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BGF Quoted has provided GBP7 million in funding to AIM-listed Netcall, a provider of technology solutions that help businesses better engage with their customers, to support Netcall’s acquisition of Beringea-backed MatsSoft Limited, a cloud-based software provider.
The investment was transacted via BGF’s most recently opened regional office in Milton Keynes.
Headquartered in Hemel Hempstead, Netcall has more than 700 customers in the private and public sector including NHS Acute Health Trusts, BT, Lloyds Banking Group, Axa and Interflora. The company’s product suite incorporates omni-channel contact centre, workforce optimisation and business process management, delivered through its integrated platform, Liberty.
Goodwin, a leading Global 50 law firm, has expanded its international Private Equity and Private Investment Funds practices with the appointment of Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine as partner in its London office.
Armstrong-Cerfontaine focuses on fund formation and transactions, advising private equity sponsors on their investments and corporate finance, drawing on her experience on business management, corporate finance, restructuring, compensation, retirement plans and advising financial sponsors and management in setting-up complex compensation schemes as part of leverage buyout transactions. She also has a general experience in syndicated financings (including leveraged financing and restructurings) and a particular experience in fund financings.
YFM Equity Partners’ (YFM) British Smaller Companies VCT (BSC) has appointed Rupert Cook as an independent non-executive director.
Cook specialises in corporate and business development, with twenty five years’ experience of technology, sales, marketing and general management, including fifteen years in corporate finance and investment. Earlier in his career, he was a senior manager at Cap Gemini plc and then Director of Advisory Services at Interregnum plc.
Cook is the founder of Red Penguin Ventures Limited, and was previously a partner at Realise Capital Partners LLP, both of which are firms which advise and invest in a range of
Private equity group Bridgepoint is to acquire Miller Homes, one of the UK’s largest housebuilders, in a deal worth GBP655 million from funds managed by GSO Capital Partners.
Established in 1934 and the largest privately-owned housebuilder in the UK, Miller Homes has a strong regional footprint through three divisions (Midlands & South, North, and Scotland) and a reputation for delivering quality, family homes in desirable and high demand locations. The company focuses on sustainable developments on the edge of urban or suburban areas, typically within 45 minutes of the nearest largest town or city and is recognised for providing outstanding
The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a specialised asset management firm focused on emerging markets, is to acquire GMO Renewable Resources (GMORR); a joint venture between global investment management firm Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co (GMO), and GMORR’s principals, investing in forestry and agriculture opportunities.
Under the agreement, the team from GMORR is expected to move, intact, to TRG. GMO, which currently owns 51 per cent of the GMORR joint venture, with the GMORR principals owning 49 per cent, will retain its investments in funds managed by GMORR.
Founded in 1997, GMORR provides investment opportunities in forestry and agriculture investing.
Private equity record keeping has entered the realm of blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, with Northern Trust leading the way. And as Northern Trust’s Justin Chapman (pictured), suggests, as the technology matures, the ability to digitise the operations of larger traditional asset classes is a case of ‘when’ not ‘if’.
As announced earlier this year, the administration group has partnered with IBM Corporation to build a private blockchain ecosystem exclusively for its private equity business, bringing what has traditionally been a manually intensive exercise firmly into the digital realm. “As an organisation, we are looking to explore all innovative technologies
The Meloy Fund I, LP (the “Fund”), a new impact investment fund dedicated to helping coastal fishers transition to more sustainable practices, has launched with a first close of USD10 million.
The Fund targets USD20 million of debt and equity investment in support of the millions of small-scale fishers in Indonesia and the Philippines, who rely upon healthy coastal fisheries and marine ecosystems for their livelihoods. The ten-year Fund counts among its investors a diverse range of family offices, investment managers, and foundations. Rare, a global conservation organisation, is the Managing Member of the General Partner.
Lukas Walton, who will
By George Ralph, RFA – It’s August already, and 2017 is over half gone. There are two major pieces of legislation coming into effect in early 2018, which will affect alternative investment firms in the UK, and firms worldwide who are holding data on European citizens, or trading with firms in the EU.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents the most significant change in global privacy law in 20 years. GDPR places important new obligations on any business that handles the data of individuals living in the EU, independent of where the business is located. The second regulation,
Noerr has advised Fosun and its joint venture Nanjing Nangang Iron & Steel United Co Ltd on a strategic acquisition in Germany of automotive supplier Koller.
The Koller Group, headquartered in the Bavarian town of Dietfurt an der Altmühl, is a leading manufacturer of lightweight automotive parts in international markets and owns production facilities in Germany, Hungary and Mexico.
The Noerr team led by Frankfurt-based partners Till Kosche and Andrea Zwarg managed the transaction internationally as lead counsel, also involving Noerrs’ Hungary office.
Private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners has acquired DOCU Nordic Group Holdings AB, a provider of business intelligence and data analytics services; essential in the generation of sales leads within the construction, real estate and healthcare markets across the Nordic region.
Headquartered in Ljusdal, Sweden, the company is active in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.
DOCU Nordic’s core business is Project & Product Information services, which provides intelligence for construction market participants and connects materials suppliers and contractors with developers and advisers (such as architects). Together, the Project & Product Information services segment maintains a proprietary centralised database
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