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Biotechnology company AlgaeCytes Limited is to build its first commercial plant in Dessau, Saxon-Anhalt, Germany. The plant will be owned and operated by the Company’s German subsidiary, AlgaeCytes Germany GmbH.
The production facility will be a state-of-the-art site housing AlgaCytes’s unique algae-based technology to produce natural, vegetarian, traceable high potency algal EPA, beta-carotene and agricultural crop biostimulant from sustainable sources to serve the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and food verticals.
Total Investment on this project is expected to exceed EUR50 million, of which more than EUR11 million is secured through Gemeinschaftsaufgabe, GRW. GRW is a major program issued by the Federal
By 2022, the level of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity involving technology providers will surpass previous highs recorded in 2018, according to Gartner, Inc.
Acquisitions of tech providers were briefly impacted in 2020 by the onset of the pandemic, but M&A activity quickly rebounded into 2021 as the economy began to recover.
“Market conditions for deal making will continue to improve as volatility stemming from Covid-19 subsides,” says Max Azaham, senior research director at Gartner. “Tech CEOs pursuing acquisitions should anticipate increased competition for targets and take steps to gain advantages over other acquirers to earn seller acceptance.”
OMERS Private Equity is to acquire a 25 per cent stake in International Schools Partnership (ISP) from Partners Group. OMERS Private Equity invests on behalf of OMERS, a defined benefit pension plan for municipal employees in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The transaction values ISP at an enterprise value of EUR1.9 billion.
Assured Guaranty (Europe) SA (AGE), an indirect subsidiary of Assured Guaranty, has guaranteed principal and interest payments on approximately EUR125 million of bonds issued on 21 May 2021 by Anselma Issuer SA, an entity owned by Qualitas Venture Capital.
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Investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP), a middle-market focused private equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, have completed an investment in Nivel Parts & Manufacturing (Nivel), sold by funds managed by Kelso & Company. MSCP is partnering with the current management team led by Brent Moore, who will remain as CEO.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, Nivel is the leading manufacturer and supplier of branded aftermarket parts for personal transportation vehicles, utility terrain vehicles and heavy-duty equipment. The Company offers over 100,000 SKUs in accessories and maintenance parts across the full vehicle lifecycle to a diversified customer
Middle-market private equity firm HKW’s portfolio company, Traductions Serge Bélair Inc (TRSB), has acquired Anglocom. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1993, Anglocom is based in Quebec City and is a full-service translation company. The in-house teams of French and English translators specialise in high-profile corporate communications for industries like advertising, government, ministries, financial institutions, universities, museums, retailers, and more.
“We are proud to welcome Anglocom to the TRSB family,” says Mary Kazamias, CEO, TRSB. “Anglocom’s talent and professionalism align well with TRSB and strengthens our service offering. We are excited by how the
Faculty, a British artificial intelligence (AI) company, has raised GBP30 million in growth funding from the Apax Digital Fund (ADF). It is the largest investment Faculty has accepted to date, and brings total investment to nearly GBP40 million.
The funding will be used to drive the expansion of Faculty’s pioneering “AI as a Service” model. From helping companies optimise marketing spend and more accurately forecasting demand for consumer goods, to predicting pressures on the healthcare system during a pandemic, Faculty’s “AI as a Service” model can be applied to a broad range of problems for both public and private sector
Global private equity firm Advent International (Advent) is in exclusive negotiations with ICG for the sale of its stake in Circet, a European telecoms infrastructure services company.
As part of the potential deal, Circet’s founding team and managers will further increase their stakes in their company.
Circet provides its customers with turnkey solutions and tailored services across both fixed and mobile telecoms networks. Circet’s customers include major telecom operators and equipment manufacturers, local authorities, as well as public and private organisations operating their own infrastructure networks. Circet’s long-term growth potential is supported by the ever increasing consumption of data across
By Gopi Krishnan, VP & managing partner, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd and Siddharth Raghuvanshi, manager of strategy, alliances & partnership, Consumer Domain & Consulting Practice at Wipro Ltd – Historically, private equity firms have always shown interest in retail. For instance, in the US itself, private equity firms have invested in over 80 major retailers in the past decade.
Private equity firms have been behind the buyouts of some of the most well-known names in the retail sector and invested huge sums of money to buy a retailer, take it private, turnaround the business only to
Increasing levels of activity from venture and private equity funds over the last 12 months has continued into 2021 with significant interest from new managers looking to launch their first fund in Guernsey, according to Ogier’s funds team in Guernsey.
The team recently acted as lead counsel to Reference Capital SA, a new manager in Guernsey, on the formation and registration of Reference Seed Fund I LP in Guernsey as a private investment fund (PIF) and on its initial and subsequent close.
Ogier’s team — partner Tim Clipstone, managing associate Richard Doyle and legal assistant James Dickinson — advised Reference on all
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