialist Finance Arrangers to Prestige Funds, is leading a GBP17 million project in Attleborough, Norfolk, UK which will see the town become one of the first to be supplied mainly with green gas.
The landmark green energy infrastructure project will see 100,000 tonnes of food waste collected from local households and business and processed by an anaerobic digestion plant. This will produce green gas for 4,000 homes in Attleborough.
The project includes the financing of four digestion tanks, a food waste reception hall and depackaging unit, plus a gas upgrader. Construction is anticipated to
Ocorian, a financial services group and provider of fund, corporate, capital markets and private client services has completed the acquisition of Nordic Trustee, a provider of trustee and agency services for bonds and direct lending in the Nordic region.
This transaction reflects Ocorian’s strategy to further build its capital markets offering, one of its fastest growing business lines.
Nordic Trustee will continue to be led by CEO Cato A Holmsen and a highly experienced management team. The team will continue to run Nordic Trustee’s business and secure the company’s role as an independent and market leading bond trustee
The number of UK pharmacy M&A transactions has jumped 26 per cent to 408 in the last year, up from 325 the year before, says UHY Hacker Young, the national accountancy group.
Pharmacies were one of few sectors to benefit from a surge in customer demand during the pandemic. As one of the few designated “essential retailers”, they were also allowed to remain open throughout lockdown.
Sales of PPE, along with Covid testing has opened up a whole new business lines for pharmacies. This has not only increased their appetite amongst pharmacies to acquire smaller operators but also made pharmacies
SkyCell – a Swiss pharma-tech company manufacturing smart containers enabling the safe, secure, and sustainable transportation of pharmaceutical products – has secured USD34.8 million (CHF 32 million) in Series C funding.
The round – a combination of equity and debt financing – included DisruptAD (the venture capital arm of Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund ADQ), SHUAA Capital psc, and China-based and Zurich-based family offices with strategically important networks. Existing investor Mobiliar, the oldest private insurance company in Switzerland, also participated with follow-on funding.
Founded in Switzerland in 2012, SkyCell designs and manufactures smart containers that allow pharmaceutical companies to predict, reduce, and control the
Sequential Skin Ltd, a UK/Singapore biotech start-up has raised USD1.65 million in its oversubscribed seed round – to revolutionise the future of skin health.
The round was led by Metaplanet, and supported by Scrum Ventures, SOSV, Genedant, and angel investor, Ben Holmes (ex General Partner at Index Ventures). This latest investment brings the total venture funding raised by Sequential Skin to USD2.15 million in 2021.
The investment will be used to extend their B2B offering to skincare, haircare and healthcare companies, adding to the twelve major clients currently using Sequential Skin. Sequential Skin will also be rolling out their consumer
QED Investors, a global venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies, has named Tommy Blanchard as its Chief Operating Officer.
Blanchard joins QED from Capital One where he spent a total of 20 years, most recently as managing vice president, business analysis in Capital One’s Commercial Bank.
“Tommy is a consummate professional with remarkable people skills,” says QED Investors Managing Partner and Co-Founder Nigel Morris. “He has a phenomenal mind when it comes to articulating process and mission. His experience will be invaluable in helping us scale QED.
“Tommy is a trusted and authentic general manager
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