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Law firm Noerr is adding a team of 11 DJBW lawyers including three partners and an of counsel to its Warsaw office, effective 1 January 2017.
DJBW is an independent Polish law firm founded by ex-White & Case managing partner Witold Daniłowicz and former White & Case partner Witold Jurcewicz, together with Radoslaw Biedecki and Ludomir Biedecki.
DJBW is a recognised transactional and corporate brand on the Polish legal market, servicing domestic and international clients from various sectors.
Noerr has operated in Poland since the 1990s and has built a strong regional advisory force in Central Eastern Europe,
Global law firm Dechert has advised Mid Europa Partners on its acquisition of Profi Rom Food, the largest supermarket chain in Romania, from Polish Enterprise Fund VI.
This is the largest deal ever completed by a private equity fund in Romania and the largest retail deal in the country’s history.
Profi is a modern retail network with the widest geographical spread in Romania. It operates from almost 500 stores and had sales of EUR800 million in 2016.
Profi is one of the top employers in Romania with nearly 11,000 employees.
The Dechert team, co-led by John
The online investment platform, SyndicateRoom, which allows individuals to invest alongside the professionals, has published its study ‘Rise of the Growth Hunters’.
Seed-stage investment company ZEAL Investments has partnered with MassChallenge UK, a start-up accelerator.
The partnership gives ZEAL Investments the opportunity to plug itself into the vast array of start-up companies involved in MassChallenge’s accelerator programme.
James Oakes, director of ZEAL Investments, says: “With only 5 per cent of the USD250 billion lottery market currently played online, there is a huge opportunity for the industry to fully digitise and become a relevant part of peoples’ online and mobile lives.”
Christine Thoma, head of strategy at ZEAL Investments, added: “Our partnership with MassChallenge UK will help us to identify start-ups
ArangoDB has secured a EUR2.2 million investment led by Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners.
ArangoDB develops the open-source NoSQL database ArangoDB, which combines three major data models (graph, key/value, JSON-documents) in one database and one query language.
ArangoDB’s product allows start-ups and enterprises to speed up their innovation cycles, simplify their technology stack and increase on-time and on-budget delivery of software projects.
Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO, says: “The previous funding round allowed us to build a rock-solid product and with this additional investment we can further accelerate our growth and expand internationally.”
Kurt Müller, partner
Demeter Partners and Emertec Gestion are to merge, creating a European private equity player dedicated to the energy transition, environmental and innovative materials sectors.
The firm will have EUR800 million assets under management and 120 companies financed in 10 years.
Stéphane Villecroze, managing partner of Demeter Partners, says: “We are pleased to carry out this transaction with the help of Emertec Gestion’s institutional shareholders (BPI France, CEA Investissement, Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes). The common values, the mutual trust and the complementary skills of the teams of Demeter and Emertec are key advantages. We are convinced that together we will
Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Daryl Cohen as an investment director within the partnership capital team, focused on minority investing.
He starts with immediate effect.
Cohen has over 10 years’ investment experience in the UK and Western Europe, completing numerous transactions, add-on acquisitions and refinancings across a range of sectors and businesses.
Most recently at Vision Capital, his transaction highlights included the acquisition and IPO of Nordax Bank in Stockholm, as well as the acquisition of Bormioli Rocco and disposal of its various divisions; he held directorships at both businesses.
Prior to this, Cohen spent time at
Venture capital firm Draper Esprit has acquired a 30.77 per cent stake in Elderstreet Holdings, the holding company of Elderstreet Investments, with an option to acquire the balance of the Elderstreet shares in due course.
Elderstreet is a UK venture capital trust (VCT) manager. It manages Elderstreet VCT which currently has assets in excess of GBP25 million.
Elderstreet provides early stage, development and growth capital for ambitious UK businesses, in most industry sectors with a focus on software and computer services. In 2014, it won the Investment Company of the Year Awards and was VCT Fund Manager of the
Patricia Moore, (pictured) UK Head of Infrastructure for Turner & Townsend, has commented on the infrastructure points raised in the Autumn statement.
“Infrastructure is clearly still a priority, with Philip Hammond reaffirming that it’s a powerful way of driving broad-based economic growth. We were never expecting a blank cheque, given the huge pressures of Britain’s debt, but to have an outline of funding for specific projects together with the establishment of a working assumption of 1-1.2 per cent GDP for investment planning is a positive move to provide the longer term certainty that our industry craves.
“The successive greenlights for
Zarvic Brothers has launched the Vero Fund which is aimed at providing investors with broad exposure to a portfolio of alternative private equity investments managed by experienced partners, such as commercial real estate and merger arbitrage strategies.
The new Vero Fund is based on the same Zarvic strategy which has produced an annualised return of 36 per cent on recent years.
The fund’s strategy seeks the long-term capital appreciation associated with private equity with a lower risk profile.
To date, liquidity and other structural and regulatory challenges have made it more difficult for individuals to gain exposure to
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