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Epiris Fund II, advised by Epiris LLP, has agreed to acquire Time Inc UK (TIUK), one of the UK’s largest consumer magazines and digital publishers, from Meredith Corporation. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
TIUK’s 50-plus brands reach 17 million adults and 13 million online and digital users across the UK. The company’s portfolio spans a range of interest areas, from entertainment and women’s lifestyle to luxury, sports and technology. Amongst its titles are household names such as Woman’s Weekly, Country Life, Ideal Home and Trusted Reviews, as well as specialist titles such as Decanter, Wallpaper, Cycling
Reed Smith has appointed fund finance partner Bronwen Jones to the firm’s Financial Industry Group in London.
Jones (pictured), joins from Macfarlanes, where she led the investment fund finance group and previously served as the firm’s head of finance. As a key player in the funds finance market in London, Jones brings a wealth of experience at a key moment of growth for Reed Smith’s funds finance practice.
Ranked Band One in the 2017 Chambers UK Directory for Banking & Finance, Jones represents banks, other financial institutions, sponsors, general partners and fund managers on a range of fund finance
CYOSS a German provider of data analytics, IT and OT security, has acquired RadarServices, a European technology company in the field of cyberattack detection & response.
Drake Star Partners acted on this transaction as exclusive financial advisor to CYOSS and its parent company ESG Elektroniksystem-und Logistik, a specialist in development, integration and operation of complex and security-related electronic- and IT systems.
The integration of RadarServices into the CYOSS operations allows full coverage of the cyber security value chain and the merging of conceptual and operational business levels.
The merged company now shows a fully combined portfolio of consulting,
Omnes has been selected by MEDEF, France’s largest employer federation, as a partner for the MEDEF Accelerator of Investment (MAI) platform aimed at financing SMEs.
Omnes supports MEDEF’s initiative to make it easier for SMEs to access long-term financing and is joining the MEDEF Accelerator of Investment (MAI) platform. MAI was launched in October 2017 with the aim of helping SMEs to find finance tailored to their growth needs by linking them up to long-term investors (crowdfunding websites and private investment funds). Eighteen investment funds have already been indexed, mobilising more than EUR1 billion to help grow SMEs.
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Cairngorm Capital has promoted Alex Bayliss and John Naylor-Leyland to Managing Director. This is in recognition of their significant contributions to the growth and success that Cairngorm Capital has achieved since its formation in 2014. It also marks the expansion of Cairngorm Capital’s senior leadership team.
Bayliss and Naylor-Leyland were founding members of Cairngorm Capital’s investment team, joining Managing Partner, Andrew Steel, shortly after the successful close of Cairngorm Capital’s first fund in August 2015. Together they have been instrumental in defining and implementing the firm’s growth and buy and build investment strategies. They have led or overseen the majority
Hg has today made an investment in DADA, a provider of online hosting services to SMEs in Italy, the UK and other regions across Europe.
Founded in 1995, DADA is headquartered in Florence and has around 650,000 business and consumer customers across Europe. DADA’s digital services enable SMEs to administer their online presence: creating, managing and hosting domains and websites.
As well as operating in Italy under the Register.it brand, DADA also operates in the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands under the Namesco, Register365, Nominalia and Amen brands, respectively.
The process follows an initial investment
Sobera Capital has acquired a portfolio of 12 minority and majority equity holdings in private companies mainly in the life sciences sector from Innoveas International Ltd.
The assets, which include, among others, interests in Presidio Pharmaceuticals, EffRx Pharmaceuticals, MORE Medical Solutions, Axellis Ventures and MyoScience, are based mainly in Europe and the US. Sobera Capital was backed in this secondary direct transaction by several family offices and entrepreneurs.
Sobera Capital is a Berlin based independent secondary direct investor with a focus on growth and small-cap funds and assets in TIMES, healthcare and selected other industries.
Z Capital Group, an alternative asset manager focused on opportunistic, value-oriented private equity and credit funds, has announced a raft of promotions across the company’s Private Equity Investment and Operations teams.
Stephen Parsons, has been added to the Management Committee as an ad hoc member. Since joining Z Capital in 2016, Parsons has served as an Operating Partner, assisting in the management and oversight of portfolio company initiatives, including leading the development and implementation of human capital strategies across all portfolio companies.
Matthew Kane, has been promoted to Managing Director. Kane is responsible for advising on and executing value-oriented
Capitama, a new direct private investment platform for sophisticated and professional investors, is now up and running.
The platform has been designed to bring sophisticated and professional investors and deal sponsors together; enabling investors to find investment opportunities from experienced investment professionals and management teams according to their preferences and risk appetite. The platform also helps investment sponsors and management teams of high growth companies to source investors and co-investors in a more efficient way.
Capitama has different investment areas to meet a variety of different types a sophisticated investor may be interested in. This includes Early-Stage (post-revenue fast
EQT has held a first and final close of its eighth equity investment strategy fund, EQT VIII, at its hard cap of EUR 10.75 billion. The fund officially launched in September 2017.
Investor demand from both existing and new investors was strong with approximately 70 per cent of the commitments to EQT VIII made by investors in the predecessor Equity fund, EQT VII.
“The successful fundraising of EQT VIII confirms the support for EQT’s investment and ownership approach. We are extremely proud to have earned investors’ trust and are fully committed to using EQT’s experience to find solid businesses
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