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Agilitas, a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has made several strategic bolt-on acquisitions to its portfolio company Recover Nordic, a provider of damage control, emergency response and environmental services.
In Sweden, where Recover Nordic operates under the Relita brand, the business has acquired 100 per cent of three businesses: Guja Riv & Håltagning AB; Rena Avlopp i Sverige AB; and Kungsbacka All & Spolservice AB.
The acquisition of Guja, combined with that of Rena Avlopp, significantly expands the company’s presence in Örebro and Stockholm. The addition of Kungsbacka also improves Recover Nordic’s reach in Southern Sweden.
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Accenture has acquired Media Hive, an e-commerce solutions provider with expertise in cross-channel commerce strategy, custom application development and the creation of innovative retail experiences for any device.
The acquisition will strengthen the capabilities of Accenture Interactive around Salesforce Commerce Cloud (previously Demandware) implementations and the delivery of best-in-class commerce experiences for clients.
As the Demandware 2016 North America Delivery Partner of the Year, Media Hive will bring an award-winning team of strategists, consultants, delivery and support specialists, with pexpertise in platform development, systems architecture, interactive experiences, retail innovation and digital commerce.
Media Hive has delivered commerce work for some
Mourant Ozannes’ investment funds team has established the first five Jersey Private Funds (JPF) since the new regime came into effect last month.
Introduced by the Jersey Financial Services Commission, the new JPF product has been designed to rationalise and consolidate Jersey’s private fund regimes for funds offered to up to 50 professional investors.
Mourant Ozannes partner Dan Birtwistle (pictured) says: “In a buoyant fund raising market, the new JPF regime has quickly been seized on by existing and new clients alike as an effective, streamlined and proportionate product for privately offered alternative investment funds. The speed and
The more competitive the capital raising market becomes, the more alternative fund managers are looking to get better control over the costs of this crucial exercise.
Rather than rely on traditional routes – placement agents, third party marketers, or investment banking capital introduction teams – London-based Murano gives the buy-side community the chance to take greater ownership of the asset raising cycle by bringing it back in-house.
Ole Rollag is Founder of Murano, a disintermediary that sits directly between investors and managers to help both parties make a relevant connection. By asking questions that are specific to its fund manager
Perusa Partners Fund 2, an investment fund advised by Perusa, has acquired German steak house chain Maredo from GEP III, an investment fund advised by ECM Equity Capital Management.
Both companies jointly announced the transaction on 11 May. Transaction details were not disclosed.
Maredo operates 46 restaurants with about 1,500 employees. The gastronomy concept and the Maredo brand have been modernised in recent years, focusing on the positioning on steak as a core product. This new concept was piloted in Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt flagship restaurant, which opened in April 2016, after comprehensive refurbishment and which subsequently has generated substantial
Omnes Capital has launched a new FPCI (Fonds Commun de Placement dans l’Innovation) mutual fund investing in innovative companies – Capital Invest PME 2017.
The fund will allow individuals to benefit from tax advantages provided for by the French TEPA law in respect of ISF wealth tax (impôt de solidarité sur la fortune) and income tax, while also benefiting from the growth potential of French and European SMEs.
A total of 80 per cent of the Capital Invest PME 2017 fund will be invested in French and European SMEs. The remaining 20 per cent will be invested in
Oakley Capital Investments’ Oakley Capital Private Equity III has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in TechInsights.
Fund III is expected to invest USD49.9 million in the business and will invest alongside Henry Elkington, the CEO of the current parent company (AXIO), who brings extensive experience in the industry and will become chairman of TechInsights at completion.
The company’s indirect contribution through its interest in Fund III is expected to be approximately GBP18.2 million.
TechInsights specialises in the intellectual property and technology services market, in particular semiconductor reverse engineering, which is used to prove patent
Private equity house Maven Capital Partners has appointed three investment managers and a portfolio administrator to its North West investment team.
The appointments are in support of NPIF Maven Equity Finance, which has a North West focus and is managed by Maven for the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).
Martin Clark, James Darlington and Jeremy Thompson will be responsible for transacting new NPIF equity investments, while Nikola Clarke will provide portfolio support to NPIF investee businesses.
These appointments will supplement Maven’s Northern England investment team, which has been completing SME transactions across the North for almost 20 years.
Global investment bank GCA Altium has appointed Stuart Warriner as senior adviser as the business continues to build its corporate finance team in the North of England.
Warriner joins GCA Altium from PwC, and has over 30 years’ experience in the industry, leading the firm’s corporate finance team across Leeds and Manchester since 2007.
He has led transactions with an aggregate value of more than GBP2 billion, and has established strong relationships with many of the region’s businesses and private equity firms.
Key deals in the last few years include the sale of vehicle rental business Nexus
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has introduced a risk-proportionate regulatory framework for managers of venture capital (VC) funds, the first of its type in the MENA region.
With immediate effect on 15 May 2017, VC managers will not be subject to any base capital requirement or expenditure based capital.
In close consultation with industry players, the tailored regulatory framework for VC managers simplifies the applicable regulatory requirements while maintaining the necessary safeguards to ensure that they operate in a safe and sound manner.
The framework is a further enhancement to
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