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Technology consulting firm Invenio Business Solutions has completed a rebranding process following its March 2019 investment from BGF. Since the investment last year, the company has expanded its workforce by 35 per cent.Invenio’s new brand identity has been developed to reflect and support its stated goal of becoming one of the best technology consulting companies in the world in each of its specialist domains. The firm worked closely with a UK-based brand agency, Studio North, to position and express both its customer-facing and internally facing brands.
At the heart of Invenio’s brand mission is establishing the firm as one
Volante Technologies, a provider of payments and financial messaging solutions in the cloud, has raised USD35 million USD in growth equity financing led by Wavecrest Growth Partners with strategic participation from BNY Mellon, Citi Ventures, PostePay and Visa Inc.The capital raise represents the company’s first outside investment after nearly two decades of strong organic growth and profitability. Volante will direct the capital towards accelerating its cloud expansion globally and its reach into new geographies, market segments, and industry verticals.
“We are thrilled to lead the first institutional investment in Volante and partner with its stellar team,” says Vaibhav Nalwaya, Co-Founder
Dany Garcia, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and RedBird Capital Partners have been selected as the winning bidder for substantially all of the assets of Alpha Entertainment, the parent company of the XFL American football league. The XFL assets will be sold to Garcia, Johnson and RedBird for approximately USD15 million, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the asset purchase agreement. The transaction is subject to bankruptcy court approval at a hearing on 7 August, assuming that closing conditions are satisfied, is expected to close on or shortly after 21 August. The sale auction previously scheduled for today will not
AlbionVC managed UCL Technology Fund, in collaboration with UCL Business, has held the first close of Fund 2, with a GBP100 million target.
KKR has agreed to acquire a majority stake in MasterD, a vocational training company in Spain.
Luis Gomez, MasterDs’s founder, and management team will reinvest alongside KKR. The investment in MasterD is the second in Europe by the KKR Global Impact fund, following its investment in UK recycling and responsible waste management company Viridor.
The investment in MasterD also follows KKR’s investment in Burning Glass last year, a labor market analytics provider which analyses supply and demand in the job market to inform hiring patterns.
KKR’s Global Impact strategy focuses on generating risk-adjusted returns by investing in companies that contribute
Private equity firms Advent International (Advent) and Cinven have completed the acquisition of thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Technology business (thyssenkrupp Elevator) from thyssenkrupp AG.thyssenkrupp Elevator is a specialist provider of elevators, escalators, and other passenger transportation solutions to customers in more than 100 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Germany, the Group has operations in more than 1,000 locations. The Group generated revenues of cEUR8.0 billion in the financial year 2018/19.
Following strong performance in recent years and reflecting the global nature of the business, the Group has continued to trade well despite the COVID-19 period, showing significant resilience in the face of uncertain
Private equity fund manager capital D has announced a partial exit from its investment in Invincible Brands.Henkel, one of the world’s leading FMCG companies, has acquired a 75 per cent majority stake in a business of Invincible Brands, comprising the three D2C brands Hello Body, Banana Beauty and Mermaid+Me. capital D will continue to play an active role in the business alongside Henkel and the founders of the business, Bjoern Keune and Gennadi Tschernow.
The brands, Hello Body, Banana Beauty and Mermaid+Me, which are mostly sold in Europe, offer premium beauty care products and they also address the growing
eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest annual Global Private Equity Performance Series, which shows that Western Europe consolidated its global lead in private equity, with LBO funds further improving their performance during 2019. Overall, 2019 was a positive year for global private equity performance, with most regions seeing rising returns as well as falling risk.
Selection risks decreased in Western Europe, pushing the region further above the risk-return trendline from an already favourable position, and making it the most attractive region globally for private equity on a risk-return basis.
Within Europe,
Eurazeo, via its subsidiary Eurazeo PME, is set to invest about EUR80 million in the acquisition of a majority stake in UTAC CERAM. Current investors, FCDE, CCFA, and UTAC CERAM’s senior executives and key managers will retain a stake in the business. The shared ambition of Eurazeo PME, FCDE and the management team led by CEO Laurent Benoit is to step up UTAC CERAM’s growth in Europe and worldwide, while helping the group expand into new business areas and geographies.
Eurazeo will bring its financial resources and all its expertise (its international network, its experience in the integration of acquired
Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a UK SME private equity firm that specialises in partnering with owner-managers, has made a minority investment in GTS Flexible Materials (GTS), the tenth investment by GCP’s Fund IV.
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