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The Warrington-headquartered company works with manufacturing and engineering businesses to provide innovative design automation and 3D sales product configuration software solutions.
The fast-growing technology company was co-founded by CEO Glen Smith and VP Maria Sarkar in 2001 with the creation of DriveWorks software as a design tool to automate SOLIDWORKS, the world’s leading 3D CAD design platform. With an already established userbase in the US, DriveWorks’ technology has truly global reach and is utilised by thousands of customers across 47 countries.
BGF’s funding will support continued investment in technology to accelerate growth and position the business to
Fast-growth web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Finnish based MMD Networks OY as part of its ongoing buy and build strategy.
MMD Networks primarily provides shared hosting and related services, with leading brands including mmd.net and verkko24.fi. MMD is the second acquisition that Miss Group has completed in the Finnish market, and complements the Euronic brand, which was acquired in April 2020. MMD Networks adds a further 6,000 SME customers to the Group’s existing 210,000 web hosting customers.
In February 2020, private equity investor, Perwyn acquired a majority position in Miss Group, headquarted in Sweden, to support the
German-based digital agency Netzkern has been acquired by Private Equity firm, Avedon Capital, and will form a new group with Dutch digital services provider Macaw, with specialist London-headquartered M&A advisory firm Ciesco behind the deal.
Ciesco was the exclusive sell-side advisor to Netzkern, an independent full-service digital agency and one of the top Sitecore specialists in the DACH region. Netzkern is a Sitecore Platinum Implementation Partner and Microsoft Gold Partner and offers expertise in all areas, from strategy and design, to development and all-round experience. Netzkern’s team of 100 experts is based across the company’s offices in Wuppertal and Hamburg.
Onecom, the UK’s leading business telecoms and cloud communications provider, has added thousands of fixed line and cloud customers and hundreds of channel partners to its portfolio in a deal with 9 Group.
As part of the transaction 9 Retail, which has over 5,000 telephony, hosted voice and on-premise customers, becomes a Onecom Group company along with 9 Partners, which supports 450 indirect channel partners, providing a suite of integrated connectivity solutions, localised customer service and billing and analytics.
This strategic acquisition marks Onecom’s second major deal in as many months, following its acquisition of Olive Communications in February, and
Dillon Eustace has appointed Colman O’Loghlen as a Partner in the firm’s fourteen-partner strong Asset Management and Investment Funds team.
Colman specialises in advising firms on regulatory and structural issues relating to the establishment, and management of all types of investment fund structures.
Commenting on the appointment, Donnacha O’Connor, Managing Partner, says: “We’re delighted that Colman has joined Dillon Eustace. Our continuous investment in people and our team of experts is critical to successfully supporting our large national and international client base, and this appointment will greatly contribute to strengthening our position as a leading Irish legal firm and
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to sell its portfolio company Capco, a global management and technology consultancy, to Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. The transaction, expected to close in the second quarter of 2021, is valued at USD1.45 billion.
London-headquartered Capco provides digital, consulting and technology services to financial institutions in the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific. The company has worked closely with key business and operational leaders in the banking, capital markets, wealth, asset management and insurance sectors and is widely acknowledged for its domain and digital consulting expertise,
BGF has invested in secure lock and hardware supplier, Brisant Secure, which is based in the East Midlands and West Yorkshire.
The investment will support Brisant’s ambitious long-term growth plans and enable the company to develop further innovations and opportunities.
Brisant partners, Nick Dutton and Steve Stewart, remain majority shareholders and Seb Saywood, a BGF investor, joins them on the Brisant board. Dutton and Stewart will continue to be responsible for the management and direction of Brisant and will continue to drive product innovation.
Since bursting onto the locksmith scene in 2013, Brisant has been raising the standards
B Riley Financial, a provider of business advisory and financial services, has appointed Martin Bernstein as Head of Private Investments.
In this newly created role, Bernstein is responsible for sourcing, underwriting, and managing investments with private companies in addition to leading distribution to the firm’s syndication partners.
“We are pleased to welcome Marty to B Riley,” says Dan Shribman, Chief Investment Officer of B Riley Financial. “As a firm, B Riley employs an active investment strategy of providing debt and equity financing to client-partners. Our investment portfolio has primarily focused on public companies over the last several years and
AM Ventures, a venture capital firm in additive manufacturing (AM), has held the initial closing of a venture capital fund dedicated to industrial 3D printing.
The company and major shareholders, the LANGER GROUP, join forces with KGAL, one of the leading independent investment and asset managers for real capital investments in Europe. The initial closing brings the fund close to 50 per cent of the targeted commitment. The fund will continue to focus on further strengthening the support for seed and early growth stage hardware, software, materials, and applications startups in industrial 3D printing globally. The closing of this one-of-a-kind
The number of takeovers by UK acquirers of continental European businesses fell 30 per cent from 488 in 2019 to 342 in 2020 as Brexit and Covid-19 hampered deal activity, shows new research from Accuracy, the global independent financial and strategic consulting firm.
In comparison, the overall number of deals targeting continental European companies fell by 27 per cent from 6,665 to 4,843 over the same period. The number of acquisitions by US businesses in continental Europe declined by 25 per cent in the same period.
Accuracy says concerns over the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit deterred UK
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