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McDermott Will & Emery has advised Golub Capital LLC, as lender, on the cross-border financing of the acquisition by Pamplona Equity Partners of the Pelsis Group.
Headquartered in the UK with facilities worldwide, Pelsis provides a wide range of products for the commercial and retail pest control and garden care markets, including insect control, bird control, rodent control, and application equipment solutions. Its leading brand portfolio includes Insect-O-Cutor, Edialux, B&G, Synergetic, Pest-Stop, Agrisense, Curtis Dyna-Fog, Network, Luxan, Silvandersson, Green Protect, Spritex, A Green Way, Denka, P+L Systems Washroom and Tanaco.
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and credit
EQT’s EQT Mid Market Europe fund (EQT Private Equity) has agreed to sell Adamo Telecom (Adamo) to Ardian Infrastructure (Ardian).
Abris Capital Partners (Abris), a private equity investor in Central Europe, has launched its Climate Manifesto, setting out how it will reach carbon neutrality across its portfolio, prepare for net zero and ensure the firm and its portfolio companies lead the field in terms of sustainable investment.
The manifesto follows Abris’s announcement earlier this year of its ESG Universe 2023 strategy – a comprehensive program of environmental, social and governance initiatives that commits the firm to achieving a carbon neutral portfolio by 2025 – as well as the 2020 launch of its Scoring Application, a proprietary IT tool that tracks
Evendo, the global leader in the online social events market today announced the raising of USD4.7 million in a Series A funding round.
This will accelerate the company’s rapid expansion at a time where businesses and private individuals alike resume the planning and booking of social events online.
This comes after an explosive year of growth for Evendo which saw the company launch into 30 new markets across Europe, North America and Asia and see consistent 50 per cent-plus month-on-month growth since January 2021.
The over-subscribed Series A was led by Crafoord Capital Partners from Stockholm and includes a mixture
European credit investment firm AlbaCore Capital Group (AlbaCore), is making a sustainability-linked investment of up to USD200 million in Babylon Holdings Limited (Babylon), one of the world’s fastest-growing digital healthcare companies.
The interest rate on the notes is tied to the delivery of affordable healthcare to under-served populations.
The proceeds will provide Babylon with additional capital ranging from USD100 million to USD200 million of debt, with the investment level to be determined at Babylon’s option upon closing of the merger with Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp. (Alkuri), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. The merger is expected to close
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing useful, integrated software solutions, is to acquire TISSL, a supplier of point of sale (POS) solutions to the hospitality industry.
The acquisition strengthens ClearCourse’s offering in these sectors and provides further opportunity for integration of its ClearAccept platform. TISSL will join the Group’s Retail division. Following the deal, TISSL’s Founder Kevin Coetzee will step away from the leadership of the business to retire. He passes the role of Managing Director to Sam Peterson, formerly Finance Director of TISSL.
Founded in 2003, TISSL provides point of sale solutions to restaurants, cafes
Monroe Capital LLC today announced Sweta Chanda has joined the firm as Managing Director, Head of Business Strategy based in the firm’s New York office. She will be responsible for firmwide strategy, product and corporate development, and new initiatives to expand Monroe’s global footprint.
Prior to Monroe, Sweta was a Director at New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) within the Strategy and M&A team responsible for heading alternative investment strategy, where she helped launch a European Opportunistic Credit Fund, European CLO platform, GP Stakes Fund, and a Social Impact Fund amongst other strategic business development and growth opportunities for NYLIM.
Summa Equity has signed a definitive agreement to sell Lakers Group Holding (Lakers), an independent aftermarket service provider of water and wastewater pumps to Vestum AB (publ) (Vestum) for a total consideration of approximately SEK2 billion, of which cSEK250 million will be reinvested into Vestum.
Since Summa Equity’s acquisition of Lakers in 2018, the Company has grown rapidly through organic initiatives and a series of 14 acquisitions across the Nordic region, United Kingdom and Germany.
“Our investment in Lakers was founded in Summa Equity’s philosophy of investing to solve global challenges, and Lakers solves issues with our ageing water and
Cornami has completed an early close to its currently over-subscribed USD50 million Series C financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to market.
Others participating in this round include institutional investors as well as other existing investors and insiders.
FHE is a game-changer in cloud-computing security as it allows for extracting valuable data analytics without ever decrypting the data to expose the underlying plaintext data, whether it is sensitive intellectual property (IP), financial information, personally identifiable information (PII), intelligence insight, or beyond. The current costs and damages associated with the growing number of cybercrimes
Permira, a global private equity firm which backs tech-enabled businesses, has signed an agreement with software investment firm Thoma Bravo, to make a significant strategic investment in Motus, a reimbursement software platform for the anywhere workforce.
As part of the transaction, existing investor Thoma Bravo plans to reinvest and remain a significant investor in Motus. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Established in 2004, Motus provides end-to-end, proprietary software to simplify the reimbursement and management of vehicle, device and remote work costs, and is a pioneer of the IRS-approved fixed and variable rate (FAVR) reimbursement methodology. Following
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