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UK venture capital investment manager Deepbridge Capital has appointed Steve Shallcross as Chief Information and Technology Officer and Connor Grimes as Associate Investment Director, Technology.
Prior to joining Deepbridge, Shallcross was Senior Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Cheshire-based tech company Afin Technologies. Shallcross’s role at Deepbridge is to lead the digitalisation of the business and ensure that the company has the digital capabilities to continue to be a leading provider of tax efficient investments to the financial adviser and private investor markets.
Grimes joins the Deepbridge technology investment team following six years as Investment Manager at Seneca
Global safety solutions leader Survitec has completed a GBP270 million refinancing with funds managed or advised by the Credit Group of Ares Management Corporation (Ares), a leading global alternative investment manager.
Ray Leclercq, Survitec’s Chief Financial Officer, says: “Successfully concluding this financing demonstrates the confidence we believe that Ares and M&G have in our business. This marks a key milestone for Survitec’s customers, employees, shareholders and other partners. We completed this financing with an industry leader such as Ares based on the strength of our underlying business, meeting our current performance targets with year-over-year improvement in profitability as well as
McGuireWoods has continued the strategic expansion of its nationally recognised M&A practice with the arrival of partner Brian L Hager, who brings nearly 17 years of corporate deal experience to the firm’s Richmond, Virginia office.
Hager’s extensive deal experience includes advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, securities offerings and corporate governance matters. He represents clients across a broad range of industries including manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, finance and insurance.
Joining Hager is McKenzie Carson, an accomplished deal lawyer with experience in a wide array of industries. Hager and Carson come to McGuireWoods from
Investment advisory firm Time Partners has expanded its team with three new hires – Crispin Payne, Ed Stubbings and James Morrison.
As chief transactions & operating officer, Payne will be responsible for leading internal operations and for providing advice to clients on private markets transactions. His focus will be to lead a collaborative team with strong, efficient processes to support the growth of Time Partners and support the client advisory teams with advice on private equity structures.
After an early advisory career with Hambros Bank and The Kalchas Group, Payne became a private equity investor with Dresdner Kleinwort Capital in
AND Digital, a British tech consultancy aiming to accelerate digital delivery for businesses by providing access to tech talent, has secured GBP8 million in follow-on funding from BGF, one of the UK’s most prominent growth economy investors.
“Since our inception, there’s been a pressing need for digital skills to become foundational to every organisation, regardless of sector or size,” comments CEO Paramjit Uppal comment on the funding round.
“Now, as Covid-19 persists, we believe even more deeply that every business is now a digital business – with software and data at its core, powered by talent at the heart,” he adds.
Boardroom Alpha, a ratings and analytics platform providing quantitative measurements of public company directors, CEOs and CFOs, has launched an intelligence tool for evaluating the performance of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs).
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Toshiba, currently courted by numerous PE groups, confirmed it has ‘received an initial proposal’ from CVC this week and will ‘ask for further clarification and give it careful consideration’, in what looks like a process which could become Japan’s largest ever buyout deal.
Toshiba issued a statement on 9 April saying that the initial proposal is conditional on clearance of anti-trust regulation, as well as the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act of Japan, and necessary financing.
The corporation also said that the proposal involved seeking finance assistance from co-investors and financial institutions in pursuing the proposed transaction. “We expect
TMF Group, a provider of global administrative services – including fund accounting and administration – has today completed the acquisition of Venture Back Office (VBO), a US based third-party provider of solutions to private equity, real assets, credit, and emerging manager funds.
As a result, TMF Group will now administer more than EUR150 billion worth of assets on behalf of its global fund manager client base.
The acquisition is a key milestone in TMF Group’s strategy to continue to grow its global fund services business and bolster its capabilities in the North American market, particularly in the US. The
Texture Capital, an institutional marketplace for private capital, is partnering with COSIMO X, a venture capital fund that invests in opportunities in emerging next-generation technologies.
Texture Capital’s ATS will support capital raising and secondary market trading of the COSIMO X digital tokens and enable COSIMO X to reach a broader network of investors and offer secondary market liquidity opportunities not typically available to institutional investors.
Through Texture Capital’s online marketplace, investors will be given streamlined access to the COSIMO X venture capital fund. COSIMO X’s innovative tokenised structure offers investors opportunities for increased liquidity and the ability move funds in
PSG, a growth equity firm that focuses on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies, has acquired a majority stake in Nalanda Global (Nalanda), a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company providing supplier risk management software solutions.
Nalanda leverages intelligent cloud software to connect companies and suppliers using a digital platform that enables the smooth exchange and verification of health and safety, due diligence, suppliers validation, invoices and other business information as well as providing solutions to ensure compliance with worker access, working time and e-invoicing legislation. Nalanda’s solutions reduce time, cost and risk, as well as facilitating a transparent relationship
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