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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
BSW Timber Ltd (BSW), a UK-based integrated forestry and sawmilling group, has been acquired by Binderholz.
The deal is subject to normal closing conditions and approval from the Austrian Competition Commission and UK Financial Conduct Authority.
Binderholz is a significant global sawmiller and producer of value added products, including cross laminated timber, Glulam beams, solid wood panels, pressed pallet blocks, wood pellets and briquettes. The business has demonstrated a solid consistent growth, now operating in Austria, Germany, Finland and the USA.
Under the leadership of CEO Tony Hackney, BSW will integrate with Binderholz. ”Our Management teams accross the business units
OakNorth Bank has provided a GBP19 million loan to Sullivan Street Partners, to fund the acquisition of Osborne Infrastructure.
Part of Geoffrey Osborne Group, a family-owned business founded in 1966, Osborne Infrastructure is a leading Tier 1 civil engineering and transport infrastructure business, with core geographies in London, the South-East & Midlands. Its services range from minor maintenance works to the delivery of flagship infrastructure projects. As a highly agile and innovative business with a focus on Rail and Highways it has built strong and longstanding relationships of over 35 years with key clients, including: Network Rail, National Highways, Connect
Intelligent property search portal property.xyz has secured a seed round of angel investment of GBOP268,000 from eleven, experienced investors in the fields of technology, finance and real estate.
Co-founders Robert Jones and Dr Simone Di Cola started development on property xyz in 2019, which entered a beta phase in August 2020. With the portal having been vigorously user-tested by agents, homebuilders, property investors and buy-to-let landlords the next year of the roadmap has now been announced. This includes plans to allow investors to place ‘bids’ and ‘buy now’ on properties selected by agents with both on and off-market property investments,
Northgate has closed its ninth venture fund of funds at its hard cop. NVP IX was launched in May 2020 to provide Northgate’s limited partners exposure to a highly concentrated portfolio of access-constrained venture capital firms.
“The NVP IX portfolio represents one of the most concentrated and core-focused portfolios we’ve ever put together in our 20 years of deploying capital,” says Brent Jones, Co-Founder and Partner at Northgate. Tommy Vardell, Co-Founder and Partner added, “It is an incredible vintage and roster of GPs and we are excited to see how it performs against both fund-of-fund competitors as well as against
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