Latest News
Lonsdale Capital Partners (Lonsdale), a UK based mid-market private equity group, has exited its investment in Bright Maze Oy (trading as “Amerplast”) a flexible plastic packaging group located in Finland and Poland.
The business has been sold to the British group Hanmere Polythene Limited. The sale has produced a return of 3x on Lonsdale’s investment.
Amerplast is headquartered in Tampere, Finland and has manufacturing facilities in Finland and Poland. Since purchasing Amerplast in 2014 from Sumoninen Corporation, Lonsdale has invested significantly in the business to allow Amerplast to have market leading positions in the Hygiene, Bakery and Food end markets.
Enthuse, a donations, fundraising and events platform, has secured GBP3.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Praetura Ventures.
Co-investors included a consortium of existing investors to the business. This brings the total funding raised by Enthuse to GBP7.5 million.
Enthuse provides charity-branded donation, fundraising and event management tools to more than 4,000 charities, and has helped them raise more than GBP100 million to date. It supports one in fove of the UK’s largest charities, including Macmillan Cancer Support, NSPCC, WWF, Save the Children.
On average, the UK donates around GBP10.1 billion to charity each year,
ironSource, an app-focused business platform, is to merge with Thoma Bravo Advantage (TBA), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
The transaction values ironSource at a pro forma equity value of USD11.1 billion, and is supported by a USD1.3 billion oversubscribed Class A ordinary share PIPE led by an affiliate of Thoma Bravo (Thoma Bravo), as well as investments from Tiger Global Management, LLC, Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), Nuveen, LLC, Hedosophia, Wellington Management, The Baupost Group, and certain funds managed by Fidelity Investments Canada ULC and other institutional investors. Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will operate under
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has completed fundraising for its Riverside Europe Fund VI (REF VI).
The firm’s latest buyout vehicle closed on EUR465 million of capital commitments, nearly 40 per cent more than its predecessor, making it the largest fund the firm has raised in Europe to date.
REF VI follows the same investment strategy as previous funds and remains focused on acquiring “little leaders,” partnering with strong management teams to make those companies bigger and better, often growing them internationally. The fund targets European businesses, generally
One million homes in the UK are now being powered by green energy, as a result of anaerobic digestion (AD) projects funded by dedicated, specialist Finance Arranger – Privilege Finance, the lending partner of Prestige Funds.
Based near Cambridge, UK, Privilege Finance manages the private debt and infrastructure lending portfolios of several Prestige Funds. Since 2012 it has invested over GBP 600m in both new builds and acquisition projects in renewable energy. Privilege already backs one of the largest portfolios of clean energy projects in the UK supporting, farm, food and agri related business in what is a very specialist
European private debt manager Pemberton has provided financing to support Exponent’s acquisition of Proper and its merger with Eat Real, two healthier snacking companies in the United Kingdom.
The financing is complemented by an acquisition and capex committed facility.
Founded in 2014 by Priyesh Patel, Eat Real has grown into the UK’s number one ‘free-from’ snacking brand. Proper, founded by Cassandra Stavrou and Ryan Kohn in 2011, is a pioneer in UK healthy snacking. The two businesses will be integrated as one Group and will continue to operate under their respective brand names. The Group will be headquartered in
The Astrea VI private equity bonds issued this month have been tokenised by iSTOX to reduce the minimum investment ticket by up to 10 times.
This marks the first time digital tokens with exposure to bonds in the Astrea series have been offered.
The manager of the Astrea VI transaction is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Azalea Group, which is in turn an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings. iSTOX’s digital tokens lower the threshold for accredited investors to gain exposure to the private equity bond asset class.
The digital issuance, or tokenisation, covered bonds from the two USD-denominated tranches
FundRock has secured regulatory approval from the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the French financial markets regulator, for FundRock FFAM, its new AIFM service in France.
The new service, which will assist international and domestic professional investors in accessing alternative asset classes including private equity and real estate, strengthens FundRock’s presence in the alternative investment market in Europe and particularly in France.
Since the initiative was announced last year, FundRock has attracted a large number of new French regulated funds. Prior to the launch of FFAM, a dedicated team within FundRock had been managing these funds from its Luxembourg
Explore, a specialist in the development of B2B business solutions, has taken a minority stake in Sociétéinfo (SmartData) with the support of Activa Capital.
This acquisition will enable Explore to deploy innovative solutions on the B2B data market and thus strengthen its position on its market in France.
Based in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Western Paris) and created in 2017 by Alexandre Conraud and Antoine Onnen, SmartData, through its brand Sociétéinfo, offers its clients B2B sales and marketing solutions. The result of open data and more than three years of R&D, Sociétéinfo offers a 360-degree vision of companies through its legal and
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust (DORE) has completed the acquisition of a 96MWp portfolio of c50 solar PV assets located in mainland Great Britain and Northern Ireland for a total consideration of GBP42 million (including working capital balances and cash held by the portfolio companies).
The transaction was completed pursuant to an option agreement entered into on 12 November 2020.
The portfolio, described as the “Seed Assets” in the Company’s prospectus published on 12 November 2020, says: 13 ground-mounted sites located across mainland GB totalling c73 MWp; 28 commercial rooftop assets totalling c10 MWp; and seven residential rooftop portfolios
Special Reports
Featured
- Insight
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
