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Mogrify Limited (Mogrify), a biopharmaceutical company aiming to transform the development of ex vivo cell therapies and pioneer a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapies, has held the second closing of its Series A financing of USD17 million, bringing the total raised to USD33 million in this round.
The funding will support the advancement of Mogrify’s immuno-oncology and ophthalmology programs, as well as continued platform development and the exploration of cell reprogramming for novel therapeutic application.
This second close of the Company’s Series A was led by Parkwalk Advisors and incorporates additional funding from strategic Corporate Pharma investor Astellas Venture
FCDE is to sell Babcock Wanson to Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, which will invest in the transaction alongside the existing management team.
Following the completion of this sale, Kartesia will take control of a solid pan-European group, transformed and restructured since the 2016 carve out from its previous shareholder.
Babcock Wanson is a major European provider of industrial process heating equipment and solutions (primarily boilers and burners) and in the supply of high value-added associated services. The Group is well positioned to capitalise on a growing market, as the supportive regulatory
Law firm Seward & Kissel represented opportunistic credit manager Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with its strategic partnership with York Capital Management to form Generate Advisors.
Under the partnership agreement, York’s approximately USD4 billion Collateral Loan Obligation (CLO) business and team, led by Rizwan Akhter, will transition to Generate Advisors and continue to manage York’s current CLO portfolio as well as any future CLOs issued by Generate Advisors.
Kennedy Lewis will be investing in Generate Advisors and has committed at least USD200 million of capital to be invested in the equity of Generate Advisors’ future CLOs litigation. The firm’s
Ultimus Fund Solutions (Ultimus), an independent technology driven provider of full-service fund administration, accounting, and investor solutions, has appointed industry veteran Frank Anduiza as Executive Vice President, Head of Private Fund Sales, for Ultimus LeverPoint, the firm’s private fund administration services group.
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Percival Menswear, a London-based contemporary menswear fashion brand, has secured a further GBP3 million investment from growth capital investor VGC Partners, following an initial investment of GBP150,000 in 2018.
The Hackney-based brand, which employs eight people, has set itself apart in recent years by creating collections that subvert the classics of the male wardrobe. This includes featuring in the David Beckham Eyewear campaign and curating a custom tour wardrobe of Niall Horan, as well as more recently collaborating with Brighton-based artist and illustrator Sophy Hollington.
Percival, led by creative director, Chris Gove, and head of marketing, Terry Donovan, utilised
New State Capital Partners (New State) has closed its third institutional investment fund, New State Capital Partners Fund III with USD450 million in committed capital.
The Fund was over-subscribed and closed on schedule at its hard cap in about four months after the official launch.
Fund III’s investors are comprised of a diverse and global group of public and private pension funds, consultants, endowments, foundations, funds of funds, and family offices. New State completed the fundraise of its second institutional fund in March 2018 with USD255 million of capital commitments and currently has USD1.2 billion in assets under management.
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New Zealand based legal tech startup for in-house legal teams, LawVu, has raised USD1.8 million USD in venture funding co-led from Silicon Valley based, Shasta Ventures and AirTree Ventures in Australia.
The raise was also supported by New Zealand based NZ Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP) and existing investors.
LawVu will use the investment to continue its growth into the US and Australian markets, a global industry worth USD500 billion USD, with the US market being USD160 billion USD alone. The complexity and volume of work in-house legal teams are doing is skyrocketing and LawVu is solving that problem by offering
EW Healthcare Partners (EW) has acquired a majority stake in Laboratoires Majorelle (Majorelle) from its Founders to support its growth and European expansion in line with the Founders’ strategy.
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses, has combined TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, and Imagine Software, a real-time risk and compliance software platform.
The combined company, TS Imagine, will be a dynamic end-to-end trading and portfolio management software platform for connecting the investment management industry with a network of brokers, banks and exchanges.
Francisco Partners says the the combination creates one of the most robust SaaS cloud-based software platforms in capital markets and investment management, bringing integrated and complete front office solutions, complementary product capabilities, best-in-class
The value of UK buyout deals by high-net worth investors (HNWs) shot up by 626 per cent in 2020, rising from GBP132 million in 2019 to GBP958 million, says Boodle Hatfield, the leading private wealth law firm. The increasing number of buyout deals led or co-funded by HNWs goes against the overall decline in deal value across the wider private equity market over the same period.
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