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Private Equity Wire speaks to Ian Connatty, managing director of funds at British Patient Capital. The conversation centred around BPC´s new GBP375 million ‘Future Fund: Breakthrough,’ how it aims to accelerate the growth of R&D-intensive businesses, and the recent growth of unicorns in the UK and Europe.
EFA, a provider of administrative services to the funds industry in Luxembourg, has selected NeoXam’s Impress Regulatory Edition to help meet its regulatory goals.
The management team at musical instrument retailer GAK has completed a management buyout (MBO) following investment from Risk Capital Partners, with the support of specialist business advisory firm FRP.
Brighton-based GAK was founded in 1992 by CEO Gary Marshall, and is a leading musical instrument retailer, supplying a wide range of guitars, amps, drums, keyboards and music production software.
The business is now preparing for a period of growth, having been acquired by co-managing directors Max McKellar and Ian Stephens, with investment from Risk Capital Partners, which becomes the majority shareholder.
FRP Corporate Finance led the transaction, which will allow
PwC has added to Business Restructuring Services (BRS) team with the appointment of Rob Asplin as a senior adviser.
Asplin brings two decades’ of expertise in the restructuring and private equity sectors, specialising in protecting and creating value in turnaround situations. Previously he has been a partner in a special situations Fund; a Portfolio Chief Restructuring Officer; a Non-Executive Director and he has held senior roles in Corporate Finance and banking.
His appointment at PwC will centre on supporting UK businesses of all sizes to maximise value through the critical post-Covid recovery period. Asplin will be particularly focused on working
Perwyn has appointed Mike Rothwell as an Associate. He will be based in Perwyn’s London office and will sit in the Perwyn Growth Capital team, which has had a record year in 2021.
This is the fourth hire Perwyn has made this year as the business continues to expand.
Rothwell joins Perwyn from BDO, where he has been a Senior Manager, with technology being a key focus right across his career. In his role at BDO, Rothwell was a member of their M&A TMT team, focusing on mid-market technology deals. Rothwell has worked on a number of high profile transactions,
Global law firm Paul Hastings has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on a comprehensive financing package to support its investment in Iver Holding AB alongside management and other shareholders.
Headquartered in Stockholm, the Iver group specialises in IT outsourcing and multi-cloud solutions.
The European leveraged finance team at Paul Hastings advised ICG on all aspects of the debt financing process, including the establishment of committed term and revolving facilities to support the ongoing growth and expansion of the Iver group.
A multi-disciplinary Paul Hastings team was led by London based finance partner Luke McDougall together with finance partner
Oon & Bazul (Oon & Bazul), one of Singapore’s largest conflict-free law firms and a leading commercial legal practice, has promoted Ng Yi Wayn to Head of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Practice with immediate effect.
Ng joined the firm on 15 September 2020 as a Partner of the firm’s Corporate Practice (specialising in Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments, and Venture Capital). Her new appointment as Head of M&A will see Ng manage and lead a team of lawyers in providing comprehensive legal expertise on the full spectrum of corporate and M&A transactions, from the initial structuring and strategising stages
Elvie, a global health and lifestyle brand developing products for women, has extended its Series C funding with a further GBP12.7 million (USD17.5 million) investment.
This investment – an extension to the initial Series C funding announced in July 2021 – takes Elvie’s total Series C to GBP70 million (USD97 million).
Founded in 2013 by CEO Tania Boler, Elvie brings together a team of world-class engineers, designers and business minds to develop extraordinary products that improve women’s lives – revolutionising categories which had been overlooked for many years, including breast pumps and pelvic floor health.
The Series C
Ogier has acted as British Virgin Islands counsel on NASDAQ-listed Kismet Acquisition One Corp’s merger with Cyprus-based Nexters Global Limited, in a SPAC business combination valuing Nexters at an enterprise value of USD1.9 billion.
The deal, initially signed at the end of January this year, closed on 27 August following the prior approval of Kismet’s shareholders.
The acquisition price was settled in a combination of shares in a new NASDAQ listed BVI company, Nexters Inc, which will hold the merged business, and an additional USD132 million in cash, which will effectively be reinvested in the business to develop new games
Private equity investment platform Moonfare has surpassed EUR1 billion assets under management, a critical milestone for the company. It took just under three years to raise the first EUR500 million and then only eight months to double that amount.
Global wealth management faces disruption as private markets open access for individual investors. Private markets investments – such as private equity and venture capital funds – are seeing massive inflows as investors are looking for yield and inflation protection.
Affluent individual investors are increasingly demanding access to private asset classes that were previously only accessible to institutions.
According to consulting firm
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