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BlueGem Capital Partners (BlueGem) has sold Crafts Group Ltd (DMC) to and Lion Capital (Lion). The DMC Group comprises a portfolio of leading European brands in the needlecrafts space, including DMC, Wool and the Gang (WATG) and Sirdar. The portfolio also includes Tilsatec, a leading brand of high- performance technical yarn.
BlueGem formed The DMC Group in August 2016 as a consolidation platform for complementary needlecraft brands, beginning with the simultaneous acquisition of DMC and WATG. BlueGem identified in DMC an unloved and undermanaged company with amazing brand heritage, high-quality products and untapped growth opportunities. The addition of WATG was
Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital investor has announced a GBP2.4 million investment in DeepCrawl, a web crawler and marketing insights platform.
The funding follows on from DeepCrawl’s GBP1.75 million Series A, which was also led by Beringea – other existing high net worth investors supported both rounds.
DeepCrawl has grown significantly since Beringea’s initial investment in 2017 through expanding its customer base and successfully establishing itself in the American market. Its platform, providing a suite of leading technical SEO software products to analyse the health and performance of a site, is now used by a growing roster of enterprise
Business recovery, financial advisory and property services consultancy Begbies Traynor Group has appointed restructuring and corporate finance specialist Martin Barron as a partner in its BTG Advisory team.
Joining Begbies Traynor Group from Grant Thornton where he was a partner and led the firm’s restructuring team across Yorkshire and the North East, Barron is a qualified accountant with more than 20 years’ experience advising businesses and stakeholders. Previously, he spent 16 years with Deloitte LLP working within the firm’s restructuring services teams in Leeds and Newcastle.
Barron has worked across a wide range of sectors and organisations from small
Investment into VCTs managed by Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager – including the current offer for Foresight 4 VCT – will now be able to accept ISA funds through a new partnership with Platform One.
The partnership will allow investors to transfer funds from existing ISA products into Foresight 4 VCT whilst maintaining ISA status and without sacrificing their lifetime allowance.
Investors will find the platform provided by Platform One and the application process both intuitive and easy to navigate. It facilitates full or partial transfers of ISAs along with a range of other
Last year an estimated USD81 billion was raised last year in the US biotechnology space (from IPOs, secondary offerings and venture capital): the third largest year in history. Cities such as Boston and San Francisco have, for decades, been at the forefront of biotech developments, putting the US biotech marketplace 20 years ahead of Europe’s in terms of size and level of investment activity.
Europe’s biotech sector, while still in a stage of progression with regards to market capitalisations (which are an order of magnitude or more smaller than their US counterparts), has grown tremendously, however, and presents a huge
The Maples Group has appointed Hugo Lodge as a partner in its Regulatory & Compliance legal practice.
Lodge joins the Group’s Cayman Islands office from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, where he led the new team responsible for the oversight of AML supervision in the UK legal sector, prior to which he worked in the Retail Banking, Enforcement and Market Oversight division. Lodge was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1998 and practised as a barrister at 7BR in London where he specialised in financial crime and regulation.
Global Managing Partner, Alasdair Robertson, says: “We
BDO’s mid-market M&A quarterly, Horizons, has revealed a two-year low in deal volumes in Q4 2018. In further analysis BDO flags a deviation from the usual M&A pattern, in which end of year deal volumes are typically higher than at the start of the year.
As mid-market M&A advisers, BDO is used to seasonality, which remained absent during 2018. The last quarter of the year ended with a lower volume of deals than the preceding quarters, even dipping below 2,000 global mid-market deals in one quarter for the first time since the start of 2016. This was compounded by the overwhelming
The latest Healthtech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions adviser, Hampleton Partners, has revealed a final count of almost 100 deals in the healthtech sector in the second half of 2018.
Transaction volume remained steady compared to H1 2018, inching down by a mere six per cent and thus remaining in line with a remarkably stable trend since 2013. The trailing 30-month revenue multiple rose again to 2.8x EV/S, prolonging a trend visible over the last 18 months since the increase to 2.8x in H2 2017 from a lower 2.1x EV/S in H1 2017.
In 2018,
Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in Tunnel Hill Partners (Tunnel Hill), which has been sold to Macquarie Group.
Tunnel Hill is the largest integrated waste-by-rail operator in the United States with five waste-by-rail transfer stations in the Northeast, two rail-served landfills in Ohio, the largest beneficial use site in Pennsylvania (also rail-served), a hauling operation with transfer stations in Connecticut and a recycling operation in Massachusetts. The company provides a variety of services including hauling, recycling, beneficial reuse, transfer and disposal to commercial and industrial customers throughout the Northeast and Ohio.
“Our relationship with the Tunnel Hill team has
GCA Altium is opening a new office in Leeds, its 20th around the world. The firm will be based in the One Park Row office development.
The opening builds upon a very successful 2018 for GCA Altium in the region, advising on nine transactions with a total value of GBP1.35 billion. These include the sale of Deep Sea Electronics to Caledonia and the IPO of Team 17.
The office will be headed by Managing Director, Stuart Warriner, who says: “I am delighted that we are opening in Leeds. The office will put us at the heart of the deal community
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