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Sortis Holdings (SOHI), a Portland, Oregon-based alternative investment fund manager, has launched Sortis Growth Venture Fund. The USD10 million fund is a hybrid venture capital and consumer-focused private equity fund dedicated to accelerating the speed at which rising consumer brands can reach their full potential. Open to accredited investors, Sortis Growth Venture Fund has a target return of 20 per cent on invested capital.
“Sortis has developed a unique platform that aggregates highly experienced operators, advisors and investors with a world-class e-commerce agency, providing promising consumer brands with critical support and structure as they focus on achieving the next level,” says
Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has hired Anton Chambers as a partner in the firm’s London office.Chambers, previously at Clifford Chance, is an experienced aviation finance lawyer who advises financial institutions, arrangers, owners, lessors, operators, insurers and OEMs in respect of the full range of asset financing techniques. He will focus largely on servicing clients throughout EMEA.
BCLP’s global transport and asset finance practice regularly works on market-leading, innovative and complex aviation, shipping and rail sector financings.
BCLP has dedicated aviation financing practitioners throughout North America, Europe (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg), Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore,
Research by Adams Street Partners finds no evidence of sponsor-to-sponsor underperformance and that sponsors are a real and relevant source of deal flow for other sponsors. Moreover, such deals appear to offer stable returns with lower losses than non-sponsor deals.
Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has provided a First Lien facility to support the acquisition of the remaining equity of Once Upon A Time (OUAT) by its Management Team from its private equity investor, Calculus Capital, and to provide funding for their ambitious growth and acquisition strategy.OUAT is a London-based marketing agency that delivers a full range of marketing services; from advertising, branding, media, all forms of creative, shopper and in-store marketing, and the production of physical and digital assets. Clients include high-profile brands such as Disney, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Netflix, William Grant and BMG Music.
Founded in 2013,
City law firm McCarthy Denning has appointed Guy Avshalom as its Head of TMT (Technology, Media and Telecoms). Avshalom, a prominent figure in the entertainment industry who served as General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Lionsgate UK for nearly a decade, has strengthened McCarthy Denning’s venture capital (VC) and private equity practices in the TMT sectors.
With 20 years’ experience structuring and negotiating cross-border deals at the forefront of the media and technology industries, Avshalom specialises in resolving complex transactional matters as he possesses a unique skill and insight into the interplay between the legal and business worlds.
At a value of EUR294 million, the Polish venture capital market showed an eight times increase in 2019, according to a report by PFR Ventures.
The data, prepared in cooperation with Inovo Venture Partners, reveals that 269 transactions took place in 2019 with 85 funds involved. They provided capital worth over EUR294 million invested by domestic and foreign funds in Polish startups.
After a strong 2019, GP Bullhound has made a number of significant promotions across its Investment Banking, Investment Management, Marketing and Strategy teams.Jonathan Cantwell promoted to Partner, Investment Banking
Based in our San Francisco office, with 15 years of technology investment banking experience, Cantwell leads our efforts in the SaaS sector. Jon has completed over 70 transactions with public and private technology companies, including many cross-border deals. Recent transactions include advising Partnerize, EcoVadis, AppBuddy, Falcon.io, Synthesio, Rant & Rave and TextRecruit.
Iman Crisby promoted to Executive Director, Marketing
Having joined the firm in 2013, Crisby is in charge of
Bond has raised USDF15 million to in fundraising round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners,along with MizMaa Ventures and TLV Partners.Ultimately, the round will enable Bond to help online retailers deliver products – and accept returns – faster and with an enhanced positive experience, starting in New York, where it is opening a number of nano distribution centres (NDCs).
Bond’s system is designed to integrate with online retailers’ existing ecommerce process flows and provide a real-time, dynamic ecosystem of neighbourhood-level NDCs that are managed by local teams that deliver and return products with tailor-made, environmentally friendly electric trikes that help
Aumni, a SaaS company developing a robotic process automation and data analytics platform for private capital investors, has completed a USD10 million Series A funding round led by SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank.
ARQIS has advised Liberta Partners, a multi-family holding company based in Munich, on the acquisition of Ameropa, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.Liberta Partners will take over all of the approximately 120 Ameropa employees. Ameropa and Deutsche Bahn will continue to work closely together in the future, for example in sales or with respect to rail travel as part of Ameropa package offers.
The tour operator Ameropa, founded in 1951, has been part of the DB Group since 1973 and has been wholly owned by DB Fernverkehr AG since
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