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ArchOver, a P2P business lending platform, is now helping businesses to bridge the funding gap that prevents them continuing to grow their operation whilst waiting for their R&D tax claim to be repaid.
ArchOver’s Research & Development Advance (RDA) service is the first provided by a P2P lender funding advances upwards of GBP100,000. This bridging finance enables organisations to use their pending R&D tax credit, based on two years’ successful claims, to raise funds from ArchOver’s community of lenders.
“Investment in research and development is crucial not only to individual businesses, but to the wider economy as well,” says Angus
Antares Capital has appointed Timothy Lyne as senior managing director and co-head of Sponsor Coverage and Vivek Mathew as head of Asset Management and Funding.
Lyne, based in Chicago, will be responsible for leading the company’s sponsor coverage activities on the East Coast. He previously served as head of the firm’s Asset Management Group which last year added more than USD3 billion of targeted loan commitments for third party investors. Lyne also led the efforts in establishing a joint venture between Antares Capital and Bain Capital Credit to provide first lien unitranche loans of up to USD350 million per single
Unigestion has launched Unigestion Global Choice VII, a global small and mid-market investment programme and a continuation of the ‘Unicapital Global’ and ‘Euro Choice’ series of funds.
Unigestion Global Choice VII is seeking EUR300 million to build a portfolio of around 30 specialist buyout, growth capital and selectively special situations funds in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
In line with Unigestion’s conviction-driven investment style, the private equity team will continue to seek areas of growth, spot attractive investment themes and focus exclusively on managers with proven industrial and strategic transformation skills. Several fund investments have already been pre-selected for
Stroock has added to its Private Funds Group with the appointment of Michael Emanuel as a partner in the firm’s New York office.
Emanuel (pictured), has served as senior regulatory and compliance counsel at both big banks and leading investment management firms. He joins as a partner in the firm’s New York office.
Emanuel joins from Eagle Investment Solutions, a Princeton, NJ-based asset management firm, where he served as general counsel, chief compliance officer, and co-chief operating officer. Previously he served as regulatory and compliance counsel for other major investment managers, including Harbinger Capital Partners, Loeb Partners Corp. and State Street
Onex Corporation (Onex) is to acquire a stake in PowerSchool Group (PowerSchool) from Vista, which will also invest new capital in the business.
PowerSchool is an education technology platform for K-12 schools. Concurrent with the Onex/Vista transaction, PowerSchool will acquire PeopleAdmin, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based talent management solutions for the education sector, creating K-12 education’s most comprehensive and integrated suite of products. The transactions are expected to close in the second half of 2018 subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals.
PowerSchool provides best-in-class, secure and compliant online education solutions, which include the industry’s leading student information system, the
By George Ralph, Managing Director of RFA – How does a modern business organise its technology estate so that it is meeting the needs of the workforce, while making best use of infrastructure and the resources that it has available to it?
It used to be the case that most organisations stored their data on site, in NAS filers or similar, using block storage for high-performance input/output, which is great on-premise or across locations operated by the same organisation. However, block storage doesn’t offer practical mobility features because it depends on the use of a file system above the
Beringea has advised and arranged debt funding worth up to GBP2 million to Edesix Ltd, a manufacturer of Body Worn Camera solutions.
The Edinburgh-based company will use the funding, provided through Beringea’s ProVen Legacy debt vehicle, to support the expansion of its sales operations as it targets growth in the US market.
Edesix’s VideoBadge wearable camera system enables users across a wide range of industries – from law enforcement and security to healthcare, retail, and public transport – to record high-quality video and encrypted footage. The company’s VideoManager software facilitates efficient and secure monitoring and control of cameras, as
Inflexion Private Equity has completed a minority investment in Huws Gray Limited (Huws Gray), one of the largest independent builders’ merchants in the UK.
Huws Gray, founded in 1990 on Anglesey, Wales, with one location, now operates from 57 trading locations with almost 800 staff. Over recent years, the company has achieved strong growth organically and through acquisitions.
Huws Gray will continue to be majority owned and led by the existing management team headed by John Llewelyn Jones and Terry Owen. The company is well placed to benefit from the consolidation of the builders’ merchants market and to expand
MJ Hudson, Law, has made two new Partner promotions: Edyta Brozyniak, who was previously at Macfarlanes joined the firm only a year ago, while Emmanuel Amos joined from Allen & Overy eighteen months ago.
Brozyniak advises on the formation of infrastructure, private equity and venture capital funds and co-investments. In the space of just twelve months Edyta has proved herself as a pivotal player in the Firm’s successful LP Unit, which includes sovereign wealth funds and governments as clients and has become central to its fund offering.
Amos has experience advising on a broad range of corporate transactions, including domestic
Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, Michigan’s venture capital fund-of-funds, has successfully attracted more than USD1.3 billion into the state’s startup ecosystem.
Since Renaissance launched in 2008, it has invested in 30 venture capital funds around the United States, with the goal of attracting venture capital from those funds and their network into Michigan startup companies. This work has resulted in more than USD1.3 billion invested in 39 Michigan companies—returning more than USD17 for every USD1 invested by Renaissance. Those companies have expanded Michigan’s workforce with more than 1,300 employees with average salaries exceeding USD75,000.
“Michigan has long had the technology
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