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NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, has invested GBP250,000 in Lancashire-based eOrigen Learning and Communications Ltd (EO), a digital production company specialising in the creation of digital media and bespoke e-learning and training content.
The funding will help EO to execute its ambitious growth strategy to launch and scale its learning and development (L&D) IT platform, INPIN™, to become an accredited global training ecosystem and create 36 new jobs.
EO was originally established to produce digital media and bespoke e-learning and training content. The company has developed
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus and Javier Marín Romano, a Spanish banking veteran with 25 years of experience in the sector, have partnered to acquire Self Trade Bank (Self Bank) from Société Générale’s Boursorama subsidiary.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Self Bank is a leading online wealth management provider with a broad suite of banking and wealth management products including savings accounts, payroll accounts, equity, CFD and over 2,000 investment funds.
“With an extensive product and service offering, digital leadership and award-winning client service, Self Bank presents a compelling platform for future growth in the
European private equity firm Capzanine has invested in Horizon Software (Horizon), becoming a majority shareholder alongside Horizon’s CEO, Sylvain Thieullent, and its management team, to support organic and global growth.
From its inception in 1998, Horizon has worked with investment banks in the design of its first electronic trading platform. Today, with 90 clients in 26 countries and connectivity to over 70 exchanges, multi award-winning Horizon provides advanced trading technology for investment banks, brokers and hedge funds.
Horizon’s trading platform provides immediate access to a comprehensive range of features and the ability to execute sophisticated strategies and workflows through
Eze Castle Integration (ECI), a managed service provider to the financial industry, has secured a significant investment by an affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG).
Founded in 1995, Eze Castle Integration has more than 650 clients and offices across the United States, United Kingdom and Asia. The company has built a reputation in managed services and cloud solutions for the financial industry; “ECI’s global white glove service and its highly scalable and secure cloud infrastructure and platform create a differentiated end-to-end solution that is indispensable for its clients’ daily operations,” says Todd Ofenloch, Managing Director at HIG “We look forward
Over half of private equity and real estate fund managers are less than satisfied with their firm’s current level of cybersecurity arrangements, according to a new survey carried out by fund administrator Augentius.
Some 54 per cent of managers also identified cybersecurity as one of their top two priorities for technology investment this year, with the other leading priority being data management and cloud.
The survey, which polled the views of firms across the globe, shows the extent to which managers prioritise investing in their businesses’ technology, in a sector that was once regarded as relatively low-tech.
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BioMed Partners has invested in TRiCares’ EUR22 million Series B financing round.
TRiCares is developing a transcatheter-based tricuspid valve replacement system aimed at addressing the need for a better treatment for this frequent and severe disease that avoids open heart surgery. Heart valve diseases are among the most serious cardiac complications affecting more than 12.7 million patients in Europe.
In the last decade minimally invasive catheter-based solutions have been developed for other valve diseases but for patients with tricuspid valve disease open-heart surgeries remain the standard treatment. Owing to high mortality, access to such surgery is severely restricted leaving
Flexioffices (Flexi), one of the UK’s leading serviced office brokers, has secured GBP8.2 million of investment from NVM Private Equity (NVM) as part of the funding package for a management buyout.
The investment from NVM will help to accelerate Flexi’s international growth and drive continued development of their technology. The deal is NVM’s second management buyout from NVM Private Equity Vintage III LP.
Headquartered in London, and founded by Paul Slinn in 2000, the Flexi team are experts in finding the perfect workplace solutions for individuals, businesses and organisations through specialist knowledge of the entire UK flexible workspace market.
Kreston Reeves has strengthened its Corporate Finance practice through a merger with Surrey-based corporate finance boutique SamCorp, and the appointment of Jack Clipsham as Corporate Finance Partner.
SamCorp directors Peter Samuels and Darren Hurdle will move into the Gatwick office of Kreston Reeves and trade as Kreston Reeves. Established in 1998 as Samuels Corporate, SamCorp is a specialist corporate finance and strategic consultancy offering tailored advice to shareholders, directors and managers across a broad range of sectors. It has been behind some of the highest profile company sales and acquisitions in the South East over the past two decades. Samuels
The most successful private equity exits are achieved by companies that make changes to their leadership teams during the investment cycle, according to a report by leading executive search firm Drax.
Making the changes earlier rather than later in the investment cycle is particularly likely to improve the level of success, the research found.
The Drax Leadership Insights Report 2018 reveals that 73 per cent of the private-equity backed companies achieving the best exits in the financial year 2017/18 changed their Chief Financial Officer at least once during the investment cycle.
It also found that the best performing companies
LDC, a UK-based mid-market private equity investor, has backed the management buyout of OCS Asset Solutions, a provider of specialist retail and financial support services, from international facilities management services company, OCS Group Ltd.
The deal, which includes a GBP13 million investment from LDC, will see the firm’s six-strong management team co-invest for a significant stake.
Previously trading as OCS Asset Solutions, the business – Asset Solutions Group, which will trade as Retail & Asset Solutions and Vehicle & Asset Solutions in the UK and Retail & Vehicle Solutions in Ireland – is a leading provider of supply chain
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