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Avista Capital Partners (Avista), a private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare, is to invest in eMolecules, a novel and fast-growing e-procurement platform for high-value chemicals and bioreagents used by pharmaceutical companies in drug discovery. Financial terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2005, eMolecules accelerates the drug discovery process by connecting pharmaceutical and biotechnology researchers with sophisticated reagents not offered by the usual commodity suppliers. The Company serves nearly 1,000 customers around the world, with more than 120 million SKUs that are sourced from more than 300 suppliers across 35 countries. eMolecules’ unique e-commerce platform makes
Greenbriar Equity Group, LP today announced the final closing of Greenbriar Equity Fund V (Fund V) with total capital commitments of USD1.68 billion.
Fund V represents the firm’s largest fund to date, receiving strong support from both existing investors as well as a broad base of globally diverse and highly regarded new investors across the US, Europe and Asia. Fund V was significantly oversubscribed, successfully completing the fundraise above its USD1.0 billion target after launching in the fourth quarter last year, executed in an entirely virtual process.
Fund V will continue Greenbriar’s 20-plus year strategy of investing in industrial services
Fundraising for disruptive, low cost telecoms provider Boom has been oversubscribed by 45 per cent, reaching GBP3.2 million and surpassing its original goal of GBP2.2 million through Growthdeck, a private equity investment firm, providing tax-efficient investment opportunities in UK growth businesses to sophisticated and high net worth investors, with a minimum investment of GBP5,000.
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International web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Finnish-based Seravo Oy as part of its global buy and build strategy.
Established in 2011, Seravo offers premium hosting services and upkeep for over 4,000 WordPress sites. Seravo has reported steady double-digit revenue growth over recent years, with revenues in the financial year to December 2020 of EUR1.5 million forecast to increase to EUR1.9 million in FY21.
This is the third acquisition that Miss Group has completed in the Finnish market following the acquisitions of MMD Networks earlier this month and Euronic in April 2020 and will support the Group’s continued
CAPSLOCK Education, a cyber-security education institute based in Manchester, has secured GBP540,000 in a pre-seed funding round from GC Angels, the Ufi VocTech Trust, Tynton Group, private angel investors and the UK government to reskill adults across the UK.
Founded in 2019 by Jonathan Slater, Lorna Armitage and Dr Andrea Cullen, CAPSLOCK’s intensive training bootcamp reskills adults into cyber-security professionals within six months. Designed in collaboration with industry leaders including Lloyds Banking Group, BT and Dell, it provides students with opportunities to solve cyber-security problems practically, equipping them with the skills necessary to pursue high-paying, competitive careers in cyber-security.
Khalid Javaid has been appointed as Head of Legal at Blackstar Capital.
Javaid has over 20 years of experience as a banking and finance lawyer, with a focus on structured finance and securitisation transactions. In his new role at Blackstar Capital, he will be responsible for providing structuring, legal and execution advice in relation to transactions and new business, along with providing legal oversight of regulatory matters and government affairs.
Prior to his arrival at Blackstar, Javaid was a legal director at DLA Piper LLP and had worked for Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, both in London, after qualifying at
Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP (“Anchin”), an accounting and advisory firm based in New York City, has opened an office on Long Island, in Uniondale, New York.
Global software investor Hg is to acquire a controlling interest in Trackunit, a specialist in software-led telematics solutions for off-highway vehicles and the construction market, from Goldman Sachs and GRO Capital.
Søren Brogaard, CEO, Trackunit, says: “GRO Capital and Goldman Sachs have been exceptional partners during the last five years and helped us solidify our mission and execute against it. We are proud to have attracted investment from Hg, which comes at a tipping point for the digitalisation of construction. Hg’s understanding, experience and focus on scaling leading SaaS companies provides Trackunit with a knowledgeable partner to help consolidate and
Squire Patton Boggs has promoted senior lawyers Louise Barber and Mae Salem to Partner.
Barber has a particular focus on cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions (including public takeovers), equity capital markets transactions, joint ventures and corporate governance. From an M&A perspective, her experience includes advising UK, US and European companies on cross-border public and private transactions, and her capital markets experience includes advising on a number of initial public offering (IPO) and secondary fundraising transactions on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and AIM.
Barber has advised on a number of high-profile transactions, most recently advising ECI
Immersive communications platform PixelMax has secured GBP2million in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures, with participation from ACT Capital Partners.
Manchester-based PixelMax uses 3D interactive technology to revolutionise the way content is delivered to mass audiences. It enables businesses to create and host their own virtual worlds, and is changing the way organisations inform, educate and engage with their audiences through the use of digital twinning, product or process simulation, and virtual environments.
The business, which is led by co-founders Andy Sands, Shay O’Carroll and Rob Hilton, has already collaborated with an NHS Trust to create a simulation
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