Latest News
Eurazeo has come to an agreement with a group of international investors that will provide EUR340 million additional investment capacity for its Eurazeo growth strategy.
The investors will commit to a newly created continuation fund that will acquire a 32 per cent stake in Eurazeo Growth assets which were financed through the Eurazeo balance sheet. Eurazeo remains fully committed to the development of these companies; it will hold on to the remaining 68 per cent of these assets and will maintain full control through the management of the continuation fund. This transaction remains subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions
EQ Health Acquisition has closed its upsized initial public offering of 21,999,960 units at a price of USD10.00 per unit, including 2,869,560 units issued pursuant to the exercise in full by the underwriters of their over-allotment option.
The units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol EQHA.U on 29 January, 2021. Each unit consists of one share of the Company’s Class A common stock and one-half of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of USD11.50 per share. Once
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the financial adviser to Leadec in its acquisition of Diversified Automation, Inc.
Founded in 2002, Diversified Automation is a leading automation controls and software solution provider to the express parcel industry. It serves global express parcel and e-commerce companies, prime contractors and integrators with end customers that include Amazon, FedEx Ground and UPS. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and with annual sales of approximately $100 million, Diversified Automation has more than 140 engineers and project managers operating in seven locations across the United States.
Leadec, a portfolio company of Triton, is headquartered in Stuttgart,
Cabot Square Capital has substantially increased its equity investment in Blue Motor Finance (Blue). This further round of investment follows the announcement in December of a new GBP300 million financing facility with a leading international bank and provides Blue with sufficient funding to deliver beyond its 2021 plans.
Blue continues to deliver very attractive investment opportunities characterised by loan portfolios with relatively low average loan sizes, low term lengths, diversity in originations and customer base, good security and predictable low default rates. Blue’s long term consistency and prudency in credit risk policy has supported this investment and their ongoing performance.
Data presented by Buy Shares indicates the value of funds raised by venture capitalists in Europe surged by 147.78 per cent between 2016 and 2020.
Last year recorded the highest value in a decade at USD49 billion, a growth from 2019’s USD42 billion. In 2018, the value was USD33.01 billion representing a growth of 27.9 per cent from USD25.85 billion recorded in 2017.
As of 2016, the value was at USD20.10 billion. Over the last decade, the lowest value of funds raised by venture capitalists was USD4.20 billion in 2010.
The Buy Shares analysis explained the European VC ecosystem amid
Great Hill Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm behind Wayfair, ZoomInfo, and Reward Gateway, has invested in BigChange, a mobile workforce management technology company for the service and transport sectors.
BGF has successfully exited its investment in Renal Services, an independent provider of dialysis services, after it was acquired by DaVita UK Limited, a DaVita International Group Company.
Headquartered in London, Renal Services operates 21 dialysis units across the UK and treats over 1,300 permanent and transient patients with kidney disease. Set up in 2007, Renal Services is the third largest dialysis provider in the UK.
Alongside its equity investment, BGF contributed additional support to the company through the introduction of James Buckley as Non-Executive Chairman. James has an extensive background in the healthcare sector, formerly as CEO of Tunstall
Washington-based Carlyle Group reported a USD518.8 million fourth-quarter profit on the back of strong asset sales at the end of last year, including its divestment of a 50 percent stake in streetwear fashion brand Supreme to VF Corporation as part of a USD2.1 billion deal in November.
VF Corporation already includes the brands Vans, The North Face, Timberland and Dickies, and the company said that it expects Supreme to contribute at least USD500 million of revenue and USD0.20 of adjusted EPS in the fiscal year 2022.
Carlyle’s December results swung upwards from a loss of USD8.3 million, or 8 cents
Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo), a specialist impact investor in emerging and frontier markets, has exited its investment in CONFIE, a Latin American microfinance investment holding company.
CONFIE supports the development of the microfinance industry through investment, financing, and technology to promote equitable and inclusive development in Latin America.
Through its investment in CONFIE in 2007 as part of its first Financial Inclusion Fund, Bamboo has positively impacted the development of two microfinance institutions: Banco FIE in Bolivia and Fie Gran Poder in Argentina.
During this period, Banco FIE, the main investment of CONFIE, extended its branch and ATM
A group of leading development finance institutions (DFIs) and impact investors – CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO – have made an USD82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 (PFF 2 or the Fund), managed by Phatisa.
PFF 2 will invest across the African food value chain, considering investments in mechanisation, inputs, poultry and meat production, food processing and manufacturing, logistics, aggregation and distribution across Sub-Saharan Africa. The investment will strengthen and increase food supply, local production and distribution across the region.
A consortium of investors, consisting of CDC, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada, and BIO
Special Reports
Featured
- Insight
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
