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Shearwater Aero Capital, a global corporate aviation finance specialist, enjoyed strong growth in 2018, with the year representing around 60 per cent of its business to date since its launch in 2014.
The combined value of aircraft Shearwater Aero Capital has now provided funding against has surpassed USD100 million (USD104 million) for the first time. It has provided loans worth USD65 million to 15 business aircraft around the world, including the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Chris Miller, Managing Partner, Shearwater Aero Capital, says: “We are enjoying very strong growth, and this reflects a number of factors.
Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has completed an undisclosed investment to support the merger of Livingbridge portfolio company, Catalyst Development Ltd, with Sionic Advisors. This marks the regional debt fund’s tenth deal from its circa GBP240 million Fund II.
The undisclosed funding package provided by Manchester-based TDC and Lloyds Banking Group will support the creation of one of the world’s largest specialist consulting firms. The enlarged group will have a combined revenue of more than $60m and upwards of 300 professionals based in a dozen locations across Europe, North America and Asia.
Catalyst specialises in regulatory-driven change, organisational improvement and
Croatian food and retail group Agrokor, represented by Kirkalnd & Ellis, has successfully completed a two-year restructuring process.
With the implementation of the creditor settlement on 1 April, 2019, the new holding company Fortenova Group took over the operative parts of Agrokor, which are now controlled by the former creditors as new shareholders. The former parent company will be wound up together with the remaining subsidiaries in due course.
With a debt volume of around EUR6 billion, Agrokor’s restructuring was the largest in Europe in 2017/18. With a significant share of Croatia’s gross domestic product, Agrokor and its subsidiaries employ more
FundedByMe’s branch in Poland has closed a crowdfunding campaign for Warsaw game development studio Duality Games in record time, with 66 investors committing more than EUR440,000 in just 37 minutes.
“Gaming is a very promising sector in Poland with plenty of investment opportunities. We are delighted to see Duality close their crowdfunding campaign in a record-time, congratulations! Now we are even more motivated to launch interesting projects to the broader public in the near future. You should expect new exciting startups from Poland on the FundedByMe platform this year,” says Maciej Gajewski, CEO FundedByMe Poland.
“Duality Games is planning
The amount of money raised by Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) in the 2018/19 tax year for investment in small businesses reached GBP731 million, the highest amount ever raised at the current level of 30 per cent up-front tax relief and the second highest amount since VCTs’ inception.
Last year the VCT sector raised GBP728 million.
That’s according to the latest figures released by The Association of Investment Companies (AIC).
Ian Sayers, Chief Executive of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), says: “The 2018/19 fundraising figure reflects consistent high demand for the VCT sector and the growing recognition of the benefits
iMod Structures (IMS), makers of ‘future proof’ modular classrooms, has raised USD11 million in a Series A round of funding led by the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group.
This financing in equity and warrants marks the first institutional investment in the company. Los Angeles-based law and consulting firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP were advisors to Goldman Sachs on the transaction.
Proceeds of the funding will be used to finalise renovations at the iMod Structures 100,000-square-foot factory on Mare Island in Vallejo, CA, and to expand the company’s customer engagement and deployment team. This enables commercial scale production of iMod
Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa), a private equity investor focused on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), is to acquire a majority stake in Mlinar dd (Mlinar) from its founder, Mato Škojo, who will retain a stake in the business. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to complete in Q2 2019.
Mlinar is the bakery retail and wholesale business in Croatia and operates the largest bakery retail network in South East Europe. The company serves pastries, breads, drinks, sandwiches and salads to more than 36 million customers per year through circa 220 directly- owned stores in
ARQIS has advised Sankyo Tateyama. on the acquisition of the aluminium foundry (casting) business of Aluwerk Hettstedt (AWH), a manufacturer of cast and extruded aluminium products, and of the entire business of RMG Metallfachhandel (RMG), a distributor of semi-finished metal products.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
AWH is a manufacturer of cast aluminium billets and extruded profiles and specialises in the casting of medium and hard alloys. RMG acts as AWH’s exclusive distributor and is an integral part of the overall transaction.
With the acquisition of AWH and RMG, Sankyo Tateyama enables its
There was a sharp increase recorded in private debt fund activity in France in 2018 confirming the growing importance of private debt in financing methods, by offering companies and equity investors an alternative and complementary financing solution to bank debt.
That’s according to a new report by France Invest (Association of Investors for Growth) and Deloitte based on a survey of members of the France Invest Private Debt Commission and international firms which have a team specialising in private debt or a representative office in France. A total of 84 per cent of the 37 firms surveyed responded.
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Eze Castle Integration, a global managed service provider to the investment industry, has launched its Eze Dark Web Monitoring Service to proactively protect clients against the threat of stolen user credentials and targeted account takeover.
Eze Dark Web Monitoring scans the dark web for client watchlist assets and triggers an automatic response if a match occurs to enable action before a potential breach.
Across the dark web underworld criminals are buying and selling stolen user credentials, including email addresses, usernames and passwords, to access high value (i.e. executive and privileged user) accounts. Once in a system, criminals steal financial assets,
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