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Graycliff Partners has made an investment in Graybill Processing (Graybill), a food by-product recycling company based in Pennsylvania, partnering with Dallas-based private equity company NCK Capital, to provide subordinated debt and equity financing to the company.
Graybill has recycled food by-products in Pennsylvania for over 20 years. The Company collects food manufacturing by-products such as packaged candy, raw candy inputs and bakery goods and processes it into quality, high-energy animal feed for hogs, dairy cattle and beef cattle.
“Graybill has carved a unique niche in the animal feed market, providing value to both its suppliers by handling challenging food
HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Matthew Kretzman as a Managing Director based in New York, with responsibility for capital markets and execution across the North American private equity portfolio.
Kretzman has more than ten years of capital markets experience. Prior to joining HIG, he spent over six years at KKR where he was most recently a Director in the Credit & Markets division, responsible for private debt and capital markets origination and execution for financial sponsors and other firm clients. Prior to KKR, Matthew spent five years at Credit Suisse where he focused on Leveraged Finance and Equity Capital Markets.
SHS Gesellschaft fuer Beteiligungsmanagement, MBG Baden-Württemberg and VC Fonds BW announced that SHS has sold its shareholding in Emerging Implant Technologies (EIT), a manufacturer of 3D-printed titanium interbody implants for spinal fusion surgery, to Johnson & Johnson Medical.
SHS became EIT’s lead investor in September 2016 and has supported the company’s growth strategy ever since. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
“SHS’s objective was to support EIT on their path to increased growth. This includes the development of the company’s innovative product portfolio as well as entering new countries. We’re delighted to have had such a successful
Private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has partnered with management to acquire Seattle-based LifeSpan Biosciences (LSBio), a founder-led developer and distributer of antibodies and related reagents primarily to the academic and pharmaceutical research markets via its e-commerce platform.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
LSBio, originally founded as an immunohistochemistry (IHC) services provider in 1995, has evolved to offer a broad range of antibodies, kits, proteins and other biological reagents. The Company’s offerings include proprietary, value-added and third-party products. Researchers have long relied upon LSBio’s expertise to fulfil their molecular pathology needs. As part of
Fondo Agroalimentare Italiano I (FAI I) has acquired a stake in Agrimola, a European leader in the manufacturing, processing and marketing of chestnuts and transformed fruits, alongside Luca Sassi, the company’s CEO and majority shareholder.
Founded in 1978, Agrimola leads the European fresh chestnut market. It’s the ideal partner for large Italian and European supermarket chains and supplies a wide range of high quality fresh, frozen or aseptic, mainly organic fruits, to a broad base of more than 50 international distributor clients for use in marmalades, desserts, ice creams and dairy. The Group handles about 40,000 tons of fruits, half
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) has expanded its presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, hiring Martina Schliemann as a Principal and Head of Business Development for that region.
Schliemann’s last role was country manager for Germany and Austria at Muzinich & Co, Ltd. She was previously a Managing Director and Co-Head of Pensions and Insurance clients at Deutsche Asset Management. Martina will be based locally in the German market.
“As in other regions around the world, the private markets landscape throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland continues to evolve, and we believe investors are increasingly looking to work with partners like
Talis Capital (Talis), a London-based venture capital firm focussed on technology companies, has made an investment of USD2.5million into Learning People, the UK’s leading online training company, and SkillsFox, its B2B arm serving corporate training and development needs.
The investment comes at a time when the corporate e-learning market is worth USD12 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11 per cent until 2020, with companies’ demanding specialist skill sets such as cyber-crime prevention for current and potential employees.
The Talis investment will be used to fuel the companies’ geographical expansion, developing an engaging, user-centric platform
Private equity investment platform Seedrs, has appointed Ian McCaig and Mark Brooker as non-executive directors. The appointments follow three C-suite level hires at Seedrs in the last 18 months as the company continues to grow rapidly.
This announcement comes shortly after Seedrs released its 2017 accounts, recording 87 per cent growth in revenue from 2016 to 2017. The company’s turnover rose to GBP2.02 million in 2017 up from GBP1.08 million in 2016, attributed to a 43 per cent increase in investment on the platform and a 59 per cent increase in the average size of campaigns.
McCaig is the
Pan-European private equity firm Agilitas’ portfolio company Recover Nordic has acquired JK Kloakservice (JKK).
Recover Nordic is a leading Nordic provider of damage control, emergency response and environmental services. The JKK acquisition brings the total number of add-on acquisitions to fifteen since Agilitas’ buyout of Recover Nordic in 2013.
JKK will work closely with Recover Nordic’s existing damage control and environmental services business in Denmark, expanding the environmental services footprint of the group which was established earlier this year through the acquisition of Sydslam.
The acquisition of JKK, which provides nationwide coverage from its Zealand base, expands Recover
Octopus Investments, part of Octopus Group and the largest provider of venture capital trusts (VCTs) in the UK, has opened fundraising for Octopus Titan VCT (Titan).
Octopus is targeting another GBP120 million fundraise for its flagship VCT, following last year’s record-breaking fundraise when Titan raised a total of GBP200 million. If fully subscribed, the total fund size could rise to over GBP800 million AUM, providing significant capital for investment in early stage businesses across the UK.
Titan offers investors, comfortable with the risks of smaller company investing, attractive tax incentives that accompany a VCT and access to a well-established and
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