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Summa Equity has committed to the United Nations’ SDG Impact initiative together with Business for Peace, EQT and LGT.
This UNDP-led initiative aims to enable private sector investment by providing investors and businesses with the clarity, insights, and tools to support their contributions toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Nordic Springboard, of the UNDP SDG Impact Initiative, will be launched at the Business for Peace Summit in Oslo today to rally top-investment firms in the Nordic region to join the initiative.
“We are proud to be part of the global SDG Impact initiative, the Nordic Springboard
Paul Hastings has closed several significant transactions for corporate and private equity clients including Intel Corporation, Salt Mobile, and Oakley Capital, across multiple industries.
Partners Garrett Hayes and Matthew Poxon led a team advising Salt Mobile on the GBP700 million sale of 90 per cent of Salt TowerCo, which owns Salt’s mobile towers in Switzerland, to Spanish tower operator Cellnex Telecom. This follows previous transactions for NJJ, the investment vehicle of French businessman Xavier Niel, including Monaco Telecom’s acquisition of MTN Cyprus, and NJJ’s acquisition of eir, the Irish telecommunications and broadband business.
The firm completed several deals for
Private markets investment firm Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) has appointed Sophia Damianou as Managing Director, Business Development, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
In her new role, Damianou will lead Northleaf’s business development and investor relations activities from the firm’s London office, further developing relationships with institutional investors, consultants and advisors across the EMEA region.
“We are delighted to welcome Sophia to the Northleaf team,” says Jeff Pentland, Managing Director and Head of Business Development at Northleaf. “As our first London-based business development executive, Sophia brings the content-driven, consultative fundraising and relationship-building expertise that will be integral to the
Mobeus has invested GBP5 million of growth capital in Arkk, a UK-based software-as-a-service provider that digitises regulatory reporting, which is increasingly required by authorities worldwide.
Founded in 2009, Arkk recently launched for:sight, a new software platform that simplifies burdensome processes, reduces the potential for non-compliance, and frees up the finance function to focus on value-adding tasks. Arkk has over 800 clients in 20 countries, including a quarter of the FTSE 350 and 10 of the top 20 UK accounting firms.
Mobeus’s capital will support Arkk’s plans to invest in sales, marketing and new product development to accelerate its strong position
Hampleton Partners’ latest analysis of the Artificial Intelligence M&A market reveals that over 150 deals were disclosed in 2018, up from 105 deals in 2017. The first half of 2019 is also showing impressive AI-related M&A momentum, with 65 deals already recorded and a total of near 100 deals forecast for the half-year only.
In terms of market value, AI is forecast to grow from USD21.46 billion in 2018 to USD190 billion by 2025 – in other words, to grow nine-fold over the next seven-year period.
Heiko Garrelfs, sector principal, Hampleton Partners, says: “Q1 2019 has set the pace for
Graycliff Partners has completed the acquisition of Sweeteners Plus (Sweeteners), a manufacturer and distributor of essential liquid and dry sweeteners for quick service restaurant, specialty beverage, bakery, confectionery, and pharmaceutical customers, among others.
Based in Lakeville NY, Sweeteners processes bulk sugar into a diverse range of products including bagged white and brown sugars, organic products, liquid sucrose, and corn syrups.
Direct access to long-haul rail lines and a company-owned fleet of trucks enable Sweeteners to provide quick and efficient delivery to its customers.
NetDocuments, a secure cloud-based content services platform for law firms and corporate legal and compliance departments, has closed a significant new equity investment from Cove Hill Partners.
Cove Hill joins Clearlake Capital Group as a strategic investment partner to support the company’s rapid growth and innovation and becomes a minority shareholder in the Company. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
For the last two decades, NetDocuments has delivered innovation through its content services platform, which enables customers to manage, collaborate, share, and govern documents, e-mails, and other information securely in the cloud. NetDocuments is used by over 2,500
Authenticate, a Harrogate-based company whose technology platform is transforming the way food businesses manage their supply chain has secured a new funding round of GBP2.3 million, which includes GBP1.5 million from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and the remainder from existing shareholders including Summit Alpha.
The investment in Authenticate Information Systems was led by NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia Fund Managers and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund. It will allow the company to double the size of its software and data research teams, creating 10 new jobs in Harrogate.
Authenticate was
US law frm Akerman has opened new offices in Atlanta and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, marking the establishment of the firm’s 24th and 25th offices within seven months.
The expansion is part of a national growth strategy to meet increasing client demand in major financial and business centers across the United States and in areas of core strength.
Akerman is expanding its presence in Atlanta with the addition of Corporate Practice Group Partners R William “Bill” Ide and Amanda Leech. Ide and Leech bring robust transactional and governance experience, having represented numerous large corporations, Fortune 100 companies, and boards of directors
Pemberton, a diversified asset manager backed by Legal & General Group, has opened an office in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Pemberton’s pan-European network now spans eight locations across Europe, also including London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Luxembourg and Paris.
The opening comes at a time of increased investment opportunities in the Nordics region for the firm and will reinforce Pemberton’s relationship with investors, local borrowers, and the local private equity and financial community.
As part of the opening, Victor Kihlgren, Director – Nordics at Pemberton, will be moving to Copenhagen. Victor joined Pemberton’s London office in 2016 and is responsible
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