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Emmes, a global, full-service Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) dedicated to supporting the advancement of public health and biopharmaceutical innovation and a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, has acquired Orphan Reach, a CRO specialised in clinical research related to rare diseases.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
This marks Emmes’ second acquisition since Behrman’s investment in 2019 and builds on its recent acquisition of Neox SRO (Neox) in December 2020. Founded nearly 20 years ago, Orphan Reach has its headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices in Ireland, Germany, India, Canada, and the United States. The acquisition expands
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made a majority investment in Resource Innovations, a provider of demand-side management, energy efficiency, and energy consulting services.
Concurrent with BV’s investment, Resource Innovations is combining with energy software and consulting firm Nexant, Inc, to provide energy and software solutions for utilities and commercial, industrial, and residential energy consumers.
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Resource Innovations’ services to utilities in the US include portfolio administration, program implementation, public sector outreach, planning & design services
Cottle will focus on the finance aspects of cross-border and domestic financial restructurings, special situations funding and complex direct loans.
Praetura Group, the Manchester-based debt and equity capital provider to northern SMEs, provided more than GBP75 million of funding to SMEs in the first quarter of 2021, with demand continuing to rise.
The lending division of the Praetura Group, which comprises Praetura Commercial Finance and the Praetura Asset Finance Group, has seen its highest quarterly lending levels since it was founded in 2011.
Praetura Commercial Finance, which provides asset-based lending (ABL) solutions to SMEs, has enjoyed its best quarter to date, having completed transactions totalling GBP50.5 million in Q1 2021. All of these deals were management buyouts (MBOs) and
Drawbridge, a provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, has appointed Darrell Tucker as Managing Director, Client Services. Tucker will join the Drawbridge Executive Team and be responsible for managing global client engagement, identifying methods to enhance the overall client experience for Drawbridge platform users and driving customer success.
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Johan Blomquist has been elected as a new Board member at Nordstjernan AB.
Blomquist, born 1978, holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has previously worked at Altor Equity Partners (2005-2018) and Goldman Sachs (2004-2005). He is currently a private investor with experience in technology-related companies such as Trustly, Tink, Telavox, Gelato, Estrid and Kognity.
“We are very pleased that Johan has decided to join the Board. He has solid experience of investments in a wide range of industries and from being part of a successful investment organisation. In addition, he will bring in-depth expertise in technology-related
Omnio, a Banking-as-a-Service specialist, has closed a EUR30 million funding round led by pan-European venture fund GrayBella Capital.
Omniom a high-growth pre-IPO banking infrastructure leader based in London, will pursue its organic Pan-European growth strategy including selected acquisitions in its core markets.
Omnio offers a white-label, highly scalable service and is the secret ingredient that transforms retail banking. Omnio empowers smaller financial institutions, including credit unions and building societies to compete vigorously with their larger, tech-enabled rivals, and large brand driven corporations (non-banks) to deliver state-of-the art financial and loyalty products as part of their digital ecosystem. This is disrupting
Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners (SFW) has completed a majority recapitalisation of Granite River Labs (GRL), a specialist in test and certification services and automated test solutions for digital connectivity and charging technologies.
Co-founders Johnson Tan and Quintin Anderson will continue to lead the business and remain significant shareholders. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Santa Clara, California-based GRL specialises in helping product developers implement the latest connectivity and charging interfaces – such as USB, Qi wireless charging, Ethernet, and PCI Express – in a rapidly expanding universe of connected devices and applications, including consumer
Perceptive Advisors, an investment management firm focused on the life sciences sector, has held the first and final closing of Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund II (PXV Fund II) with USD515 million in capital commitments.
The close of PXV Fund II more than triples the firm’s assets under management to USD725 million in less than two years since the closing of the inaugural PXV Fund I, which launched Perceptive’s early-stage venture fund strategy. PXV Fund II includes existing investors from the inaugural fund, new investors including top-tier asset managers, endowments, foundations, family offices, and notable individual investors, and all of the
Velocity Capital Advisors, a leading UK EIS/SEIS investment fund focussed on consumer technology, has launched a new growth capital product – Juice Ventures – to cater for the specific financing needs of early-stage companies primed for exponential growth through cost effective user acquisition.
Juice Ventures www.juice.ventures is born from Velocity Capital Advisors’ understanding of the UK scale- up market whereby promising start-ups require debt financing in form of significant funding for digital UA, with lending focused on the company’s marketing data, rather than its revenues. According to CEO and Founder of Velocity Capital and Juice Ventures, Raj Saxena, “Juice Ventures
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