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The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has launched a new market segment, TISE Sustainable, and joined the United Nations’ Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (UN SSE).
With sustainable finance gathering momentum, TISE is seeking to play a greater role in facilitating the financing of a sustainable future. TISE has established the new segment as a comprehensive and reputable enabler for increased capital allocation towards environmental, social or sustainable activities, while committing to promoting sustainability performance and transparency in the capital markets as part of becoming a Partner Exchange of the UN SSE.
Cees Vermaas, CEO of TISE, says: “TISE is committed
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has added to its investment team with the appointment of Ben Pitt as an investment associate.
After spending the last four years with EY as a corporate finance executive, Pitt takes up the position of investment associate with YFM, supporting the origination and execution of new investments across both growth capital and buyout opportunities.
The recruitment follows YFM’s continued growth including the recent GBP5 million investment in the MBO of RGE services in Essex; and the GBP4 million growth capital investment in the Bournemouth-based film visual effects company Outpost VFX, as well as the successful
Global investment solutions provider Russell Investments has launched its second Private Markets Fund focusing on a growth strategy, following the successful closing of Russell Investments Private Markets Fund 2019 last year, which raised USD185 million.
Utilising Russell Investments’ open-architecture structure and fund selection capabilities, Private Markets Fund 2021 LLC will seek to provide UK professional investors including wealth managers, family offices, insurance companies and pension funds with opportunistic exposure to attractive private markets segments, predominantly in the US and Europe.
The Fund will be comprised of up to twenty “best-of-breed” opportunities across a range of private markets segments, each with
Project A co-invests in Perfect Drive Sports Group (PDSG), Europe’s largest eCommerce company for golf equipment.
PDSG consolidates two brands under one roof – Clubhouse Golf in the UK and All4Golf in Germany. The group is the leading online retailer of golf equipment in the UK and the German-speaking region.
Project A’s involvement in PDSG is a private equity co-investment, made in collaboration with Bregal Unternehmerkapital, which acquired a majority of PDSG earlier this year.
Ben Fischer, General Partner at Project A, states: “The Perfect Drive Sport Group has shown strong growth in the highly fragmented European market for golf
A new report from Invest Europe, an association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, shows that European private equity strongly outperformed listed equity benchmarks to the end of 2020, underlining the industry’s resilience during the Covid-19 crisis and its consistent ability to support the long-term investors that guarantee the pensions and savings of European citizens.
The Performance of European Private Equity Benchmark Report 2020, a transparent study of private equity returns, tracks Buy-Out, Growth Capital and Venture Capital funds over more than three decades to create a comprehensive picture of industry performance.
Inflexion has announced a number of promotions within its team, reflecting their contribution to the business as well as Inflexion’s commitment to developing its talent.
The promotions follow an active first half of the year which has seen Inflexion complete 11 investments and six exits whilst supporting its portfolio to complete 47 acquisitions.
Richard Booth, Sergio Ferrarini, Jon Ma and Sarah Gestetner have all been promoted to Partner. Richard has made a significant contribution to the Industrials team, particularly with respect to Aspen Pumps, Huws Gray and Marley. Sergio joined Inflexion in 2019 and plays a key role in
EXCEL Esports (EXCEL), a leading British esports franchise competing in League of Legends, Fortnite and VALORANT, has secured EUR20 million (GBP17 million) in new equity capital.
This financing round was led by investment firm JRJ Group which first acquired a majority shareholding in 2018 alongside TOMS Capital LLC, the family office of Noam Gottesman. Amongst the new investors joining them are IPGL Ltd, the family office of Michael Spencer; the family office of Alan Howard; and the international private equity firm TNF Investments.
EXCEL has rapidly grown into a top name in competitive gaming, most notably as a founding partner
StepEx, the only FCA-regulated fintech startup that provides affordable student finance based on future earnings rather than debt, has raised GBP1.1 million in pre-seed funding.
This follows an earlier angel investment of GBP270,000. Backed by BBVA Anthemis Venture Partnership, Triple Point Ventures, and prominent angel investors — including renowned fintech investor Chris Adelsbach — the money will primarily fund further development of the company’s machine learning model and user platform, as well as expansion of the senior team.
Only two per cent of the population can afford to take on the cost of pursuing a top postgraduate qualification. StepEx aims to widen
Certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management are to acquire a majority stake in Reno De Medici SpA (RDM), a leading producer of recycled cartonboard in Europe.
Apollo Funds will acquire approximately 67 per cent equity ownership in RDM from the Company’s top two shareholders, Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS) and Caisse de dépot et placement du Québec for EUR1.45 per share (with no adjustments, save as further detailed below), representing a 24 per cent premium to the 90-day volume weighted average share price. The closing of the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions as further detailed
DWS has launched its new institutional ESG Infrastructure Debt Fund (EIDF), which will focus on European sustainability themed infrastructure sectors which contribute towards making society and economies more sustainable.
ESG will play a key factor in all strategic allocations for the fund, targeting sectors including: renewable energy, digital, energy efficiency/utilities, clean mobility/transportation and social infrastructure. It will make 10-15 private infrastructure debt investments (loans and notes) with circa 70 per cent across senior debt, and circa 30 per cent in junior debt with a positive ESG contribution essential for the investment decision making process. With the aim to deliver sustainable
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