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Venture capital firm Vala Capital has added technology entrepreneur and investor John Swingewood to its investment committee.
After directorships at BT and BSkyB during which he responsible for the companies’ early internet business strategies, John turned to start-ups. Over two decades he led domain name registry provider CentralNic to an AIM floatation as well as alarm signalling and monitoring firm Emizon and digital television software provider DITG to profitable sales.
Swingewood says: “Jasper, Arthur, Paddy and I have got a tremendous amount of experience between us and an excellent working relationship to boot. Vala have got some very exciting companies
Finistere Ventures, a global agrifood investment specialist, Israeli venture investor OurCrowd, Tnuva, an Israeli food manufacturer, and Tempo Beverages, an Israeli beverage company, are teaming up to focuse on investing in FoodTech and AgTech innovation in Israel.
Centered on Israeli technologies throughout the food and beverage value chain – from alternative proteins and nutritional value improvements, to functional ingredients and supply chain efficiency – the consortium will invest up to USD100m in local best-in-class agrifood startups.
The partnership was created following the Israeli government’s establishment of an innovation incubator in Northern Israel focused on FoodTech. Finistere Ventures, OurCrowd, Tnuva and
Ares Management Corporation is to become a minority shareholder in Volery and provide capital to support the firm’s operating and investment activities.
Volery is a private equity firm that provides growth equity and strategic support to leading investment managers that generate positive environmental and social impact. The firm also selectively pursues direct, co-investment and other opportunistic transactions alongside its core mandate.
“We are thrilled to be in business with Ares, a market leader that shares our strategic vision and will expand the breadth of our firm’s capabilities,” said Emanuel Citron, a Managing Partner of Volery. “The partnership will be instrumental
Akin Gump has appointed Rizwan H Kanji as a partner in its Dubai office. He comes to Akin Gump from another large international law firm in Dubai, where he served as the lead of that firm’s global capital markets working group and as one of the deputy heads of its financial services industry focus group.
Kanji’s practice focuses on debt capital markets, finance and securitisations using both conventional and Islamic finance structures. Particularly active in the Middle East and Turkey for over a decade and, more recently, in Africa, he advises investment banks, financial institutions, multilateral development banks, sovereign states,
Over two-thirds (67 per cent) of alternative investment fund managers believe the prospect of regulatory arbitrage between European Union member states seeking to attract business is likely to grow over the next two years, according to a new study.
The research reveals that regulatory arbitrage has muddied the waters for many investors, which has led to widespread unfamiliarity when it comes to the practical application of the rules. Sixty per cent of respondents agreed that variances of AIFMD interpretation between different EU member states has created the biggest knowledge gap among non-EU AIFMs.
Intertrust, a global leader in providing expert
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has led a GBP500,000 investment in back & posture care product specialist, Handsome Limited (Handsome).
A total of GBP250,000 was invested by NPIF – Maven Equity Finance (‘NPIF’), managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, and GBP250,000 provided by the GMC Fund, along with the company’s lead China manufacturing partner.. The funding will allow the company to execute its ambitious marketing strategy to expand overseas, invest in product development and will create five new jobs in the region.
Cheshire based Handsome has developed a range of innovative, award winning products to
Regulatory compliance consulting firm, Argus Global has fully integrated two business acquisitions: Ace Success, a Singapore based secretarial, accounting and tax practices company; and Argus Compliance India Private Limited, a subsidiary company, based in India, offering a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive bouquet of services in Singapore and India.
“The company is already looking to expand in Asia within three years and has set a revenue target of SGD50 million within five years,” says CEO Sachin Gandhi.
Argus Global’s clienteles in Singapore are mostly entities who are regulated by, or wish to be regulated by, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) effective
Global tax software provider Sovos is to acquire Istanbul-based Foriba, a specialist in e-invoicing, e-delivery notes, e-receipts and periodic value-added tax (VAT) reporting in Turkey and beyond.
Following Sovos’ recent acquisitions of other real-time tax compliance leaders Invoiceware, Paperless and TrustWeaver, Foriba will further strengthen Sovos’ global tax solution built for a digital world, with tax determination, e-invoicing compliance and tax reporting solutions that help multinational companies Solve Tax for GoodTM everywhere they do business. With expert teams in Latin America, North America, western Europe and now Turkey, Sovos has the global capability to address the challenge of continuous VAT compliance as
Purpose Financial (Purpose) has acquired CreditGenie, a Canadian technology company that aims to support Canadian small and medium-sized businesses by providing a fully digital alternative payment solution, enabling their customers to increase purchasing power through instant credit adjudication at the point-of-sale.
CreditGenie, based in Toronto, was founded in 2016 by entrepreneurs Alex Kaplunov and Daniel Shain, currently partners with nearly 500 merchants across a broad range of industries, in 12 Canadian provinces and territories.
The acquisition of CreditGenie follows Purpose’s investment in the building of Ario, a Toronto-based banking-as-a-service technology platform provider, and its March 2018 acquisition of Thinking Capital,
ARQIS has advised Sumitomo Electric Industries. on the acquisition of the European manufacturer of powdered metal components Sinterwerke Herne (SWH, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) and Sinterwerke Grenchen AG (SWG, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland).
The Company’s Powder Metal Products Division operates globally, with Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy Ltd. (headquarters: Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture; President: Toshiyuki Kosuge) as its mother plant. The division provides a wide variety of products primarily for Japanese manufacturers of cars, automotive components and air conditioners.
Taking advantage of these acquisitions, the Company will strive to expand its sales channels to cover European automakers and components manufacturers and increase
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