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Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has provided USD12.1 million to support the US expansion of existing client James Grant Group, a management and professional services provider to clients including Ant & Dec, The Script and Davina McCall.
The funding package consists of term loans and acquisition facilities to support James Grant Group’s purchase of US talent management business Deckstar Artist Management.
Investec has been working with James Grant Group since 2014, when it backed the buyout of the business by European private equity firm Metric Capital. This latest transaction includes funding to support further acquisitions.
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Reduxio Systems, a specialist in storage and data management solutions for the enterprise with to-the-second BackDating recovery capability, has secured USD22.5 million of Series C funding in a round anticipated to total up to USD32 million.
The round was led by London-based C5 Capital, an investment manager focused on cyber security, data analytics and cloud computing.
This round more than doubles the amount of capital invested in the company, and will fund continued innovation and global marketing of the company’s software-defined storage platform.
All previous investors, including Jerusalem Venture Partners, Carmel Ventures, Intel Capital and Seagate Technology also
NTR has closed two project debt facilities back-to-back in a matter of weeks with Nord/LB, totalling EUR50 million.
The debt facilities will be used to finance the construction of the Coollegrean wind farm, a 17 MW wind farm based in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, and the Teevurcher wind farm, a 9 MW wind farm, located in County Meath, Republic of Ireland.
NTR’s chief financial officer, Marie Joyce (pictured), says: “NTR has had a longstanding and successful relationship with Nord/LB in financing our wind projects in the US and we are delighted to now transact with Nord in the
BGF has backed Sentric Music with an initial investment of GBP3 million to help accelerate the publisher’s international expansion plans, as well as forming a partnership to fund future acquisitions.
An independent company with up to GBP2.5 billion in capital for long-term equity investments, BGF is backed by five of the UK’s main banking groups – Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Standard Chartered.
Liverpool-headquartered Sentric Music works with more than 90,000 songwriters, providing music publishing, licensing opportunities and royalty collection services.
In addition to expanding internationally, Sentric plans to use BGF’s investment to continue to develop its products,
Advicenne, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of paediatric friendly therapeutics for the treatment of orphan renal and neurological diseases, has closed a EUR16 million financing round.
The fundraising was led by IRDI SORIDEC Gestion, Cemag Invest and MI Care alongside existing investors InnoBio (Bpifrance) and IXO Private Equity together with private individuals.
Advicenne plans to use these funds to advance its late-stage pipeline in nephrology and neurology, including: the completion of the Phase III development of ADV7103, which is targeting a renal tubulopathy, an orphan indication. ADV7103 is currently in a pivotal phase III trial in
Private equity firm Beaubridge is leading a GBP2.5 million investment in Florismart, an online marketplace connecting florists throughout Europe.
Beaubridge has chosen CoInvestor to make this EIS investment opportunity available to investors to access directly and invest in online.
The Florismart platform is designed to allow florists to come together to create a competitive marketplace between suppliers resulting in greater product choice and improved prices for the florists with all their purchases delivered direct to their premises overnight. Savings can be as high as 20 per cent over the tradition supply model with flowers delivered direct from the grower
KKR and CDPQ have teamed with employees of USI Insurance Services to acquire the US insurance brokerage and consulting firm.
As partners with equal ownership, KKR and CDPQ will acquire USI from Onex Corporation and its affiliates in a transaction that values USI at USD4.3 billion.
With more than 4,400 professionals operating out of 140 local offices throughout the US, USI delivers property and casualty, employee benefits, personal risk and retirement solutions.
The investment will primarily be made through KKR and CDPQ’s core private equity partnership which includes funds from KKR’s balance sheet and from CDPQ’s pool of
Law firm Goodwin has appointed Samantha Lake Coghlan and Paul Lyons as co-chairs of the firm’s London office with immediate effect.
They succeed David Evans, who will continue as chair of Goodwin’s European offices, providing support to the heads of the firm’s London, Frankfurt and Paris offices in the areas of integration, culture, collaboration and strategic growth.
“David has done an exceptional job in driving the strategic growth of our London office over the past five years, and I am confident that under Sam and Paul’s stewardship, Goodwin London will go from strength to strength,” says David Hashmall, chairman
Italian private equity firm Progressio SGR has sold its majority stake in the Duplomatic group, a Milan-headquartered provider of hydraulic components and systems.
In fewer than four years of Progressio ownership, Duplomatic increased both revenues and EBITDA by approximately 50 per cent each. The enterprise value at closing was EUR69 million.
Progressio acquired a majority (86 per cent) stake in Duplomatic Oleodinamica, the operating holding, in April 2013 from Axa Private Equity (the remaining 14 per cent was held by the management team). At the time of the acquisition, the group also held US company Continental Hydraulics, and had
MultiX, a provider of spectroscopic x-ray imaging for airport security and non-destructive testing applications, has raised EUR3.5 million in a new financing round led by with its long-standing investors and two newcomers – Omnes Capital and H3C (private investor).
MultiX was founded in October 2010 by Jacques Doremus and Patrick Radisson with the support of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Thales.
The company – whose two founders are from the Thales Group – provides its integrator clients with detection subsystems that allow for efficient baggage security checks, reduced operating costs for airports and passenger comfort, making it
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