Latest News
InMotion Ventures, a venture capital business powered by Jaguar Land Rover, has completed seed investments in four exciting mobility and transportation startups.
Early stage businesses By Miles, Dovu, Wluper and Zeelo join the Seed Programme and will spend six months working from InMotion HQ in London.
Founded by James Blackham and Callum Rimmer, By Miles (formerly Just Miles) offers innovative pay-per-mile car insurance with a simple-to-use driving app. Rather than buying a traditional annual car insurance policy, By Miles customers sign up for a fixed monthly subscription and then pay on a flexible, per-journey basis. Transparent, real-time policies give customers more
International law firm Ropes & Gray has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on the USD5.3 billion consortium buyout of Visma, Europe’s largest ever software buyout.
ICG was part of a consortium of investors that bought stakes in the deal. Other investors included HgCapital, Cinven, GIC and Montagu, alongside Visma’s management team.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity partner Helen Croke, with finance partner Malcolm Hitching leading on the debt aspects of the deal. Other members of the team included finance counsel Alex Robb and private equity associate Nicholas Matthew.
In May 2017, Ropes & Gray
CVC Credit Partners’ European Private Debt Business has provided a EUR50 million unitranche facility to Trimb Healthcare, to support its acquisition of the Pevaryl and Fungoral brands in certain European countries from Johnson & Johnson.
Trimb Healthcare, sponsored by lead investor Avista Capital since 2015, is a niche pharmaceutical company, focusing on the development, sales and marketing of branded over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and consumer healthcare products. Avista Capital is a healthcare specialist, with significant sector experience and 17 investments completed to date.
Neale Broadhead, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager in CVC Credit Partners’ direct lending business, says: “We are very
Mergers and acquisitions advisory firm Quayle Munro has added two new directors to the firm’s advisory team; James Local and Lalit Kasat.
Local has over ten years of corporate finance experience providing independent advice on acquisitions, disposals and fundraisings. He has worked with entrepreneurs, financial sponsors and global corporates across the B2B software and data, education and media sectors. Local joins from Livingstone Partners where he was a Director in the Business Services team, and has previously worked at UBS and EY. James is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MA from the University of Cambridge.
Kasat has
An affiliate of Sun European Partners is to sell NextPharma, a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), to funds advised by CapVest Partners (CapVest), subject to regulatory approval.
NextPharma is a market leader in the western European pharmaceutical CDMO space, serving a global blue-chip customer base, including seven of the top ten pharma companies. The company offers a broad range of specialised product types and therapeutic areas across multiple attractive niches. NextPharma has over 1,000 employees and operations in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.
NextPharma was acquired by an affiliate of Sun European Partners in 2011. Over the
MPower Financing, a fintech company and provider of educational loans to high-potential, international students, has appointed Rohan Tibrawalla (pictured), to the position of Country Director-India to oversee the company’s operations in the region from its soon-to-be-opened office in Bangalore.
In his new position, Tibrawalla is responsible for expanding and executing MPower Financing’s operations, marketing and business development strategies as well as for managing the loan portfolio and debt and equity capital sourcing. Among positions he held prior to joining MPower Financing, Tibrawalla was the chief financial officer at bhane, a fashion apparel brand actively supported by one of India’s largest
Dyal Capital Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman Group, has acquired a strategic minority stake in private credit and special opportunities alternative investment manager, Atalaya Capital Management.
Dyal will become a passive, non-voting partner in Atalaya. All of the proceeds from the investment will be retained on Atalaya’s balance sheet to expand the Firm’s capabilities and increase the Firm’s investment alongside its investors.
Atalaya was founded in 2006 and today manages more than USD2.5 billion in assets under management across its Special Opportunities Fund and Asset Income Fund products as well as select other investment vehicles.
Ivan Q.
Carey Olsen’s Guernsey funds team has advised ADM Capital Europe LLP, a London-private equity and investment advisory firm, on the launch of its global agribusiness investment fund, the Cibus Fund.
The Cibus fund held its first close of USD100 million on 2 May and is targeting a USD500 million final close in 2018. The fund will focus on mid-market investment opportunities in sustainable food processing and production companies, primarily across Europe and Australasia that look to provide for the growing demand for high value added foods.
It will have a secondary mandate to invest equity growth capital in parts
Estera, a provider of offshore fiduciary and administration services, has appointed Brad Stephenson (pictured), as team manager for the company’s Cayman Islands fund services business.
In his new role, Stephenson oversees Estera Cayman’s fund offering, including fund directorships and related fiduciary services to Cayman corporate structures.
Stephenson, who has more than a decade of experience in the Cayman funds industry, previously served as a business development manager within a provider of specialised trust and fund administration services. He has extensive experience offering guidance on a range of corporate structures and has overseen the day-to-day management of funds in markets
European Buy & Build activity in 2016 reached its highest level on record with the largest number of deals in the UK & Ireland, according to Silverfleet Capital’s latest annual European Buy & Build Monitor.
The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified 5371 add-ons in 2016 compared to the 464 and 414 add-ons recorded in 2015 and 2014 respectively.
The average disclosed value of add-ons in 2016 was GBP73 million, up from an average of GBP42 million in 20153.
Historically, the volume of add-on deals
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
