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Mid-market private equity investor LDC has appointed Lawrence Dean as the Head of its South team.
The appointment comes as the firm approaches its 20th anniversary in the region, having invested more than GBP575 million in over 60 of the region’s most ambitious firms since 2000, from its base in Reading.
Dean brings with him a wealth of experience from different sectors, including TMT and leisure in particular. He joins from LDC’s Birmingham office where he led two significant mid-market deals this year including the GBP110million deal to invest in motor finance technology specialist Evolution Funding, and the management
Omega Funds, an international investment firm focused on delivering impactful medicines to patients, has closed Omega Fund VI with USD438 million in capital commitments.
Fund VI will continue to execute on the firm’s strategy of creating and investing in life sciences companies that target the most urgent medical needs. Since its inception in 2004, Omega Funds has raised more than USD1 billion to invest in exceptional entrepreneurs developing innovative products across multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology, immunology, rare diseases, precision medicine and others.
Omega Funds has a strong track record of identifying and supporting great management teams and companies by
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has made a significant growth investment to recapitalise Endo1 Partners (Endo1), a fast-growing specialty dental services organisation headquartered in Houston.
VSS has partnered with co-founders Dr Matthew Haddad, Dr Daryl Dudum, Dr Mark Haddad, and Dr Darron Rishwain. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Formed in 2019 with operations in Texas and California, Endo1 provides comprehensive knowledge, resources and shared back-office support to endodontists across the country through an Endodontic Partnership Organization (“EPO”). Endo1’s offering empowers endodontists’ ability to provide
International law firm Ashurst advised long-standing client Agilitas Private Equity on the sale of Norway-based property remediation and environmental services specialist Recover Nordic to EQT Partners. The deal gives the company an enterprise value of NOK3 billion (GBP248 million).
Recover Nordic, which was acquired by Agilitas in 2013, is the largest emergency response and damage control business in the Nordic region, primarily serving insurance companies, municipalities, industrial and commercial clients. Following the Agilitas-backed management buyout, Recover Nordic has experienced strong organic growth and completed 17 add-on acquisitions. Headquartered in Oslo, the company has over 2,100 employees across 92 locations in
Smartlands, a global security token issuance and investment platform is to tokenise its own Holding company, Smartlands Holding Ltd, and for the first time offer shares tokenised on the Smartlands platform to US investors.
Valued at USD28,600,000 (pre-money), the company will make 3.5 per cent of its equity stake available to investors worldwide, including accredited investors in the US. Smartlands is looking to raise USD1,000,000 and use the funds for global expansion, development of the newly released digital payment product Smartee, and distribution of the first Smartee Co-owner payment cards.
The security token offering will be conducted in partnership with
Guernsey Finance CEO, Dominic Wheatley (pictured), is to stand down from his role after five years. Wheatley will leave the promotional agency on the 30 June 2020, having been in the role since December 2014.
Chairman Lyndon Trott says: “The board is grateful to Dominic for his commitment and performance over the last five years. We move forward from a positive base with a strong team and strategy established, and on the back of very positive outcomes during 2019.
“I shall be focused on recruiting the very best successor to work with the board to set and deliver the
In this week’s newsletter James Williams is looking to the future and the opportunities available to private equity investors from the roll-out of 5G facilities and services – an undertaking some are predicting will be the largest infrastructure project in US history.
Elsewhere, Liz Pfeuti reports on how changing attitudes towards diversity and inclusion are impacting the attitudes of private equity GPs and LPs.
And on the back of our latest LP Survey, conducted in partnership with SS&C Intralinks, we also bring the you the views of Quilvest Private Equity Partner Jean-François Le Ruyet, and bFinance Director, Private Equity Sweta
Ada Ventures has raised a new USD34 million (GBP27 million) fund which will invests in ‘overlooked’ company founders.
At present, 92 in every 100 dollars invested in Europe goes to all male teams, 83 per cent founders are white, 82 per cent are university educated. In the UK, a quarter of investment committees saw no female founders in 2017 and 72 per cent of Venture Capital funding is invested in London alone.
Ada Ventures was founded to change that. Ada Ventures is a first-cheque seed fund, and is on a mission to make venture capital truly accessible to the
With a predicted USD275 billion of investment expected from US wireless providers over the next few years, not to mention up to three million new jobs and an annual USD500 billion GDP boost for the US economy, it’s no wonder that 5G is being a dubbed truly transformative technology. And as James Williams finds out, private equity investors are keen to help finance the revolution…
Outlier Ventures, a venture platform focused on growth investing, has become the lead adviser to and an investor in Cudo Ventures, a provider of cloud computing and monetisation software.
Cudo is the leading player in the rapidly growing and developing market for the next generation of cloud computing. The company is focused on a new, more equitable way of cloud computing by providing a technology platform that links hardware owners with spare capacity, to organisations who require spare compute power in order to complete workloads such as Video Rendering, Machine Learning Deployment and Seismic Imaging. Cudo Compute’s solution provides customers
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