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In this week’s Private Equity Wire podcast Karin Wasteson interviews Joe Stringer, partner at Octopus Ventures, who shares his views on trends in the healthtech space during the past year, and some of the sector’s key challenges and opportunities moving forward.
JTC, the global provider of fund, corporate and private client services, has acquired INDOS Financial and it subsidiaries (INDOS) for a maximum consideration of GBP12.5 million.
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Dispute resolution lawyer Rachael Reynolds has been appointed as global senior partner at Ogier.
Reynolds has led the Cayman litigation team on some of the largest and highest profile cases in the Cayman Islands over the last decade, including acting for investors in respect of the collapsed Abraaj Group (previously the largest Private Equity structure in the Middle East), acting for the provisional liquidators in the Ocean Rig restructuring (one of the largest contested schemes of arrangement in the world), and she was also the advocate in several of the leading cases considering the meaning and effect of the Cayman
United Insurance Brokers Ltd (UIBL) has appointed James Wilson as Head of M&A and Financial Lines.
“UIB is extremely pleased to welcome James Wilson who will spearhead our M&A and Financial Lines offering within our Specialty team, which offers clients the full suite of specialised insurance solutions to address complex risks.
Wilson has over 17 years’ experience in the sector and has held management positions both as an Underwriter and Broker. His expertise spans all M&A and Financial & Professional Lines products and he is a regular contributor to industry publications and frequent speaker at seminars, having worked with clients
Tikehau Capital is to sponsor a first Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), which will focus on the European financial services sector.
Since its inception in 2004, Tikehau Capital has built a strong track-record of backing high-quality companies through equity or debt financing. Investment vehicles like SPACs are a natural extension of Tikehau Capital’s existing investment expertise, and the Group aims to leverage its global network, origination capacity and strong equity base to sponsor value-creating projects, starting with a first SPAC that will focus on European financial services related businesses, with a primary focus on scalable platforms offering strong profit growth
Sherpa Capital, a private equity fund manager focused on mid-market companies with EUR500 million under management, announces the sale of Macrolibros, a leading Spanish printing and binding company for children’s and educational books, to Gráficas Ceyde.
Founded more than 40 years ago and based in Valladolid, Macrolibros is a market leader in the educational and children’s book sector, with a clear international vocation, generating more than 70 per cent of its sales abroad. Macrolibros enjoys product quality, processes, and machinery, allows the company to work with top level clients both nationally and internationally, maintaining a consolidated relationship as a reference
Riata Capital Group (RCG or Riata) has made a strategic investment in Greenix Pest Control (Greenix) in partnership with Bob Nilsen and the Company’s management team.
Greenix, estimated to be the thirteenth largest residential pest control company in the US based on subscribers, is a market-leading provider of subscription-based pest control services to residential customers in thirteen markets across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Eastern regions of the United States. This marks RCG’s first investment as a part of the firm’s strategy to allocate capital to opportunities in the residential home-services sector. Terms of RCG’s investment were not disclosed.
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MIG AG, through its MIG Fonds, has kicked off the year with a seed investment in deep-tech company Zadient Technologies, based in Chambéry, France. and founded in 2020.
Joining the financing round led by MIG is Vestel Ventures, the investment arm of Turkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel.
Zadient, which was founded in 2020, specialises in the production of synthetic silicon carbide (SiC) a building block for power semiconductors important for the rapidly growing electric vehicle market and used in a variety of other industrial applications. SiC occurs in nature as the extremely rare mineral, moissanite. Current processing methods of synthetic
A Cambridge University programme has produced a raft of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class innovators – attracting over GBP50million (GBP53,561,000) of funding and investments over the last four years for the alumni’s life-changing projects.
Notable alumni completing the programme have included:
Dr Steve Brierley, Founder/CEO of technology sensation, Riverlane – which is making landmark developments maximising the power and reach of Quantum Computing.
Dr Carmen Palacios Berraquero, national award-winning physicist and Co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology, which is making ground-breaking single-photon components to enable the next generation of commercially-viable photonic quantum technologies – creating a new era of communications,
A number of leading venture capital and private equity investors have published substantial guidelines on Diversity and Inclusion in the investment industry.
Investors and professionals from the venture investment community have today released best practice guidelines to help increase investment in under-represented founders and drive diversity and returns across the investment sector.
The “Guidance and best practice examples for VCs, private equity and institutional investors” document was written by leading investors and professionals including Atomico, Pollen Street Capital, Ada Ventures, Adelpha, Astia, KPMG, Diversity VC and Diversio.
The guidelines are being published by the British Venture Capital Association
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