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1776 Ventures has doubled-down its investment in MPOWER Financing with an additional USD500,000 investment ahead of the company’s planned Series B financing round this summer.
1776 Ventures is an investment fund focused on seed-stage investments seeking to transform complex industries.
In addition to being seed and Series A round investors, their partners have also served as a mentor and close adviser to MPOWER Financing.
MPOWER Financing is a public benefit corporation whose mission is to remove the financial barriers to higher education in the US by providing the financial resources necessary for students to attend schools and
Mourant Ozannes has advised on three of the most significant private equity transactions in Europe during the first quarter of 2017, according to the league tables published by global deal research agency Pitchbook.
Pitchbook’s latest report, entitled 1Q 2017 European PE Breakdown, includes the largest PE exit and the largest PE fund closing.
Mourant Ozannes lawyers led on the offshore aspects of three of the top deals, including the sale of Delta Topco Limited’s Formula One business to Liberty Media Group ranked first among “Select Largest European PE-Backed Exits,” and two top-ranked fund closings highlighted in “Select Largest
M&A is a favoured tool for activists, with 47 per cent of M&A activism since 2010 explicitly directed at pushing for the sale or acquisition of the target company, according to a report from Activist Insight and Kingsdale Advisors.
Yet the report, which provides a broad overview of the market and highlights groundbreaking campaigns, such as Carl Icahn at Dell, Pershing Square Capital Management at Allergan and Starboard Value at Staples and Office Depot, also highlights that volatile markets can increase the level of resistance to deals.
Opposition to M&A rose 81 per cent in North America from
Concurrent, a specialist in storage, protection, transformation and delivery of visual assets, has sold the European operations portion of its real-time business segment to technology-focused investment firm Battery Ventures.
The completion of the sale followed approval of the transaction by the French Ministry of the Economy.
Concurrent received the USD2.8 million that was being held pending approval from the French Ministry of the Economy and was part of the transaction’s total gross proceeds of USD35 million.
Lithium Technologies, a specialist in cloud-based social media management and online community solutions, is to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.
Lithium’s board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction, although terms have not disclosed.
“This marks a new chapter for Lithium, and the next step in creating the leading Digital Customer Experience company,” says Rob Tarkoff, president and CEO of Lithium. “Our vision of helping brands build amazing digital customer experience at scale remains the same, and we will continue to develop the leading engagement platform to provide more value to our customers. This
Mergers and acquisitions adviser Generational Equity has sold its client Imperial Packaging to Seaboard Folding Box Company, a platform company of private equity firm Charter Oak Equity.
Imperial Packaging, based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, produces folding cartons, packers, tags and inserts, and headers utilising conventional offset and UV-curable inks and coatings.
The company also offers hot stamping, window patching, and sheet-to sheet laminating for a diverse mix of value-added options including structural CAD design, inventory management and other ancillary services.
“We are motivated to join the Seaboard platform and make this forward expansion of services and technology
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Rough Country to private equity firm Gridiron Capital.
Rough Country is a customer-focused provider of suspension lift kits to the off-road SUV and truck market.
Rough Country also offers a full set of off-road products, including shocks, stabilisers, lights, fender flares, and other accessories.
Geoffrey S Rehnert, co-chief executive officer, Audax Group, says: “Rough Country is a leading supplier of suspension systems to the fragmented SUV and truck enthusiast market. The Rough Country team has demonstrated tremendous success in growing the business, and we wish both the management team
Hawksmoor Partners, the London-based specialist in structuring and project management solutions for asset managers and fast-growing companies, has established its first overseas presence in Estonia to work with new clients in the technology sector in the Baltic region and Finland.
Founded in 2013, Hawksmoor Partners has specialised in the provision of support services for small and innovative businesses that are seeking to aggressively disrupt the markets they enter. This has included asset management, agriculture, logistics, envirotech, social media and alternative lending businesses, among many others.
Stuart Fieldhouse, director of Hawksmoor Partners, says: “Despite the Brexit vote, small companies
Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has strengthened its UK operation with the promotions to director of Emily Ball and Yasmin Bikha, both based in the Leicester and Nottingham offices.
Ball and Bikha are experienced restructuring advisers with broad connections across the East Midlands and both are licensed insolvency practitioners and qualified accountants.
Both are promoted from senior manager to director after each completing six years at FRP Advisory’s Leicester office.
The promotions bring to six the number of partners and directors across FRP Advisory in the East Midlands offices of Leicester and Nottingham, and to 10 within the Midlands region including Birmingham.
Global independent fund administrator Apex Fund Services has become the first administrator to receive in principle approval from the ADGM to carry out regulated activity in the jurisdiction.
Under the in principle approval, the grant of financial services permission to act as the administrator of a collective investment fund in the ADGM is subject to final regulatory review of certain pre-conditions being fulfilled.
Having recently acquired Equinoxe Alternative Investment Services, with the backing of Genstar Capital, Apex has stepped up to be ranked one of the world’s top 15 largest fund administrators. The group was founded in 2003
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