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Peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform ArchOver, has become the first UK lender to partner with Escalate, a fixed-cost commercial dispute resolution service for SMBs.
The partnership will enhance ArchOver’s ability to provide secure loans to the SME market, helping borrowers to bring in disputed payments and enhancing security for lenders as a result.
Escalate’s rapid no-win no-fee dispute resolution will enable ArchOver to recover any contested assets used as security for loans over the ArchOver platform, further enhancing its market-leading secured lending services. Escalate will ensure that lenders on the platform are protected by ensuring contested debts are paid
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has completed its acquisition of a 35 per cent stake in tfintech company Avaloq, a specialist in integrated and comprehensive banking solutions.
Under the partnership announced on 22 March 2017, Avaloq will be able to capitalise on Warburg Pincus’ expertise and network in the financial services and fintech sectors to accelerate the company’s long-term growth and value creation strategy.
Investec has agreed to sell 18 aircraft from its managed leasing funds to funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., working in conjunction with World Star Aviation.
The transaction includes 15 narrow body Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A320-200 aircraft, two wide body Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and an Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The aircraft are on lease to 12 global airlines, including flag carriers Air China, Air France, and LCCs, such as Wizz Air and IndiGo.
Investec’s aircraft leasing funds, which were first launched in 2008, are invested in new generation, fuel-efficient aircraft on lease to leading airlines across the globe. The funds
Medicxi has closed Medicxi Growth 1 (MG1), a new USD300 million fund that will focus on growth stage companies in European life sciences.
With this new late stage fund, Medicxi will help fill a clear gap in Europe, where talented life sciences entrepreneurs do not have access to as much local financial support as their US-based counterparts to expand exciting opportunities into more mature companies.
Cornerstone strategic investors backing this vision in the MG1 fund, are Novartis, Verily and the European Investment Fund (EIF). The fund also includes most of the institutional LPs that previously backed Medicxi’s first fund,
Eco-friendly coffee specialist Halo Coffee is looking to raise GBP1.6m to aggressively grow the business in the UK and globally through a fundraising campaign on private investor platform Growthdeck.
Since its launch in early 2016, Growthdeck has raised GBP7.3 million for a range of growth companies.
Halo has designed a world leading, fully compostable coffee capsule which biodegrades in just 90 days and can be thrown in the home compost bin. It’s solving a real-world problem as currently up to 39,000 aluminium and plastic capsules go to landfill every minute globally. That equates to 20 billion capsules containing aluminium
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) ended 2016 with a moderate quarterly performance, posting an overall gain of 2.58 per cent in the fourth quarter, a slight decrease from the 3.8 per cent return in Q3 2016. Buyout funds posted a strong annual return of 12.52 per cent but Venture Capital continued to face headwinds.
Based on directly sourced limited partnership data, the PEI represents more than USD2.5 trillion in private equity investments and over 2,600 unique private equity partnerships, as of 31 December, 2016.
“Public markets continue to show signs of strength with valuations at
Mid-market private equity firm MidOcean Partners has agreed to sell Agilex Fragrances (Agilex), a leading provider of innovative, high quality fragrance products and related creative and technical services, to Firmenich.
Agilex designs creative fragrances and innovative technical solutions for a broad range of market categories including air care, personal care, home care, fine fragrances and other products.
MidOcean has extensive experience in the flavours and fragrances industry and was attracted to Agilex’s leading position in the fragmented fragrances sector when it initiated its investment in Agilex in December 2012. Consistent with MidOcean’s investment approach of pairing world class executives
Cooper Parry Corporate Finance has promoted Ben Rookes to partner. Rookes joined the firm as a graduate 15 years ago and has risen through the ranks from associate to partner, becoming a fundamental member of the team.
During his career, Rookes has been involved in a number of significant deals including BGF’s recent investment in Johnsons Aggregates and Recycling.
Cooper Parry Corporate Finance has also appointed Tom Summers as a senior manager. He joined the firm from RSM.
Summers’ experience includes company sales, management buy-outs and private equity transactions, including a number of sales to overseas trade buyers.
Harris Williams & Co has advised Zitcom HoldCo ApS (Zitcom Group), a portfolio company of HgCapital, to The Intelligent Group, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V. (Waterland).
Harris Williams & Co is serving as the exclusive financial advisor to Zitcom Group, a Danish hosting and cloud solutions provider. The pending transaction is being led by Thierry Monjauze, Jonathan Organ and Sylvain Noblet of Harris Williams & Co’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group and Krishna Patel of the firm’s London office.
“The team at Zitcom Group has built an impressive business which has delivered rapid growth,
Bank Leumi has made three key hires to its growing legal team in recent months. Christopher Gawley was appointed First Vice President in May, while Gerri Alfino and Sol Bernstein recently joined the bank as Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, and First Vice President, respectively.
Gawley will provide legal counsel to Leumi Investment Services (LISI), Leumi’s brokerage subsidiary, across areas including sales and trading, marketing, research, compliance and new product review. He will also work with Leumi’s private banking and special loans divisions. Gawley was previously counsel and Head of Litigation for Leumi. Alfino manages Leumi’s legal department, partnering
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