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Align Capital Partners (ACP) has completed the recapitalisation of iPROMOTEu (IPU), a tech-enabled business process outsourcing provider to the promotional products industry.
ACP is partnering with the Company’s founder and CEO Ross Silverstein to continue the Company’s impressive track record of growth. This represents ACP’s sixth platform company and tenth overall investment since the firm’s first fund closed in September 2016.
Headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts, iPROMOTEu is an outsourced service provider to a network of experienced, independent distributors of promotional products. The Company’s services include product sourcing and order fulfilment via access to a network of preferred vendors, invoicing,
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has appointed Rodolphe Brumm as a Portfolio Manager on its Infrastructure Equity team, based in London and effective immediately.
Brumm will be responsible for activities supporting the origination, analysis and execution of infrastructure equity investment opportunities across Europe. He joins REPM’s wider infrastructure platform which has in excess of EUR4 billion of AUM in debt and equity strategies.
Brumm joins UBS-AM with over 18 years of investment experience globally. He is relocating to London from San Francisco, USA where he spent the past two years acting as Senior
ArchOver, a peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, is expanding its offering with the launch of an automated portfolio investment option on loans for SMEs.
The ArchOver Investment Plan has an annual target rate of up to 6.4 per cent. It will accept pledges from GBP250, improving accessibility for retail investors.
“Peer-to-peer was established to democratise finance,” says Angus Dent, CEO. “We knew there was demand from potential investors who could benefit from our model, but didn’t necessarily want to lend borrower-project-by-borrower-project, including investment houses that require a more diversified portfolio with cross-sector exposure. Institutions using the service will now
GP Bullhound has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Eruptr, a provider of ROI-focused digital marketing healthcare patient engagement and customer acquisition solutions, on its acquisition by HIG Growth Partners, the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital.
Founded in 2009, Eruptr has quickly grown to be a market leader in the growing field of healthcare digital marketing. Eruptr offers a full suite of digital marketing and patient engagement solutions, including Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media Marketing. Eruptr maintains direct customer relationships with blue chip healthcare providers and serves a client base of over 70 hospital
Cloud Technology Solutions (CTS) has merged with application development and machine learning specialist Qlouder in a deal that creates the what the companies say is the largest dedicated Google Cloud practice in Europe.
The merger will see the creation of a 150-strong team offering unrivalled expertise in app development, data science and machine learning.
The business will operate from offices in the UK and Netherlands, enabling it to significantly expand its services across the continent.
It will provide a unique end-to-end full-service offering for the Google Cloud proposition including, application development, machine learning, big data analytics, cloud migration
Commonfund Capital has closed its 12th venture capital fund, Commonfund Capital Venture Partners XII with USD432 million of capital commitments sourced from investors including endowments, foundations and pensions.
“We are pleased to partner with some of the leading managers across the globe for our 12th venture capital fund,” says Aaron Miller, Co-Head of Venture Capital at Commonfund Capital.
“Through our decades-long industry track record, dedicated focus and access, we bring mission- and membership-based organisations exposure to a range of companies driving disruptive innovation across sectors such as information technology, consumer and healthcare,” adds Co-Head Kent Scott.
Noerr has advised the French state-owned banking group Caisse des dépôts (CDC) and public transport provider Transdev, on structuring a transnational partnership with the German group Rethmann.
In connection with Veolia’s planned exit from Transdev, Rethmann is planning to acquire a stake in the company. At the same time, Rethmann is to contribute its German public transport division, which is bundled in Rhenus Veniro, to Transdev.
Once the transaction has been completed, Rethmann is to hold 34 per cent of the capital in Transdev, while CDC is to control the company with two-thirds of voting rights and 66 per
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP500,000 equity investment into Mobile Pay Systems, trading as Swoopos through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).
Swoopos provides a Mobile Point of Sale (“MPOS”) universal payments system that combines ePOS and cloud-based technology to deliver rich data analysis for businesses operating in the hospitality, and, soon the retail sector. The system includes a mobile wallet, booking system and mobile ordering, as well as a management reporting suite to help the retailer capture and monitor customer data.
Swoopos launched in August 2017 and already has 200+ systems installed with well-known brands including Costa
Aurelius Equity Opportunities is to acquire VAG, the Mannheim-based manufacturer of water and waste water valves from US-based Rexnord.
With approximately 1,200 employees, VAG generated sales of almost EUR200 million in its 2017/18 financial year. The transaction is to be finalised in Q4 2018.
As a globally active company, VAG is one of the leading suppliers of valves for water treatment and distribution, waste water management, dams, power stations and the energy industry. VAG is known and appreciated throughout the world for its market-leading know-how in product development and bears the quality seal “Engineering made in Germany”. The company
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has revised its Listing Rules for trading companies, in particular to appeal to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
TISE has a long term strategy of attracting more listings from growth companies based in the UK as well as its ‘home’ markets of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), CEO of The International Stock Exchange Group (TISEG), says: “Owners of SMEs require access to affordable capital in order to scale up their businesses, but this is proving increasingly difficult. “That is the case across the funding landscape and
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