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Seraphim Capital, a specialist investment group focused on the Space sector, has appointed Jan Wörner, former Director General of the European Space Agency, as Senior Advisor and Member of the firm’s Advisory Board.
Wörner has held a long and distinguished career in the Space sector. He served as the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), the highest-ranking official of the ESA, for over five years between 2015 to 2021 and served as Chairman of the ESA Council from 2012 to 2014. Wörner led an ambitious technology strategy for Europe to strengthen its position in an increasingly competitive global
Private investment firm Rcapital has acquired Patrick Parsons, provider of multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy services to commercial, industrial and housing developers.
Patrick Parsons focusses on helping clients assess, design and overcome the most complex of engineering challenges across a range of sectors. Operating from four sites – its HQ in Birmingham, London, Wakefield and Ashvale – the business provides a range of connected engineering services including Structural, Civil and Geo-Environmental consulting engineering services, competences the firm has developed over many years, and for which it has built a strong industry reputation.
Despite the pandemic, the business has seen a strong
Technimark, a leading global provider of custom rigid plastic packaging solutions to healthcare, consumer packaging and specialty industrial customers, today announced the completion of a new growth investment from Oak Hill Capital Partners, an investment firm with experience growing manufacturing companies.
Oak Hill’s investment will provide significant capital to support Technimark’s continued market expansion and robust growth. Pritzker Private Capital (PPC), which partnered with Technimark management in 2014, will retain a significant minority investment and will continue to be actively involved in growing the business. Transaction details were not disclosed.
Over the course of its successful, multi-year partnership with PPC,
Foresight Group Holdings Limited (Foresight), a an infrastructure and private equity manager, has held a further interim close for Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP), a sustainability-led energy infrastructure fund investing predominantly in Europe, with commitments of cEUR716 million.
Including co-investments to date of EUR170 million, this represents a total capital pool of cEUR886 million for Foresight’s energy transition strategy.
The close sees a total of cEUR285 million of new commitments from investors since the interim close announced in January 2021. These investors include LCIV Renewable Infrastructure Fund, the newly formed investment Fund managed by London LGPS CIV Ltd, and other
Victoria Plum has secured a GBP7 million flexible facility from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance to support further growth, following record sales by the company.
The specialist online bathroom retailer, owned by private equity fund Endless, reported GBP103m in sales in its 20th anniversary year, up 46 per cent on the previous 12 months.
EBITDA reached GBP4.5 million, an increase of 115 per cent on the previous year, and the workforce grew by 49, taking total employee numbers to 398 in February 2021.
Over the course of last year, Victoria Plum launched a bathroom design and installation service
Utilising distributed ledger technology (DLT) to better streamline and connect the private equity ecosystem and assets, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has released the latest evolution of its Private Market Hub platform, using Amazon Managed Blockchain from Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS).
The updated platform, the industry’s first deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market, now has added connectivity to existing industry tools and technologies to help further automate workflows between front-, middle- and back-office functions providing a consistent, secure, real-time view of the data.
“We are leveraging blockchain technology to drive further innovation, removing industry friction
Phoenix American, a transfer agent and fund administrator for alternative investment sponsors, and Forge Trust, a provider of custody services for alternative investments, have announced a partnership to make it easier for IRA account holders to invest in alternative assets.
Forge Trust provides custody services with preferred pricing and a streamlined integrated experience to clients of Phoenix American. The partnership will enable Phoenix American client sponsors/issuers to offer their investors access to custody services for their qualified investment funds at rates that greatly reduce the typical effect custody costs have on net investment returns. Investors will also benefit from Forge
Perwyn has appointed Chris Pape as Portfolio Director and member of the the firm’s Portfolio Committee. Pape will be based in Perwyn’s London office but will operate across our portfolio.
Andrew Wynn, Founder and Managing Partner, says: “Chris is a great addition to the team and both sides of our business, Private Equity and Growth Capital, will benefit from his considerable expertise in supporting corporates and their management teams on the value-creation journey. This includes strategic growth projects, M&A, integration, upgrading systems & processes and refinancing projects. His input will be highly beneficial to help us scale our engaged partnership
Global cyber security and software resilience business, NCC Group, has completed its acquisition of Iron Mountain’s Intellectual Property Management (IPM) business in a GBP156 million deal providing immediate additional scale to the Group’s Software Resilience business in North America.
Together, the two businesses will offer a rich, complementary set of resilience services to customers including a full suite of software verification services and the Group’s cloud resilience proposition: Escrow-as-a-Service (EaaS).
In addition to organic growth across the recurring revenue base of IPM, the acquisition represents a compelling opportunity for the Group’s Assurance and Software Resilience divisions to benefit from revenue
Howard Watt, a venture capital lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in providing corporate and commercial advice to funds, investors, entrepreneurs, start-ups and high growth companies, has joined Fladgate.
Watt advises both funds and investee companies with deal experience that ranges from early/seed stage investments and spanning the full life cycle of Series A-D, through to M&A and IPO exits for venture-backed companies.
He is recognised in the latest Legal 500 and Chambers guides as a leading individual in his field. Watt also spent six years as in-house counsel to a major European growth venture fund and so has significant
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