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Private equity investor Waterland has purchased Swyx Solutions, a provider of unified communications solutions to mid-sized companies throughout Europe.
Swyx is a leading unified communications software solutions provider and developer. The company offers leading edge communications and collaboration solutions to SMEs. Swyx integrates and connects all communication channels such as voice, instant messaging, video and email with company-relevant process applications. Solutions can be run directly via the client’s existing infrastructure on premises, via a partner cloud service or based on the cloud service provided by Swyx.
As one of the market leaders in Europe, Swyx has a two-tier goto market
Experienced offshore investment funds lawyer Sophie Reguengo has joined Ogier’s Jersey funds team.
Reguengo has almost 15 years’ experience as an offshore funds specialist working in both Jersey and Hong Kong – her practice focuses on private equity and real estate structures.
Reguengo’s arrival in the Jersey funds team further boosts Ogier’s global funds offering, following the arrival of partner Emily Haithwaite to the Jersey team last year and the recent recruitment of investment funds-focused Counsel Emma Sutherland (Cayman), James Bermingham (Luxembourg), and managing associate Oliver Quarmby (Guernsey).
Reguengo, a Jersey-qualified Solicitor, has been recognised as a “Rising
Browne Jacobson’s corporate finance team has advised on two key venture capital deals for InsurTech companies – Digital Fineprint and Dinghy – under the firm’s legal support programme for start-ups and scaling businesses – ‘Grow’.
The team advised Digital Fineprint on its USD2.7m investment round led by Pentech. The investment will allow Digital Fineprint to expand its London team and invest in the further development of its social media-powered insurance distribution software. Digital Fineprint, which was set up in 2016 and was established by a group of Oxford University students, offers insurance companies a platform enabling them to use social
Renovus Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on the education, training and human capital sectors, has acquired a controlling interest in Continuing Education Alliance, LLC and Practicing Clinicians Exchange (PCE).
Based in Stamford, CT, PCE is the national leader in education for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, two of the fastest growing professions in the United States.
PCE was created in 2006 in response to a national physician shortage and growing demands in healthcare that placed NPs and PAs on the front lines of patient care. There are currently more than 234,000 licensed nurse practitioners and approximately 115,000
David Birne, insolvency partner at HW Fisher & Company, comments on the collapse of Carillion…
For a company Carillion’s size, it is extremely rare to opt for a liquidation rather than an administration – and a compulsory liquidation at that.
It suggests there is little, if anything, of value within the company to be saved. Almost every big insolvency in recent years has been a move towards administration rather than liquidation.
For Carillion’s 43,000 global staff, liquidation means the immediate risk of redundancy.
For Carillion it will mean huge breach of contract penalties that could dwarf anything demanded of it
Arma Partners is pleased to announce that it has acted as exclusive financial advisor to CHRONEXT in securing a USD34 million growth financing round. Investors in the round include Endeit Capital and Tengelmann Ventures, as well as existing investors Octopus Ventures, Partech Ventures and Capnamic.
CHRONEXT operates an online marketplace that enables brands, retailers and consumers to buy, sell and service new and pre-owned luxury watches in a secure, authenticated environment with customers in over 130 countries worldwide.
CHRONEXT has offices and physical outlets in Zug (Switzerland), Cologne (Germany) and London (United Kingdom) and its platform supports the full
Investment funds managed by Alinda Capital Partners, along with company management, have acquired 100 per cent ownership of Kelling Group Limited (Kelling) from Elysian Capital. Terms of the transaction were not released.
Kelling is a UK company which owns and leases specialty equipment supporting the maintenance and upgrade of rail, road, telecommunications, street lighting, electric transmission, and other critical infrastructure. The company is headquartered in West Yorkshire, with assets on-hire throughout Great Britain. Kelling does business through two subsidiary divisions, Access Hire Nationwide (AHN), and Welfare Hire Nationwide (WHN). AHN is the largest provider of vehicle-mounted access platforms (VMAPs) for hire
Barings, a leading global financial services firm with over USD300 billion in assets under management, announced that the five member investment team from Aldea Capital Partners has joined Barings Alternative Investments (BAI) group.
The Aldea team, a provider of customised private equity solutions, has integrated with BAI’s Funds & Co-Investments (FCI) platform, a team consisting of 25 investment professionals across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Mina Pacheco Nazemi and Patrick O’Hara, the co-founders of Aldea, will be located in Charlotte, NC and Nazemi will assume a position on FCI’s leadership team and Investment Committee.
“As investor demand
capital D, a newly-formed pan-European private equity manager investing in mid-market companies which disrupt legacy business models, has acquired a majority stake in Invincible Brands.
Founded in November 2015, Invincible Brands has accomplished exceptional growth. The company sells its products from Germany into continental European markets, employs 80 staff and serves a customer base of 500,000 millennials.
Invincible Brands is a pioneer in social media influencer-led marketing to millennials who are now the largest addressable consumer group in the world. It creates natural health, beauty and fitness products from the ground up, using proprietary product development methods and a marketing platform
Private equity fund manager Enfoca has completed a General Partner-led secondary transaction whereby a new investment fund managed by Enfoca purchased exposure to the portfolio companies of three Enfoca-managed funds by providing a liquidity option to the existing Limited Partners (LPs).
The new fund also obtained commitments for new capital to develop the portfolio.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which made a capital commitment of USD380 million, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP’s Vintage Funds (GSAM) led the transaction. The three largest Peruvian pension funds, Integra, Prima and Profuturo, which have invested with Enfoca since 2007, are also
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