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Coinsilium Group Limited, the accelerator that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, has sold its entire holding of 2,133 shares in investee company SatoshiPay to Blue Star Capital at the price of EUR340 per share for a total consideration in cash of EUR725,220.
Under the terms of the PSA Coinsilium will also receive 85 million warrants over new Ordinary Shares of Blue Star, of which 42.5 million are exercisable at a price of 0.6 pence per Ordinary Share and 42.5 million are exercisable at a price of 0.8 pence per share for a 3-year period from
The Perusa Partners Fund 1 has sold Dynasafe International AB, a specialist in unexploded ordnance clearance and weapons disposal, to Scandinavian investment company Solix Group AB. The parties will not be disclosing further details of the transaction.
Perusa created today’s Dynasafe Group based in Kista (Stockholm), Sweden, in the period between 2009 and 2012 by merging four companies from Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom: Minetech, BACTEC, GRV Luthe and Dynasafe. The Group subsequently developed into a global brand in the areas of unexploded ordnance clearance, CBRNe safety and weapons disposal with more than 500 employees and contractors. The Group
SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement is investing in CoreMedic, a start-up developing transfemoral repair systems to treat heart valve malfunctions.
SHS is investing from its fourth fund generation to finance CoreMedic’s further growth and the clinical application of its innovative products.
Mitral heart valve regurgitation (MR) is one of the most common reasons for cardiac failure. The current gold standard therapy is surgical repair by open heart surgery of the arrested heart. CoreMedic is developing ChordArt, a novel heart valve repair system that is less invasive, easy to use, and ,most importantly, will result in an excellent outcome for the
International dispute resolution funder Vannin Capital (Vannin) has recruited three new Investment Directors who will further expand its commercial dispute resolution business in the United States. This is the company’s second office in the US and eighth location globally.
Commercial litigators Michael German from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer; Alan Guy from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US and previously Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and Carolina Ramirez from Dentons US and previously White & Case, join Vannin as US Investment Directors.
This is the latest stage in Vannin’s plans to develop its presence in the US following the appointment of Investment
GSK Stockmann has added Arne Bolch to the firm’s Luxembourg team of partners alongside Dr Marcus Peter, Andreas Heinzmann, Dr Philipp Mössner and Mathilde Ostertag, as a new local partner.
Arne Bolch has been working in Luxembourg for more than 11 years in the Luxembourg office of Allen & Overy and more recently at Clifford Chance as counsel. His main areas of expertise include fund formation advice for alternative investment funds (AIF) as well as traditional retail (UCITS) funds. He also assists clients in fund related M&A transactions and general investment fund and regulatory law matters. In the past, Arne advised initiators
FIS has completed the sale of its majority ownership stake in Capco to funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R).
FIS received cash proceeds in the transaction of USD469 million, or USD441 million net of taxes and deal-related expenses. The sale establishes Capco as an independent company.]
CD&R funds purchased approximately 60 per cent equity interest in Capco through the transaction, which includes other consulting-related assets. FIS retains an approximately 40 per cent equity interest in Capco.
Carey Olsen’s Jersey team has acted as lead counsel on the successful launch of first time fund AVI Frontier Fund I. The Fund will invest into a series of South-East Asian companies listing on the Vietnamese Stock Exchange and allows investors to handpick the companies in which they want to invest.
The Fund is structured as a Jersey limited partnership under Jersey’s popular Jersey Private Fund (JPF) regime which launched in March 2017 and offers significant streamlining advantages for the establishment of private investment funds. The Fund has appointed Viet Capital Securities as its local Vietnamese investment advisor.
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Gowling WLG has launched Smart Raise, a software platform designed to quickly, cost-effectively and automatically generate all the legal documents associated with private placements, while meeting compliance requirements across Canada.
Built on Gowling WLG’s extensive precedents database and overseen by an experienced team of legal professionals, Smart Raise enables issuers, agents and other market participants to raise capital on a greatly reduced timeline. By automating the repetitive tasks associated with document generation, Smart Raise ensures that our client’s legal spend is focused on substantive matters.
“As business practices become increasingly automated, our clients expect more efficiency and cost-certainty from
GPB Capital has acquired stakes in Joe Morea & Sons Private Sanitation, Inc and Staten Island Carting, Inc, two waste management companies serving New York City communities.
The firms will be merged into Five Star Carting, Inc, a GPB Capital portfolio company, in a move which is likely to facilitate significant synergies for GPB Capital’s waste management portfolio.
“The acquisitions of these established, income-producing companies serve as a vital next step toward our goal to strengthen our presence in the New York City waste management sector and become a larger acquirer in this space,” says David Gentile, Founder and
Private equity backed Help-Link has entered into an agreement to be acquired by international home repairs and improvements group HomeServe plc, in a move that allows HomeServe to create a new UK-wide home heating business, bringing together installations, servicing and repairs.
The deal values the Help-Link business at up to GBP22.7m.
The Leeds-based business, which is the UK’s largest independent boiler installer, has been through a period of transformation over the last two years. The collapse of the ‘ECO’ market for subsidised boiler installations, impacted immediately on the company and resulted in its reporting a loss before tax of
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